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11-03-2006, 08:23 AM
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| Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: wherever my little mind takes me
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I read on the Forum all the time, everyday. But this is my fave thread. You guys are terrific. Everyone of you, blue, blood, chloe, cc, smyle, xjunkie, kahlia, ALL OF U THAT POST HERE, when I need a little boost or a shot of inspiration, I just come in and read some of ya'lls post. I know I don't post often, but know that ya'll are helping me, because i'm reading every post, everyday. You guys rock!
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11-04-2006, 09:02 PM
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| Member Join Date: Jul 2006
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This board helps a lot of people, those who are still using, and also those in recovery. Let's keep it going. Last week I celebrated my 4 months free of hydro. It really does get better with time. I have focused the energy that I use to spend trying to find pills to a more healthy addiction, exercise. It has really helped me stay clean, and keeps my head clear. Hope everyone is well |
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11-05-2006, 12:24 AM
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| Getting Better All The Time  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Recovering
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I think this thread is awesome. You are all so wonderful. It is great to see everyone reaching out and supporting each other. Together WE can do what we can not do alone. Congrats on the milestones and always know that each day clean for us is a miracle! WE are miracles.  |
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11-07-2006, 07:05 AM
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| one day at a time  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: America the Beautiful
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I haven't been in here for a few days...thought I would take a minute and check in and say howdy to everyone. I'm on day 72 this morning. I am doing pretty good overall. Still have a little bit of a problem with the RLS but the Cymbalta is helping that. The back pain is still there and probably always will be, but I am dealing with that without the hydro's. Sometimes I need the hydro's for the pain but so far I have dealt with the pain without taking prescription pain meds. Just wanted to take a minute and tell everyone once again that I appreciate all the support you all have given me. There's no way I could have made it alone. Thanks... Blue
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11-07-2006, 07:56 AM
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| Trying to do the right thing.  Join Date: May 2006 Location: London
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(((Blue))).....Good to here form ya ....So Glad all is well for you ...! Hang in there Matey,...  I wondered were you were ,..the other day, ...??!!!!  !WTG ,.....Many Hugs ,..... + 10....xXx...!
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11-07-2006, 01:33 PM
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| Keeper of the Stars  Join Date: May 2006 Location: A little left of center
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Windysan............. You crack me up! We must have the same demented sense of humor! Keep the faith!
__________________ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mackie "In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back!" (Charlie Brown) |
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11-07-2006, 09:14 PM
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| Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: central Fl.
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it's good to be on a board that helps people. Being an ex methadone addict (as well as ex hydro addict) I was on their board but acually got banned. I was encouraging those who wanted to get off methadone, and the ones who didn't (including the board monitor), resented me. If you can live without strong drugs, go for it! Some can't for physical and mental reasons and I totally understand that. I always glad to hear about people who are doing it or at least want to. Keep up the good works and I'll sure try to keep sober as well.
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11-08-2006, 10:52 PM
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| High on Jesus  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Pulaski, Va
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I know so much about this addiction. Hydrocodone was my first drug love and was the longest lasting. I can't lie, I loved that stuff. I would take like 10 vicodin 10 mgs at once and would just float on cloud nine (a bad thing btw) I though it was better that sex and I would do anything to get more which included stealing, legal perscriptions, doctor shopping (I lost 2 doctors because of that), buying them off the street, and trading stuff I loved for them. I have been having bad back and neck pain for 2 years and was put on vicoprophen (vicodin with ibuprophen) which is just as bad for an addict. I recently quit them and I use regular off the counter ibuprophen and icy hot for my pains now. It's a real hard addiction to beat but not impossible. Just pray to a higher power and go to NA and get a sponsor and it can be a victory.
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11-12-2006, 01:35 AM
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Well it's definately good to see I'm not alone. I took Percocets for 4 years following several back surgeries. I never exceeded 3-4 a day, but finally realized my mood swings, dizziness and depressions were in no way worth the relief they provided from my back pain. It was a long road in coming. Still about 3 months ago I decided to quit cold turkey. Enough was enough. While it wasn't easy, I never became nauseous, or exihbited some of the more typical withdrawal symptoms. That said, what I did experiece wasn't something I'll ever want to go through again. Mainly my withdrawals were extreme insomnia/fatique for several weeks. Lower stomach pain/cramps, bloated feeling in conjunction with terrible Constipation (which ran counter to everything I had read. I was anticipatng diharrea. Which never occurred. very odd) Nevertheless, I got through it, but I'll never forget my inability to sleep. During that period I would be practically slumped over with uncontrollable fatigue in a chair, yet completely unable to sleep when I laid down. Not fun at all. It took well over a month to pass. However, in the end I beat my demons. Hopefully everyone here can do the same. The real test was balling up a vicodin script included in my post operative packet following oral surgery a month ago. Extra strength Tylenol would have to suffice.  Last edited by Jaytims; 11-12-2006 at 02:03 AM. |
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11-12-2006, 06:07 AM
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| Member  Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Harwich, MA
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Jaytims, your recovery sounds exactly like mine! Sounds like we didn't fare as badly as some, but I still have some bad insomnia. Everyone here will tell you it's one of the last things to go. congratulations. |
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11-12-2006, 04:38 PM
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ccgirl, Yes, it definately could have been worse. I can only assume I didn't experience worse withdrawal symptoms due to the fact that I never strayed from my reccomended dosage of the drug. Still, that's not to say I wasn't abusing the pills. I knew I was hooked on them for some time. I was a very habitual user. I always took one with Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Regardless of how I actually felt. My insomnia was the last thing to go also. Still, with exercise and vitamins it seemed to get a tad better every week. I'll never forget those first 3 weeks. Not even a sleeping pill would put me to sleep. Very frustrating. I still, 3 months later, have some uneasy nights. But it isn't really any worse than actually being on the drug. Hopefully your sleepless nights dissipate in the coming weeks. I'm sure they will. I'm glad you also now breath the free air of clean existence ccgirl. Congrats. |
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11-13-2006, 02:28 PM
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| one day at a time Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: America the Beautiful
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This is day 78 for me and my biggest problem is still not sleeping very well. Everything else is going pretty good. I'm still having alot of pain from my injuries and the metal implanted in my back and shoulder but I figure I'll always have that. I'll probably have pain for the rest of my life, or until the good Lord comes back to earth. But I'm surviving and doing ok. Blue
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11-13-2006, 06:23 PM
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| Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: central Fl.
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I admire everyone who doesn't take the pills or dope when they have pain. These are daily living situations for people with pain. I do the same but think of the day when I may be in a medical crisis and have to take sometjing because of severe agony but the day hasn't come yet and pray it won't for a long time.
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11-13-2006, 11:33 PM
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| Trying to do the right thing. Join Date: May 2006 Location: London
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Hey ((Blue)) just wanted to say Well Done on racking up the Days.... Im not sleeping well at all so I know how you feel on that one...  Keep up the Great work Folks............. 
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11-14-2006, 06:49 AM
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| one day at a time Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: America the Beautiful
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I haven't heard from Chloe in a while....I hope she is doing ok. Chloe, if you read this, send us a post to let us know how you are doing. Blue
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11-14-2006, 07:31 AM
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| Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: chicago il.
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Im on day 19 clean and I know what you are going through! I was up to 50 hydrocodone a day among other meds and like everyone has said about 7 days I slept in the bathtub for my legs and didnt take anything but valerian root its an herb that has hellped me with my depression! one day at a time hun!
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11-14-2006, 10:00 AM
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| Om, Aum, Ohm...  Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Punxsutawney/Pittsburgh
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I was three months clean, with some pretty serious chronic conditions, when I fell and crushed my lower leg. When they tried to shoot me full of stuff at the hospital, I threw a fit & insisted my sponsor be called. She told the doctor, "GET HER OUT OF PAIN." For the next seven days, I was on a dilaudid drip. I was so very fortunate, as the medical center I was sent to for reconstruction surgery had a surgeon who was also in recovery. He spent real time (as opposed to the doctor kind of time you'd expect) with me, directed me to resources, and suggested I use my phone. In the five days I was there, I used more than 1800 minutes on a phone card calling folks in the program (I was 4 hrs from home). I called local hotline #'s & explained my situation. And, when I went home with percocet, the strongest thing I would let them prescribe, I arranged to have someone I trust hold them and dispense them to me as needed -- with the instructions that even if I beg, don't give me more than is prescribed. I got through it. I didn't lose a minutes' clean time, as the drugs were used only to treat my pain. When I was to a manageable level, I got off of them (about two weeks from start to finish). Was it easy? Nope. Did I crave? Yep. But I didn't want to go back to what I left. I took the daily pain of my conditions, I took the miserable state of my finances, I took the cold and icy conditions of the winter and all of the other life on life's terms that were happening around me over the hopelessness, the emptiness, the agony of active addiction. We can live clean, regardless of our external circumstances, if we're willing. Willing to what? Try something different. For me, it was a program (AA). Just had to chime in! Peace & Love, Sugah
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11-14-2006, 06:34 PM
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You really said something important to us. You had to take something and came out of it and you did the right thing. You didn't relapse you followed dr.'s directions and got help, VERY COMENDABLE! I guess the lesson is it can be done but as you said, it ain't easy.
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