Newbie...Oxy Hell
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Newbie...Oxy Hell
Hey all. New here, registered tonight and saying hi y'all! I'm clean as of 4/17/14 from a fairly low scale, 5 year Vicodin habit that was followed by a little over 1 year Oxycontin and Oxycodone run that quickly blew out of control like a hydra from Greek legend.
I broke my neck in the 80's, C5 and C6 compression fracture and then the dreaded age, arthritis, and stenosis began wearing me down around 2005. That would be the mini synopsis. Waving.
I broke my neck in the 80's, C5 and C6 compression fracture and then the dreaded age, arthritis, and stenosis began wearing me down around 2005. That would be the mini synopsis. Waving.
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OpioPhobe bring up an important question. I personally switched from my pain management Dr to my family Dr, I told him the truth and we are working on it. I know he won't give me pills just to shut me up.
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I'm working with my Primary doc, no hiding there. In fact I started there on 4/17 and went directly to an in-patient detox. As to ongoing pain, yep though it will be interesting to see how much pain is truly still there and how much I psyched myself into perceiving. I've tried PT, core strengthening, massage among the therapies, not very successfully. Next plan includes acupuncture, acupressure, pressure point massage, hitting the gym 2-4 per week and at least once daily walks till the snow and ice fly again. The bone chilling cold of this place does magnify the pain so there is some chat about heading south closer to where I grew up. Sprinkle in some AA and NA meetings and stir.
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Considering the fairly wide array of substances I experimented with from age 13 till around 26 it's a bit surprising nothing got me by the throat until the Oxy. I binged booze on week ends and smoked pot in high school, upped the booze and pot my first 2 years of college, dabbled a couple three times with acid and shrooms, a few experiments with coke lines. Then I bust my neck, transfer colleges and the drinking eases way down, the pot reduces substantially and interest in the other drugs just blows away. Then on to grad school...the drinking ramps up but nothing else. Finally out of school for about four years and the drinking gets tossed into the bin of disinterest. Kind of rambling and ruminating here but as I look back sure seems I was on a tight rope that could have diced me up but for luck and the grace of my particular pagan higher power.
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