Very curious if

[BarbRTR]

I am reading of course, but it kinda just dawned on me. These pills may have given me energy, but somewhere in the last three years, I think they stole my motivation.

Sure, I would talk on the phone, FB, etc, but I didn't do the important stuff. My home business for one. I could have made so much more money. Hopefully my motivation will return.

Highly curious if this is a pill thing. Did anybody lose theirs on them after awhile?  Energy doesn't equal motivation. Ty

[Teresa1717]

I used to say I was borrowing Tomorrows energy for today while I was using. So once we stop using its time to pay the reeper! hahaha

This place is great for encouragement! So keep coming back! :)

[BarbRTR]

Thanks for postIng Theresa. At this time, I need encouragement, I won't lie.

It's ok if it takes awhile, just so I know it's comIng! And truth be told, I'm sure I had a few non motivated days prior to these devils. But not very many.
TY :)

[Teresa1717]

Hi Barb! Yes this happened to me too!  The Motivation took so long to come back actually! Some days I still dont have any! hahaha But with time everything gets better. At leasts thats what they say :)

[BarbRTR]

Thanks so much for sharing. I think motivation is my biggest hurdle. What I am most scared was gone for good.  I cannot believe how similar these stories are. What world have I been in?

Thanks... Again

[Sonrissa]

I did the same thing! I made tons and tons of lists! I never accomplished anything on them! I just rewrote the same stuff on a new list!

[PorVida]

You will get your motivation back plus so much more.
God clearly has a plan for you and it doesn't involve pills.  
Just stay strong take it one day at a time

[Pat1956100]

It will.  I was taking my son's dog for a walk 3 times a day when I was there over Christmas.  I couldn't believe the difference.  I had trouble going across the street to the corner store when I was taking pills.

[keith600]

When I 1st started taking pills I did all kinds of things,then I started making lists and notes of things to do or had to be done,then I had a box of lists and notes that never got done.

[BarbRTR]

That's great to hear! I mean to know it might come back. That these pills might just be the culprit.

I remember about 3 years ago, sitting in the waiting room for back injections, and talking to a man whose wife was already back there.

He said she had been on pills so long she was a shell of who she used to be. Just watched TV all day.

Me, being newly on pain pills, was thinking, no, it's not the pills, she depressed or just lazy. I had forgotten that conversation until just now.

Thanks again! I must say I was at the end of my rope last weekend. I took so many pills last Sat night, I was thinking I wouldn't wake up. Which I guess was the point. But woke Sunday afternoon, suprised actually. I took prob 800-1000 MGs of Roxie's. Yes, foolish, selfish, and every other thing I can call myself.. Plus some Xanax. So selfish. I left no note, thinking would be ruled accidental, my kids wouldn't know I did it on purpose. Or God. But since I woke, I decided there must be a reason.

So that made me decide to stop these pills. Because I know they are what made me do it to begin with. I'm so embarrassed. What an easy way out. A chicken. I'm better than that. I used to be a good person.

I have just admitted more. I told me psych I thought about it, not that I tried.

So I want my motivation back. My zest for life, and all that. Not sure I could continue this without knowing it would return... One day. Ty :)

[Pat1956100]

Absolutely Barb.  They turn on you and I didn't want to do anything but be alone in my room playing facebook games.  It also ended up taking me half the day to get enough pills in my system to feel half decent.

[kme17]

I know this is true for me. And i am positive many others will says yes as well!

[Ses11869]

I think the same thing, there was a time I never called in sick to work but once I was on the pills for a while I would wake up with no motivation and started calling in sick more often.