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good morning/ stay positive
by hippy, Oct 23, 2002 12:00AM
hey everyone, its wensday morning, and life is good.
we all have to be kind to each other.
this fourm is going through a strange time because of the hacker.
i myself can not wait untill it is in the past, and i am
sure it will pass,
untill then we need to stay positive, and talk about
recovery, and how this fourm has helps us all.
the thought of this fourm being shut down, is a sad thought.
so lets all be nice, and when you see a post that is out in
left feild, ignore it. if you see a post from me and it is crazy
you can rest easy that it is not me.
michael peace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
we all have to be kind to each other.
this fourm is going through a strange time because of the hacker.
i myself can not wait untill it is in the past, and i am
sure it will pass,
untill then we need to stay positive, and talk about
recovery, and how this fourm has helps us all.
the thought of this fourm being shut down, is a sad thought.
so lets all be nice, and when you see a post that is out in
left feild, ignore it. if you see a post from me and it is crazy
you can rest easy that it is not me.
michael peace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As the Groovy Butterfly(and others) pointed out, resources are probably the one thing that will help remove the current problem quicker than anything else. Hell, i blasted past the "Make a Donation" tab for 3 months, until it was brought to my attention.
Everybody is in a different financial position.... i just know i didn't hesitate shelling out $500.00 for 100 percs, when my Rx mysteriously was used up early.
hows the dirt biz going,
it's been some kind of ride here the last 4
days, withsome one getting my name and all that,
and posting cruel things. then having other not beleive me.
any way i know you are not feeling so hot ,so i gathered from your post, i hope ya feel better, your fellow anti establisnment
freind hippy, hippee , michael
try to take the pills as prescribed for a week,
then 4 a day for a week then 3 a day for a week
then what ever you have left 2 a day.
take the receipe at the begining asap.
i found that it is better to try to hold off untill later in the day when tapering, try not to take them in the morning,
otherwisw you wind up taking more later in the day.
try to wait untill 5 pm if you can.
it will be alright, we make a bigger deal out of the whole process in our heads then it really is.
but it always good to get a begining and get started.
peace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tapering, down to 2-10mg a day, a long way from where i was when i was on so much of the percocet. stay cool.
lee.
Tapering will make the quitting a lot easier on your health,believe me.Good luck to ya!
Bill
I have a question, I hope someone can give me some info, as you know (I think, since my post's have been deleted) that I have a few serious heath issues, I will have to take pain meds for the rest of my life,it's sad but a fact,I have researched on the internet as much as I could about methadone,I have read that research and studies they have done about methadone and the heart, and the only thing I can find is that the studies they have done has not had any negative results on the heart from being on methadone,that it is pretty safe to say that methadone use has no bad effects on the heart..but what I can't find at all is the subject of methadone treatment with someone who has heart disease to begin with, (heart attack,& vascular disease)does anyone know anything about this or where I can go to find out if there is anything about this subject? I have searched the net the best I can and can't find any answers to this particular subject,also am I right to assume that methadone is used to treat pain and not just used for addicts? and if so, can a doctor treat you instead of going to a clinic? any info would be greatly appreiciated. thank you,
Dee
it for 1 1/2 years.I have never been in the clinic before but getting it for pain from a pain doc is the best.He can control
the use and make sure your health is not at risk.
bmac
It took a long time for me to truly want to get clean. I had to finally get in enough emotional pain over the addiction to realize that there had to be a better way to live.
When you first get clean, there is a lot of emotional baggge to deal with. It's hard, no doubt, but you can eventually get to a place where there is joy in your life again.
love,
WW
Why are you so interested in the specifics of my life?
One of our posters, tex, posted a transcript of a Bill Moyers special on addiction, in which Moyers talks to a doctor conducting research on the physiology of drug addiction, specifically how drug use affects the brain.
What he says is, well, sobering. Seems that the use of addictive drugs, especially long-term use, causes physical changes in the brain, altering the way the brain functions. When addicts like us say that we just want to feel normal, we aren't kidding. Use an addictive drug long enough, and the brain only functions anything like normally when the drug is present. The drug becomes a normalized component of an addict's brain chemistry. He likened addicts recovering from long-term use to stroke victims, having to teach new parts of the brain to do old tricks.
My point is, with, what, a year of hydro addiction, you've got a real chance to recover normal functioning and eventually feel "normal" without the presence of hydrocodone. Try doing it after 30 years of opiate addiction like me. On second thought, don't. The sooner you begin recovery, the easier it will be to become the person you used to be. Good luck.
Thomas