where do we go for support.?

[hippy]

as addicts we do not do well alone, we seem to need to surrender
to the fact that we need people in our lives who are a support
to us,some of us do group  sessions, some go to aa because it is
there and there is a lot of addicts there and they have the 12 steps. some of us see a shrink, but any really ethical shrink would steer an addict twards a recovery orenented group.
This fourm is a start, and is a taste of what it is like
inter acting with other addicts.
i go to narcotics anonymous, i try to be who i am. im an addict.
there is a famous saying , " I STARTED GOING TO MEETINGS TO
SAVE MY ASS AND FOUND OUT THAT IT WAS ATTACHED TO MY SOUL..".

speaking about recovery,when i got clean, i prayed for my three favorte people me myself and i, and not much happenedtho i stayed clean, life was a drag, then one day i started praying for other people and my life and recovery took off like a rocket.
it was the most amazing thing.
so where do you go, and what do you do for support.
peace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[peaz]

Hey you--They just made a note on the bag for whomever waited on you, so they'd know the deal on the other med, knowing that you would ask about it.  That's very common and nothing to get paranoid about.  It just saves time, not having to bring up your name and info on the computer when you come in, and try to figure out, then, why it was never filled.  
  The script is not "lost"--if it was, they'd have to call the doc themselves and admit that it was THEIR fault and he would give them another RX over the phone.  What they normally do is "put it on file" in the computer, so it's all ready to fill on the appropriate date, and they don't have to keep a piece of paper hanging around.  The script is filed in an actual file.
   I wish you well in getting clean.  I'm almost to my First Year Mark and I can hardly believe it!!!  My energy is nearly normal, my moods are good, and I just feel good about straightening my life out and no longer living a lie.  Give it a shot!!!!!  You can do it, too.  Withdrawl is a *****, but so is keeping enough narcotics around.  I was just thinking to myself the other day: As hard as withdrawl and early sobriety is, it's still easier than addiction. I really believe that. If I can help in any way, let me know.        Hugs---Peaz

[smalltown]

How are you doing?  I just read your comment.  I probably will go into town tomorrow and get the script back.  I didn't have any pills left, it was just the insurance denying the claim.  Your idea was very right.  I would like to get the script back just because I hate to think of those asses getting my $.  Here is another issue, that I've thought of.  What if I go back there and they have lost the script?  On the script I did pick up, it was written on the bag that a script was picked up at another pharmacy for 30 vicodin on 10/28.  This is what freaked me out.  It made me feel like I was being tracked.  Paranoia at its finest.  

I am weaning myself off the ****.  I have only been doing about 5 or 6 darvon for well, about a few years.  I mentioned in my first comment that I don't even feel high anymore, not sure if I ever did.  Just felt normal.  I was not going to take any this weekend, so I'd have enough to get me through the work week, but I decided that I could take just a little and feel better.  I have only taken 3 maybe 4 a day.  I don't drink and don't smoke.  My husband smokes pot, but discreetly.  Everything people do is discreet huh?  if pot was legal, I'm not sure if he'd let his guard down and let people know he smokes as much as he does.  I feel ready to get clean.  I don't want to "want" anymore.  I have been burned out on looking for drugs.  When I lived in a bigger city it was a lot easier, lots more doctors to see, but now I only see one Dr.  Like I said the pharmacy freaked me out because it was written on the bag that I'd just gotten to script for 30 vics 10 days prior, and yes I'd taken them all.  

I don't do that much vicodin, as I don't have access to it, believe me if I had access to it I'd do more, but I don't.  The darvon come from another source.  Nothing illegal, just expensive.  The drugs are not worth it anymore.  I started doing them to help me get through a messy divorce, and well you know the story.

Thanks for writing.  Let me know what you think of them writing that on the bag.  I never saw my script again once I gave it to them.

Peace Peaz

[curious1998]

Hey guys,

I called a couple of places today in the phone book, they gave me a name of a Doc. who might be able to help me in my area.  The only thing they said is I probably won't be able to do this as an out patient thing, that I would have to go in for total detox.  What do you guys think, should I go and see this Doc. and just tell him that is not an option for me? A couple of places I called, were so uncaring, which led me to tears.  What are your thoughts?  

Thanks so much,
curious

[peaz]

Hi kiddo-- Here's what you can do and it will look perfectly normal.  Tomorrow go back to the pharmacy and tell them you need the script back because you will be out of town on the 12th, when it is refillable, and you will need the meds at that time.  Don't tell them any details---it's none of their business.  They don't need to know where, for how long, and so on.   Just be calm and polite and you'll be fine.  Although if you want to tell them off, I guess that's up to you.  If they're really assholes, you won't be going back there, anyway, will you?  I t sounds to me llike they were very busy the day you went in, and perhaps the tech didn't want to mess w/ re-entering your script into the computer w/ no insurance, etc. so she let you think it wasn't possible.  Did you say you had about ten days left on the old script?  Which is why they weren't going to give it to you early?  Anyway, it was easier for her if you just "went away!" Just a suggestion.  You're well w/in your rights--don't feel like a criminal or something. What's your story? Are you weaning or planning to or what?  I must have missed your original post, so if you want to, just point me to the right thread and place. Thanks-Peaz      P.S. Don't feel guilty!

[smalltown]

Hello everyone:

just to clear things up, yes, the prescription was 100% real, I truly would never do anything as wrong as prescription fraud.  I did ask for the RX back and she (pharm tech) said no.  Do any of you think I should go back there and get it tomorrow?  I truly hate the fact of giving those asses one dime.  They were swamped when I was there, I heard one of the pharmacists grumble about it, so they weren't on their friendlies behavior.

Maybe I should take the advice I was given and just march in there and get my RX back, or even if I do wait until the 12th and pick it up and let them know how they made me feel.  I just truly would have rather gotten my rx back and gone somewhere else.  If its not fillable (per insurance) until the 12th, then fine, I'll wait till then, but I wish I'd of least gotten the script back.  It was like they were holding it hostage.  It's really what made me feel so bad, so odd.  If they'd of just handed it back to me, which they truly should have done, I'd of just left and not felt as bad as I did.  

I think I'll go get my damn rx back tomorrow (I'd go tonight, but it's 20+ miles away and they are not worth the effort).  Please let me know your thoughts.

I don't know you all, but you have truly made my situation better.  Thank you so much for not judging and letting me ramble on.  Much appreciated.

peace and till tomorrow

[curious1998]

Thank you so much for the advice, I'm telling you all of you, this forum has been a life saver for me!!  I'm just so afraid of going to Urgent Care, or my regular Doc, for fear they would want to slap me in a detox center, if my family finds out about this, especially my husband, I don't know what they would do.  I'm just so very ashamed.  Again thank you from my heart!!

curious