Author: Breezy_Ann
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 2:26 pm
Hi meitalk, I am glad you are finding this forum helpful, I hope you stick around it has been very beneficial to my recovery. Congratulations on taking control of your life and you should be very proud of yourself you have made a big step!
Ok, now I am going to answer the question. I was very fortunate in that I was able to stop my addiction fairly quickly. Same old story, chronic pain and got carried away and addicted. I was abusing my meds for about 8 months but it didn’t get too severe until the last few. I have chronic pain from endometriosis and after the birth of my twins it got real bad. I needed surgery but had to wait until May to have it. So I was put on oxycontin. The last 3 months I was prescribed 150mg but was taking up to 250mg and sometimes even more. I knew I had a big problem in late March but I was scared to say anything because I did not want to suffer without pain relief (or at least that was my addict brains excuse) so I decided after my surgery I was done! Two weeks after my surgery I went to my Dr. and told him that I wanted to begin my taper, well I hadn’t even stuck to my prescribed dose so when he lowered it I was sick, I decided this wasn’t gonna work and went thru those pills as fast as I could! I had researched sub and decided that’s what I needed, made the call and went in 5 days later for my induction and have been doing really well since.
I feel so blessed that I was able to get out of this before doing major damage to my life, I don’t know that I would have if I didn’t have my amazing children. I knew I could not go on like that because I had to be their mom and I wouldn’t put my kids thru my drug addiction. I guess for me my bottom was the thought of causing my children pain. It is amazing the strength our children can give us, and I will be thankful for that for the rest of my life.
