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"My very dear, wonderful, and beautiful cousin died from ovarian cancer last year..." (marew)

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"When I was diagnosed I was scared didn't know what to do or where to go..I started reserching bipolar and somehow ended up here at MD....Again scared but needing to know what was in store I asked a question..WOW the people who care..I know I would be lost now if I did not join..made many friends and they have helped me through thick and thin. and never judged...........XX Thank you MD and all.Love all of you.......Laurie Pachin" (puppylover)

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ScoobysTales

When I was not medicated properly and adding to that self-medicating with alcohol (and perhaps too much of prescription drugs as well). I isolated and was anything but easy to be around. And "one is the loneliest number you'll ever do."

I'm opening up in A.A. and N.A. meetings when I can make them, and I see where it does nobody any good to not engage and share with others, and particularily with those who have "been there, done that" with regard to addiction issues.

Haven't Got Time for the Pain

Jun 21 2012

Pain is something that is so hard to live with, and it drives people to self-medicate (and so often with alcohol).

I was burned in a suicide attempt in 1973. In debriding (removingthe skin), they gave me acetamine (was like LSD), and then one pain medication after the other (Percoset, Darvocet and many more) while I healed (I had skin-grafting). The strategy was to continue to put me on one pain medication and then reduce the dose and go to the next one. I think they were trying not to get me addicted to pain meds.

When I had knee surgery because of MRSA infection, they cut open my knee and it had to heal over 5 weeks. They prescribed Vicodin but I took as little as I could and just lived with the pain.

In the burn unit, a hypnotherapist came in and that was how I was more successful with the pain than anything else.

Maybe something like that might work for you?

Previous diary posts by scooby64:

Response to SSI Applicant Question
Sponsor Woes
Is there a "right" sponsor?
Shoplifting
Dealing with the Blues

Note to a Leader in the DBSA Group
To a Mom of a Son in Denial
To "I feel fatigued alot"
Different Sex Drive Dilemma
On the Lighter Side...a Joke!

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