Xcalibure, congrats on your clean time. That is a HUGE accomplishment. In your situation, you may want to try an urgent care. Chances are it is just in your mind at this point. Of course, the mind can create physical symptoms also, but if you are in reasonably good shape and guessing you are pretty young, it is most likely nothing serious.
Warning - Before you go into an urgent care or doctor make sure you have the wording ready saying you don't want a narcotic painkiller. You don't have to say anything beyond that, and they probably won't ask. Your addict self may be tempted to take the painkiller anyway, and your mind might try to convince you that you really need painkillers. This is very common in early recovery. Quitting is the easy part, now the mental part will tug at you, so make sure you are prepared. Put together some months of clean time, and you will begin to feel better, and you will get your life together. Also, make sure you have a good support system in place, and you may try a support group like NA. NA helped me to get 6 months clean time. I couldn't have done it without NA because like I said before the mental part is the tough part - On and off your mind will play cunning tricks on you to try to get you to use again. I'm not saying this to discourage you, but rather to prepare you, and I want you to know there IS happiness beyond pills. Hope that helps.
Chrish
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Good job on the cutting back, getting of the narcotics isn't easy and everyone finds their own way. I was tired of living on them and not really living so I dropped them.
The problem with the doctors here is that they are all connected from the hospital to the two clinics in town. As soon as I walk in alarm s go off (lol, not really but let's just say I'm known by first name in almost all locations by the receptionist) and every doctor pulls my medical file off the servers there stored on and judge me before they enter the room especially if I use the word pain. The problem I'm having is reality serious for a guy but I wonder at the same time if it's withdrawal related, I don't know how but I heard you can have strange pain with kicking the habit.
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Clean Date: 10/11/05
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