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Board: Health Insurance Issues 04-20-2013, 12:21 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 188
Posted By reachout
Re: disability forms

Hi There

I had to file for disability a few years back. Whew! Those forms intimidated me!!

I described in detail EVERYTHING that made my life out of the ordinary because of my disabilities......
Board: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) 04-03-2013, 05:33 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 2,616
Posted By reachout
Re: I'm Tired Of Hiding

Hiya Phoenix

Just an old friend here wanting to address you on this post. :)

Phoenix, since ever we met, you have been standing on your head hoping others know your true sincerity ( which we...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 03-29-2013, 06:12 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 1,224
Posted By reachout
Re: tapering Norco… here is where I am now… help!!

Hey, Hey First!!!

After a long, long day, I have read your post and , my friend, my heart just wants to sing! 70 hours!!!! (even longer now as I post)!!!

Take a bow, baby girl, take a bow. ...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 03-23-2013, 12:37 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 1,224
Posted By reachout
Re: tapering Norco… here is where I am now… help!!

Hi Friend

Hmmm... while you write those letters, maybe you can write one to BF and son and tell them how you feel. OR, try this... tell them in a calm voice how you feel. What they did was...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 03-18-2013, 09:11 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 1,224
Posted By reachout
Re: tapering Norco… here is where I am now… help!!

Hi First

First things first... I really hope you continue to post here all the time!! Partly to keep us in the loop, but mostly because it is good for the soul! :) This board was a lifeline of...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 03-18-2013, 08:49 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 827
Posted By reachout
Re: Dropping down my script

Hiya :)

Been busy with the grandbabies but found some time tonight to catch up on some board reading. Want to touch base with you also. :)

So how long until the move and the big drop? I was...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 03-13-2013, 08:35 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 525
Posted By reachout
Re: Ativan Taper - need advice

Good Evening :)

I am doing fine and dandy, thank you. Hope you are also.

LAOStanno, my friend, why would I beat you up. Silly. Especially since you did such an awesome job of that your very...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 03-13-2013, 08:10 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 1,224
Posted By reachout
Re: tapering Norco… here is where I am now… help!!

Hey There

Going good there, my friend. Keep on keeping on. :-)

The depression. Sigh. It is yukky to say the least. It is a very normal part of the withdrawal process. Be super aware that...
Board: Grief & Loss 03-12-2013, 04:38 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 177
Posted By reachout
Re: I feel terrible without my mum

Hi Rarm

Welcome. :-) I am glad to meet you, although sorry for the circumstances.

Your mom was so fortunate to have such caring children to see her through the end of her days. She must...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 03-12-2013, 04:14 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 1,224
Posted By reachout
Re: tapering Norco… here is where I am now… help!!

Hi First :)

I think that the tough thing with opiates for pain(and Norco and Tramadol as well because they act the same) is that we need more and more to reach the same result. It is how I...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 03-12-2013, 11:27 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 443
Posted By reachout
Re: Tramadol Withdrawl..PLEASE HELP!

Hi Mom

Welcome. :)

Good post at the top of this board titled, "Suggestions for Tapering."

Although I tapered, the first cuts my doctor made were too large and I was thrown into full...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 03-12-2013, 11:19 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 1,224
Posted By reachout
Re: tapering Norco… here is where I am now… help!!

Hi

Glad to meet you, but sorry you are in such dire straits. :(

I can not tell you it is going to get easier, but I can tell you that withdrawal is a process with a beginning and an end and...
Board: General Health 03-09-2013, 04:15 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 144
Posted By reachout
Re: Chelation

Hi

Hope all goes well with the testing.

Truthfully, I know nothing about it. Are you having symptoms of some kind that have led up to this testing? How is the test administered?

Sorry I...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 03-06-2013, 08:29 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 332
Posted By reachout
Re: Getting through opiate PAWS

Hi King

Welcome. :)

I wish I could offer you a sure-shot solution, but I just don't know of any. It just takes time and we have to muddle through as best as we can. I had to truly force myself...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 03-06-2013, 08:23 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 525
Posted By reachout
Re: Ativan Taper - need advice

Hey There

I want you to know it is not only a pleasure, but an honor to be able to walk along with you here. Most sincerely, I have traveled this path myself and I know what it means to be able...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 03-06-2013, 09:25 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 525
Posted By reachout
Re: Ativan Taper - need advice

Good Morning :-)

Good job getting your script dropped to just one per day. Big accomplishment! Getting my own script dropped was very helpful for me. It totally put the breaks on me because if...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 03-05-2013, 07:30 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 525
Posted By reachout
Re: Ativan Taper - need advice

Evening, LAOStanno

Hope the day has been a good one for you. ;)

It seems you have your head on pretty straight about tapering off. Taking a break isn't the worst thing in the world... as long...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 03-02-2013, 06:52 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 643
Posted By reachout
Re: Going to stop drinking...cross those fingers for me

Heya obfuscated

Just wondering how you are doing and if you have pulled a plan of action together yet. It is so important to have a plan at the ready... one that includes both detoxing and...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 03-02-2013, 06:43 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 525
Posted By reachout
Re: Ativan Taper - need advice

Hello There LAOStanno

How do you do? :)

I did not taper from Ativan, but from Xanax. (3 mg a day in 3 doses when I "officially started tapering from it). I was on it for over 10 years. ...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 03-02-2013, 06:22 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 300
Posted By reachout
Re: Subutex joint pain & tapering... Need help please!!

Hi Hurtin

Welcome to the board. :-)

Buddy, I will give you my advice straight up... tell the doctor the truth, every last embarrassing bit of it. When we tell less than the full truth, we get...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 03-01-2013, 07:10 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 403
Posted By reachout
Re: Coming off Xanax after 20 years

Hi Jack

Nice to meet you. :-)

I came off Xanax after being on it for ten years or so. I had been on Xanax and on various opiates. After tapering off the opiates ( Oxycodone being the last I...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 02-28-2013, 08:51 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 370
Posted By reachout
Re: Question about Vicodin detoxing...

Hi Alex

When I began detoxing, I was a total mess... in a deep clinical depression and actually had to retire from work. All of my tapering was done at home so I am not the best to answer this...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 02-27-2013, 03:08 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 452
Posted By reachout
Re: Hello, my name is monica and i'm an alcoholic!

Hi monicha

Welcome to the Addiction and Recovery Board. This is a place of support and hope and I am hoping you can find some comfort and support here. :-)

Although my own issues were with...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 02-27-2013, 02:43 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 827
Posted By reachout
Re: Dropping down my script

Hi Wendy

Just thought I would stop in with a "hello and how are you?" :-)

Maybe I can share a one of the many nice things that have happened for me (and will for you) after breaking the...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 02-25-2013, 04:53 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 827
Posted By reachout
Re: Dropping down my script

Good Morning Wendy-O!

Glad you have been open to hearing other thoughts. :-) Kind of a relief to me as there were no ill intentions in giving them.

You know, Wendy, this may be the perfect...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 02-22-2013, 08:06 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 370
Posted By reachout
Re: Question about Vicodin detoxing...

Hi Alex

Welcome. :-)

Sounds like you have dependence on the Vicodin, which happens to anyone taking an opiate for an extended period of time. Tolerance builds and we need more and more of the...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 02-22-2013, 01:21 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 827
Posted By reachout
Re: Dropping down my script

Hi Wendy

I applaud you for allthe effort you have been putting into tapering down the drugs here. You have been doing a good job.

However, I do want to say to you, as gently as I can, that I...
Board: Cancer 02-21-2013, 07:27 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,196
Posted By reachout
Re: new here - possible sarcoma???

Hey

SUPER good news!!!

Sorry you had to go through a bit of surgery, but glad you can beath easy and enjoy your days again. No more load to carry in the back (and front!) of your mind.
...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 02-20-2013, 08:52 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 448
Posted By reachout
Re: Percocets

Hi fayew

Glad to meet you. ;-)

The first thing I would say to you is that there is hope and not to give up!

I have been where you are with that huge sense of desperation, but I am not...
Board: Cancer 02-18-2013, 05:36 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,196
Posted By reachout
Re: new here - possible sarcoma???

Hi

Sounding encouraging. :-)

Waiting to hear the biopsy results. Any of us who have had to wait out biopsy results have a connection. Glad to talk with you.

With all hope
reach

PS ...
Board: Cancer 02-17-2013, 11:25 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,196
Posted By reachout
Re: new here - possible sarcoma???

Hi There

Hoping along with you that it is nothing. :)

Let us know the outcome.

Hopeful
reach
Board: Cancer 02-12-2013, 06:31 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,196
Posted By reachout
Re: new here - possible sarcoma???

Hi

Truthfully, I would be totally upfront with your surgeon and just tell him you would feel better having an Oncology Surgeon do the work since the possibilty is there that it could be cancerous....
Board: Addiction & Recovery 02-11-2013, 08:30 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 1,087
Posted By reachout
Re: need help

Heya

I gotta be honest with you.. I never really suffered with cravings. I think it was because I had become sober-thinking long before I ended my tapers. This is in no way to say you are less....
Board: Cancer 02-11-2013, 08:11 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,196
Posted By reachout
Re: new here - possible sarcoma???

Hello There

I truly hope this is just a fatty tumor and will be sending up some prayer on your behalf that it is only that.

I am going to share my own experience with you simply as a reference...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 02-10-2013, 05:55 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 827
Posted By reachout
Re: Dropping down my script

Wendy Sweetpea

I wish I could ingrain into the mind of every addict the words you wrote:

"My ex and I talk a lot about why we each ended up abusing our meds. If you don't understand why, you...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 02-03-2013, 06:23 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 1,087
Posted By reachout
Re: need help

Hi

Thanks for the kind words. I am honored if I have helped you along the way at all.

Did I get emotional and cry? Lordy, Secrets, there were times I truly wailed. I felt like a crumb for...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 02-02-2013, 08:16 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 1,087
Posted By reachout
Re: need help

Hi Secret

I am so proud of you and all the good steps you are taking. You were up front with Hubby and he showed understanding. "Atta girl" for you!

You can not take responsibility for...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 01-31-2013, 03:07 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 1,087
Posted By reachout
Re: need help

Hi Sweetpea :)

Well. I have never heard of parsonage Turners syndrome before. I did look it up before replying to you and have hope in reading that it can, indeed, just "go away." Just a great...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 01-31-2013, 02:51 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 827
Posted By reachout
Re: Dropping down my script

Hey Wendy :-)

It is good to see you have a plan in place here. Good step!

Wendy, I am not going to say "Fear not" because I so understand the fear, so what I AM going to say is to remember it...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 01-27-2013, 10:28 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 1,087
Posted By reachout
Re: need help

Hi There Secret

Reading through your last post is like seeing your thought process unfold concerning your issues. Seems to me you are putting effort into getting really honest with yourself and...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 01-25-2013, 09:14 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 621
Posted By reachout
Re: !5 years on Kadian

Hi

Thanks for the kind words. :) I am happy to give back as many helped me through my own journey here. I understand that feeling of desperation when we know we are feeling horrible and don't...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 01-25-2013, 07:43 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 621
Posted By reachout
Re: !5 years on Kadian

Good morning

No, I did not have back surgery that causes my pain. I lost part of my left thigh to cancer. One of the major muscles was removed. Because of this I walk lopsided. Hubby says I...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 01-24-2013, 09:53 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 621
Posted By reachout
Re: !5 years on Kadian

Hi

Well, it seems the depression is really your brain calling out for more meds. Sigh. What a catch-22, huh? The more you use, the higher the tolerance goes and the higher the tolerance, the...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 01-24-2013, 08:11 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 621
Posted By reachout
Re: !5 years on Kadian

Hi Painnn

The brain will react to ever lowering of a dose with some anxiety and some degree of depression. I tapered from Oxycodone and after each cut, I waited a period of time until I had...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 01-24-2013, 07:10 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 405
Posted By reachout
Re: Suboxone Treatment

Hi Panter

Glad to find you posting here. :)

Panter, I have never used suboxone. What I know about it is from reading what others have shared here and doing my own research.

While I was...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 01-24-2013, 06:54 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 1,087
Posted By reachout
Re: need help

Secret!

Hot dang! I am so proud of you that marriage counseling is being put into place. Kudos to you! I will be praying along with you that the marriage counseling is fruitful. The baby is...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 01-24-2013, 10:40 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 1,087
Posted By reachout
Re: need help

Hi Secret

Welcome. :)

Like you, I also crossed the line from using opiates to deal with physical pain to using them to deal with emotional pain. That's what addicts do... we find that the...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 01-22-2013, 03:18 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 621
Posted By reachout
Re: !5 years on Kadian

Hi Painnn

Painn, the way you are feeling is withdrawal depression. It happens as we lower the doses of our pain meds and is a part of the process of withdrawal. It will abate and you will find...
Board: Addiction & Recovery 01-22-2013, 03:04 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 459
Posted By reachout
Re: I'm back

Hi Wendy

It is always good to see you posting, girl. :-)

Lots of applause here for you in asking to have the number of pills per month cut down. That's a great way to take some control. In...
Board: Family & Friends of Addicts and Alcoholics 01-21-2013, 12:32 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 343
Posted By reachout
Re: Need Help, Boyfriend has a drinking problem

Hi Flower

Glad to meet you and glad to see you are wise enough to seek help in this.

As your thread title states "B[Boyfriend[/B] has a drinking problem." It is he that seriously needs help. ...
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