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I've been going nuts, my kids have been sick and my husband had the laptop the last few days so I couldn't even escape into cyperjunk. I think my house has mold as my oldest daughter and I are both getting daily headaches.
Will you be at work all day? You should cut those nails before one gets pulled off and really hurts! tlk
I doubt it will be good clean work. It will probably be more like hard, sweaty with lots of dirt work. But my grandma always said a job is a good one if you give it all you got. She did not mean laying on your back either. I will be one of a very few women pipe fitting. I'm strong from years of lifting patients and maintaining my acre of god's country. I can do it.
Check out the mold. Get a good antihistamine. The new ones are expensive. Good luck with that one. It is so humid here on the gulf coast. But it is salt water. It makes a difference some how.
Are you taking them for the "feeling" or to prevent the pain? Ask yourself this and the answer will tell you if you are addicted or not.
Good luck, you will do great! Just don't hurt yourself. And don't take any **** from anyone!
The weather here is soooo hot, in the mid-90s, and the city is covered with haze and smog from the agriculture burns in Mexico right now. Everyone is sick. It lasts a good month.
I hope everyone is having a good day. I just had to call all my bill collectors and beg not to shut off my utilities. But at least I did call; when I was using I just ignored that stuff and let it happen.
good luck at the shipyards. give it what it's worth and chanes
are good it will work out. BE CAREFUL. this is coming from a per-
son who collected workman's comp. for 29 months! it just wasn't
a very good few days off!
keep an angel on your shoulder
kip
As many of you know, I've been posting here for a good bit of time, and the original reason I came here was to get info about ULTRAM.... Because I'm a recovering Alcoholic, no doctor in thier right mind was going to precribe me ANY type of narcotic for pain, so I ended up with a presciption for ULTRAM to control some VERY PAINFUL peripheral neuropathy (caused by my inhuman ability to consume vast quantities of vodka)..
Anyway, it all started out nicely with the ULTRAM working very well for pain, and I didn't get "High", so what was the problem? Well, in the course of 4 months, I went from 3-6 50 milligram tabs per day to a high of almost 40 per day. YES FORTY. Although I never got HIGH, my body chemistry required MORE and MORE to be free of pain. Now I've gone the last 3 days with only 2 tabs at night, so I can reduce the pain enough to get al least 4 good hours of sleep in. I've come to the conclusion that I'm just going to have to live with some amount of pain, and that is just the way it is. I've finally stopped feeling sorry for myself, and am just learning to live with "it".. I guess It did me a world of good to do some research into how the rest of the world lives to realize that I'm really not that bad off.
Some of you may have seen me posting a few days ago that I'd gotten my hands on some OXY, and wanted to try it since it seems to be all the rage.... I found out that 80 MGs didn't even really effect me, and I wanted to know WHY...
I talked to a couple Doctors [addiction specialists] and found some very interesting info:
I was taking, as I said before, up to 2000 milligrams of tramadol for about the last 2 weeks of the heavy ultram use... that is the equivalent of 600-1000 Mgs of OXYCODONE (to your brain) -- what it all boils down to is that I would need to consume a whoppping 400 or more milligrams of OXY to get a decent buzz. In other words, I have made it virtually impossible for myself to ever become a good OXY junkie barring becoming a millionaire to support what I would need for a habit. I guess that's a good thing... but, If I ever need morphine or something for Legitimate pain control after a car wreck or something, the only way I'm going to get enough to not be in hell is to tell the ER docs that I'm a herione addict in order to get enough poppy juice flowing through my viens.
That's my 2 cents for today!
Jess
and my energy is good, I must say that i am suffering
from a the feeling of being over whelmed,.
I try to just ignore it and keep moving in the right direction.
It seem's like eating and sleeping like a normal person are so important. If i don't eat right i get very weak and if i don't get the right sleep i get stressed out to the max.
Pasta is a food that gives you energy the next day,
well i hope you feel better with the energy level,
Getting up and doing something is important, Just doing nothing seems to make it worse for me,
Enjoy the day as best you can, maybe a hot bath would help?
I know what your going through in any event and it is hard to deal with , but it will pass. Just keep trying different things and keep posting. I know the thought of staying clean and getting
to point a where i wake up and feel normal is very attractive to me. like a deream that will be coming true for us as we continue on this rocky road. I know this is true because i have been there,and living that clean life is the best high in the world.
peace
Where are you lurking today, oh SKIP?
I'll mail you!
Jess