drug test

[middleperson]

i'm in the drug court system in my county. i have not used drugs in the past thirty days, but this past friday i took a 10mg lortab. today is monday and i have to take a drug test. do you think the lortab will show up today? thnks

[Roxy30mg]

Just a quik question on the original topic. When taking a drug test can the results tell the difference between Hydrocodone and Oxycodone? Or would these two drugs look the same?

[onestep]

Does it cost money now to ask a question ? I've not been looking for months now since a major medical setback and just plain depression. i sure could use some help now that I'm getting ready to change.

[Thomas03]

I know how you feel. After scoring some Vics, I loved to go home, curl up with my first love, a good book, and listen to my second, classical music. The drug, the beautiful words and music formed a continuum I only left when I absolutely had to.

Every time I cleaned up, literature and especially music would seem dead to me -- for a time. I'm about a month clean of any drugs now, and I'm writing this post while listening to a piece I

[hippy]

hey finkboy,
my name is michael , im an addict and have been clean here at
this fourm for a year aprial 30, i had 15 a day vike and or perc habit. i had  started taking the meds for ligit reasons
but wound up abuseing them due to some deaths in the famly
my younger brother for 1 died of and overdose.
i was clean in na for 17 years before i got myself into this mess.
im doing well thanks to thomas's receip and all the support here.
im 43 and still go to na meetings every week.
i suffer from severe pain at times, i take the receip still
and it hellp a lot even a year later. i also have good results with a vitamin called  MSM a sulfer based mineral.
thomas's email is further down in one of his post.
i hope your doing okay,
peace!!!!!!!!!!hippy.

middle person, nice to read your post, you said you like to read
that is a great  way to escape the bordom  life can bring.
another way is to find a way to help others.
getting the focus off ourselves and helping others in some capacity is a great way to get rid of bordom.
getting involved in som kind of community activity is a
possibility, we have to get creative in these ventures
to find ways to escape to bordom of staying clean after living life on the edge as a useing addict.
as time go on and we stay clean it does get better and better is the area of bordom.
before you know it you will find you wom't have any time to be bored, your life will get so busy and full.
we just have to stay on the good  track.
peace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!hippy

[AlexisInTx]

You all are such insightful people.  So incredibly understanding in regard to where I am, where I was, where I may be going.

I want to say that I can't exercise without those pain killers, and I do feel lucky in that respect.  I know that there are so many here (and everywhere) that would love to be able to do so, so I'm not taking that for granted.  I think perhaps in my own mind I've developed a sense of needing these pills for emotional reasons rather than physical ones.  I know I have real physical pain, but I think that I'm exaggerating it to a degree so as to have an excuse to use.

I don't normally like to talk about myself like this, I'd rather listen to others and offer support - it's really amazing to find others that can comprehend what you are going through.  My husband is wonderful, he really is, but he just doesn't understand exactly what it's like.  I know that I have total control over my own actions (or inactions), but it's just getting to that point.

You're right, I could handle this as I would the flu, take a couple of weeks off, even taper down if need be (which has never worked before, so I don't know if it would now) and then keep in mind that IT WILL GET BETTER.  I have to have a long term goal set, and then stick to my guns, realizing that my short term suffering is for a purpose.  I remember very vividly when I was in labor for 29 hours (HARD labor, no anesthesia or pain meds, only Pitocyn which makes your contractions harder) that the nurse said that the pain I was experiencing was 'pain with a purpose' - so maybe that's how I should look at it like.  I'm definitely not trying to compare labor to withdrawal, but just that there is a purpose to it (quitting) and that down the road, my life will improve.  I see myself never wanting to go out and do anything anymore - I have a short temper and I'm not myself.  I can't remember who exactly I am anymore, and I want to reclaim that.  I just get caught up in of course a very selfish mode, and then I think my life will be 'blah' without the pills.

Thanks for letting me get this out, and for y'all's help, it means a lot to me.

Alexis

[Thomas03]

Sorry, Alexis, I somehow missed the herniated disk part (woops!).

I don't know what kind of physical training you're doing, but I think if you told a doctor that you were numbing yourself with Vicodin in order to do strenuous workouts, he'd freak.

In 1993, I endured about a year of pain until I finally let them operate on my disk bulge (L5). I know that, during that year, if I'd loaded up on hydrocodone and then pushed myself at the gym, I'd have put myself in the hospital.

I think the right kind of doctor is going to have to advise you on this. But my amateur opinion is that you're hurting yourself by pushing your poor back through all this physical conditioning while numbed on opiates. Bad idea! With something such as herniated disks (not one, but two!), I don't think you should ever work out on opiates or any painkiller for that matter. You need to be fully aware of what a given exercise is doing to your back (or any part of your body). Bad disks are not something you can just ignore. I understand your ambition to be a trainer, but you could wind up training people from a wheelchair. Take care,

Thomas