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Honest Answers, No BS! LONG post!
:} Okay the topic is this......how many really do other med's to help get thru the symptoms of Hep and the sides of tx?
Please bare in mind in this long story, that I am also a dress up, ‘normal’ business woman that most would be in shock if they saw me when doing this!
As most here awhile have probably heard from me a time or two.....I am VERY 'anti drug' -abuse of prescribed drugs, street drugs’ and active in fighting the worst 'new' threats, crack and the again popular meth, grabbing our young by the b*alls! (and ‘old’) People get 'hooked' very often on that 1st hit with those. I have literally 'bought' 'kids' from dealers, give them a picture, they set them up and if I get them, in hand, they get the money. We all know-most of us- that a crack head will sell their mom for a hit! I have a few I ‘use’ for this and have gotten who I am looking for every time. Our understanding is, you help me, I shut up on you! I have a ‘Christian drug counselor’ who has given my name,# to parents to help find their kid. I have gotten the call at 4:00 am and gone into 'crack town' alone to get them, have jumped thru the back of a car window, put a knife to the scumbags throat and drug the kid out! I have chased crack dealers with an axe handle! (Dangerous and extreme yes, but that one was a loved family member drug into it by an older, using guy that made a habit of getting 'kids' hooked to use their $$! That 'man' is now in prison 3 years, poor thing! )With a scar on his arm from me! That 'kid' is, 2 years later, drug free, into the arts and back to being a GQ , handsome, going somewhere young man that he was. It is heartbreaking the ‘kids’ I would see at those place’s. Cops ‘overlook’ me and actually respect what I do, tho have made the speech I may get hurt, etc. And as extreme as my methods are, I am proud to say only one I couldn't 'save', yet he did go back to the re-hab later and is now clean. I am one crazy woman. (need to add....I have a bit of biker, and some tough guys back up and our local police dept. actually goes 'in' with me at times 'off the record' , not arresting anyone, just helping me get who I came for!) All is also out of my pocket. I have lived in that world, briefly, 32 years ago, and will do anything I can to get someone out of it. (the success rate of quitting crack, for good, is 5%!! Once 'hooked') I went into all that as.....am not, nor ever been ashamed of how we believe I got Hep C, is when I 'ran away' at 16 yrs. old and 'lived in the streets' (a virgin, no less!!) and got with people and tried all kinds of drugs, had done heroin before loosing my virginity! Within 2 years, by the grace of God.....a 'street guy' that cared took me back to Fla., left me with friends and snuck out in the night, of which I had seen so much I knew I did not want that life. I saw terrible things and many are amazed I never got hurt and ‘walked’ away so easily. I than became anti-anti-anti. Went on to be a good mother of 3 and have a great life. I now use my disease in my 'talks' with young people to say "SEE....look what stupid young mistakes can do! ALL these years later'. My plan, was working on before dx, so now after tx. Is to get a few acre’s and make an ‘animal rescue, kid’s in trouble come take care of them’ counseling type ranch. It’d be pretty hypocritical if I became addicted to med’s thru tx and hep to do this! LOL.
That all said.......I also developed a bit of a phobia for all drugs, even ‘good, needed’ med’s. Took NOTHING. (tx has been a ‘conquer the phobia’ for me!) Several years ago encountered 'panic attacks'?? Tough, no fear woman kicked to the curb. My dr., knowing I never took med's...said 'be a good girl and JUST try these"..... xanax, lowest dose and wouldn't do AD's. With them and a LOT of mental training, beat those and long gone from my daily life. I do them occasionally to sleep and always made sure I was careful not to do daily, get addicted, etc. THAN came hep symptoms, terrible aches, pains and could not do any of my very active jobs well, he gave me Vicoprofen. Again, very careful with them and suffer most days as opposed to doing daily. NOW..…(babble, babble.-sorry!).....I could not have gotten thru hep symptoms, dx, and now tx without doing those 2 pill's on the really bad days and 1st shot day Dr. even gave me Valium and said do the night before and do an hour before app. I read and hear a lot here on suffering and comments on some med's hurt the liver, etc. but my Hep Dr. has clearly told me the amounts I can safely do (and don't even do that much). SOOOOO.....Of course not anyone that is a recovering addict as per worries of a relapse, but how many are actually doing pain med’s or calming med's thru this? My sons and man had to fight with me to actually use them a bit more rather than suffer "YOU (knowing me) will NOT get addicted, stop suffering!” A small part of me still worries that I may have to do some of them from now on, yet I also feel...WHY suffer if they can help? So folks…..how many really do need other med’s to help get thru this?
Thanks for listening to my ‘out there’ long babbling post :}, to anyone who didn’t give up and quit reading 10 minutes ago :}
LL
Please bare in mind in this long story, that I am also a dress up, ‘normal’ business woman that most would be in shock if they saw me when doing this!
As most here awhile have probably heard from me a time or two.....I am VERY 'anti drug' -abuse of prescribed drugs, street drugs’ and active in fighting the worst 'new' threats, crack and the again popular meth, grabbing our young by the b*alls! (and ‘old’) People get 'hooked' very often on that 1st hit with those. I have literally 'bought' 'kids' from dealers, give them a picture, they set them up and if I get them, in hand, they get the money. We all know-most of us- that a crack head will sell their mom for a hit! I have a few I ‘use’ for this and have gotten who I am looking for every time. Our understanding is, you help me, I shut up on you! I have a ‘Christian drug counselor’ who has given my name,# to parents to help find their kid. I have gotten the call at 4:00 am and gone into 'crack town' alone to get them, have jumped thru the back of a car window, put a knife to the scumbags throat and drug the kid out! I have chased crack dealers with an axe handle! (Dangerous and extreme yes, but that one was a loved family member drug into it by an older, using guy that made a habit of getting 'kids' hooked to use their $$! That 'man' is now in prison 3 years, poor thing! )With a scar on his arm from me! That 'kid' is, 2 years later, drug free, into the arts and back to being a GQ , handsome, going somewhere young man that he was. It is heartbreaking the ‘kids’ I would see at those place’s. Cops ‘overlook’ me and actually respect what I do, tho have made the speech I may get hurt, etc. And as extreme as my methods are, I am proud to say only one I couldn't 'save', yet he did go back to the re-hab later and is now clean. I am one crazy woman. (need to add....I have a bit of biker, and some tough guys back up and our local police dept. actually goes 'in' with me at times 'off the record' , not arresting anyone, just helping me get who I came for!) All is also out of my pocket. I have lived in that world, briefly, 32 years ago, and will do anything I can to get someone out of it. (the success rate of quitting crack, for good, is 5%!! Once 'hooked') I went into all that as.....am not, nor ever been ashamed of how we believe I got Hep C, is when I 'ran away' at 16 yrs. old and 'lived in the streets' (a virgin, no less!!) and got with people and tried all kinds of drugs, had done heroin before loosing my virginity! Within 2 years, by the grace of God.....a 'street guy' that cared took me back to Fla., left me with friends and snuck out in the night, of which I had seen so much I knew I did not want that life. I saw terrible things and many are amazed I never got hurt and ‘walked’ away so easily. I than became anti-anti-anti. Went on to be a good mother of 3 and have a great life. I now use my disease in my 'talks' with young people to say "SEE....look what stupid young mistakes can do! ALL these years later'. My plan, was working on before dx, so now after tx. Is to get a few acre’s and make an ‘animal rescue, kid’s in trouble come take care of them’ counseling type ranch. It’d be pretty hypocritical if I became addicted to med’s thru tx and hep to do this! LOL.
That all said.......I also developed a bit of a phobia for all drugs, even ‘good, needed’ med’s. Took NOTHING. (tx has been a ‘conquer the phobia’ for me!) Several years ago encountered 'panic attacks'?? Tough, no fear woman kicked to the curb. My dr., knowing I never took med's...said 'be a good girl and JUST try these"..... xanax, lowest dose and wouldn't do AD's. With them and a LOT of mental training, beat those and long gone from my daily life. I do them occasionally to sleep and always made sure I was careful not to do daily, get addicted, etc. THAN came hep symptoms, terrible aches, pains and could not do any of my very active jobs well, he gave me Vicoprofen. Again, very careful with them and suffer most days as opposed to doing daily. NOW..…(babble, babble.-sorry!).....I could not have gotten thru hep symptoms, dx, and now tx without doing those 2 pill's on the really bad days and 1st shot day Dr. even gave me Valium and said do the night before and do an hour before app. I read and hear a lot here on suffering and comments on some med's hurt the liver, etc. but my Hep Dr. has clearly told me the amounts I can safely do (and don't even do that much). SOOOOO.....Of course not anyone that is a recovering addict as per worries of a relapse, but how many are actually doing pain med’s or calming med's thru this? My sons and man had to fight with me to actually use them a bit more rather than suffer "YOU (knowing me) will NOT get addicted, stop suffering!” A small part of me still worries that I may have to do some of them from now on, yet I also feel...WHY suffer if they can help? So folks…..how many really do need other med’s to help get thru this?
Thanks for listening to my ‘out there’ long babbling post :}, to anyone who didn’t give up and quit reading 10 minutes ago :}
LL
Haven't rode my bike much since started tx and would not even try it now :{ JUST got the new one and than dx'd a week later.
"He" miss's me :} I sit on it and start it in the garage a lot, LOL.
It'd be very stupid for me to even try it, it's a "fat boy' and weighs about 850 Lb.'s, I weigh 128, or less now maybe! Love it tho and , Thank God, never dropped either I have had except in a dirt driveway, with lotsa people looking where your not hurt but your pride is :}
Yep, tx kicking my tail, as is most of us. No life and have to accept that, tho a bit more than I'd expected (as in no life! All on hold.) Saving the dogs, kids, whales, winos.....whatever is out. Just trying to save breakfast in me , LOL!
Haven't read much on your tx here, of course keeping up with all gets harder with fog brain, but did you get SVR ( or are you done, still on?). I try to not whine tho and be grateful being 2b.
HOW these guys/gals (you?) do so long is just AMAZING, can't imagine as in week 5 I am saying "Oh GOD, how many more weeks" :}......in that whining moment!
P.S. I have a lot of help, blessed there, in all area's and .......
"Hey, God, I'm ready to go back to work now! Ya' hear me ?? :}
LL
"He" miss's me :} I sit on it and start it in the garage a lot, LOL.
It'd be very stupid for me to even try it, it's a "fat boy' and weighs about 850 Lb.'s, I weigh 128, or less now maybe! Love it tho and , Thank God, never dropped either I have had except in a dirt driveway, with lotsa people looking where your not hurt but your pride is :}
Yep, tx kicking my tail, as is most of us. No life and have to accept that, tho a bit more than I'd expected (as in no life! All on hold.) Saving the dogs, kids, whales, winos.....whatever is out. Just trying to save breakfast in me , LOL!
Haven't read much on your tx here, of course keeping up with all gets harder with fog brain, but did you get SVR ( or are you done, still on?). I try to not whine tho and be grateful being 2b.
HOW these guys/gals (you?) do so long is just AMAZING, can't imagine as in week 5 I am saying "Oh GOD, how many more weeks" :}......in that whining moment!
P.S. I have a lot of help, blessed there, in all area's and .......
"Hey, God, I'm ready to go back to work now! Ya' hear me ?? :}
LL
Yes it takes energy that you probably don't have much of right now...don't worry , when you are done w/tx, God will put ya back to work!!!! hopefuilly you will get some of that help that you put out there, back when you need it !!!!!!!
Have you ever dropped your Harley? I see women driving them and I think I would probaly drop it..they look heavy!!! Aren't they?
Pitter Pat
Have you ever dropped your Harley? I see women driving them and I think I would probaly drop it..they look heavy!!! Aren't they?
Pitter Pat
Trust me, this past year had been verry little helping anyone/anything. 5 weeks into tx and I am thinking about a little crack/ meth myself, for the energy :}
(KIDDING, KIDDING!)
LL
(KIDDING, KIDDING!)
LL
Hi , it's okay..... we are all under a good amount of stress... and I could go on & on about that and blah blah blah!!! But why?? I know we all know that!!! (So I won't)
I used to put alot of time into helping other people... it was a good time in my life... I still do a little,
not as much...I could only do it for so long..(getting old ha!)
I used to put alot of time into helping other people... it was a good time in my life... I still do a little,
not as much...I could only do it for so long..(getting old ha!)
I'm sorry :{ That wasn't meant to come thru as it did, it's shot day and crabby too.
I just meant to drop any 'testy' post, (myself included , I guess.) Which was your point also.
Gotta watch how I word (and read) things right now :}
Sorry, smiles back to you.........LL
I just meant to drop any 'testy' post, (myself included , I guess.) Which was your point also.
Gotta watch how I word (and read) things right now :}
Sorry, smiles back to you.........LL
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