Positive thinking for detox

[KimH]

I am in the weening process from ultram. I have a doctor and family helping me. I wanted to ask the people who are experiencing sobriety to please tell me, do you really feel better? I am getting in the depressed part of this but when I start to feel like I will never be happy or feel good again, I'll feel like @%$# forever, I then see someone post how good they feel being sober. Is it really good? I mean, if you post the horrible parts of being a drug addict, and the now good parts of being sober, it gives me and I'm sure many other people who are detoxing hope to go on knowing it gets better. Something to strive for. I guess only sober people can answer this, but the more replies the better, and people like me can read this when we're down and hold on to the hope we can have. The encouraging sobriety stories (like expillman talking about being free) have kept me from using 3x. Please post more encouragement for us with "withdrawel blues". thanks KIMH

[Rick99]

Hey guys I was reading this post and its good to see, somethings never change... I have now been sober over 6 months and I have learned that no matter how much time passes, I will NEVER FORGET what I went through with drug abuse.  I spent a lot of time here before and it makes me feel good to see that this forum hasn't changed a bit.  Mr. Expillman found that out the hard way. haha, if you are reading this do not take offense, this forum has always had an aggressive personality, its a different animal here, you have to except that you are no better then anyone else...

[cosmicstargoat]

Golden.

Pillman is resting comfortable in his new home.  Ultram is just another Devil in de skys.  Get a package insert and read the paragraph under PHYSICAL DEPENDENCE AND ABUSE.  It reads:

SHOULD NOT BE USED IN OPIOID DEPENDENT PATIENTS

It will cause you to go into terrible withdrawers when you stop if you start.  Worse that overindulging in Texas BBQ.  Don't take it.  

Believe in Goat and his son Billy and you will be saved from drugs masquerading as alternatives to the drugs you crave.

Amen and good luck

[cosmicstargoat]

Well, you've been LUMPED.  Deal with it.  

What's all this hooey about METHADONE being safe?  Shoooot, boy, The New York City Times reported in February that Methadone is killing people right and left, worse than bad BBQ.  Don't you know that Methadone is just another synthetic opioid that JUNKIES are trying to sanitize and make respectable, just to keeep using?

Safe?  Oh, safe as used as directed.  Well, so is Oxy.  So is Dilaudid.  So be morphine.  It's safe until some junkhead grinds up a whole bunch of those pretty 200s and over-injects and dies.  

Methadone?  You're squabbling with Pillman {who has already made one excape attempt from the nursing home) about half-lives and you're still taking Methadone?

Devil and the Deep Blue, my son.  Believe in Goat and his BBQ and you will have the strength to unhook thyself from your Devil Drug Methadone.

Say Amen.  You know in your heart, Goat is right.

[hippy]

i have been at this fourm,
for a year and a half ,
i have been clean 13 months.
this is the 1st time i have written
something to someone that could  be
considered negitive. i am an addict
i have had to deal with low self esteem.
having a great big ego is nothing new to addicts
including myself
i do beleive all things happen for a reason.
so what ever made me post what i did,  im sure it was meant to be.

[mrmichael67]

First off to sturgill:Thomas never ran this board.  I don't know where that idea comes from.  To expillhead:  You shouldn't lump all together.  I have never robbed a pharmacy.  I am not geriatric.  ONE of the people who got on you is currently on methadone...only one. And, after the way you came in here like gangbusters, you pretty much had it coming.  After seeing the information on the "long half-life" drugs you mentioned, I couldn't help myself.  Before you go telling people about addiction and dependence, you might want to find out how they take their meds.  If they are taking 30 or 40 a day, then I would say that is irrelevant.  Oh yeah, I saw a few typos in your posts as well.  Spellcheck?  As far as who "runs" this board?  Besides the obvious two (Cindy and Phil), I thought everyone "ran" this board.  As far as this little blowout we had:  No one likes to be condescended to.  I just had to comment one more time in response to someone actually going to the level of calling people childish names.  Hey, let's just add insult to injury.  Why don't we?  Why don't we just move on?  This all isn't accomplishing anything.

[theGolden1]

Sounds like everyone's lost it ..... and that goes for the Xman too ... he is a bit upity, but I was waiting to hear his take on ultram .... and never happened. Oh well .... had some great laughs ... G