Posted in addiction, addictions, benzodiazapine, chronic pain, depression, detox, fibromyalgia, hydrocodone, klonopin, lyrica, off meds, pain medication, pregabalin, vicodone, withdrawal, tagged klonopin, lyrica, fibromyalgia, fibromyalgia and addiction, chemical dependancy, chronic pain and addiction, dependancy vs addiction, vicodin on May 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
sorry about the formatting. i can’t seem to get this to flow correctly.
i was sharing online about my fibro and of course my history as a person recovering from substance abuse and…what happened when i was treated long-term for pain management. bits of this story are strewn through out my blog. but this is a [...]
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Posted in addictions, alcoholism, annorexia, anorexia, anxiety, bipolar, borderline personality disorder, depression, fibromyalgia, off meds, recovery, remission, suicidality, suicide, withdrawal, tagged alcoholism, borderline personality disorder, bipolar, withdrawal from meds on May 17, 2008 | No Comments »
i was going to delete this, but then i pulled back and read the whole thing…i could see my thought process as i was having a “borderline melt down”. even though my focus, in this blog, is on my withdrawal from meds and fibromyalgia, i have lived as a recovering borderline amongst other things. boy can my [...]
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Posted in addiction, addictions, alcoholism, depression, drug makers, drug updates, recovery, suicidality, tagged addiction, alcohol, chantix, cocaine, depression and suicidal behavior, dopamine, eating, obesity, rimonanbant, smoking, Taranabant, weight managment on May 1, 2008 | No Comments »
seeking aid for addictions in prescripton meds: this was an interesting blog by “oasis avanced wellness”, discussing an issue near and dear to my heart…taking meds, often in place of adjusting lifestyle and even when taking it in an effort to work on lifestyle issues…the side effects and direct effects can undermine your best efforts. [...]
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Posted in chronic fatigue, chronic pain, cognitive function, depression, fatigue, fibromyalgia, mental acuity, sleep, tagged chronic pain, depression and mental acuity, fibromyalgia, loss of cognitive function and fibromyalgia, loss of mental acuity, loss of sleep on April 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
if you have fibromyalgia you have wrestled with your mental acuity and cognitive functions but probably have been told that “what you’re going through is just normal” or maybe “you’re hypersensitive” and you feel like you’re going crazy! well this research piece from the national fibromyalgia association may help you feel validated…people with FMS do [...]
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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 addictions, alcoholism, benzodiazapine, bipolar, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, depression, detox, fatigue, fibromyalgia, klonopin, lyrica, off meds, peer support, quality of life, recovery, tagged klonopin, lyrica, off meds, fibromyalgia, bipolar, chronic pain, depression, alcoholic, detox, withdrawal, mental illness, psych meds, getting sober on April 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »
i would like to say that this is another journey i don’t want to see come to an end but i’d be lying. detoxing off of my psych meds has made my top three list of most difficult things to do. but to think that it ends here would be…well let’s say getting the drugs [...]
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Posted in anxiety, benzodiazapine, chronic fatigue, depression, detox, fatigue, fibromyalgia, off meds, tagged anxiety, chronic fatigue, depression, detpxong off benzos, fatigie, fibromyalgia, getting off meds, lonliness, lyrica on April 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
today i thought i’d just share a letter i wrote to my counselor this morning…maybe you can relate to it and maybe it’s really scattered and makes no sense but…this is one of those rough mornings….
hi d.,
i’m slow to getting around to things, but i’m sending you this e-mail so you have my address.
i’m struggling [...]
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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 alcoholism, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, depression, fibromyalgia, hope, klonopin, lyrica, off meds, recovery, tagged alcoholism, daily meditation, detox, fatigue, klonopin, lyrica, off meds, pain, recovery on April 1, 2008 | No Comments »
detoxing off these meds makes it more of a challenge for me to hold on to my serenity. i’m not as agitated as i was a few weeks ago but…got a few good blows to my finances and other things this morning and now i’m kinda pissy. well, i also got extremely boggy and tired part way [...]
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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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