Posted by blueboy on September 25, 2007, at 10:02:05
In reply to HAVE I SCREWED UP MY SOBRIETY, posted by Bellame on September 24, 2007, at 21:17:28
Do you have a group, like AA or NA, you belong to? That's a good place to get some opinions and you can get a lot of follow-up.
I have the same problem. My pdoc prescribed me a benzo. There are people in AA who say "absolutely no" to habit-forming drugs, to the point that they refuse pain medication (addictive ones, like opiates) after surgery. Other people say it's fine as long as you are absolutely honest with your doctor and yourself.
I take the benzo's as prescribed. I see the doc every month or two and tell him exactly what I'm doing, and of course, I was upfront with him about my addiction problems. And I also talk about it at meetings, even though I get some criticism about it.
I also have to say, I think that not having the benzo would have a fairly negative effect on my functioning. But I always keep the possibility open that I'm kidding myself and rationalizing a way to get high.
> I hava chemical dependency with benzo's, sedatives, and most prescrition pills. I am almost 6 months clean I recently became sick with nausea, headache and dizziness--not related to drug use as I am clean. So far the tests are negative but I have been precribed meclizine and ativan to help with the dizziness. I am taking it as prescribed until I get a diagnosis. Am I missing up my sobriety by taking the ativan? I am not duing it to get high or low but just some relief from these awful symptoms and it is dr precribed. Please help me to know what to do.
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