Hello Everyone, I've been here before but it's been quite a long time. (I can't remember what I was signed in under before) It was about last June, I quite cold turkey taking NORCO. I'm sorry to say, I've been on them and off them since. The last time I went back on them was this February, I've been on them and off them since then (off them b/c I always take more than prescribed and I'd run out and I refused to go to a different dr). I have chronic pain, but I can't stand the control this medicine has on me, my thinking, and my life! I have been on Lortab most recently and took my last 2 pills yesterday at noon so my first 24 hrs are over! Thank God! I NEVER want to be on this medicine again! I am going to start a journal so I won't easily forget the withdrawal symptoms I go thru. Part of me is scared to death of going without this medicine b/c of pain and lack of energy. I started a multivitamin and some gatorade today from running to the bathroom so much! Thankfully I have a wonderful man in my life that is so supportive of me and doesn't want me on the medicine and I can talk pretty openly about it with him. The only hard part is he can NOT relate ya know. I know I am babbling and I'm sorry, I am exhausted but my mind is going in so many directions, sad, disappointed, scared, confused, sick and tired, but yet soooo excited about putting this behind me. I just want it last for the rest of my life this time!! I know I should look at it day by day but it's hard to sometimes. Well, thanks for listening, I would love to hear from someone who can relate to offer some advice and encouragement and I hope to return the favor! Thank you, Kim
I'm glad you've made the decision to quit the meds Kim. If you have chronic pain why don't you call your Doc for some nonnarcotic pain meds and pain management. Do you have a acess to meetings and a sponsor? IF you do it might be helpful to get to some meetings and talk to other ppl who have chronic pain and see how they handle it w/o narcotics.
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Just for today my thoughts will be on my recovery, living and enjoying life without the use of drugs.
when i went into hospital recently for treatment of acute pancrititis,,,
the first thing they wanted to do was shoot me full of pain killers.
so i simply told the doctor on duty that i was "allergic" to narcotics and he understood.
thers a lot of new pain killers that arent narcotic
( narcotic as in morphine,pethidine,codine,calmpose,and other cocaine or opium or synthetic naroctic pain killers)
and that doctor prescribed those injections !!!
All my 15 days and nites in hospital they kept it that way !!!
however for general anesthesia for an operation to remove my gall bladder and well as an endoscopic procedure,,, i had to be unconcious during the operation, one lasted three hours and another about an hour !!!
so as long as we inform our doctors,, were safe !!!
like it says in the Basic Text=
our bodies dont know the differance between drugs prescribed by a doctor and those we prescribe ourselves to get high !!!!
Wish you luck and speedy recovery from your chronic pain condition !!!
Bye Kim !!
Raman an addict,clean and serene just for today in the 12 Step Tradition of NA !!!!!
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Raman an addict clean and serene just for today in NA Worldwide ; live to love and love to live the NA Way !!!
Glad you are here Kim. I remember the Norco post, so a Welcome Home! is due. Have you read "In Times of Illness" it is available online at http://www.na.org/ips/eng/index.htm .The only advice I will give is; Go to an NA meeting and keep going back. Find a sponsor, and work the steps. That is what works for me, and many other addicts. Life does get better when we get out of the way and let it be good.
Lon
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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.----Alice Mackenzie Swaim
boy can I relate of the never ending cycle of getting more pain killers and being the good addict I am I always ran out before the date to get more, than came the body aches and the bones hurting so badly that I wished someone actually cut them off. I am on a new med called suboxone, it is a true mircle, it's like the new methadone but without the side effects, no nose scratching, no high at all. I highly recommend that you speak with your primary care or your addictionoglist, thank God for my doctor. he is a gift from above, he is also in the program so when he says he knows he really does. Suboxone won't allow you to get high even if you wanted too, it some how blocks the neurotransmiters and the feeling of getting high is blocked it is a mircle for a junkie like me. So talk with you health care provider, there is all kinds of info out there now, I have been on it since Jan. 2006 without a repalse and believe me when I tell you that I was the relapse queen, every day without getting high is a miracle all in it's selk. Good luck on your quest, you can do!!!!!!!!!! NA will always be there is give you a hand up, it's up to you to extend that hand for help
Welcome Back to Narcotic Anonymous. Not much more I can add except to say that I've got chronic back and neck pain, with working with a Chiropractor I'm much better most of the time, but still go in every 5 weeks for an adjustment. Good Luck. Bob.
Hey there Kim, GOD can I relate. Pain management and meds just don't work too well for us addicts. I want to congratulate you on your courage to bite the bullet and begin the long road baack to health and life on life's terms! No one ever said this will be easy! I am a nurse and a masssge therapist and can remember stopping the narcotics with the help of a great doctor and a detox, I could barely walk. I had no energy to get up to make it to the bathroom was an effort, I felt like i had mono or something, your strength will come back. It may take up to a month before you even begin to feel like a human being again. I have severe TMJ from a broken jaw and the headaches send me to dark rooms with no sound, but Kim drugs are never the answer, they can't make a pill to fill the hole in your soul. Only my Higher Power,, whom I choose to call GOD can do that . I just got home from a noon NA meeting, that is where I get my experience, strength and HOPE. Before coming to NA I attempted suicide 3x's, now i have a family of other recovering addicts that know when there is something wrong with me sometimes even before I realize it. 90 in 90, get and USE a sponsor, only hang with the women and please feel free to e-mail any time you want. We can only keep it by giving it away. May GOD keep you always, Your sister in recovery Barbara P
