FLaddict - Hi, I had just one more question for you, w/ the Hydro's and the Depression.

[K Todd]

Hi Stephanie,

I forgot to ask you, about this mild depression. Will that hang around (or get worse) until I'm completely off?

Do you happen to know any vitamins or herb that help with temporary depression.

I'm not a depressed person.

I know it's just my brain not getting what it wants (I think). But if you know of anything that could help Enhance, or uplift my mood, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks again,

Todd

[FLaddict]

It will probably hang around for a bit.. google "PAWS" it stands for post accute withdrawl syndrome.. many addicts experience it after detox.. Go your heathfood store and pick up some L-tyrosine and some 5 HTP  they are supposed to help with depression and anxiety.  I personally haven't taken them because I am on a anti depressant and you can't mix them. But I have read here and other places that people have success with them.  Its natural so its worth a shot.
Also member CATUF recommends a book called "End your Addiction Now" wriiten by Charles Gant  he uses amino acid therapy to treat this.  there is also a website i think its called powerrecovery.com    
Essentially our brains have been pumped full of fake "feel good" stuff its now learning how to produce its own all over again.. this process of healing takes time so using supplements to help ease the process along is helpful.  

[K Todd]

Spehanie,

With your post on non addictive muscle relaxers, well I know that this advise probalbly won't cut it for you with all your injuries, but when I have had joint, and muscle pain (well this is what took the pain away, so I don't need the Hydro's anymore, but this is what I took:)

800 IB or 550mg of Naproxen 2 to 2 x daily (RX Perscription)

(Good Vitamin Shop)
Bottled (refrigerated Fish Oil, and Pressed Flaxseed Oil) they are all you essential fatty acids along with GLA which helps produce the good fatty tissues and fluid in your muscles and joints and...

1500mg Glucosamine / 1200 Chondroitin / 500-1000mg MSM

My knees were so bad, that not even the 7.5 Hydro's would take any of the pain away. As soon as I took what I listed above, within DAYS, I started to feel relieve and now and am 100% pain free from a 2 year chronic knee pain just in 3 weeks of taking these things above.

Even, if they give you a perscription for some other meds, try all the good stuff you can get at the nutrional stores along with it, and I know it will some!

God Bless,

Todd

[lovesbeingmom]

So have you kicked a habbit? I read that you had chronic pain for 2 years! That is a long time of doing something on a regular basis and letting your body go through those kind of withdrawls. Especially when you had a good reason(or excuse) to be taking them. I don't know your story, maybe I'm completly off, who knows! If so, your are an inspiration and can help a lot of people.

[K Todd]

Hi,

Well, I don't know which post you started at, but long story short: I have not drank alcohol in 3-1/2 years now, and also have been 100% free from a very addictive barbituate, phenobarbital.

But with my knee pain, I was taking 7.5 Hydrocodone for releive, got addicted and am currently tappering down off of them. I was close to 10 a day, now I am approaching 4 a day and really starting to feel the withdrawals, because I reduced my daily intake in half in less than a week.

So I'm going to let body adjust for a little bit, and keep going, until I'm off the Hydrocodone. I don't need them anymore.

Hope this helped answer your question.

Love,

Todd

[Thomas07]

hey, the 5-HTP is primarily for sleep though it seems to have an anti-depressant effect, too. It's metabolized into serotonin, producing sleep. Works, too. It's like being put to sleep by some warm milk, very pleasant. But if you take a bunch of it to get high, you'll just go to sleep.

Thomas