Help-Day One

[Liz1539]

Please send tips and good thoughts-Here i go--Day one without-This is my usual time to "relax" with my nite time pill poppping-Called the local Rehab and they said call back tomorrow at 8am-they do sameday appt for help-if they can get you in-I can not do inpt.----WIll be going cold Turkey-don't have all the funds to by lots of OTC  stuff to help-So here goes----from reading posts expect that the next few days will really suck--any thoughts and tips will help--Thanks and Congrats to all of you who have come so far-I have noone else to talk to except you all---Thanks again

[micheleTX]

well Im in the cheerleader section today lol...I know that it won't be pleasant for you. What were you taking and how much of it??

[Puff01]

My heart goes out to you. This is my first day. I stared last week tapering off and today is the day for me. If you look down the site we will see I posted last night at 3:00 am. There were people out there to talk to so you came to the right place. I hope you have some time off but if not it will still be o.k. I don,t see in your post what type of monkey your kicking but there will be someone here to help. I have spent the day reading tons of old posts and there are a lot of great suggestion.
The best thing I've done for myself today is to realize that I'm not alone. You might be physical be by yourself but we are all here for you. We are just a touch away. Everyone deals with it differently but for me I have to get out of the hole. You know the hole were you do the thing you do. Don't sit in it. get up turn on the radio or whatever. Get your mind off of it. Yep it ***** and it might hurt but thank God not for along. You will WD faster or in a shorter amount of time then you were using.  

[disgustedwithmyself]

I am sending good thoughts and prayers to you my friend it will be rough but just stay connected here and keep posting YOU CAN DO THIS. I went cold turkey 5 days ago the thing I did was take a one a day vitamin along with spring valley B12 you can get them at any walmart both can be bought for around 7 dollars. The next thing to have handy is anti diarrheal tablets I use the dollar store brand 2 bucks and they are amazing. Next for me I have to have protein shakes because everything I eat comes back up which I found out today is normal (I lost 12 pounds in 5 days) I hope some of this helps I have found the most help for the mental is reading posts on here and trying to help as much as I can or cranking up ozzy and dancing like a loon :) but keep fighting you are not alone I promise you....