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Stadol NS
I started taking Stadol NS in 1992 and in May of 2001 I stopped it. I am having bladder control problems and wondered if this was maybe a symptom of the damage caused by this drug? I was certainly addicted to this medication and was using at least a bottle a month for the last 2 years I took it. Anyone with other symptoms from long term use of Stadol NS please comment.
Jernnyfla,
We are with you all the way. Myself and everyone else. Good
luck to you and your husband. I will say a prayer for you, you
bet I will.
Tom
We are with you all the way. Myself and everyone else. Good
luck to you and your husband. I will say a prayer for you, you
bet I will.
Tom
Jenny, if you can't get the bup, check out the site www.cprflorida.com They might even be near you. They do fda approved, medically supervised buprenorphine detox, outpatient. I think you have to see the Doc two times, and you can do the rest at home, while functioning in your every day life.
It is probably expensive, I think the whole detox program is $1500. but think of what the price of staying addicted and paying street prices are!
Plus, the added help of having a doctor who really understands can help give you the motivation to make it through, and evidently the bup makes it almost painless.
Just a thought, but since you are in florida, it seems like something very worth checking out for you.
Jackfrost, thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate them.
I'm doing better today, feeling more solid, but have no illusions that those feelings won't overwhelm me again. It's good to know you are all here when I need you.
love,
WW
It is probably expensive, I think the whole detox program is $1500. but think of what the price of staying addicted and paying street prices are!
Plus, the added help of having a doctor who really understands can help give you the motivation to make it through, and evidently the bup makes it almost painless.
Just a thought, but since you are in florida, it seems like something very worth checking out for you.
Jackfrost, thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate them.
I'm doing better today, feeling more solid, but have no illusions that those feelings won't overwhelm me again. It's good to know you are all here when I need you.
love,
WW
WW
It is amazing how those hydros dull the pain of a marriage that is broken. You can go home pop a few and just stay in a fog that prevents any intimacy. But you woke up and came clean and now those issues are so painful because you are dealing with them clean. I am so proud of you for posting here, the place you became clean, the place where you have helped so many people with your reasoned compassion and honesty. You are really stronger than you give yourself credit for. As someone said, you are a role model. When I first admitted I had a drug problem you were there immediately, caring and you have never left. I don't think your friends will ever leave you here either.
And thanks for flushing the hydros. Can you imagine doing that 6 months ago - a junkie's nightmare! If you didn't have bumps on your continued recovery you would be the exception not the norm. And a support group is probably a good idea - I like the idea of the therapists group, but any group or friend is a good move.
Kip, I have been at a point where I completely detoxed and woke up one morning and couldn't get out of bed. I ate so much alleve and motrin and was in exquisite pain. So I took the hydros and the pain left. What you did was totally justified. You didn't lose your insight, just your pain. I hope you get back on the wagon when it is time.
Peace,
jf
It is amazing how those hydros dull the pain of a marriage that is broken. You can go home pop a few and just stay in a fog that prevents any intimacy. But you woke up and came clean and now those issues are so painful because you are dealing with them clean. I am so proud of you for posting here, the place you became clean, the place where you have helped so many people with your reasoned compassion and honesty. You are really stronger than you give yourself credit for. As someone said, you are a role model. When I first admitted I had a drug problem you were there immediately, caring and you have never left. I don't think your friends will ever leave you here either.
And thanks for flushing the hydros. Can you imagine doing that 6 months ago - a junkie's nightmare! If you didn't have bumps on your continued recovery you would be the exception not the norm. And a support group is probably a good idea - I like the idea of the therapists group, but any group or friend is a good move.
Kip, I have been at a point where I completely detoxed and woke up one morning and couldn't get out of bed. I ate so much alleve and motrin and was in exquisite pain. So I took the hydros and the pain left. What you did was totally justified. You didn't lose your insight, just your pain. I hope you get back on the wagon when it is time.
Peace,
jf
Thank you WW, you are always so sweet and i always respect your thoughts.
Real quick, my hub would be mad if he knew i was discussing this, he told me to tell no one for some weird reason.
He's getting very controlling since this happened, making demands that i do this and that and not do this, etc. They are all things to help me, but still, i feel like smacking him upside the head, he's getting on my nerves.
It is a blessing in disquise, but i am so very scared.
I kind of had a panic attack earlier walking around crying my eyes out. My oldest daughter was very sweet and could see i was hurting. I'm not in withdrawal yet just panic. I couldn't even get my valiums refilled, i have no idea how i'm gonna pull this off!
The burph is 'not available' right now, but i put in an order anyway.
I believe in god very strongly, and you can believe he's gonna be hearing a lot from me here shortly.
It's so scarey, as you know, i have no idea how i'm gonna pull this off, continue working and taking care of the kids. My oldest will help, and i'm gonna have to rely on her a lot. My hub, he will help too, but i'm not sure if we will do this at the same time. Plus, we never agree on how to do anything around here, so that's the last thing i need is conflict.
I think i'll just bow down a bit, let someone else do the work for a while (not my way which i hate), but hey, first things first, getting myself better!
Thank you for offering to help, lookout email!!! :)
PS. you hang in there too! I know you're going through some rough times right now and know that i'm thinking of you!
Just be open and honest with your feelings with your hubby. Make sure he knows exactly how you feel and how he may be hurting and affecting your feelings with things.
It may not be so great to threaten that's he's threatening your sobriety, but if you two are close, he should realize that already. Just don't hold back you feelings, you deserve to be heard and he needs to understand exactly how you feel. Maybe there's some sort of comprimise that can be made, or some changes that will make you feel better about the whole situation! Good luck sweetie, and (((HUGS))). Email me anytime, i'm always here to listen and i will understand your feelings! :)
Lv Jenny
Real quick, my hub would be mad if he knew i was discussing this, he told me to tell no one for some weird reason.
He's getting very controlling since this happened, making demands that i do this and that and not do this, etc. They are all things to help me, but still, i feel like smacking him upside the head, he's getting on my nerves.
It is a blessing in disquise, but i am so very scared.
I kind of had a panic attack earlier walking around crying my eyes out. My oldest daughter was very sweet and could see i was hurting. I'm not in withdrawal yet just panic. I couldn't even get my valiums refilled, i have no idea how i'm gonna pull this off!
The burph is 'not available' right now, but i put in an order anyway.
I believe in god very strongly, and you can believe he's gonna be hearing a lot from me here shortly.
It's so scarey, as you know, i have no idea how i'm gonna pull this off, continue working and taking care of the kids. My oldest will help, and i'm gonna have to rely on her a lot. My hub, he will help too, but i'm not sure if we will do this at the same time. Plus, we never agree on how to do anything around here, so that's the last thing i need is conflict.
I think i'll just bow down a bit, let someone else do the work for a while (not my way which i hate), but hey, first things first, getting myself better!
Thank you for offering to help, lookout email!!! :)
PS. you hang in there too! I know you're going through some rough times right now and know that i'm thinking of you!
Just be open and honest with your feelings with your hubby. Make sure he knows exactly how you feel and how he may be hurting and affecting your feelings with things.
It may not be so great to threaten that's he's threatening your sobriety, but if you two are close, he should realize that already. Just don't hold back you feelings, you deserve to be heard and he needs to understand exactly how you feel. Maybe there's some sort of comprimise that can be made, or some changes that will make you feel better about the whole situation! Good luck sweetie, and (((HUGS))). Email me anytime, i'm always here to listen and i will understand your feelings! :)
Lv Jenny
Jenny..try to see this as a blessing in disguise. You've known for a long time now that the time would come where you would have to face this, every since I've known you, you've talked about your doc's possible brushes with the law.
I'll do whatever I can to help you. The main thing I can say is try to work up to really really really wanting to stop. If you put as much energy into recovery as you have into using, the odds will lean in your favor.
Confusedgirl, believe it or not, when I detoxed cold turkey last august, I had about 200 vicoprofens in my house the whole time. Everyone told me to pitch them. I should have. But, part of what helped me get through it was the knowledge that I had the choice, hour by hour sometimes, to use or not use. I wanted to get clean so bad that the pills truly looked like poison to me, but I couldn't bring myself to throw them out. Then they became a non issue. I noticed that most of them got stolen, though I have no idea who did it. But now, I see the danger in having kept them. I had a real close call with relapse. It was just me and the pills, and a choice to be made. Thankfully, I made the right choice. But the pills are gone now. I flushed them, and my Doc knows to not ever give me any more.
It was not a good call on my part to keep them around, no matter what the reason. Even though I felt my recovery was fairly solid, that slamming urge to numb my pain came out of the blue, and it was very very humbling to know that I am just one pill away from exactly where I was before. I am an addict, and I'll always be an addict, and I thank you all, as well as my closest friends and my Higher Powers for the grace that kept me from using the other night. You may call it strength...it didn't feel like strength to me. It felt like Divine intervention, honestly. I was feeling very weak and beaten down. I was feeling discarded, unwanted and all those horrible feelings that can come up for us all.
My desire to be clean is a very very strong one, but it is not strong enough to keep me clean. That takes a Higher Power. I firmly believe that.
thank you all,
WW
I'll do whatever I can to help you. The main thing I can say is try to work up to really really really wanting to stop. If you put as much energy into recovery as you have into using, the odds will lean in your favor.
Confusedgirl, believe it or not, when I detoxed cold turkey last august, I had about 200 vicoprofens in my house the whole time. Everyone told me to pitch them. I should have. But, part of what helped me get through it was the knowledge that I had the choice, hour by hour sometimes, to use or not use. I wanted to get clean so bad that the pills truly looked like poison to me, but I couldn't bring myself to throw them out. Then they became a non issue. I noticed that most of them got stolen, though I have no idea who did it. But now, I see the danger in having kept them. I had a real close call with relapse. It was just me and the pills, and a choice to be made. Thankfully, I made the right choice. But the pills are gone now. I flushed them, and my Doc knows to not ever give me any more.
It was not a good call on my part to keep them around, no matter what the reason. Even though I felt my recovery was fairly solid, that slamming urge to numb my pain came out of the blue, and it was very very humbling to know that I am just one pill away from exactly where I was before. I am an addict, and I'll always be an addict, and I thank you all, as well as my closest friends and my Higher Powers for the grace that kept me from using the other night. You may call it strength...it didn't feel like strength to me. It felt like Divine intervention, honestly. I was feeling very weak and beaten down. I was feeling discarded, unwanted and all those horrible feelings that can come up for us all.
My desire to be clean is a very very strong one, but it is not strong enough to keep me clean. That takes a Higher Power. I firmly believe that.
thank you all,
WW
Wow i cant believe you can be so strong as to have the botle of pills in your hand and have a craving and not to tke any, wow if i had the strenght maybe i could put all this **** behind me , i have only posted a couple of times but i cannot quit i believe now that i may never get through this , i just cant stop using.
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