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 alcoholism, chronic pain, depression, fibromyalgia, hope, laughter, off meds, pain medication, quality of life, tagged AA, alcohol, alcoholism, bipolar, chronic pain, depression, despair, detox, fibromyalgia, happy, immune system, klonopin, laughing, laughter, lyrica, off meds, pain relief, recovery, stress, stress and tension, withdrawal on March 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
by now you may know my story….i’m down to apx. .62 of klonopin, (i am on 300mg of lyrica) and am managing my bipolar, alcoholism, fibromyalgia, pain and withdrawal symptoms best as i can. it’s difficult, and work, but i have my secret weapon!
ok this may not seem medically sound (but it is, very). i’m not promoting or selling anything [...]
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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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