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Old 05-10-2007, 06:51 AM
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mikiglen
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in the 90s when i was addicted, i didn't think anything of taking 80 or so 5mg vicodins in a day. i was young and healthy, didn't even think about liver damage. or when i did think about it, i knew it wouldn't happen to me.
now, i'm a lot older, a lot more broken down, lol, and have thought about it a lot. i haven't been checked yet, but i imagine the 4gms of tylenol i was taking almost daily for about a year has taken its toll. my last relapse on 60 10mgs in less than 24 hours scared me to death. i looked for jaundice daily in the mirror, cried and prayed that i hadn't killed myself.
the scary thing is addicts really don't think about the damage they are doing to themselves when they are using. i was invincible. nothing would ever happen to me.
maybe this will be a wake up call for some of us
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