9 days clean and Prescriptions coming up.

[Jebs317]

I have a huge concern.  I am on day 9.  I feel great....better than I have in years!  I don't have any pills at home.  I feel very confident today......

I have 2 prescriptions coming up that can be filled.  I worry that I won't have the will power to not get them filled.  I know today that I don't want to swallow a pill, but will I feel this way on the 24th?  Should I call the doctor and tell them no matter what I say or complain of.............not to give me any more???  I am afraid because that makes it so final.  Is it normal to feel this way?  

[Calamity2]

FYI   I used after I went thru hell for 2 weeks getting free of a  8 year addiction to opiates. I decieded to use on a weekend because after all that suffering in wds I deserved a few pills of relief.  Well I was back in full wds like I had never stopped at all after only 2 days of using a few .  I never want to go back to the humiliation of being treated like a desperate addict or being one.  I got to the point in run out time I would go on these crazy searches for another pill. sometimes for days at a time. But if that is your thing.  Go get your pills. I think you'll be back.

[pharma9]

I honestly can not believe that I am no longer experiencing the same pain that I did while on the opiates.I was always having rebound pain and waking up in pain.
Now that I am no longer taking opiates I do not wake up in pain and often forget to take my tylenol or ibuprofen.
Life is so much better because i am no longer chained to opiates.

[Jebs317]

Thank you!  You are so right.  The one thing that I have been noticing as the days go by......I don't even have back pain anymore.  That's what I started taking them for to begin with.  It seems like it's not as bad as it was.  I have been taking a couple of motrin a day or exedrin back and body.....and they are working fine.  

Why is so hard to make the decision to call my doctor?  I think in a way I feel emarassed to let him know that I let this happen.  In his eyes, I take it as prescribed.  Not so much.......it's been spiralling down hill for a while now.  

Thank you for your help!

[Jebs317]

Hey Valerie,
   Thanks for the help.  I think I am going to call my doctors on Monday.  In a way that call is scarier for me than going CT 9 days ago.  Like you, I don't want to ever go through that again.  I keep thinking back to how I felt a week ago, and it's amazing how good I feel now.  The only thing that really bothers me today is lack of energy and tingling on my arms.  That's it......I know from experience that I can't go back to 1 or 2 a day.  I would go right back to 3 just to get out of bed.  This morning I got out of bed, drank coffee and felt good.  No pills, no shakes, no flu feeling.  Just got up.  

We had the guts to detox ourselves at home...do we have the guts to call our doctors?

[avisg]

yes its a normal way to feel but if you turley want to get clean u are going to have to cancel your scripts or there are high chances u will use them .What aftercare are U going to get

[pharma9]

I think you know what I am going to say...Don't refill that Rx.You have got this far and don't give in now.After the initial rebound pain subsides you will probably find that otc pain meds work quite well and you don't need the opiates in your life.
I know it happened like that for me and I am sure it will for you as well.
Those opiates cause more pain than what they relieve in the long term.
Good for you lasting to day 5 and countingl
I know how big that accomplishment is.

[browniev103]

I totally understand where you are coming from. I can get one filled tomorrow and I am still feeling some of the withdrawel effects on day 5. I really dont want to get it filled but I am tired of this anxiety. But I also dont want to have gone through this week of hell for nothing. I think you should call your doctor. as should I. And since you said you are feeling amazing now, dont give in. You will just feel extremely guilty and I am sure the "high" wont feel as good as you do now SOBER! Good luck to you! You are stronger than this poison!

Valerie