Happy New Year Day 6

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Hello Everyone;
I've been hovering around the board, reading and replied to one person so far. I'm at day 6 off Norco, 7.5, 2x/day (which was actually 3-4 a day I couldn't keep it at the dosage) and I used to post here long ago. Bad relapse this time. But I'm getting thru it. I was very very sick yesterday all the stomach issues, etc and horrible anxiety but I'm doing a bit better now. My question is, how long am I gonna feel like this? I hope everyone is doing o.k. This will be my first clean and sober New Year's in a year. But it feels good. I don't want to go thru it anymore....I've had enough. I feel chained to a pill to get thru the day or any event. I'm only happy when I take them and I hope once my head gets out of the fog this will change. I started going to meetings and that seems to help. Secrets, if you are reading this, I hope you respond! How are you doing. Well, hope everyone is well...
GypsyBoots:wave:
 
Hey Gypsy

Kudos for bringing in the New Year sober!

The withdrawal symptoms stink like anything, especially the anxiety. Oh, I remeraber anxiety well. Just horrible.

Stay strong, Gypsy, stay strong. It will pass even though even a few minutes in it can feel like a lifetime. I had to really work at fighting back against it. I did the breathing a LOT, slow and easy breathing. I also found that physical movement helped me push it down. Anything to distract myself from it.

When it seemed just impossible to distract myself, I would draw on my brain to help me remeraber that it would pass, that it could not kill me, that it was a symptom of healing. The more I could think of it as a symptom of healing, the more I could meet the challenge of it.

It will start to abate, but it will happen in small steps. The episodes will start to become shorter shorter and they will happen after longer and longer spans of no anxiety. In the beginning, I would chart things constantly.... how long I cried, how long I was able to feel normal. Marked times and everything. It was a huge help in understanding that although I felt horrible still, I was improving. I could see in black and white the progress I was making. At bleak moments, that would help so much.

I wish you well. Hope the New Year brings with it a steady conviction to stay the course.

Be strong, be well
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reach
 
Hi Gypsy,

I agree with Reach - I couldn't have said it better myself. Reach is like the fairy Godmother of this board - using her journey to educate others. I'm honored to share this board with her.

"A symptom of healing." Absolutely brilliant.

Take her advice and twist it into your own recovery. You can't go wrong.

Good luck,
emsmom
 
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