Can someone, anyone PLEASE help me get this monkey off my back for good??!! I am 36 yrs old and have been on lorcets for about 3 yrs. I am currently taking about 200 mg/day. i stopped cold turkey about 6 months ago for 7 days and felt good. no wd's at all except I couldnt sleep at night. by day 4 I felt like I was a new woman, but was having to take something to get a few short hours of sleep. I did this with GOD. I am too ashamed to ask him again to help me. But I am going to TONIGHT. When I get off the computer I am gonna pray for one more time of deliverance. MY problem was that I was sooooo BORED and I broke down and took ONE and the whole cycle just escalated very quickly and I am right back to where I started. How do I deal with the boredom and depression. SOmeone who has been thru this hell please tell me how you did it. I have waaay to much to live for and too much to loose over these stupid demon pills. thanks to u all for your help.

Tara...I know what you are going through...as I just took my second pill a few moments ago. I have been taking Lobtab 10,s for two years sometimes three times a day. I have gone from back surgery..to med fracture..to a new back problem and am having a ct scan in the morning. Sometimes the pain is not more than I can handle but I take a pill anyway. Codine is like speed to me actaully that is how I fractured my foot. Moving around like a crazy woman!!

It is very hard to stop taking pills...my doc just keeps telling me to back off a little at a time. I have tried to stop a few times...but my body goes nuts...I start to shake...and sleep is impossible. So now I am taking ambien . I am waiting for my test results and then have made a promise to myself to figure out how to stop. It's good to talk about it with those going through the same thing. Hang in there girl... Oliver65

hello,
If you have too much free time on your hands. why don't you check out a NA or AA meeting, maybe that will be something you can do to past the time away and get help...............and don't ever be afraid to ask God for help

I'm addicted and dependent to opiate pain killers.

The sooner you stop the better. I don't know an easy way, other than a taper, but even with a taper you still have the drugs. When I tried my first taper, I just blew through the drugs in a day or so when I got them, then waited a week until I got the next level.
You have to want to do it, first of all. Next, I believe you need help doing it. I think it would be impossible for me to stop without help. I know it would.

As far as asking God... ask again. And again, and again and again if you have to. That is what Jesus died on the cross for, afterall. That is the meaning of forgiveness and mercy. Go to God with a pure heart, meaning what you say, and He will listen. Don't be ashamed. God's love is endless. Imagine how much you love your child or parents, and that is just a fraction of the love God has for each of us, sinner or not.