I think I'm addicted to narcotics...what should I do?

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randolf_scott@hotmail.com - 16 May 2005 21:44 GMT

I'm concerned that I might be addicted to narcotics. I mentioned
in another post that I take, on average, sixty "vicodin 10"'s a year.
I've tried to start a dialogue with my gp and she just shrugged it off.
Sometimes I find myself in only modest pain, but wanting to reach for
the vicodin anyway. In that case I break them in half, but it leaves
me feeling like I'm addicted. So, I would guess that I actually take
closer to ninety or a hundred doses of vicodin a year, but sometimes it
is a whole pill and others a half pill.

Anyone knows what to do? I honestly don't think going to a treatment
center for drug addicts is going to improve my addicition if I'm indeed
addicted. No sooner I'd get cured from narcotic addiction than I would
have a migraine. What the hell would I do then?

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NOYB - 16 May 2005 22:12 GMT

> I'm concerned that I might be addicted to narcotics. I mentioned
> in another post that I take, on average, sixty "vicodin 10"'s a year.
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> addicted. No sooner I'd get cured from narcotic addiction than I would
> have a migraine. What the hell would I do then?

60 vicodin per year? That doesn't sound like an addict to me.

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randolf_scott@hotmail.com - 16 May 2005 22:24 GMT

Yeah, but it's my mentality towards taking them. Not the quantity. It
use to be I had no compulsion to use them unless I was in BAD pain.
Now though I only have to see stars or feel like I'm going to loose my
lunch and the first picture that races through my head is of a vicodin
pill. Now I don't even want to wait for a migraine to set in. I just
want to eat a pill at the first signs a migraine "might" be going to
take place.

Just an hour ago I saw stars and I paniced. I wanted to take a pill so
badly. I didn't of course, but it took a lot of will power not to.
I'm addicted. I'm sure of it.

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NOYB - 16 May 2005 22:38 GMT

> Yeah, but it's my mentality towards taking them. Not the quantity. It
> use to be I had no compulsion to use them unless I was in BAD pain.
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> want to eat a pill at the first signs a migraine "might" be going to
> take place.

Their are better migraine meds on the market. Talk to your physician. And
ask your dentist about an NTI.

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NOYB - 16 May 2005 22:46 GMT

>> Yeah, but it's my mentality towards taking them. Not the quantity. It
>> use to be I had no compulsion to use them unless I was in BAD pain.
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> Their are better migraine meds on the market. Talk to your physician.
> And ask your dentist about an NTI.

EDIT: They're...not "their"

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Steven Fawks - 16 May 2005 23:02 GMT

Sounds too good to be true, but they work.

Fawks

> There are better migraine meds on the market. Talk to your physician. And
> ask your dentist about an NTI.

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randolf_scott@hotmail.com - 16 May 2005 23:20 GMT

What migraine pills you speak of? I've taken so many pills I feel like
a lab rat. Currently I'm taking a beta blocker, promethazine (sp?) and
vicodin.

The promethazine works well to dull my senses as in "wits" and helps to
fight nausia. Without it I can't hold a vicodin down. Just spew it
up...what fun :( I can't do simple math using that promethazine. If I
take a whole pill I'm incoherent for 36 hours. If I take 1/4 pill I'm
incoherent for only 12 hours. Guess it's a tranquilizer too? Only
problem is I can't do anything other than druel while using it. In
conjunction with vicodin it leaves me in a vegatable state. The beta
blocker I think reduces my blood pressure.

I'm going home and taking 1/4 promethazine pill then waiting an hour
and taking a whole vicodin. I'll worry about addiction once I come out
of my coma.

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Sdores - 16 May 2005 23:35 GMT

Try what the dentists are telling you here and get yourself to a pain
management dr. He/she should listen to your situation. Vicodan isn't for
headaches so I don't know why you are on them to begin with. There are
headache relievers one is Fiorcet and then there are others for migraines
but off the top of my head I can't name them. You need a better dr to help
you. UM MOM Susan

> What migraine pills you speak of? I've taken so many pills I feel like
> a lab rat. Currently I'm taking a beta blocker, promethazine (sp?) and
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> and taking a whole vicodin. I'll worry about addiction once I come out
> of my coma.

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NOYB - 17 May 2005 00:05 GMT

> What migraine pills you speak of?

Ask you doc about Relpax.

>I've taken so many pills I feel like
> a lab rat. Currently I'm taking a beta blocker, promethazine (sp?) and
> vicodin.

I hope the beta blocker isn't for the headaches. Headaches from high blood
pressure are not a good thing.

> The promethazine works well to dull my senses as in "wits" and helps to
> fight nausia. Without it I can't hold a vicodin down. Just spew it
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> and taking a whole vicodin. I'll worry about addiction once I come out
> of my coma.

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StovePipe - 22 May 2005 19:03 GMT

> Yeah, but it's my mentality towards taking them. Not the quantity. It
> use to be I had no compulsion to use them unless I was in BAD pain.
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> badly. I didn't of course, but it took a lot of will power not to.
> I'm addicted. I'm sure of it.

NTI (NYOB just said) is a good idea. Also, perhaps keep them at the
pharmacy. They could give you one or two per week and you'd know you
would have to keep it at that. Talking to the pharmacist would be a good
idea in any case: they can sniff out problems and advise you
accordingly. Set up an appointment by phone, for a time that s/he can
give you undivided attention. The first thing you want to know is the
frequency and pattern. that will be in their computer. You may find that
there is a difinite pattern that needs to be broken.
HTH
SP

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randolf_scott@hotmail.com - 16 May 2005 22:29 GMT

My head is starting to hurt now...I don't want to take a pill, but my
body is saying otherwise...God help me.

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StovePipe - 22 May 2005 19:03 GMT

> My head is starting to hurt now...I don't want to take a pill, but my
> body is saying otherwise...God help me.

Again: take them to the pharmacy.
SP

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