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Tapering off.....not a choice
Hello everyone,
not sure u remember me....
I was convinced I could taper off just like that....
coming to find out, its not that easy!
Not sure if I can get it done, here I am faced with another refill!!!
The taper off is just not for someone like me, to be honest, coming to find out (and I am so shocked about this)
I am too hooked.
Hubby was gonna help me on this, but all it did is challenge our relationship. The last two weeks have been so tough on us. As of right now we are not even talking to each other, cause I tested his patience one time too much. I have been a real b****!
I have to do it cold turkey. Just not quiet ready for it yet. guess as long as I put it off the harder it will get.
I have been thinking different about the pills I take, there not 'my friend' anymore.
Just wanted to let you guys know 'where' I am in my quest. I'm frustrated and it is almost Christmas, don't feel very Christmassy.
not sure u remember me....
I was convinced I could taper off just like that....
coming to find out, its not that easy!
Not sure if I can get it done, here I am faced with another refill!!!
The taper off is just not for someone like me, to be honest, coming to find out (and I am so shocked about this)
I am too hooked.
Hubby was gonna help me on this, but all it did is challenge our relationship. The last two weeks have been so tough on us. As of right now we are not even talking to each other, cause I tested his patience one time too much. I have been a real b****!
I have to do it cold turkey. Just not quiet ready for it yet. guess as long as I put it off the harder it will get.
I have been thinking different about the pills I take, there not 'my friend' anymore.
Just wanted to let you guys know 'where' I am in my quest. I'm frustrated and it is almost Christmas, don't feel very Christmassy.
Hey, how are you doing??? Better with the physical stuff at least, I hope!!!! Thinking of you!
I hope you are feeling better today the worst of w/d will pass soon and you will be so glad you did it. Just think about it this way you are giving your family and yourself the BIGGEST Christmas gift they will ever receive. God Bless and have a Merry Christmas.---Rick
When the withdrawals are at their worst it's near impossible to be objective and put things in their proper perspective. When the drugs take over they provide the chemical boost your brain would normally make on its' own. When they're taken away you go back to depending on your own brain to provide these chemicals. Problem is your brain has now forgot how to do this so while it's relearning to make and excrete these chemicals that control moods and emotions you're mind is going to be all over the place. A sad song or movie will make you burst into tears when normally you wouldn't have been affected like that. Pills also gave us lots of energy to do anything we wanted, taken away your now like the person that wakes up from a coma who hasn't used their muscles in so long that they have to relearn how to funtion.
You're so tired now because your body is having to learn to get it's energy from it's own natual resources instead of that produced by the pain killers.
That goes away too. Since no two people withdrawal at the same rate it's hard to say that in exactly 5 days you'll feel better and begin sleeping again. It might take 3 days for some or it might take 7 to 8 day for others.
I remember feeling exactly as you are now. Frustrated, disappointed and depressed that I was no longer going to get that rush of good feelings and energy ever again because I wasn't allowed to have my pills anymore. I relapsed because I thought this was now going to be the new normal. Turns out I was wrong. Those feelings are temporary and the lack of energy and no motivation is temporary too.
You will get back to feeling just as energetic and happy as you remember before the addiction started.
I feel so good now I'm having a hard time remembering why I thought I just had to have those pills 24/7 in excess.
I used to want so bad to be where the addicts that were on the other side of it were at. All of their stories on feeling good and glad to have their life back seemed so far out of reach for me and I was sure that I was never going to be in that place ever again because my situation was so different than all of theirs was. The only difference was that I would cave before giving it a fair chance.
Do yourself a favor and give it at least 4 weeks. That's not long really, how quick did time go by since thanksgiving? That was 4 weeks ago and it flew by didn't it?
Four weeks from now you're going to have a completely different outlook on all of this.
You wanna be like all of the other addicts that got past this? Then just stay in the race. You will get there I promise. And very soon you will be here telling others going through the same thing as you are that they too can get thru this. It'll occur to you that the words your telling the newly clean were so hard to believe yourself yet turns out everyone was right. You'll share that and pass it forward too.
I'm clean today! Tomorrow I'll worry about when I wake up. You're clean today right? The only difference between you and I is time. Go to you calender and circle the next 25 days. Every morning when you get up be proclaim to the world that "Today I will be clean!" and then put an X in that days circle. When you run out of circles you'll be amazed at how good you're feeling.
You can beat this. Everyone here knows you can and we're here to remind you of that as often as you need to hear it.
You're so tired now because your body is having to learn to get it's energy from it's own natual resources instead of that produced by the pain killers.
That goes away too. Since no two people withdrawal at the same rate it's hard to say that in exactly 5 days you'll feel better and begin sleeping again. It might take 3 days for some or it might take 7 to 8 day for others.
I remember feeling exactly as you are now. Frustrated, disappointed and depressed that I was no longer going to get that rush of good feelings and energy ever again because I wasn't allowed to have my pills anymore. I relapsed because I thought this was now going to be the new normal. Turns out I was wrong. Those feelings are temporary and the lack of energy and no motivation is temporary too.
You will get back to feeling just as energetic and happy as you remember before the addiction started.
I feel so good now I'm having a hard time remembering why I thought I just had to have those pills 24/7 in excess.
I used to want so bad to be where the addicts that were on the other side of it were at. All of their stories on feeling good and glad to have their life back seemed so far out of reach for me and I was sure that I was never going to be in that place ever again because my situation was so different than all of theirs was. The only difference was that I would cave before giving it a fair chance.
Do yourself a favor and give it at least 4 weeks. That's not long really, how quick did time go by since thanksgiving? That was 4 weeks ago and it flew by didn't it?
Four weeks from now you're going to have a completely different outlook on all of this.
You wanna be like all of the other addicts that got past this? Then just stay in the race. You will get there I promise. And very soon you will be here telling others going through the same thing as you are that they too can get thru this. It'll occur to you that the words your telling the newly clean were so hard to believe yourself yet turns out everyone was right. You'll share that and pass it forward too.
I'm clean today! Tomorrow I'll worry about when I wake up. You're clean today right? The only difference between you and I is time. Go to you calender and circle the next 25 days. Every morning when you get up be proclaim to the world that "Today I will be clean!" and then put an X in that days circle. When you run out of circles you'll be amazed at how good you're feeling.
You can beat this. Everyone here knows you can and we're here to remind you of that as often as you need to hear it.
sometimes especially in the beginning ppl have to just take it a minute or hour at a time, then one day at a time, aftercare and being open to support are really important, its a life long progressive disease unfortuantly, it is by no means a quick easy thing to learn to enjoy life (the good & the bad) again, but is definitly dooable.
one step at a time......
one step at a time......
thank you onthefence,
so all I need to do is figure out how i did my job before I was hooked.
Seems so so far away.....
I also need to find a way to unwind when I get home from work.....
I better think of this before I go back.
so all I need to do is figure out how i did my job before I was hooked.
Seems so so far away.....
I also need to find a way to unwind when I get home from work.....
I better think of this before I go back.
what exactly is "normal" is anybody really normal?
in the old PDR'S (physician desk reference) it states " may be habit forming" for all these opiate drugs, and that is exactly what it is a habit with physical side effects when stopping the intake of the drug.
so daily routines are accociated with the habit of taking the "norco" , the habit has to be broken, then the longer the daily routine of life is lived w/out the drug the more the accociation will decrease, Alot of ppl have a hard time with the cravings during daily life, thats where aftercare comes in . addictionoligist, 12 step meetings, therapy, meditation, spirituality, whatever the person is most comfortable with.
addicts are usually not unique we just think we are......
in the old PDR'S (physician desk reference) it states " may be habit forming" for all these opiate drugs, and that is exactly what it is a habit with physical side effects when stopping the intake of the drug.
so daily routines are accociated with the habit of taking the "norco" , the habit has to be broken, then the longer the daily routine of life is lived w/out the drug the more the accociation will decrease, Alot of ppl have a hard time with the cravings during daily life, thats where aftercare comes in . addictionoligist, 12 step meetings, therapy, meditation, spirituality, whatever the person is most comfortable with.
addicts are usually not unique we just think we are......
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