Originally Posted by
AfricanDaisy To me a relapse would be to take the pain pills deliberately to make me feel good instead of to exclusively aleviate the physical pain.
Same here. The key is to keep my mindset in recovery. For those of us who need pain pills to deal with pain, it is a bit harder but we can and do recover.
Originally Posted by
uglyeyes Many sober people use prescribed narcs. slippery slippery
As my primary care doctor, who now also works in addiction medicine, says: the pain can be the trigger to make you want to use if you don't treat it immediately. After many years experience firsthand, I agree with his new outlook! The slippery slope is when I DON'T treat the pain with appropriate narcs.