Author: skichick
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 7:30 pm
Thanks again for the response. Yes, I do go to a pain specialist. My Tx plan is not out of the norm for pain control. Im still having fairly intense pain though. Im trying not to get discouraged. Ill be getting injections this month, so this should help. 
Author: TeeJay
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 9:40 pm
| rule62 wrote: |
| Glad to read you’re doing a bit better on the new meds. This whole bi-polar thing spins my brain around. Did this exist 100 years ago? I think back then they just threw you in the dungeon if you showed any mental illness. |
It was in 1913 that the term manic depression was first used to describe people who oscillate between mania and depression… so that’s like 100 years ago this year. Some time in the 80s they stopped using the term manic-depression and replaced it with the nicer sounding bipolar disorder.
That story is real sad Rule and it’s always a real shame to hear about a loss that could have been prevented with better care. It’s good that he experienced 25 years of sobriety and relative stability that’s more than a lot of addicts / alcoholics can achieve.
I always found AA more open to people getting treated for mental illness than NA, where some members take the "drug is a drug" idea too far. Maybe I would have done better in AA.
Author: TeeJay
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 9:40 pm
| rule62 wrote: |
| Glad to read you’re doing a bit better on the new meds. This whole bi-polar thing spins my brain around. Did this exist 100 years ago? I think back then they just threw you in the dungeon if you showed any mental illness. |
It was in 1913 that the term manic depression was first used to describe people who oscillate between mania and depression… so that’s like 100 years ago this year. Some time in the 80s they stopped using the term manic-depression and replaced it with the nicer sounding bipolar disorder.
That story is real sad Rule and it’s always a real shame to hear about a loss that could have been prevented with better care. It’s good that he experienced 25 years of sobriety and relative stability that’s more than a lot of addicts / alcoholics can achieve.
I always found AA more open to people getting treated for mental illness than NA, where some members take the "drug is a drug" idea too far. Maybe I would have done better in AA.
Author: amber4.14.11
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:36 pm
This is really, really,,,,, difficult.
everything about it……
I keep telling myself,,, LOOK at the "bright side"
which is, at LEAST he’s not in jail.
And, we do still love each other, very much
sometimes, I think—- RUN AMBER RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and other times,,, it’s like "you can do this, you can do ANYTHING you put your mind to"
the hardest part is my son……… He does NOT understand any of it!!!!
he keeps telling me,,,
"mommy can you just let daddy come home now?"
"mommy,, I think daddy will be good for you, if you just let him sleep here"
hmmmmmm,,,,,,, I WISH it were that easy, with every fiber of my being. but it’s just NOT.
and the lawyer says, he’s "working on it"
I called again today, , , says it’s gonna be at LEAST a week, from now, if not TWO WEEKS before we
can get in front of a judge… let’s HOPE and PRAY it’s not the same one, as the plea hearing.
I guess I just needed to vent a bit.
Hope you all are doing okay.
I like that saying,,,
" You don’t know how strong you are, until you have no other option"
that about sums it up, for me.
Author: amber4.14.11
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:36 pm
This is really, really,,,,, difficult.
everything about it……
I keep telling myself,,, LOOK at the "bright side"
which is, at LEAST he’s not in jail.
And, we do still love each other, very much
sometimes, I think—- RUN AMBER RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and other times,,, it’s like "you can do this, you can do ANYTHING you put your mind to"
the hardest part is my son……… He does NOT understand any of it!!!!
he keeps telling me,,,
"mommy can you just let daddy come home now?"
"mommy,, I think daddy will be good for you, if you just let him sleep here"
hmmmmmm,,,,,,, I WISH it were that easy, with every fiber of my being. but it’s just NOT.
and the lawyer says, he’s "working on it"
I called again today, , , says it’s gonna be at LEAST a week, from now, if not TWO WEEKS before we
can get in front of a judge… let’s HOPE and PRAY it’s not the same one, as the plea hearing.
I guess I just needed to vent a bit.
Hope you all are doing okay.
I like that saying,,,
" You don’t know how strong you are, until you have no other option"
that about sums it up, for me.
Author: TeeJay
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 1:31 am
I liked to think the sweating was my body pushing out all the toxins… Gave it a sense of purpose.
Author: TeeJay
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 1:31 am
I liked to think the sweating was my body pushing out all the toxins… Gave it a sense of purpose.
Author: Fireman
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:48 am
Good find!! I am so glad that the time has finally come around.
I wonder: the price of the generics, if they’ll be flavored like suboxone or if they’ll taste like chemicals similar to generic buprenorphine, if the prices of suboxone go down to compete, and the form of the drug i.e. if it’ll be a tablet, film, or possibly something else.
About time those greedy bastards at Reckitt Benkiser have competition. Oh wait, I feel so bad that the ones in charge of RB will have to suffer and ride in midsize jets and yachts and not the usual large cabin yachts and jets!! I couldn’t imagine the hell that must be…
Author: Fireman
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:48 am
Good find!! I am so glad that the time has finally come around.
I wonder: the price of the generics, if they’ll be flavored like suboxone or if they’ll taste like chemicals similar to generic buprenorphine, if the prices of suboxone go down to compete, and the form of the drug i.e. if it’ll be a tablet, film, or possibly something else.
About time those greedy bastards at Reckitt Benkiser have competition. Oh wait, I feel so bad that the ones in charge of RB will have to suffer and ride in midsize jets and yachts and not the usual large cabin yachts and jets!! I couldn’t imagine the hell that must be…
Author: raudy1975
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 2:12 pm
I too got off Opiates with buying Methadone illegally. It is actually fairly common to seek out help on their own (without a doctor) especially when we self medicate so well! anyways…the problem I had was that my methadone dealer disappeared one day and I was stuck without anything. So I went back to my same ways of getting opiates.
So to make sure you have a plan when you take Suboxone, I would go see a doctor so you know that your connect is not going to be gone and lead you to relapse.
And by the way… my family does not know I am taking Suboxone because they think its wrong because they are not educated on the purpose of the medication, so I totally understand the secrecy