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[road2recovery]

great post , and welcome..i am never on this late but could not sleep..Please keep posting and tell your story and how you just did it k?
R2R

Okay, I guess I should introduce myself. Well, not really myself---I'll go by IVY. You wouldn't believe me if I told you who I really was, so I won't bother. Okay. I have had a problem with pills----mainly norcos. At one point I was up to 20 a day. And for me, they were so accessible to get. Mainly because I have money and the industry I work in....well....they flow like candy. I couldn't even get up in the morning unless I popped about 3 of them. I have to admit, I loved them. I still do, only I hate them at the same time. But then my work started to become affected. My work, my family....I mean I just realized one day that this is not me. And ironically there are so many people that think they ''know'' me....and they don't know squat. For a while there, I didn't even know myself. The stress, the BS, the ''nice-to-your-face-then-rip-you-up-when-you-turn-around" was just getting to me so badly and the pills made it all better. But I did it....it was hard and worse than any bad review I have ever been put through (lol) but I did it. I am proud to say I have been pill-free now for 4 months.
My life and family is so much better now I can't even describe it. I guess what I am getting at is anyone can get addicted to these pills. From a housewife to a mechanic to a model to an actress----the pills have no discrimination. That's for sure. I was surfing the web tonight and came across this site and just wanted to post my story, or some of it. Maybe I'll drop in from time to time. You all seem like good people and I feel like we are all connected, in a way, you know?  Well, thanx for reading. I have an early morning meeting with a group of 'sharks' (or so I like to call them..ha ha) so I have to hit the sack but you all keep supporting one another and you are all in my thoughts and prayers.

Ivy

[D30]

Welcome and  Ican't sleep either ROad2

[longing4life]

Thanks for such an inspiring post.  It really lets me know that there is life after the pills.  It really really hurts me to know how much I have taken away from my life by getting wrapped up in the web of addiction.  

My hubby and I have 2 beautiful daughters who I want to see grow up and get a good education and marry one day and have us a few grand babies we can spoil and send home one day.  Ha.

I would love to think ahead to 4 months of me being clean, but I just have to live each day as it comes.  I really have enjoyed reading your posts tonight.

Please feel free to e-mail me at ***@**** anytime.  I need all the encouragement I can get.  I just set up this e-mail account for this forums purpose.  

Knowing folks who have clean time really helps when my circle of friends is so small.  Guess thats the drawbacks of living in the sticks of Mississippi!!  Ha.  We live so far back in the sticks we have to pipe sunshine in everyday!!!  But I wanna be happy living here.  I wanna be drug free and laugh again with my hubby and girls.  I wanna be able to hold my head up high and not be ashamed of my "secret" that has made me seem to be so "happy" to alot of folks over the last few years.  I just wanna be........me, drug free

P.S.  If I had to guess....ummm.....Julia Roberts...ha.  Just kiddin.  She is one of my favorites.  Loved her best in Steel Magnolia's which is where our youngest got her name "Shelby"....she's a goat shower!!!  Only 10 yrs old.  Give her a pair of boots, jeans, fancy cowgirl shirt and a lead for her goat and she is set to go!!!  She has 2 goats that do NOT know they are goats.  A new season is on us.  "Pablo", her last goat, has retired.  They can only be shown for one year.  She would sleep out there if we let her.  Ah kids...gotta love em.

Keep up the good work hun and keep in touch

Until Then,
LL  

[road2recovery]

okay---just give us a hint??? a little one..
R2R

[D30]

Alyssa Milano?

[longing4life]

hey....why didn't it post my e-mail addy! Lol....I aint that special.....ha ha.

How do I edit my profile!

[longing4life]

I think I figured it out. Ha.  My name is in COLOR now.....HOW EXCITING!!!!

Boy the little things that make me happy now on day 6.  Ha.

If you wanna e-mail me, just go to my profile and I hope it is there.

[TimH2]

Welcome to the forum and thanks for the inspirational post. Congrats to you for making it through the hard part of recovery to the other side. Your post will help many that are just starting their journey and still fighting the aftermath of their drug abuse.

God Bless,
Tim

[TimH2]

Congrats on day #6. You are doing great!!! Keep up the fight!

[oneway]

man now I wanna know who you are.  but anyways it takes heart to make it through this.  Good luck.

[marcatj]

Good for you... listen, I'm also in the "biz" and while I'm not warranting alot of reveiws very often (lol - behind the cam...) as you know, this drug does not discrimimate  From mother to lawyer, to actress to doctor.  And as you know, in our biz there is ALOT of abuse (i found out this week a dear friend "in the biz" has been popping 20 a day and I had no idea...)..  Although.. now that I say that, that's what's relative to us.  Who's to say there's not just as much in other circles?  The statistics I read are staggering..

So with all that blather being said - welcome to the forum.  Congrats on your 4 months.. and it's good to know you are not alone, huh?  Alone in wanting to ditch the pills.. (btw - if you haven't been yet to any AA meetings in LA/West Hollywood - sister, you'd be surprised who you'd know and recognize!!  If you ever have the desire, you will be shocked. I went with a buddy at the time, and one of the biggest agents in town's wife gave me my first Big Book!)  You will be warmly surprised, and of course, welcomed...

good luck..
mj

[lonote]

Was it you who mentiond going out sometime and listening to the blues?

[marcatj]

hmmm... i don't think so, but i DO enjoy doing that!!