Posted by karlak13 on August 20, 2004, at 22:18:51
In reply to Re: AA Recovery and Benzodiazepines, posted by tabitha on July 20, 2004, at 1:40:34
I have been in and out of AA/NA for many many years. I got a lot of support and help staying clean. Of course I relapsed from time to time. I developed a chronic pain issue and the dr and I tried over 35 different meds to prevent the pain that were all non narcotic. Non of them worked. I was sent to a ha/pain clinic for help. I was in the ER 8x a month getting shots of dilaudid to kill the pain. I never got high from it just pain relief. I never got addicted and needed it without a drs order. The pain clinic put me on methadone 10mg am and 10mg pm. I took some slack from NA about that but pointed out I got NO high from it and it worked to prevent my pain. A year latter I was able to stop it cold turkey and switch over to the duragesic patch 50mcg. I took so much heat for that that I quit going to NA. I got NO high NO buzz nothing. I took it for a year. It killed the pain and kept me out of the ERs. Then I just decided to stop the patch in March becaue I believed God healed me. I have not had a ha since I went off the meds 22 weeks ago. I had no withdraws after being on opiates of different kinds for over 5 years. Like I said no high, use as directed you should be ok. I take xanax now for anxiety. If I go back to NA I will not disclose what meds I take ever again. Its not there business or life. I consider myself to have been clean for the last 11 years. I have not used cocaine, meth, pot, acid, alcohol, etc that were my drugs of choice.
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