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Today will be a week....YEA
by gipsee, Dec 27, 2006 12:00AM
I'm surely not out of the woods yet....stomach cramps and runs are still part of what's going on... but it's a week.... YEAAAAAA!
If I can last a week... anyone can... I did not leave this house without my Vics for almost three years. Still feel like total doo-doo... but better than I did Sunday... that was the worst.
I'm breaking down...I'm going to Drs. today to get off the Xanax now... these scare me... and I want out of these too. I just want to feel better...I want my life back.
I know this is going to sound stupid, but I may even muster up enough energy to do some laundry today. Just wish the Stomach thing would go away sooner than later.
Thanks ya'all for listening
Gip
If I can last a week... anyone can... I did not leave this house without my Vics for almost three years. Still feel like total doo-doo... but better than I did Sunday... that was the worst.
I'm breaking down...I'm going to Drs. today to get off the Xanax now... these scare me... and I want out of these too. I just want to feel better...I want my life back.
I know this is going to sound stupid, but I may even muster up enough energy to do some laundry today. Just wish the Stomach thing would go away sooner than later.
Thanks ya'all for listening
Gip
It was a few days of being in Alaska without a coat
A few days of being in Tahiti with a coat that I couldn't get off.
I know my stomach belongs to someone else.... this can't be mine it feels like it doesn't even fit.
I don't think I've eaten more than 6 ozs of food since Thursday of last week, and my stomach is bloated... this part I don't understand at all. My stomach growls at a teaspoon of food. I've gone through 40 bottles of water though. This part has not lessened yet.
And to be really honest, I haven't spent more than a few hours a day out of bed. I haven't even talked w/anyone on the phone.
My head went on vacation at one point and left my body here. That was real unpleasant.
There are a lost worst things that could have happened... I guess working in a coal mine would have been a choice...
But my head is getting clearer.... it's got to go downhill from this point....
Thanks!
Gip
Honey ... Please...Please...Please... go for some help. Maybe cold turkey won't or shouldn't even be considered in this case.
Lordy who Rx'd those to you ... knowing your were preggers.
Frankly, I'm not feeling well enough yet to "crave" anything. Let alone another pill.... I've been stuffing a Multi, Zinc, B-Complex and Advil down me since Saturday.....I don't care if these pills sit here and rott after this... I truly don't.
Please at least come clean w/the Dr. There has got to be a remedy.
Let me know how you make out. I'll be thinking of you. And for heaven's sake....don't discount how far you've come. Yer doing great...just make sure it's OK for the BABY...don't worry about the damn drug test.
XoXo
Gip
Yes, discounting the little tin can voice in your head it IS all down hill from here.
Honey ... Please...Please...Please... go for some help. Maybe cold turkey won't or shouldn't even be considered in this case.
Lordy who Rx'd those to you ... knowing your were preggers.
Frankly, I'm not feeling well enough yet to "crave" anything. Let alone another pill.... I've been stuffing a Multi, Zinc, B-Complex and Advil down me since Saturday.....I don't care if these pills sit here and rott after this... I truly don't.
Please at least come clean w/the Dr. There has got to be a remedy.
Let me know how you make out. I'll be thinking of you. And for heaven's sake....don't discount how far you've come. Yer doing great...just make sure it's OK for the BABY...don't worry about the damn drug test.
XoXo
Gip
Matine I write as well. Published as well. *Taking a bow* I used to be able to plow through pages and pages of recognizable viable words while on those drugs. I'm wonder how this is all going to affect my career.
Any advise?
I just have been reading about L-tyrosine. Nebulous over the counter stuff sold at any Vit. Shoppe, that proclaims mental clarity, etc. Have you heard about it?
Lemme know
Gip
I am so proud of you. I was thinking how today was one week for you last night - as I sit here struggling.
I have two little ones to watch - and I am beat! I'm still on just 5mg a day - but I really just want to stop. The longest b/w doses was 26 hours - and then I caved. I keep thinking of you as my motivation - and I'm still not making it.
I am so very proud of you. I know it hasn't been easy - but I really do think of you and know that if you can do it - I can do it too!
Sorry I haven't been here for you the past couple of days - just got rid of holiday visitors - which wasn't helping me. I had to be hospitable - and I just couldn't function.
Keep us posted - One week - what an accomplishment. I am TRULY proud of you.
Like I said, I rec'd my 120 yesterday and have not opened the bottle as of yet. If things really get BAD, I'll continue with 1/2 pill then taper to 1/4, 1/8 then NONE.
Good luck and thanks for all your kind words......
TB
My doc who started me on this was my primary care - and told me that the hydros were safe as long as they weren't abused....
And then we moved up here - and this doc has not said one thing even close to what the other doc said.
SO - this is my screwed up situation!
In the meantime - I just sit here and stress - which does me no good - doesn't make me feel better -
I know I'm smarter than all of this - I know! We all know - AGHRHHGHRHGHHRHGHR - I so desperately want to be clean - I never wanted any of this!
Thanks for listening - sorry to ramble - and once again, can I say that I am proud of you! You are giving me inspiration!
As the Dr. for some help..... tell him you need help. Once you make your mind up and "know" in your heart the drugs are controlling you... not the pain...you should be able to put them down...take the withdrawl on the chin....and just do it until you have your baby.
I do know that hydros are not advisable if you are nursing...it can be passed in breast milk....so I can't imagine it's doing too much good if your baby is feeling what you are now. Personally I don't beleive in clinics....but you might just have to get yourself to a clinic to ease some stress on yourself to see where all of the pieces to this fits.
But you've been off of them for the most part anyway right? Don't get yerself all crazee over that half a pill you took the other day. I just have no clue what this does to anyone while they are preggers...wish I did. If I lived close by I'd come with you 'til all this was straighted out with you.
Take care and let me know
XoXo
J
As I really don't know......I've tried researching as much as possible - some say DON'T detox while preggo - others say taper and then there are the others that say narcs are less harmful than other drugs.
I'll keep you posted on how tomorrow goes - I go in b/w feelings of doing better and then just miserable.
But enough about me - how are you doing!!!!???? How is the one week mark??
I am proud of you! And thank you so much for being 'there' for me!
Keep us all posted on your progress
You've come too far to just give into blowing it...!
Write to us
XoXo
Gip
I hope I make it as far as you...No, I KNOW I WILL :-)
Once again, I am proud of you and what you have accomplished.
I was a little on the lucky side...I had the time to sorta pamper myself and take the hit. Meaning...I didn't have to go to work ... with all the cramps in my belly and the runs, etc...it's been a rough week. Nothing I read prepared me for what I ran into... but it's getting better.
Sleep as much as you can.... while you are sleeping you are still detoxing but you aren't thinking about it so much. After a while each day gets a little better.
God Bless
XoXo
Gip
My stomach is in one ball of knots - as the doc appt is fast approaching.
Sorry to hear you had a rough night - I was wide awake at 4 and didn't go back to sleep until 5.
Just wanted to let ya know i'm thinking of ya -take care and keep up the good work!
And that goes for everyone!!!!
Please let me know how you make out at Drs. You can write to me using my e-mail addy ***@****
Shaky night...but I "do" actually feel somewhat human today, I think I'm even going to get dressed and go out....pains in belly went way down... so this is a good thing. There may still be some light at the end of this tunnel... but I hafta tell ya I'm scared. Don't know exactly what of... but I am.
First time I'm really feeling anything at all.. and pretty weepy...guess it all goes with it.
Please write and let me know @ Drs appt.
XoXo
Gip
I'm finishing week 3, and I feel so relieved.
Take care of yourself and that baby.
SWJ