Hows recovery treating you?

[Crispy]

Anyone going through any bad w.ds today? Or getting totally mind screwed with cravings? Let us know how you feel, were here because we've been there.

[Pill Popper in AL]

thanks for the advice. i will definately turn up the tunes and dance. i just got back home from taking my niece to work, and during the drive i started having a really bad panic attack! then my sugar dropped and had to get some candy quick!!! i had to sit in the parking lot for about 30 mins. just to make the shakes stop. called my husband and he had to "talk" me home. man, I HATE PANIC ATTACKS. they just sneek up on you like a monster. i'm going to a therapist for them and i pray to God that she can help me with them. atleast teach me how to "work through them". thanks for listening guys, just needed to talk about it!!!
lisa

[confused456]

Awwww...that is so sweet!! You obviously have great kids!! Remember that any time you want a pill!!

[bladerunnerb]

Thanks so much...I'm doing my absolute best to hang in there.  Good thing I don't have any...I would definitely be tempted to take one to see if it works to get rid of withdrawals, and you know what happens from there.  :-)  Sitting at home on the couch right now trying to hold it together.  I can hear my kids playing downstairs, and they think Dad is not feeling well since I'm home from work (which is true)...but they are giving me the support right now.  One kid made me a PB and J and other keeps coming up and giving me hugs.  It's almost like they know how much I need them right now.  All your thoughts and notes are meaning so much to me right now...I feel like I'm at the crossroads and one way is back to hell on drugs, but it is the easy way.  The other is a life of freedom but it is harder and challenging.

[confused456]

It got better after 5 and then the emotional was my personal biggest struggle. i have had to change things in my life to make this work but once I started listening to advice and thinking about what was making me want pills and making me so depressed, i found other ways of dealing!! Hang in there!! It REALLY does get better and right now I am happier than I have been in literally YEARS!!!!

[puranx]

i was good for most part but day 8-18ish the anxiety was the worst for me, rls, stomach, and all the physical was nothing for me. But the anxiety was pure hell on earth for me. But by day 20 it was all a bad dream and things just got better everyday since. It may seem far but its not for you...its about two little weeks for ya at this point. You gotta have hope and be stronger then you have ever been before but once on the other side...nothing can hurt you again

[bladerunnerb]

Good advice, for sure.  What day do you notice it is better?  I've quit twice before, and day 4 was the day I gave in both times.  Once I tapered and once CT, and this time CT.

[confused456]

When that happens, CHANGE what you are doing!! Read, sleep, crank tunes, ANYTHING to get your mind somewhere other than pills!!!! Talk on the phone to someone who can always make you laugh!! ANYTHING!! It gets better! I thought it never would but it does!!

[bladerunnerb]

I'm not doing so hot today.  Day 4...and I'm having problems.  Gut is still feeling sick, Big D is gone, but I'm having terrible cravings.  It's getting so bad that I'm thinking of taking an Ambien to knock me out for a little while.  I'm even using .1mg of clonidine and 50mg every four hours of tramadol, but still feel terrible.  Anxiety and craving is the worst part right now.  My doctor knows I've quit as he's been helping me taper, but I called his nurse a little while ago and left a message to see if there is anything they can give me for the anxiety.  I'm just praying I can make it to Day 5.  I've tried to quit twice before and couldn't.

[Pill Popper in AL]

i'm one of those getting my "mind screwed" BIG TIME! cravings are just about to kill me!!! what do you do when this happens?
lisa