What to do about Energy

[OxyDout]

I have been swaying on the fence with trying to stay sober. I have finally been clean for a couple of weeks. My question is, what do I do for energy? or what can I do to make things better. I find myself Nodding off at work, and that can't happen. I am miserable today, i don't know what to do. Someone please help, I'm on my fourth cup of coffee.............

[Frenchee]

I am on Effexor....It is helping. I am just really tired of my daily headaches. I cant get rid of them. To be completely honest, I miss the highs....But I know that I will be ok and that I am on the road to recovery. It is a slow process but I AM GOING TO MAKE IT.
I am glad to see that you are doing better. I am thinking about you. Take care and keep in touch.

[oh please already]

your killing me here. I am going to give you my nurse talk and then my addict talk ,please listen.DO NOT KEEP YOURELF IN SUCH PAIN>studys show that post op pts(and thats you right now) recover much faster with much less complications with good pain control,then people without,as a matter of record,if you check that packet you got from the hospital,youll see that now there ios a 4th vital sign.blood pressure,resp.pulse,and pain conrol,it is actully a medicalcy regonized fact and right of all pts,you could sue if u dont recieve the pain control you need,thats why everyone kept pushing meds on u,they are liable,ok and now my addict speech I am truely convinced that if my pain had been adequitly addressed and I hadent been left in pain it never would of occured to me to take more then precribed.I used to watch the clock,afraid to put a pill in my mouth one minute early,and then came the day i couldnt take it anymore, so i took an extra,I didnt die,so then I took anthor and so on.If I hadent remained in pain I wouldnt of obcssed about it,I would of had the treatment i needed and then moved on.Stop punsihing yourelf,you had someone cut open your leg and that REALLY HURTS,no one thinks you are a failure for taking what you need,as a matter of fact <YOU and some others here are my heros,and i admire you greatly,so give yourself a break because I am  :)   laura

[hippy]

i feel bad about your pain,i know untill someone goes thrugh it
themselves ,it,s hard for them to understand.
my experence with really bad pain like yours is  like being trapped  in box of pain. or like being trapped under water, and not beig able to breath. I always felt like it was never going to end. the only thing that helped was sleep if i could get any.
After i got my sholder operated on last year , i kept thinking to my self .I should have not gotten it done .the pain before the operation was not as bad as the pain right after the operation, witch lasted about 4 weeks. then everything was OK
after it all healed up.
It,s always good to have a mentor in these situations , someone
the likes of kip. somebody who has been there and done that.
peace. and get a liquid vit for energy, or a energy bar

[confused.grl]

I am going to tell you the same thing that you told me 2 weeks ago, DONT LET YOURSELF BE IN PAIN, it wont kill you to take the pills if you use them for pain only. I just stopped taking the methadone that i was perscribed after surgery, i have taken less that half the script and i found that i could stop after the pain stopped, that was my biggest fear, but 2 days later and i'm feeling great.

[IrishRose]

Rowanshyne- you can take L-tyrosine with Wellbutrin. It is the SSRI type of antidepressants that you should avoid combining the two ( i.e. Paxil, Prozac). OLP's are an iffy thing. It takes forever to get Bup that way, most if not all comes from other countries. It's kind of a crapshoot, let me know and I can e-mail you some more info about that if you want.

GWH- listen up, don't hurt yourself with hurting. You cannot heal, physically, emotionally, spiritually if you are in godawful pain. So let up with the self ass thrashing about taking pain pills. Yes you made some progress prior to this recent setback and you will make progress again. You have lost nothing but time, but did gain some knowledge along the way.

Take care all. IR.

[OxyDout]

Thank you Irish Rose and everyone else, I feel like IR and Kip are the mother and father, and or brother and sister of this forum, you guess are absolutely incredible and you mean A LOT TO ME. Which is the reason why I'm telling you all this story about what happened to me yesterday. This is a TRUE story. I had been talking to a few people about my addiction and then of course, one kid had to say, "No, you don't need Detox, you don't need anything, thats for heroin addicts." so then I go through the whole "we are just as bad as any addict" and he complete just doesn't want to agree with me. So, I told him about this forum, (didn't give him the web page) and he said, "why do you go to a dumb ******* crackhead posting site" then I really started getting pissed off. In anycase, the point is, #1 you all are just as good as anyone else and don't let anyone ever tell you different. Addiction is addiction no matter what the drug. and #2 I will be here as long as I can to help anyone and everyone make it through this because I don't want to be on the same level as the ******* who I was arguing with it.

GWH