Anesthesia and Oxy Problems

[Van Lingle]

Hello all, I'm a first time poster here but I've gleaned a lot of valuable info just lurking. I had shoulder surgery on Jan. 21 of this year and was readmitted to the hospital a month later for a remanipulation. On both occassions I was given a general anesthetic and was placed on oxycontin after the second visit. After a 6 week tapering off session I've been clean of oxy (contin and codone) for 6 weeks now. I'm still experiencing depression and lethargy unlike anything I've ever known before. My question is, is it the oxy withdrawl or the anesthesia that's got me like this (assuming it's not something else)? A friend of mine who is fairly knowledgable on medical matters tells me that general anesthesia can leave you out of sorts for as much as 6 months and she thinks this might be the problem. Any opinions or experiences to share? Thanks, vl

PS I've been using the detox recipe found here from the first week of withdrawl.

[Nawoc]

I read all your posts. All you people are so caring and understanding..  I have detoxed from a little of it all at one time or another..  Just think about tomorrow, it is a new day. It is never easy and you may detox 100s of times before you finally detox that last time and stay clean..  Everyday I think of several different reasons why I should or could with a clean concise get a bottle of vodka and a gram of cocain. BUT, today I didn't....  And I'm not tomorrow.

Good Luck to you all.
And thanks for all your support...

[angst]

you have been accosted wrongly.  i wish you the best of luck in the future. really i'm saying live life everyday to the fullest,
without the drugs.  i'm on the orange juice methadone at a great
clinic.  We have individual conselling and group therapy.  i get my money's worth and then some.  if my counseller is busy, i pop
into another counseller's door to get things off my mind and solutions to my problems.  it is difficult to see problems sometimes before we are too close to see things objectively.
this is my second time on methadone, so i know about the w/d's.
  i am growing through this time. i still go to NA.  my home group welcomes me even though they know about the methadone.  i never want to go back through what i did , i hurt my daugher so
much, and lost the trust of my exhusband.  getting a job helped me so with my family.  getting away from drugs is changing people, places and things.  you can buy anything you want in the
parking lot of the methadone clinic.  i spend my time inside and then leave shortly after.  i do not mingle.  it is just a rule of thumb.  i hope you find sobriety.  i also wish you can let go of this radioboy nonsense.  none of us around for a while think otherwise.  no one holds a gun to an addict and say take this.
an addict may hold a gun on someone else and say give me your money.   after all this,  i want you to know i support you.  ava

[angst]

hello,   you are a fixture on this forum, straight - stoned- or detoxing.  you know most depression is situational.  there are the few who have a chemical embalance or bipolar who have real need of antidepressants.   for most of us others have a situation
that will heal the depression once the situation is gone.
seeing that doctor will never hurt.  there is always the recipe.
neither will seeing a doctor hurt.  i want you to feel better.  you are one i read and look forward to your postings.  i am not trying to put anyone on a pedistal.  that could only hurt.  but
you have a lot to give.  i can tell you are a good person.  you
will make it through this depression and the blahs.  you know what you need to do.  Good luck and Blessings,   Ava

[angst]

thanks for coming back and telling me what it was like to rapid
detox.  i finally got a job.  nothing to brag about, but grandma
always said if you did a good day's work, it is honest.  i glad you had a positive w/d.  did they inject the naltrexone pellets?
you did it and i am so proud of you!!!!!
Keep posting and let me know how it goes.   Ava

[rowanshyne]

So good to see you all again.  The last time I had a chance to read, I'd had so little sleep, I felt ****-eyed and everything I read looked ****-eyed.
As in, in all the months I've been reading the board, seeing the recipe, even copying it onto "Notepad", Hippy's post stating "EIGHT l-tyrosine" finally registered.
I've only been taking 4 a day and the depression was about to lift me bodily and throw me over the edge.
I'll just go ahead and take the correct dose now. Doh!!

Thank you all for being here everytime I get a chance to snag some computer time.
I *always* need the boost I get from you all.

Van Lingle's question about depression and lethargy have been answered, so I'll just throw in my, "Me too!"
They are the worst I have ever felt, just plain unimaginable and overwhelming.  You can pick up the recipe ingredients at most health food/vitamin stores and while you're wondering if it will really help, know that they sure can't make you feel any *worse*.

Hang on, I look forward to seeing you, Van Lingle, when I get back on again, just like I need all the others.

Wren

[rowanshyne]

Congratulations! on your new job.  I'm still looking, I know it's out there.
I live in a little old mining town in the mountains, so jobs are scarce.  I'm not picky at this point, but there's not much to pick from!

Wren