addicted to pills!

[monkey231]

OK,  I need advice from someone.  My boyfriend and I are both addicted to percs/OCs/Dilodid(however its spelled) and it ruining our lives.  We have to stop and we cant.  I dont know what to do.  We both hate being addicted to this stuff.  I feel like a junky, he feels like a junky, but we cant stop.  I hate it.  Whenever we try to stop we feel like ****.  My legs ache, I get real sweaty, but Im freezing cold, I cant get comfortable, I cant sleep, I cant breath, I get irritable, and I cant function like a normal person.  I just want to be normal again, I want my life back.  I have a son, and I cant be a good mom when Im addicted to pills, and my boyfriend cant be a good dad either.  We're broke because we spend all our money on pills.  Both of us really really really want to stop this.  Someone please help me.  If anyone knows any way to get off of this stuff without feeling like Im going to die, please help me.  This is ruining my life.  I want to be a happy family agian, and we both try so hard.  If we dont stop we're gonna lose our house, our son, and everything else.  My family is the most important thing to me.  I feel like I should be able to just stop for my family, but I cant, and its making me feel like a horrible person, and I dont want to feel like this any more.  Please help me.

[thickboo]

Me and my boyfriend is addicted to opiates and we recently got into this methadone program its. A great program and its in different states. We save. Money.now and we don't have to worry. About being sick cuz we go to the clinic each morning to get our liquid methadone dose

[poohbear4life]

so i have a question please? is it possible to wean yourself off the pills? i cant stand feeling bad...i dont take them anymore like i used to i just wanna be off them completely its stressing me my kids and my relationships

[IBKleen]

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[RomeoZulu]

I'm a totally disabled vet, broke my back on a night jump in North Carolina. Was blown off course and went thru the pine tree's breaking my back at L-4,5. My silk was caught high in the tree and it would lift me up when the wind blew, redering me unconcious each time. I have been on pain pills for many years and have had 4 back operations. I find it nessassary to stop the pain pills about every two to three years to see if I am truly still in pain or not. These pills will mess with your head and make you think that you are still in unbearible pain. I once quit for 11 months and was nearly pain free until I made a quick reaction to catch my grandchild from falling into a ravine. That has been two years ago and I am about to stop my pills again to see if I'm still truly in pain. The Veterans Admin. gives me roxicodone 30mg and I am up to about 16 a day. I do not use other pills like suboxone to detox because you are just trading one narcodic for another (even if your pain doc tells you that suboxone isn't a narcodic because it it's). I prefer my way. I first start taking Amodium AD Max the first day, the second day I cold turkey and start taking Lasics 40mg twice daily to pee as much as possible, I also take prescription Potassium, and drink gatoraide for elecrolytes. I'll be honest with you the first three to four days is like a bad flew. The Amodium is inportant or your gonna have a very sore bottom side. This isen't for everyone you have to have willpower like was beat into us in the Army. Good luck however you do it,  just be safe. These pills are pure poisen and I know I have shaved off some years from my life, but if I need them I have to take them, and I will know again next week when I detox again. I just hope that nobody out there are using these things for recreation, because they will kill you, my 29 year old step son died from them one year ago. Please be careful with them!!!

[doudlej]

My name is James,I'm also an addict . I to was in your situation. I was doing at least 5 to10 m box 30s a day and was always chasing the next one. I found help at a place called Hands Of Hope. The people there really want to help. I go to group meetings, and have lots of people to talk too. I'm on suboxone to help with withdraws. I have been clean for 6months now. And my life is coming together again. I hope everything works out for u. I'll keep u in my prayers.  Here if u need to talk at, Jackson1965.***@****.

[Ogremo]

Sadinjersey235, last June I decided I was tired of being numb, I had been taking pain meds for a little over nine years to treat spinal stenosis, decimated disc's and arthritis from head to toe. I spent eight years as an Army Ranger early on in my life and basically destroyed my body. When I decided enough, I was taking 12 Methadone (20mg ea.) a day, 12-15 Norco (10mg Hydracodone) a day and two 100 MCg Fentynal patches every three days, all being prescribed by a pain mgt whack and or quack, the doc actually would give me an additional 60 percocet when ever I asked and called it help for breakthrough pain. I tell you this because now a year later I hurt less without the pain meds than I did when I was taking them. They screw with you physiologically and destroy your mental health. The withdraw was hell, the doc turned his back on me when I told him I wanted off of the meds. It wont be easy but you can do this and be a stronger person for it. I did not feel good for six months, now a year later I am starting to get back to myself. I live on Advil and will never put myself back in that position again. Some advice, eight years is a long time and you are destroying your organs. Whats the point, I would rather hurt and live my life with feeling versus it all be a numb blur.