Thanks Everyone

[shelly405]

I have gone cold turkey more times than I care to remember. Ususally, I was allowed 6 refills of Vicodin, then my Dr would cut me off. So, that means I could use daily for 6-7 weeks, then would have to stop for a month or 2. This has gone on for maybe 2 1/2 years. I did not know the "Sickness" in between was withdrawal, and it has only been since finding this site that I have been able to even consider other alternatives to Vicodin. I still have a prescription and I am allowed 30 every 8 days. I have had the same bottle for about a month, and have taken 11 of them since I filled it.
Thanks to all the wonderful people here on the forum, I have been able to stop taking the Vicodin and not depend on it. I still have pain, and some days it is pretty bad, but I do not ever want to be hooked, strung out and torn down over vicodin ever again.
Shelly
40 something days clean.
THANKS EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[shelly405]

The withdrawals are so clear in my mind. It is the memory of it that keeps me from taking more than one at a time now, and never 2 days in a row.
Shelly

[road2recovery]

Congrats...you know you said somthing that made sense to me...In all my yrs of taken pain meds, for even a month or two, even as presribed for previous surgeries...I now remember thinking i had the flu, due to my immune system after surgery, i though i was one to catch the flu many times....NOW i think it was w/d's and had no idea..
Even when i came here and starting lurking, i was pretty much worried about the cravings , energy etc...NEVER did i think the w/d's would be so bad, and then i was scared to death...Sometimes in a way i wish i would not have known, because then i would not have known that if i took a pill that so-say flu would of went away.....
r2r

[shelly405]

Because I may need them. Let me get to where you all are in my own time. There are many on this forum that say their pain is lessened when they come of the pain meds. I haven't been that fortunate. (I still take 3 different meds for pain, they are not opiates)  I will eventually be unable to walk. I accept that. I also accept that I do not have phantom pain, but real pain due to disability.
Thank you in advance for you accepting that also.
Shelly

[flmagi]

You still have pills or a script for them?   Why? Why aren't you flushing them or burning that script?