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[PhilipG]

Welcome to the Substance Abuse - Addiction Forum, please feel free to post and share your experiences.

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[Dawnellen]

I am so glad you have the site. Bless you for helping so many people. this site is so good for me, Thank you again!!
                                      Dawnellen

[Dawnellen]

hold on, someone on these threads will help you, i cannot, but these are great kind people, and they know what they are talking about, helping me a whole lot...

[Da Minista]

Hello everyone.  I am a sibling of a crack addict and to make matters worse he is also a parapalegic. He uses his handicap to extend his drug credit.  My mom is spending all she has to sustain his habit but it is wearing her down.  I am a strong believer in God and I know that HE has people out there who has gone through what our family is going through and beat it. So will anyone give me some advice to give to my mom to get her to allow some tough love to make him come around or any other advice to help my brother come to himself and seek help.  
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[Dawnellen]

hello, today is day 2 for me on my wean off tabs. yesterday i did take 2 1/2 that is alot better than 7 to 10. i know what is coming and i am just waiting for it to hit hard. even on 2 1/2 i am withdrawing bad. i think maybe when i get to 1 aday i will try to go cold turkey. my phone rings all day and i wont answer it, why wont people just leave me alone. probley because i owe money to them or tabs. i have a prescrition i can pick up today if i want and i cannot believe i am not at the store. i will not go til tomorrow to tired and sick. i will get someone else to p/up script i can not handle them any more. i say no more refills for me. god i hope not. this is sooo hard

[WolfKwe]

Hi.  I'm new to this site.  I took one whole day at work and read and read and read.  This helped me understand addiction and helped me understand what I was about to go through.  I have been using vicodin for approx. 8 years anywhere from 2-4 a day.  Not much I thought in comparison to some posts I've read.  Well I quickly learned that addiction is addiction and withdrawls are withdrawls.  I never thought this would happen to me.  Me who said I hate pills and would never get addicted to pills.  I've called people pill heads then I was one myself. This site helped me out tremdously.  I'm on day 14 cold turkey (well one on the first day, my last one), none since.  I couldn't believe how crappy I felt, and still kinda do.  I tried a lot of peoples suggestions and they all seemed to help.  This is my first post, but hopefully not my last.  I feel probably 85% human today, so to everybody out there sick of lying and sick of spending piles of money on felonies.....give it a try.  Life gets better.  I feel better about myself because I don't have to lie and make deals with the devil anymore.  I still crave and dream about vicodin, isn't that crazy!  I have got to be careful, I've told many of the people I buy them from that I quit and not to come around or call anymore.  That will also help.  Thanks to everybody on this site, everybody who has had the courage to admit the problem.  That is the first and hardest thing I ever did, admitting the problem.  Miigwetch (thank you) to all of you.

[Dawnellen]

today i will start to wein myself off a 4 year addition to loratab, 7 to 10 tabs aday sometimes more. i am scared, i already took my 1st pill today and really madly want another. i hope i can do this.

[J228]

I've taken Vicodin (2p/day - evening only) for 10 years - due to chronic pain from 4 back surgeries.  Recently, I started experiencing symptoms similar to withdrawal (dizzy, fuzzy head, weakness - no diarrhea).  I tried gradually reducing dosage - first to 1 1/2 then to 1 p/day; however, symptoms persist.  It seems odd I would experience withdrawal type symptoms while maintaining the same dosage I have for years. Is there a regimen for tapering off that I should be following or are other issues potentially at play?