re: OFFICIAL: Addiction support thread (11/12 update)

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chafed nipples

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Is real, dog.



When I've run anything from 10K up, I've always put clear athletic tape over them.

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celebrating by downing a few shots of vodka

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The thought of free beer is the only thing that got me to the end of the half-marathon I ran a couple of years ago. It was free Abita. Quite the motivator.

I am an opiate addict currently taking suboxone. Suboxone saved my life and I will spare the details because it isn't pretty. That has worked well for two years now but a few months ago I picked up a Xanax habbit. Those two drugs are a bad mix and it is going to kill me. I want to stop but when I don't take one I get the shakes and can't sleep. I really don't know what to do because I am too much of a wimp to cold turkey and withdrawal sucks so I either just stop and try to work with shaky hands or use and nod out or have days missing where I don't remember where I have been or what I have done. Being an addict sucks. How do I suddenly stop taking 6 mg of Xanax per day without going mad?

It took a lot of courage for me to share this here and I already know it is going to backfire but I thought that just maybe somebody may have a legit solution so what the hell. I am fine taking suboxone over what I was using for me to need it in the first place but the Xanax has got to go. Somehow.

Anybody been through this other than myself?

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It took a lot of courage for me to share this here and I already know it is going to backfire but I thought that just maybe somebody may have a legit solution so what the hell. I am fine taking suboxone over what I was using for me to need it in the first place but the Xanax has got to go. Somehow.

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A potentially fatal addiction is nothing to laugh at.

Yes, you should get the Xanax out of your system but for the Love of God don't go cold turkey. Xanax has some very nasty side effects when you go cold turkey and they can be fatal.

You need to taper it off under medical supervision. Its like climbing Mt. Everest. If you just try to walk up to the top of the mountain you will be in a world of trouble. You have to set up a base camp and acclimatize. Then you move up to the summit camp and you acclimatize again. Only then will you be ready to summit. It will take some time but its the safe way to do things.

Good luck, and remember we'll be here if you need to talk to someone.

I've never taken any opiate or benzo-not even when prescribed, so I won't pretend to know what it feels like, or even what an addiction to them feels like, or coming off of one. But I'd encourage you to seek professional help. It doesn't have to be a medical doctor. We all need help, sometimes. Admitting it is a very big step. In any event, the fact that you're trying is also a step in the right direction.

Keep us posted.

1. Bourbon
2. Tequila
3. Moonshine
4. Gin

I am giving up Gin so I can focus on the other 3
(I hate Gin BTW)

Don't judge me

As for self control I love ice cream and real southern Mac n Cheese

I think my last ice cream was about 5 years ago and might be longer for Mac n Cheese (but not 100% sure on the M&C). When I am talking Mac n Cheese I do not mean that Kraft crap, but the real stuff (with real fresh butter and heavy whipping cream) baked to perfection by someone from the south who knows how to make it.



I am not however giving up corn pudding yet (home made only)

Almost done with day 4.

Yesterday was bad. Wife pissed me off pretty good yesterday - LSS, I was out of town, she asked if I'd get food for dinner, she didn't answer her phone and I sat in a parking lot for about 40 mins until she finally got ahold of me. I really am a nice guy. I was 40 mins from home, just sat at a dealership waiting on oil change, and drove probably 200+ miles yesterday. She's terrible at having her phone when I need something.

Anyways, I could've went to a gas station. I actually went to two to buy lotto tickets. On my way home, I passed 5 gas stations just leaving that town. Passed another 7 on the way home on the country drive. I turned on my signal to stop at one, but it looked busy. I said, I'll just stop at the next one and buy a pk and just have one. Luckily, I just kept driving home.

Upon getting home and giving wife the food, I said, frick it, im going to go to the store. Saying, idk why I even try. Well, I opened the garage door and looked at my car. Closed garage door and went back inside.

CSB TLDR; I didn't give in and still cigarette free. I'm pretty proud of myself.

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I'm pretty proud of myself.

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The days that are the hardest to not give in to smoke or drink aren't the days when something truly horrible happens (like watching Arkansas play football this year for me). Its the day where there is one aggravation after another that steadily chips away at you. Good job staying away from temptation on a day that no one would have blamed you for giving in.

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I have not been addicted to meds or anything like that and I'm very thankful.

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I am thankful I've avoided that as well. I'm one of those lucky(?) ones who just can't take opiates. They all make me sick as a dog. As I told my doctor they are very effective for me... I'm too busy trying not to throw up my spleen to notice the pain I might be in.

It runs in my family as well. Evidently only my cousin Brad can take them and not immediately get ill.

My addiction is to watching Auburn's mediocre consistency as a program. Gives me goosebumps.

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Im addicted to pussy. I cant help it. Im not stopping. frick it.

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Get married that will cure you cold turkey