Please Help

[Lost_Soul]

I'm addicted to prescrition painkillers...and each time I want to get off them the withdrawal is so bad that I run right back into it's arms...I'm scared to ask for professional help for fear that the state will take my children....what can I do....I'm so sad and im hurting and at my wits end....and I dont have much of a support group.....please help me.....

[tonys76]

First, welcome! :) you've come to the right place.

The first step to recovery is admitting your addicted, and that's a good thing. You really should seek professional help. It's very hard to get off prescription addiction.

If you don't feel safe, and want to try getting off them,(which i would highly not recommend) slowly reduce the amount your taking of them every day, make the doses smaller and smaller until they are out of your life. If it works for you, great, if not, seek medical attention, but irregardless you should seek medical attention!

[Lost_Soul]

I hear ya, thank you for the warm welcome and the help you've recommended...I tried going to the crisis center the other day only to have my husband call me weak and yell at me that the state will take my children....and because of him....i never get help and I run back to the pills...
I just hope i can overcome this and get stronger....

[tonys76]

I have no doubt that you have the strength to overcome it. The state would rather see you get help then not get help.

You should not fear going to the crisis center, I am sure they would be able to help you out.

[dontwant2Bdrunk]

lost soul... your husband seems like he REALLY doesn't understand. but besides that... you know that AA also has NA (narcotics anonymous) that may just be where you could get the support you need... they offer meetings at all times, so if you don't want your husband to say anything to you (which could weaken your resolve) you can go to the meetings that fit your schedule.

[philly143]

i agree with tony reduce the dose and hang in there ..i will be praying for you

[juniemoon]

i hear your words and they are like my own... we get so lost in this battle with our mind, body and soul. and really i never stop feeling so very alone with it. i really want to recover and i hope you do to. if ever you want to have someone just listen i would do that. i know i pray that in my hardest moments there will be someone there to walk me thru it. even so if there is not i am going to be strong because the alternative is very bleak. addiction is a lonely and very isolated place to live. we might as well be on an ice pack on a mountain in alaska, when it comes down to it we gotta fight these battles like soldiers who got lost in a fog and just linger in misery fogotten battles... we must save ourselves and try to be there for one another as much as we can.we need to always remember what the battle is and try and win back our lives...