My friend is annoying me about this!!

[breakingapart]

I was hooked on diet pills three years ago, when I turn seventeen this year, it will be the third year of soberity for me. My friend, who has been staying over with me latelty, has been getting on my *** about my usage of herbal pills and vitamins. I know, stupid right? He thinks that taking a bunch of different pills at different dosages then just the reccommended 'one pill twice a day' thing is bad and unhealthy! He's accusing me of being a pill-popper and I cannot take it anymore! He's threatening to send me to rehab for substance abuse when I'm not abusing the pills, I'm just taking them more then the reccommened amount. It makes no sense; herbal pills aren't bad for you, and neither are throat drops, so I don't know where he is getting this from. If you can get it over the counter and without a prescription then its not bad for you, in my eyes at least. (Before you ask, I DO NOT have an eating disorder.. My reason for going on diet pills in the first place was never to lose weight.)

Ugh, I heavily believe that I do not need rehab and sending me there because I take more than one pill twice a day is stupid. So, do you guys think I still have a problem with pills, even though I quit diet pills? Does taking a bunch of different pills at the same time--even though they are herbal--make me a pill-popper? Does it sound like I need rehab?

[breakingapart]

Oh, and I have never in my life been through a recovery program or even been to therapy. The people in my household do not believe in rehab or therapy because they think its evil. They didn't even know I was on their diet pills for two years. They literally told me straight to my face before that they liked me better when I thirteen-fourteen years old.

[breakingapart]

Well, truth of the matter be told, I don't remember the whole, real reason why I even took the diet pills in the first place. I just know it had something to do with either self-hate or my childhood. It was one of the two. They weren't even my pills, to make it worse. They were the pills of the woman who raised me. (She's not my real mom. She just raised me and did a poor job of it) They weren't even prescription pills, they were OTC. I still don't think I have a problem. I really do not. Sending me to rehab over abusing herbal pills that I buy at GNC is stupid to me, because its like a slap in the face to people who have real addictions to actual pills that can harm them.

[kim715]

I started abusing the vicodin for 'personal reasons' too...In other words taking them and a lot of them NOT for the reasons they were originally prescribed.There is no judging here so you don't have to be afraid to speak the whole truth.Fact is we are all addicts here so if you say you weren't taking them to lose weight we already pretty much know what you were taking them for......Kim

[GA Guy]

Every addict abused their drug of choice (as well as almost anything else) because of "personal" reasons. That's why we're addicts. I'm a recovering Oxy addict, but I'm still an active addict with several things. I eat way too much, I watch way too much TV, and I almost never take the prescribed amount of anything. If I need to take Tylenol, I almost always take 4, not 2. I'm an addict, it's who I am, and who I'm working to not be. Addiction has almost nothing to do with taking Oxycontin for me. It's a mental thing that touches everything in my life. The addictions I have now may not kill me right away, or cause me to loose my family, but they are addictions non-the-less.

[avisg]

personal reasons hummm diet pills are are used for diet or energy so plz fill me in what other uses they may have ??

[122 Tactical Fighter Group]

So thats all that you are doing and you arent doing mega doses of anything?  If the diet pills - never heard of them being RX'd for personal reasons? - -  are under control I dont see any reason for a rehab.........you might want to increase your knowledge base about these various substances before you take them - but thats easy today with internet access.

[breakingapart]

Well, I was taking throat drops and vitamin drops, but now I'm taking burdock root, cranberry, and a multivitamin. Its nothing bad at all. Oh, and my reason for going on diet pills was because of personal reasons.

[Holliee]

hi i agree w/kim b/c when my sis got back from rehab she use to snort lortab and she would buy a bottle tylenol and snort them all day and her reason behind it was the snorting part nothing else...

[dominosarah]

Your playing with fire.......hope you get it figured out.           sara

[122 Tactical Fighter Group]

Many OTC herbal supplements may be quite harmful.  Read the labels.....most of those items are sold for "amusement purposes" and are not approved by the FDA or anyone else for ingestion.  You may purchase substances (natural...) like opium poppy pods quite legally and easily.........but you have no idea of the purity or strength of the pods.....and many naive users manage to kill themselves with an Overdose accidentally...... when used in this manner you have no idea of the amount of opiate actually extracted during the process.....and you also extracted the thebaine and several other narcotic analogues that are less than desirable.  Just because you dont need a script doesnt do anything at all to ensure the safety of various drugs and the chemistry behind them.  And if you decide to start mixing up different substances and concentrations you better have a bachelors in pharmacology before you even think about it.  You are very close to getting into a situation that you are not currently prepared for dealing with..................

[googzy]

It depends what are you taking?

[avisg]

MANY of the herbal supplemts are very danerous some even life threating ..
Why if not for weight loss would you be using a weightloss med.

[onthefence]

there are over the counter herbs and supplements that can hurt you if you take more than the recommended dosage, there have also been over the counter things that have been pulled by the FDA (hydroxycut, etc.)that have the potential to harm people.
alot of herbs & such state on the label they are not approved nor have they been studied by FDA. now is that to say they are all dangerous , of course not. just be sure to really get as much info as you can on any substance that you choose to put into your body.

[kim715]

I don't know about you needing rehab for the herbal pills,but it does sound liked you have held on to some addictive behavior.Taking the pills through out the day and exceeding the recommended daily amount.Just like people who shoot drugs can became addicted to the actual setting up of the syringe and the act of injecting not just the drug itself.Those of us who abused pills can become addicted to the ritual also,taking more otc pills then we should,taking them through out the day much like we use to take our DOC...I think your friend has a legitimate point.Do you or have you ever participated in any type of recovery care? Congrats on your clean time...Kim

[leeisgettingclean]

however if you have already been addicted to pills and you still cant take as recommened  you need to do something----addiction gets you quickly and you need to be carefull takin anything now as it might lead right back to the other pills that you were usin before

[leeisgettingclean]

well no matter what they are you should not be takin more than recommened but does it call for rehab----no