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Day 4 - I feel pretty good, how are you?

This must be my lucky day, I get to start a question!

Good morning, my fellow withdrawers.  (Anybody got a better name than "withdrawers"?)  How's everyone?
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Forgot about the GABA. It should help with RLS. It was recommended to me by someone(alan). I also did alot of research on it. It has some of the same properties of other "calming" meds. Or a more natural Valium. I have been taking it for about a week.

You are right..it wasn't part of the Original Recipe. LOL
Sounds like we are cookin' chicken.

Cincee you were also right about the vitamins. I never thought about that. I haven't really taken the mang./iron everyday like the other stuff either.
Thanks for the info C.
Chezz
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Laughter is the med for the night. I am still up and can't sleep, and there isn't anybody to play with anymore!!!  ;(
Nothing I can do about the pain, so I might as well stay up and have a little fun! I almost wish I had RLS to keep my mind off of it. At least I have my laptop connected. Now I can lay in bed with my heat pack, and still be on the net. I'm lucky my wife could sleep through an earthquake, cause' I am still lookin' for that song. Its going to be one of those nights....

Cincee, I think right about the desire/strength thing. Just reading your's and Pixi's posts have showed me that. You both sound like very outgoing, strong willed women.

What about the soccer pops out there. We need shrinks too. I don't haven't any real kids, but I am a stay at home cat watcher. Get kinda lonely talking to em' though. At least they don't talk back, or tell me when my "time" is up. Not to mention the BILL. LOL

My Therapy is right here.

Have fun gettin' glamed up tomorrow.

I wish it was 'night for me too.
Actually, If I am up a couple more hours, the East-Coasters will be up...
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I'm going to try to go to sleep now.  I took a very old flexeril, just to mix things up.

I hope Laura's appt went well today and Allisa figured out her work thing, and Chezz doesn't have TOO much pain and everyone gets to rest tonight.  I think Pixi's already in dreamland.

Thank you all.  I have literally worked my w/d here and couldn't have done it without you.

Now, tomorrow I have that appt. with new orthoped. who I hope is anti-med.  Chezz, I thought about your comments on this a lot today.  Thanks.  I don't think it's about strength.  I think it's about desire.  I have faced huge, big, bad things I never I thought I could, and by God, I am strong.  I just forgot.  But what I'm a little short on is desire.

I'm also seeing my shrink tomorrow.  (Every self-respecting middle-aged, soccer mom should have one.)  I'm thinking of coming out a little to her so I can get some fresh stuff.  Usually I just use her for antidepressent.  No talk therapy for me. uh-uh.

And THEN, I have an appointment for some much-needed glamour.  AKA, haircut and color.

So I'll be gone all day.  May check-in in the morning.  Don't have too much fun without me.

'night
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I've been fighting addiction and relapse for years now.  In 1998 I went cold turkey on all drugs, tobacco, and alcohol.  Felt fricking great for 2 years and then started again stupidly.  Since then I've relapsed into chewing tobacco and vicodin (30-45mg/day).  I'm off vike for the moment and I know EXACTLY what you are talking about with the body aches.  My dt's last almost exactly 4 days: sluggishness, aches, grumpy, zombie mike.  The first day or two my shoulder muscles are so tight I can't hardly sleep.  After 4 days I feel pretty good though.  I'm at about 8 days now.  I don't think I could avoid the pills if they were in my friend's purse though.  
-- Oddly -- when I stop the tobacco my backaches stop immediately.
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For one thing, I'm hoping the GABA will help.  That might not be in the original recipe, some one might have added it on.  It's supposed to be calming, anti-anxiety, anti-siezure.  So I'm stretching that to RLS.  Also b6 is good for anti-siezure.

The vitamin guiide says specifically that vitamin E is good for RLS.

Magnesuim is supposed to be good for muscle relaxation migraines (attn: Suzie).

There might be more, but I'm too tired to look them up.
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If you wanna really laugh look for a music download of a rock opera called, "these are not my pants".  My daughter made me listen, we laughed so hard, we cried.
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