Posted in benzodiazapine, chronic fatigue, fatigue, fibromyalgia, klonopin, lyrica, melatonin, off meds, peer support, sleep, withdrawal, tagged klonopin, melatonin, lyrica, fibromyalgia, withdrawal, fatigue, benzodiazapine, addiction, sleep, life skills, sleep disorders on April 26, 2008 | No Comments »
april 25, 2008…hopefully that will be the day i can say was the first day i went with out taking a benzodiazapine, klonopin. it would be tempting to say that today ends an 11+ year addiction and a several month struggle to safely off the drug. no, today is really the beginning of this new [...]
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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 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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Posted in alcoholism, chronic pain, depression, fibromyalgia, klonopin, off meds, peer support, quality of life, recovery, tagged alcoholic, detox, fibromyalgia, grateful, mind fog, off meds, pain, recovery, rehab, seroquel, stress, substance abuse on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
falling back in love with me and my life is an adventure i’m looking forward to…
well i’ll be saying “dealing with pain” for a bit because inspite of my attitude it’s there underlying so much, all the time. having a fibro flair as a result of comming off my meds or what ever the [...]
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Posted in PTSD, alcoholism, bipolar, borderline personality disorder, chronic fatigue, depression, fibromyalgia, hydrocodone, off meds, osteomyelitis, pain medication, peer support, quality of life, suicide, tagged klonopin, neurontin, lyrica, wellbutrin, lamictal, detoxing, fribromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, mind fog, drug holiday, chronic pain, sucide on March 19, 2008 | No Comments »
writing for the blog and keeping up with everyone has been doubly difficult to jump into right now. just at a time when i need the support, experience, strength and hope of others as well as the need to put my own out there i’ve been confronted my an old “monster in the closet”.
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