drug test

[middleperson]

i'm in the drug court system in my county. i have not used drugs in the past thirty days, but this past friday i took a 10mg lortab. today is monday and i have to take a drug test. do you think the lortab will show up today? thnks

[athena]

Congratulations Hippy!!What an accomplishment!
Just wanted to say that everytime a new poster comes in,you are right there to make them feel welcome..everyone should be as dedicated..

pixi

[hippy]

thanks chezz,
i remember last year when you were going through
sever pain and you were laying on the floor to use
your computer to post, because you could not sit.
well that seems like a longtime ago.
i hope your pain has gotten better.
i hope one day the weight of that kind of pain
is lifted out of your life forever.  

peace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!hippy/////////thanks

[Chezz2]

The Humble Hippy posts again.

Good job Michael and keep posting, you help a lot of people and never seem to stray of off the "mission" of the forum...
Thanks for always keeping things in perspective.
Chezz

[hippy]

thank you
i is very nice to receive
the congrats, but we need others
help we can not do it alone.
peace!!!!!!!!!hippy
thanks agian

[SarpyJesse]

I must also add my congratulations to your accomplishment, Michael.....

Your posts DO inspire many people at this forum AND others! ;-)

Great job!

Jess

[MethMan]

Take a bow Hippie.  You deserve all the accolades your new year demands.
Ziggy Zoggy Ziggy Zoggy HOI HOI HOI!

Just for you....  Girls jumping on trampolines!

[pammy0690]

Congratulations on your one year mark.  During the summertime I stumbled onto this forum and was inspired by many of your post.  Many of the things that you had to say really helped me through some dark days.  I hope that you realized that you have helped more people than you may even know about!  Pamela

[percsnomas]

Have to agree with the group, on an incredible accomplishment Michael!
Not only slaying that dragon, but doing so while in such pain.
My hats off to you sir!

As Pamela mentioned, you have been such a supportive and calming(when times got wacky here) influence, to soooooo many.

I wish you continued success in staying in recovery, and everything!!

percs

[peaz]

Your posts are so thought-provoking and insightful.....You really do understand the addict psyche.  Congratulations on your year of sobriety!!  You have been through a lot and continue to come here and help others.....that is to be commended in itself.  You ALWAYS have something positive to say to old-timers and newbies alike.  Thanks for being the "guru" of our forum here, Hippy.  We love ya---peaz

[Thomas03]

Congrats. One year ... that's awesome! You da man for sure.

I saw an Outer Limits episode about a guy that stayed clean for a year. It turned his brains into plutonium and he took out the Eastern Seaboard. But I'm pretty sure that won't happen to you.

Have a very Good Friday, my friend. You earned it.

Thomas

[Chezz2]

Alexis,

Nice to see you posting again. I hope you are doing alright. As well physically alright and not hurting yourself more by continuing to use and working out. That can be detrimental as you have read, and I am sure you are aware. So be careful.
I know you have a vision and want to stick to training, but you have to keep the overall picture in mind as well.
At least you are back posting again. That means at least you know you can't do this forever...
Were here for ya and just want to see you keep healthy...
Chezz

[Hinkster]

Hippee..please let me add my congrats to your year of being clean. Good friday is a great day. That is one great accomplishment and it's for one great person. Good luck for the coming year so I can congratulate you for two years clean. Your buddy,
Hinkster

[hippy]

thanks, bmac.
ya i like good friday. an easy day to remember
peace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!hippy

[hippy]

so whats up ,
i was reading a summery of your post.
how have you obtained your info.
and how  are you connected with hellbent

[bmac]

Congrats Hippy. A year is a long time my brother. You should be proud of yourself. Peace, Bill

[hippy]

hey thomas , it is a pleasure to see you poasting as much as you are, i will have a year clean at the end of the month , good friday. i rember it well last year when i was in day 2 of withdrawls and was at a close friend s house for easter dinner,
i was really hurting.
anyway i was just getting in from the doctors , i had to get a shot of cortizone in my elbow, i have had this tennis elbow thing flare up in the past 2 weeks because i bang it super hard like 3 times in a week. now i have to rest for 2 days.
so i will get some reading done, im starting a new book by david liss, the coffee trader.  I e\read his 1st one last year and
it was his 1t book and it was great, the name waS
A CONSPIRACYOF PAPER,  a story set in the late 16 hundreds
about a jewish pugilist/bounty hunter whos father is in the
early stock markets.
the second book is about the same time period, i also have
the new norman mailer book (the spooky art) a book  on writing.
he talks about some marriages being excrementious relationships  , where the husband dumps on the wife and the  wife dumps all her problems on the husband,  .  i found his  wording pretty funny .
i hope you are well       peace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!hippy

[Thomas03]

Boy, every time I see your handle I start jonesing!

Anyway, sure, there are tests that can distinguish one opiate from another. Question is, do "they" use such a test or one that will flag you for smack if you eat poppy sead muffins?

Thomas

[Thomas03]

I'm sure Dr. Bozian accepts both Visa and Mastercard, but he apparently reads most threads and sometimes responds to new posters and questions within a thread. Address your post to Forum M.D.-rcb. He might just answer you. Make sure you give him enough info to go on, though -- any medical conditions, length and intensity (daily consumption) of habit, attempts at recovery (and how), family issues, if any, relating to your drug use and/or recovery. Of course, if you insist, I also accept Visa and Mastercard LOL.

Thomas

[Roxy30mg]

Just a quik question on the original topic. When taking a drug test can the results tell the difference between Hydrocodone and Oxycodone? Or would these two drugs look the same?

[onestep]

Does it cost money now to ask a question ? I've not been looking for months now since a major medical setback and just plain depression. i sure could use some help now that I'm getting ready to change.

[Thomas03]

I know how you feel. After scoring some Vics, I loved to go home, curl up with my first love, a good book, and listen to my second, classical music. The drug, the beautiful words and music formed a continuum I only left when I absolutely had to.

Every time I cleaned up, literature and especially music would seem dead to me -- for a time. I'm about a month clean of any drugs now, and I'm writing this post while listening to a piece I

[hippy]

hey finkboy,
my name is michael , im an addict and have been clean here at
this fourm for a year aprial 30, i had 15 a day vike and or perc habit. i had  started taking the meds for ligit reasons
but wound up abuseing them due to some deaths in the famly
my younger brother for 1 died of and overdose.
i was clean in na for 17 years before i got myself into this mess.
im doing well thanks to thomas's receip and all the support here.
im 43 and still go to na meetings every week.
i suffer from severe pain at times, i take the receip still
and it hellp a lot even a year later. i also have good results with a vitamin called  MSM a sulfer based mineral.
thomas's email is further down in one of his post.
i hope your doing okay,
peace!!!!!!!!!!hippy.

middle person, nice to read your post, you said you like to read
that is a great  way to escape the bordom  life can bring.
another way is to find a way to help others.
getting the focus off ourselves and helping others in some capacity is a great way to get rid of bordom.
getting involved in som kind of community activity is a
possibility, we have to get creative in these ventures
to find ways to escape to bordom of staying clean after living life on the edge as a useing addict.
as time go on and we stay clean it does get better and better is the area of bordom.
before you know it you will find you wom't have any time to be bored, your life will get so busy and full.
we just have to stay on the good  track.
peace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!hippy

[AlexisInTx]

You all are such insightful people.  So incredibly understanding in regard to where I am, where I was, where I may be going.

I want to say that I can't exercise without those pain killers, and I do feel lucky in that respect.  I know that there are so many here (and everywhere) that would love to be able to do so, so I'm not taking that for granted.  I think perhaps in my own mind I've developed a sense of needing these pills for emotional reasons rather than physical ones.  I know I have real physical pain, but I think that I'm exaggerating it to a degree so as to have an excuse to use.

I don't normally like to talk about myself like this, I'd rather listen to others and offer support - it's really amazing to find others that can comprehend what you are going through.  My husband is wonderful, he really is, but he just doesn't understand exactly what it's like.  I know that I have total control over my own actions (or inactions), but it's just getting to that point.

You're right, I could handle this as I would the flu, take a couple of weeks off, even taper down if need be (which has never worked before, so I don't know if it would now) and then keep in mind that IT WILL GET BETTER.  I have to have a long term goal set, and then stick to my guns, realizing that my short term suffering is for a purpose.  I remember very vividly when I was in labor for 29 hours (HARD labor, no anesthesia or pain meds, only Pitocyn which makes your contractions harder) that the nurse said that the pain I was experiencing was 'pain with a purpose' - so maybe that's how I should look at it like.  I'm definitely not trying to compare labor to withdrawal, but just that there is a purpose to it (quitting) and that down the road, my life will improve.  I see myself never wanting to go out and do anything anymore - I have a short temper and I'm not myself.  I can't remember who exactly I am anymore, and I want to reclaim that.  I just get caught up in of course a very selfish mode, and then I think my life will be 'blah' without the pills.

Thanks for letting me get this out, and for y'all's help, it means a lot to me.

Alexis

[Thomas03]

Sorry, Alexis, I somehow missed the herniated disk part (woops!).

I don't know what kind of physical training you're doing, but I think if you told a doctor that you were numbing yourself with Vicodin in order to do strenuous workouts, he'd freak.

In 1993, I endured about a year of pain until I finally let them operate on my disk bulge (L5). I know that, during that year, if I'd loaded up on hydrocodone and then pushed myself at the gym, I'd have put myself in the hospital.

I think the right kind of doctor is going to have to advise you on this. But my amateur opinion is that you're hurting yourself by pushing your poor back through all this physical conditioning while numbed on opiates. Bad idea! With something such as herniated disks (not one, but two!), I don't think you should ever work out on opiates or any painkiller for that matter. You need to be fully aware of what a given exercise is doing to your back (or any part of your body). Bad disks are not something you can just ignore. I understand your ambition to be a trainer, but you could wind up training people from a wheelchair. Take care,

Thomas