Posted in AA, addiction, addictions, benzodiazapine, depression, detox, fibromyalgia, guafinesin, klonopin, lyrica, melatonin, off meds, pregabalin, quality of life, recovery, sleep, tagged melatonin, lyrica, off meds, fibromyalgia, mental health, psych meds, energy healing, polarity therapy, road blocks in healing, healing, guaifenesin treatment for fibromyalgia on April 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
my counselor and i began discussing polarity therapy…energy work. i wanted to read more about what exactly it was. i’m very familiar with a variety of yoga, meditation and have had reiki, massage and acupuncture work done…but i wanted to know more about polarity therapy because this is just another area that can use improvement when [...]
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Posted in AA, benzodiazapine, bipolar, chronic pain, detox, fibromyalgia, klonopin, lyrica, off meds, tagged AA, asking for help, bipolar, blogshpere friends, detoxing of benzodiazapines, fibromyalgia, klonopin, lonliness, lyrica, off meds, pain, self-esteem on April 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
so far, i’m feeling a bit better today. i messed around with the dosage on my lyrica starting wednesday. i was feeling like i’d drank 2 pots of coffee…very uncomfortable…so i began cutting back a bit and…well, maybe the bottom fell out…but i also wonder if being so tightly wound for so many weeks may [...]
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Posted in AA, alcohlics anonymous, alcoholism, bipolar, chronic pain, depression, hope, peer support, recovery, tagged alcoholics anonymous, anger, anxiety, beer, cigarettes, cocaine, depression, detoxing from meds, fatigue, mental illness, pain, recovery, spirituality, staying sober on April 2, 2008 | No Comments »
i’m holding my own at .62mg klonopin…i’m not bad today but my mind is a little muzzy today so my writing might be muzzy too…but i’ve made a commitment to try to write something positive every day, so…ok…so…spirituality…this is one of those topics that can be “iffy” to broach. i’ll come clean and let you [...]
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Posted in AA, alcohlics anonymous, alcoholism, bipolar, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, depression, fibromyalgia, off meds, peer support, recovery, tagged alcohol, bipolar, chronic pain, depression, despair, detox, fibromyalgia, happy, immune system, laughing, laughter, off meds, recovery, stress and tension, withdrawal on March 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
today i want to bring up one of my pet concepts. being revolutionary…in how we live. the definition of revolutionary that i’m referring to (so we’re on the same page/screen here) is defined, in Merriam-Websters as: “c: constituting or bringing about a major or fundamental change”.
yes, all the tools for better living that i may refer [...]
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Posted in AA, alcohlics anonymous, alcoholism, chronic pain, fibromyalgia, klonopin, off meds, peer support, quality of life, recovery, tagged AA, alcoholic, bipoilar, detox, fibromyalgia, klonopin, off meds, pain, relapse on March 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
well, it’s been over six weeks of detoxing and i’m in the week of being at .75mg of klonopin and dealing with the return of fibromyalgia. i have to say, and it’s not the thing you want to say too loudly but, that for the last three days i have felt so great…this may be my pink [...]
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