I have had 7strokes and a mild heartattack,I am a 45yr old female,I smoke and drink and occasionally some street drugs with my subscribed medications(daily:60mg-Adderal,4-Perkocet10-650,3-10mg ativan,thiroid medication,blood thinner,zantac,muscle relaxer..there are more but not of importance)my question is,I abuse my narcotics and drink daily,sometimes heavily,I have bi-polar disorder and really want help..I want to know what I could use to help me replace the streetdrugs,alcohol,keep me from abusing my needed medication without withdraws or side effects. I am well aware of my physical/mental handicaps caused by the multiple strokes and past drug abuse which is why I am seeking any help or advice on what would work best in my condition/situation. *Thank You for your help and God bless!!! *
What is the most effective/safest way to stop using prescription medication/street drugs in excess?
- Posted:
- 5 Sep 2010 by time4metofly
- Topics:
- adderall, ativan, percocet 10/325, anxiety, insomnia, panic disorder, nausea/vomiting
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5 Sep 2010
my husband and i were both on px. pain meds. (he: 30mg oxycodone 6x daly and 100 mg morphine 5x daily; me: 10mg perc. 4x daily PLUS I was taking some of his morphine one 100mg daily, not prescribed). his pain mgt. clinic closed so he had to start suboxone because he couldn't get an appt. soon enough to continue his pain med. without dealing with withdraw.
We are both firm believers in the "power of prayer'' but we also know that GOD put doctors here for a reason too.
I definately suggest going to a pain management doctor to get Suboxone!! I was skeptical and scared when I started it because I was afraid of withdraw. YOU HAVE TO WAIT 24 HOURS after your last dose of ANY OPIATE before you can take suboxone. If you don't (my husband waited about 17 hours and it was too soon) you will experience withdraw, so you must wait the appropriate amount of time.
I am so glad that I am taking suboxone, it sure beats wasting money on street drugs or buying someone else's prescription medicine!!!
Sacosam6 Sep 2010
Hi t4mtf ; I got a great idea... and i'm only 1/4th joking. Get yourself a little baseball bat about 18" long. Trim it up nice so it looks good and tie it around your waist. anytime you want to drink or drug up , take that bat and "Bop" yourself upside the head. With "P.M.R. I had to go a whole year without any pain relief whatsoever because of people like You , and because of people like you It took Me a year to convince my Dr.that he could trust me. 21yrs. ago, I drugged hard and drank harder. I didn't quit , I surrendered to a power greater than me. I couldn't quit, so I had to surrender. 21 yrs. ago, I got on my knees & explained to my Higher Powers, and 40 people who had returned to sanity... that my addictions had become more powerful than I , so I had to surrender and so I surrendered to my higher powers, and to the 40 people who pronised to be my friends, and guide me back to sanity. I'm gonna promise you something...
subzero586 Sep 2010
hi tfmtf,both of these people gave you some good advice.well maybe not the bat. but it sounds to me like suboxone and meetings will help you more than you can imagine.therapy is definitely part of what you need.I got on suboxone 1year ago,and have not relapsed in that time. belive me when i say it works.you need to do recovery like you did your drugs. beg, borrow or steel it. you gotta chase recovery like you did for your drugs.all of us here at drugs.com will be here for you day and night. its our family of help understanding. sacosam may even surprise you,but don't play baseball with him just yet... give him a little more time.oh yea,one more thing, if you become a member of our family and you relapse, yea you guessed we send sarcasm over to your place...
Sacosam
7 Sep 2010
Hiya Sub, love ya' Guy ! !
sarcasm (;->)
karen8658
7 Sep 2010
I believe that pain meds. (opiates) are passed out too freely anymore. There are other ways to treat pain (chiropractors, phys. therapy, self-care: warm baths, heating pads). And I am speaking from personal experience. I can honestly say now, because I'm NOT on pain meds. anymore, that I have 80% less pain since I've been OFF of pain meds. I did have pain, in my knees, severe pain to where I couldn't walk or bend my knees but nothing showed up when I got MRI's, XRays and CTScans so, from my experience, being on pain meds. actually caused me to have more pain. So when someone's dr. doesn't believe their patient is actually in pain, I can understand (because there's no medical proof, no accident or immediate injury that could've caused the pain) because it happened to me. I live in a state where there aren't that many pain mgt. doctors around any more. They've been giving meds.
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Sacosam its interesting you say to this person get off the ego but in the same paragraph you tell this person "I had to go a whole year without any pain relief whatssoever because of people like YOU, and because of people like YOU it took me a year to convince my Dr. that he could trust me. 21yrs ago, I drugged hard and drank harder"
Get off your high horse and get your ego in check. Remember you only have today. its not this persons fault your dr didnt believe you were in pain and if your dr didnt believe you, you should of went to a different doctor then. Poor you in pain and cant get relief, blah,blah,blah...
Its amazing a person uses ego and a higher power in the same sentence and references "people like you"
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Its "people like YOU" who have the world backwards, We live in the year 2010 if you haven't noticed and its not 1933 anymore. AA does not keep stats and its success rate is not as high as people are led to believe. Even Bill took narcotics and experiemented with LSD. Read your own book, they used medicines and also Bill was open to other methods for recovery.
I would not want Heart surgery back in 1933 and we have come along way to understanding about alcoholism and addictions.Thank my higher power for suboxone and medicines and therapists who are open mined and have the ability to see that one size does not fit all. Sacosam pratice what you preach and get off your ego and stop comparing and thinking its people like YOU...
To the person that posted this. You need help and need to take care of your self. the strokes and heart attack are the result of poor living. Stop the smoking, the nicotrol inhaler works great for that and if you can go away for awhile for treatment and rehab go away, it takes time for the body and brain to heal and time to change old habits. AA can work for some and if its a group support you need go and find a good non-judgmental group. You need to do this. We all are gonna die some day and its your decision how you want to live your life in the mean time. Your asking for help, now its up to you to get it. Sacosam was in your face and maybe you need to hear that but I cant stand people who live in glass houses. Get help, its out there and people will guide you. ITS INTERESTING READ HIS COMMENT AND ITS ALL ABOUT HIM(IF THATS NOT EGO, THEN I DONT KNOW WHAT IT IS)
oktoday, You obviously do not know sacosam. Most people who give advice use their own personal stories as examples in order to help others see what can happen. Sacosam is the LEAST egotistical member I have had the pleasure of knowing. Simply because he pulls no punches, does not make him less knowledgable about todays addiction issues. And he is right about people like the questioner making it difficult for people in severe, debilitating pain (like sacosam) to obtain the much needed pain meds. Why do you think they changed the oxycontin? And the pain patch that no longer has the gel pouch? Because of the people who misuse and abuse. I know for a fact that sacosam has suffered so badly he has literally passed out from the pain. Yet he can't even get a damn vicodin because of people who abuse these meds... not because of what he used to do so long ago! Ego? No. He speaks out of frustration and pain. I personally know him.
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And not through this forum. Yes he can be blunt, but you are so misguided about his intentions. He has talents that would put most people to shame... yet has to suffer more than most because most doctors are skeptical when it comes to pain. So yes, he is right when he says it's people like you... yet all these years later, he still has to suffer unless he chooses to ge pain relief off the streets. So what if he's a little blunt, would you give anyone the shirt off your back? sacosam would. If you knew him like a few of us here do, you would be ashamed of your ignorant comments.