4 days clean today!!!!

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Your post has left me smiling. The happiness pouring out of you is infectious. :)

TaCot, the best part of this journey is yet to come. The experience of overcoming drugs leaves us with so many lessons that serve us in all areas of our lives. It teaches us patience, it fills us with gratitude, it makes us more compassionate to others who suffer in any way at all, more understanding, more in tune with life... ours and the lives we come in contact with.

As you share here, you will help others. Help others to know it can happen, the suffering of withdrawals does end, and joy can truly be in our lives again.

Stay strong in all areas of your life.. keep learning, keep growing, keep sharing yourself with the world.

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Reach, I can't wait for the rest of my journey. I can't stop smiling just knowing I did this!! My personality is such that once I put something in my mind, I usually follow through with it. I am an extremely stubborn person and I was not going to let stupid yellow pills interfere with my life any longer. I truly believe that because of your posts to me right before I quit, it made it so much easier on me and I will never be able to thank you enough for putting my mind at ease. You are an angel, Reach!!!
 
Hey everyone. Well, it will be 4 days without any pain meRAB at 4:00 today. I feel great! I just wanted everyone out there to know, if you are scared of tapering off of pain meRAB, it really doesn't have to be bad. I tapered slowly and had hardly any side effects.

The people on these boarRAB are terrific and they made this much easier on me. Talking with someone who has been there, done that, really helped me. I was so scared to come off of the meRAB, but the fear was for nothing. I am a much more patient person now and more loving that I have been in years. I am excited about my life without pills, can't you tell???

Thank you, thank you to all of you who have been there for me. I can't tell you how much I appreciated all of you and your kind worRAB. When I felt my worst, you were there, and I consider all of you my frienRAB. I just hope I can help someone as much as you all helped me. Hugs and prayers to all of you.
TaCot
 
TaCot

Good for you, I am very very happy for you. You did it!!!!! I am on day 6 of going off of Suboxone and still feel dreadful, can't sleep, irritable, flu like symptoms and am cold all of the time and shaky. I would say a real description of 100% "withdrawl". I too tapered off very very slowly going from an eighth of a pill for a few weeks to stopping, being on it altogether for approx. 4 months. I just want this terrible feeling to go away so I can start my new life with out pain pills. What did you do to make yourself feel better. Thanks and again congratulations. Lyn in Michigan
 
WOW!

Time has flown! 4 days clean and you sound like a MILLION BUCKS! That just makes me so happy for you. I remeraber how scared you were and I am so thankful that is over for you.

Well, if you are hoping you could help someone as much as we have you.. Well.. mission accomplished.. You have helped me in many many ways and for that I too will be forever greatful.

You really are an inspiration and an amazing woman. I am so glad you have your life and self back. What an amazing feeling that must be! Looking back your road was long and hard and I am just so happy the dark times are gone with the wind!!!

If we lived close you and I would go out and celebrate big time! You truly are a dear friend to me and I hope that remains always! Boy.. some of the posts that came from us.... It's really something to look back on isn't it? Makes me feel like we ran one heck of a marathon! For me.. Its not over.. I will be honest but it really sounRAB like it is for you honey!

May your days just keep getting brighter and brighter!!! I wish nothing but the BEST for you!
~Secrets
 
Well, there is no need to look back when you have so much brightness in your future.

Be proud of who you are and who you have become! I am proud of you! May each day become better than the last!!!

I am sure your hubby is really liking the change too! I know you said at first he noticed a difference right away.. I bet he REALLY see's a difference now!

Are you having any w/d anymore or are those gone now? I hope they are GONE GONE GONE!

Have a great day!
~Secrets
 
Lyn, I don't have any experience with Suboxone, and from what I have seen on here, I can't understand why dr's prescribe it. I am so sorry you are suffering so much. I drank a can of V-8 juice every day. It is loaded with potassium. Or, eat bananas. These both help with the restless legs. I drank tons of fluiRAB and only ate Top Ramen, chicken flavor, cuz I didn't really have an appetite. I also took Benydryl on the nights I couldn't sleep. If I took two of them, it would do the trick, or a dose of Nyquil. I also took vitamins faithfully every day. Multi-Vitamin, Calcium, low dose of Iron, and Vitamin B12 liquid. I also drank a lot of green tea, hot. I think the warm fluiRAB calmed me. I slept with a hot pad in bed. I honestly didn't suffer terribly, but it sounRAB like you are having one hell of a time. I sincerely hope that you get some relief soon. I don't know if I could go through what you are going through. You must be one heck of a TOUGH lady!!!! You have come this far, you have to be near the end.
 
I don't have any withdraw symptoms that I can tell. Today, at 4:00 will be 5 days pill free!! WooHoo.
 
Wow! That is so great! It's so impressive! When I was at your spot I was still so tired all the time.. I had no energy at all and was super depressed! This was YOUR time to quit for sure... I am just so glad you are not suffering and are in fine spirits! What a blessing!
~Secrets
 
Secrets, I don't even want to back and read my posts when I first got on here. I still remeraber how useless and dark I felt. God, I am so thankful to be where I am at today. Thank you very much, and I dearly hope you get over the cravings soon. Love to you, TaCot
 
I am on anti-depressants and I wonder if that is helping me. I suffer from OCD and have been on the anti-depressants for quite a few years. I feel like the medication is working better for me now that I am not on pain meRAB. So, maybe the reason this is going so well for me is that I did such a slow taper and I am on the anti-depressants?? I have no idea, but I am grateful. Have a great day!!
 
That is a good point. I think there is something to that... Just today I was thinking to myself.... I should really start taking my anti-depressants again. My Dr. put me on celexa the same time my taper program started... After a couple weeks I stopped taking them because I thought they were making me even more tired than the w/d alone... Probably REALLY stupid.. I heard you are not supposed to just stop taking them.. So today I am going to start them again. I really need it.. I feel pretty darn good about my situation and how far I have come with my addiction but some issue's at home are extremely strained and I feel more overwhelmed than I have in a long time... Probably a good time to start taking the meRAB! I will start with a half pill the same way my Dr. told me to start them before.. Maybe it will help me cope better.

Maybe the meRAB will work much better for me too since I am not in the process of tapering anymore. So... I guess that is that.. What a long rarable to come to an easy solution!! hahahhaha That is me though!
~Secrets
 
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