May Roll Call Time!!!!

[tomskat]

It's that time again everyone!! Brag time!! Welcome to all the newcomers to the forum. At the beginning of each month I post "roll calls" which are everyone's opportunity to share with everyone their clean time. It doesn't matter how long it is-1 day,month,or year. We all have to start at Day 1. For some of us we need to take it hour by hour and then work into the day to day.

Everyone's journey down this road is different. For some getting clean is the easy part;it's staying clean that's the challenge. I think we all can agree that the mental aspects of withdrawals are worse than the physical aspect. For this month as you share your clean time please also share how you battled the mental part during your initial withdrawal. For myself it was this site. Anytime I had a tough time mentally I would get on here.

I am an addict. I have 843 days clean. Thank you everyone for your support. I'm always here if anyone ever needs to talk. We're all in this fight together. Guard your clean time!! Know that this fight isn't easy-nothing worthwhile ever is. For some there will be slips along the way. Pick yourself back up and start again. Work your recovery. Sorry for the lengthy post!!! Stay strong everyone!!!!

[holagirl907]

Starting day 11 today off the evil Tramadol,.  1 yr clean from Vicodin.  

I could have never done this without all of you.   Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!

Nancy

[jc1002]

Today is day 8 clean for me!  Thank you to ALL you wondeful people out here for your support!

jc

[tomskat]

Wow!!! Congratulations to everyone on their clean time!!! Every day we all must make a decision. Today I chose to not use.As addicts,we will need to choose daily.For some of us this choice will get eaiser with time,and for some of us it will always remain fresh in our minds. For all of us it will be a scar. But scars fade. True,scars are permanant. But they don't define who we are as people. We are so much more than addicts.

Thank you to all who posted!! Rememeber,it's never too late to post on a Roll Call post!! For the newbies,or anyone else reading this,I post these in the beginning of each month. I do this for a few different reasons,and 1 of those reasons is it actually helps keep me strong in my resolve. I love reading about everyone's clean time! So,keep posting!

Keep your guard up,and stay strong everyone!!!

[littlebit667]

WOW, all I can say is WOW!! please give her a hug for me!  I wish you could see the big smile I have right now!  Thanks so much.  I am so glad it helped!  Congrats on day 7!  May there be many many more!

[gammieof1]

Day 9 free of opiates and day 3 free of cigs for the hub n I and we are already loving life!!  We are clear and we have a future!!
Congratulations to everyone and if you thinking about doing it i say grab your supplies and just do it. Theres life after addiction.

[gammieof1]

Day 9 free of opiates and day 3 free of cigs for the hub n I and we are already loving life!!  We are clear and we have a future!!
Congratulations to everyone and if you thinking about doing it i say grab your supplies and just do it. Theres life after addiction.

[lulu747]

AWESOME WORK ON CLEAN TIME EVERYONE!!!

Dana-
Remember that the only person that can define you, is you!  Your hard-won sobriety is a badge of honour my friend.  Shame cannot exist when you act from love and not fear. The only acceptance you need is your own.  

Keep facing your fears everyone and keep living in love!
xox
Lu

[Dane74]

82 days opiate free!  It was a hell of a ride, but i am so thrilled to live life to its fullest.  I now can see, feel, and think clearly and life is a beautiful thing that i am so grateful for.  I have my up's and down's but recently i learned that is what life is all about.  It saddens me that i am labeled an addict for the rest of my life, as i believe society does not accept that, but hey i am clean and proud of me.

[Bkitty]

207 days!! clean from percocets/narcotics! I feel great!
Hugs and love to everyone on here (((((hugs))))) ~Bkitty

[feeldown28]

Day 5 no vicodin and feel pretty good major wd symptom left is restless leg in evening and mental stuff and some fatigue nothing like the wd were in past :) my husband is oin day 5 as well :) GO US ;) how amazing life can start to become when not dealing with the devils works those stupid pills!!

[Bones216]

Great job little bit, if you want something bad enough it will come. Simply an outstanding display of determination.
On a side note I have to thanks you for assisting my wife julia back in early may. She discovered this site a posted a plea to help her husband.
You jumped right in as usual. You sent her an amazing  note with suggestions, guidance and praise. She was extremely terrified, but here I am on day 7 today. WOW!
She showed me her original post yesterday, and your response, and I can't thank you enough for the support to her and me.
Bones

[doitformyson]

69 days!!!!!  Congrats to all!!!!   I really started to do well when I realized that I have to take it day by day and on some days hour by hour.  I can't ever look to far ahead.  Also, all you great people here on this site!!!!!!!!!!!  With the tools I have now, I know I can also make it to 843 days!!  Great post Tomskat and congrats on your years of sobriety!!!! Awesome

[bama88]

82 days from a oxycontin  and I don't even count the other stuff anymore. Don't think about it much......if I had to estimate the time I couldn't. Don't focus on it much anymore......I will admit I am an addict. It doesn't make me a bad person. It is just who I am.

When a addict can see that they are an addict One can grow and move on......humans are addictive by nature. You can be addicted to anything.

Remeber addiction is a behavior and not your true personality. And we can control our behavior....

[Enthalpy1]

5 days free of norco. 4 years 29 days alcohol free. 23 years 7 months and 4 days free of tobacco. For the norco, it is a battle between chronic back pain or heavy depression. I think I would rather deal with the pain than the depression. For the alcohol, it's remembering all the blackouts and the family damage I caused from one drink or twenty. And for the tobacco, it was the awaiting birth of my daughter and the death of my father at fifty. He and I quit smoking at the same time and three years later he was diagnosed with cancer. Thank you all!

[Bones216]

Yes kmk, thanks for asking. Minor W/D symptoms, nothing major. Forced myself to get outside again today. Excited for day 7 tomorrow.
I love the roll call idea, fellow newbies next month we will all be over 30 days clean, YAHOO!!!!!!!

[littlebit667]

Thanks Self....It popped up on my facebook today and it seemed perfect for us!  Congrats on everyone on their clean days!  I promise it gets better and better!  My son complained that I was talking too much...he had better get used to it!  LOL  coulda been the one beer I had.. My one drink for the summer.

[teachermommy690]

7 days off hyrdros!  Staying strong and strengthening my resolve by the hour.  Thank you everyone on this forum - it is amazing!!!

[no_more_pills]

12 days clean off of tramadol :)

[KMK523]

Congrats bones!!! 6 days...are you feeling better??

[Bones216]

6 days today, woot woot

[KMK523]

I am 11 days clean today from opiates. I'm still struggling, but I'm going to make it!! To all of you that have been clean for so long could you share your secrets of how you stayed clean, and the support you use other than this awesome site. Congrats to all of you!!!! Still taking this day by day but I'm not looking back!!!!

[selfinduced]

My hat is SOOO off to you, great quote.

[littlebit667]

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose; this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. ~Mary Pickford

[littlebit667]

119 days clean from DOC-hydrocodone  anywhere from 8-12 a day of 10/325!
It took me several times to get it right.  The last time seems to have stuck..at least for today! :)  I came here in Sept, 2011..cleaned up and relapsed....hid in shame for a bit..decided to put my big girl panties on and came back in March!  

This time I told EVERYONE that mattered.  I had already told my Hubby and daughter in Sept.  In March, I pulled those panties higher and told my Son and Doctor!  Whew, big step.  Made ALL the difference.  

Each day is much better...I am marveling at how alive I feel.  Coming here and meeting this group was meant to be for me and I will be FOREVER grateful!!!