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Comment on fibromyalgia and addiction by missisyphus

missisyphus — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:09:46 +0000

if something someone has said “offends” me, or “sets me off”…well i always take that as a que that i need to look in the mirror!

my prayers are with you.

Comment on fibromyalgia and addiction by Richard

Richard — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:36:49 +0000

Sorry, but i disagree with you’re assessment of “dependency” and “addiction”. I too, have worked in the addiction field for over twenty years now. Furthermore, I take Klonopin (2mgs.) on a daily basis, and have so for approximately 10 years with no dosage increases. I have tried a myriad of other meds and so many different combinations that I’ve lost count. The ONLY type of therapy - including non-medicine therapy - that EFFECTIVELY controls my Panic/Generalized Anxiety Disorder is a benzo/antidepressant combination. With respect the issue of being physically dependent vs. addicted, it has to do with compulsion. I have NEVER misused my medication, as in NEVER taken that “one extra” to “help calm the nerves”. I don’t crave my medicine in any way whatsoever. I just take it and go about my day. Furthermore, nobody can tell me that it has ill-affected me in any way whatsoever. Since being on this combo of meds, I have received two Master’s degrees, have a wonderful career, and have a lovely wife, three kids, and a very stable marriage. Prior to being placed on a benzo combination, I was a housebound WRECK. I was completely unable to work or have any social life whatsoever. I will agree that in speaking of people with ANY sort of substance abuse history (which I don’t have), benzos are a “no-no”. With near-certainty, persons with this background WILL abuse them, and in my mind therefore be considered addicted. I do wish you the very best in life, and hope that you have a continued recovery.

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Comment on drunkorexia…watch that definition! i drank so i could starve a little easier! by missisyphus

missisyphus — Sat, 17 May 2008 12:16:31 +0000

while i dealt with an eating disorder and continue to wrestle with it from time to time…i can only share my personal experience with you. i am not a licensed professional, so i’m afraid that is all i can do.

i would have to suggest that if any behavior is disrupting your life and your health, you should seek out a professional counselor or family doctor to help you. many people with eating disorders have found good support in groups like “overeaters anonymous”. personally, i attend “alcoholics anonymous” and have found that to be a life changing experience that is much larger than simply not drinking.

but we each need to find our own way through these difficult times. here are the main pages for the two support groups i mentioned…you might be able to find a meeting you can go check out:

overeaters anonymous
http://www.oa.org/index.htm

alcoholics anonymous
http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org/?Media=PlayFlash

it’s good you are trying to address this issue in your life…the sooner you can get help the better.

you’ll be in my prayers.

Comment on drunkorexia…watch that definition! i drank so i could starve a little easier! by maow

maow — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:45:09 +0000

I am 24 years old and very bulimic. I would love to eat like a normal person but am terrified of gaining weight. I am not very thin either at 135lbs so its easy for me to hide. I drink very heavily, I’ve actually calculated my caloric intake at a little over a 1000 calories a day in liquor. So needless to say I have two problems, my question is if I replace my caloric intake with food rather than liquor (salving both problems) will I gain weight rapidly while my body is trying to repair itself? Also I’ve only had an eating dissorder for about a year, and It didn’t really spiral out of control until about 7 months ago, so this isn’t a real long term issue.

Thanks for any help if possible

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Comment on tonight, detoxed down to .12mg klonopin, i made a scary decision…i decided to share the letter i wrote to a former professor by Penny

Penny — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:24:08 +0000

(Therapists/Doctors standing by prescribing more pills… No, it doesn’t shock me. In fact, it’s hard to be a therapist or a doctor and go counter to the pill pushing culture. Your story is soo good because you outline quite well how you missed the fact that you were/had become addicted to pain medication and then how for a relatively long period of time, the very people who should have been aware of both the potential and the fact of your addiction, were either oblivious, too busy, or in denial about both (potential/addiction reality). Not putting the blame on anyone else here, just noting how trusting your doctor/therapist can backfire.

Addiction seeking behaviors for pain med is almost indistinquishable from real pain because of the psychosomatic connection. The brain can manufacture pain as well as mask it. When the body has real pain, and pain meds take that away with a little extra feel good boost, the reward message we get from the pain med can build as our physiological tolarance builds. Once addicted, which happens in some of my patients a lot quicker than you might think, the basis for your real pain, and the pain itself, can be totally gone but the brain will manufacture the pain, as if it is still there, so the brain gets it’s little opiate/opiod boost, which is now strictly a response to being addicted and having developed tolerance - the need to have more to get the same effect.

I would encourage you to more thoroughly document your pain med addiction story and publish it for medical students and doctors.

Comment on road blocks in healing and polarity therapy: what is it and can it help with…. by Pris

Pris — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:24:53 +0000

Thanks for your reply. Oddly, I think this illness was meant to lead me to poetry. I don’t write many poems about illness, something the poetry draws me away from, but I write about a lot of women’s issues, life issues, aging issues, love issues and get a lot of feedback from other women that I’m speaking for them. That’s the best kind of feedback to get.

Yes, it’s never easy, is it?

Comment on road blocks in healing and polarity therapy: what is it and can it help with…. by missisyphus

missisyphus — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:36:02 +0000

hi pris,

thank you. it sounds like you’ve had to go a long road with the CFS and fibro. the last decade hasn’t provided much in the way of support and treatment. but, i do believe we’re comming into a new age for fibromyalgia and CFS treatment. with that leading the way there may be a new awareness that will help others with the silent and seemingly invisible chronic conditions people are struggling to live with.

i find solice in knowing just how many of us there are that are simply fighting to be well and learning to live with the unfortunate deck we’ve been dealt. but i believe we can all find our own way of managing and coping through the caring support we have from our peers. the support we need is there, sometimes in unlikely places but a seeker who keeps open will find what they need…may not be what you wanted or how you wanted…but an open mind and heart often finds more than expected.

it seems that with your background you been given a greater challenge to learn and help others in ways you may have never realized before encountering the storms of fibro. i’m sure you will embrace this new opportunity for growth and put it to great use for yourself and others! so glad to have you on board. and i hate to say this but, no one ever promised us life was going to be easy, nor did they give a manual to navigate this crazy world…but we are given challlenges and i believe we find the spirit to rise and not only meet them but grow by them. painful at times…yes…but it’s awesome, really.

peace out!