Hardest Part Of Cravings?

[gizzy32]

What do you find hardest about fighting through a craving?

If you want could you say what helps you the most to get through a craving, maybe it could help others find a way to stay strong.

[jillian6]

For me, it's situations where there will be a lot of people.  It doesn't seem to matter if I know them or not.  I'm almost 30 days clean this time.  I have my daughter's college graduation coming up and I'm already aware of the stress building.  I'm going to a meeting for support before I leave.  This will be a first for me to attend an event sober and I'm trying to look at it as a challenge I want to beat.

[jollyman069]

well now we know more about Sara.....lol

[10356]

I should take up dancing maybe I will be able to get up that pole lol.. sorry gizzy could not resist :)

[dominosarah]

anxiety for me too.......I just turn up the music and dance my little butt off.......

[10356]

anxiety for me is the kicker.. this is when I look for a escape..what I do now when this happens is pull out the camera and loose myself in photography.. I get outside and it helps a great deal to take my mind of drugs :) lesa

[platanito]

Hi everybody my name is platanito and this is my story: I have a terrible accident at work
this happened on 01/09/2004 fracture my left femur,hip and knee thats how I get addicted
to pain killers firstable vicodin then norco I took them fo allmost two years then I tryied to
get off of it myself (coldturkey) by the third day I couldn't take it anymore and I went to my doctor to ask for help. My doctor send me to quimical dependency department where I got some help,they gave me four different kind  of meds one for anxiety,diahrrea,
a patch for heart beating and I do not rmember what the otherone was for.Well I tryied that treatment at home for a couple of days but I was so sick with the withdrawl symps
that I stop sthe tratment and went back to quimical dependency and told my doctor that I couln't take it anymore. Well then he told me about suboxene he said to me that it was a miracle drug, well I said yes to it and I start a treatment w/suboxene firstable was 16 mg a day that was for about 3 months  then I tappering down to 12 mg a day for another 3 months then I cut down to 8 mg daily for other 3 months  then I cut down to 6 mg for 3 months at last I cut down to 4 mg daily  I took that for allmost one year untill I decide to
completly get off of suboxene.On february 16th I check in a detox clinic here in my city
I talk to one of the doctors there and I told him that I was addicted to suboxene and want to get off of it. He told me that he never treat nobody with that kind of addiction(suboxen)
Well we talk about it for a little while and he decide to treat me, he told me about methadone was the drug he used to get pacients off opiods  so  I said yes to the treatment. The day I check in they do not gave any meds.but second day they gave me 30 mg of methadone,third day 20 mg of methadone and lastly fourth day 10 mg of methadone.I get discharge on feb 20th.  I was so happy when I went home couse I was filling very well.Then it past 24 hours when I started to fill sick withdrawl symps,then it pass 72 hours and I was worst and worst and worst,it allmost past two months now and I still very sick yet,no sleep at all,muscle aches,stomach cramps,diahrrea and all the classic withdrawl sympthoms.Is there anybody who can tell me how long this is going to last and what was the reason for this terrible withdrawl sympthoms I have been trough,
what I can do about  it, wait or go back to suboxene?

[mojorisin64]

not finding the ****

[freebird227]

I keep comming up with Mind Body Spirit. My disease also recovers three fold. Mentally   Physically  Spiritually. Any or all of these can be needing some attention when I'm in a foul mood.
Rarley do all three crash at the same time.
For me disease of addiction broken down translate for me Dis  Ease Of The Soul.
I have not had a physical craving much past my second year clean.I have had some mental thoughts about leavinng the fellowship of na and only drinking once in a while Delusional Thinking, and short lived.
I keep my addiction out in front of me and I try to take a short daily inventory every night and see where I fell short in my program and where I was succesful
This may sound hard, time consuming,and even obsessive but I was that way about the dope*****So why not put the same energy into being clean. Anyway It works for me.

[worried878]

i voted depression...doomers suk!

[shannonhoon]

It will be 2 weeks clean for me in a couple of days.  I'm feeling really tired but everything seems to have leveled out.  But I do fear those cravings, I don't handle stress & anxiety very well.  I have a very sick mother that I fear I'll lose before too long so I try to not think about it.  I call her when my mood is up, she lives 200 miles from here.  But she is very tuned into her kids and she knows when things are bad and I feel so guilty.  The last thing she should do is worry about me, but I had to quit the oxycontins and I try to tell her that I made the right decision, she doesn't know that I was seriously addicted to them.  So now I'm in a lot of pain again and she worries about that.  I try to tell her that a lot of people live with pain and to not talk about it anymore, it's just another part of me and so around we go.  I just want to rest my head and focus on getting well.  

[kalie1979]

Anxiety always provokes mine, if the anxiety is under control, then I am able to fight the cravings :-)

kalie

[Brrrrad]

It`s crazy i still get the craves and i swear i can feel the "buzz" for a couple seconds. The mind and body can play some mean tricks
1 year next week

[j34]

For me they only come once and a while in the last 9 months I have had them maybe 3 times and all those times was when usually life wasn't treating me the way I thought it should lol . I started to grow up and realize all people go through things it is how I react.this time when I cleaned up I hooked in with lots of people in recovery now I am ALWAYS busy and with clean people so when I do have those cravings I get to an Na meeting!! or call one in my support group.or come on line

[merrymaria]

i voted all the above.....i m close to 300 days woo hoo but still have them tempting moments...boredom...feeling lethargic...and stress seem to hit me the most.   as i dwell on the past something hits my brain that i am free and why am i even thinking that...then i have a high feeling that brings me out of that state of craving.....we have to be on guard everyday for the rest of our lives but well worth it to live drug free...maria

[jollyman069]

i am 35 days clean today, and i didnt get my first craving untill last saturday, Avery good friend of mine from Dialysis passed away. If someone would have handed me a bottle of percs you would have thought  i was at a buffett..i had it bad. Now i dont know how others will feel about this but i read the Bible for about half an hour..The Book of Romans it's my favorite Book in the Bible but the cravings were gone and havent had any since. I am not saying reading the Bible produced a miracle but maybe just getting my mind on something else did the trick, But God can do things to help if we only ask

[beatingthis]

All of the above for me!!! Good one. I see I am not alone!

Terry

[gizzy32]

I know for me the absolute best thing i can do is recognize a craving before it grows and talk about it right away. If i hide it, then i start those stupid mind games and it progresses. Cravings are part of being an addict, but they become easier to fight when we learn how to get through them and identify our triggers.