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alcohol, depression, counselling and medication
Hi
I wanted to strart this post as I have been drinking all my adult life (now 37). I went to AA, counselling, and tried to deal with alcoholism myself too unsuccessfully. I was always depressed about what i thought was the drinking.
2 months ago i decided it might be time to start thinking about how to end my life as it really was not living anymore and i could not get any better. At this point i decided i would have one more shot at it and went to a counseller.
I've been going for 2 times a week ever since and have been sober with no real hard cravings like when i tried to give up myself. I think in some way it has helped me to be told that i have been self medicating using alcohol to either in some part deal with the anxiety/depression/social anxiety and to some extent the issues i have with myself, which i am addressing now and will continue to do so at counselling.
I was prescribed anti-depressants (seroxat or paxil as it is known in the states), anatabuse and an anti anxiety pill for the weeks coming off booze.
I want to start this thread as i wanted to get some feedback on the above and also wanted to discuss users questions about my road to recovery which has, and i know will be now, successful. Fears on medication etc.
I would never have really considered what i have done to get to being able to sit here happy and posting in a sane frame of mind, post away please:-)
I wanted to strart this post as I have been drinking all my adult life (now 37). I went to AA, counselling, and tried to deal with alcoholism myself too unsuccessfully. I was always depressed about what i thought was the drinking.
2 months ago i decided it might be time to start thinking about how to end my life as it really was not living anymore and i could not get any better. At this point i decided i would have one more shot at it and went to a counseller.
I've been going for 2 times a week ever since and have been sober with no real hard cravings like when i tried to give up myself. I think in some way it has helped me to be told that i have been self medicating using alcohol to either in some part deal with the anxiety/depression/social anxiety and to some extent the issues i have with myself, which i am addressing now and will continue to do so at counselling.
I was prescribed anti-depressants (seroxat or paxil as it is known in the states), anatabuse and an anti anxiety pill for the weeks coming off booze.
I want to start this thread as i wanted to get some feedback on the above and also wanted to discuss users questions about my road to recovery which has, and i know will be now, successful. Fears on medication etc.
I would never have really considered what i have done to get to being able to sit here happy and posting in a sane frame of mind, post away please:-)
Anxiety & oxy’s
Hi all. I have been lurking since August. I found this site on-line while researching oxy withdrawal. I have gotten so much great advice listening to the discussions on how to beat an oxy addiction and now I am hoping I can get some advice. I went from 7.5/250 vicoprofen a couple of times a day after surgery to 300+ a day within a couple of years. It is amazing how easy it is to get what one wants if you have the $$. (Of course that is running out, too – not a cheap habit to have). The discussions here have given me the hope that I can also get past this nightmare that I have gotten myself into.
I have been following the articles about weaning/withdrawing as opposed to suboxone/subutex (sp). My big week will be thanksgiving week where I am taking five days off so can I suffer through the worst of the withdrawals without having it affect work. Needless to say with all of the oxy running around my system my work has suffered as I deal with numbers and lots of detailed data.
I start tapering today - I am trying to reduce my dose by half each week until Thanksgiving. I am tapering from 300 to 150 this week and then 75 next week and thenÂ…well, you have all been there. I am also going back to chewing the pills instead of snorting. Anxiety is one of the concerns I knew I would have to deal with as I started to withdraw but I did not expect it to come before I tapered.
I experienced a horrible bout of anxiety last nite even though I have not tapered yet (anxiety has never been a huge issue with me in the past – depression is my 800 pound gorilla). I feel that I cannot catch my breath and I can’t sleep and there is this horrible pending sense of doom. I went for a ten mile bike ride hoping that that would help. No joy.
I have never taken anything else whilst in the thrall of the oxy for fear of ODÂ’ing. No xanax, lorazepam, or any other anti anxiety agents out there. I even stopped my anti depressants. I am hoping that someone here can tell me what I may be able to do about this bizarre (and very frightening) anxiety whilst I am lowering my dose of oxy. Can I take 1mg of xanax when I have the full 150mgÂ’s of oxy tonite in my system? (I am hoping I can stop at 100 to 125 but donÂ’t want to set myself up for failure)Â…
I would greatly appreciate any advice that anyone can give me. And thank you all for all of your advice and sharing – I cannot tell you how much hope I have gotten from this site. I am also sorry for the length of the post - I will have to learn to shorten my thoughts if I want don't want to put everyone to sleep.
Thanks again.
Pat
I have been following the articles about weaning/withdrawing as opposed to suboxone/subutex (sp). My big week will be thanksgiving week where I am taking five days off so can I suffer through the worst of the withdrawals without having it affect work. Needless to say with all of the oxy running around my system my work has suffered as I deal with numbers and lots of detailed data.
I start tapering today - I am trying to reduce my dose by half each week until Thanksgiving. I am tapering from 300 to 150 this week and then 75 next week and thenÂ…well, you have all been there. I am also going back to chewing the pills instead of snorting. Anxiety is one of the concerns I knew I would have to deal with as I started to withdraw but I did not expect it to come before I tapered.
I experienced a horrible bout of anxiety last nite even though I have not tapered yet (anxiety has never been a huge issue with me in the past – depression is my 800 pound gorilla). I feel that I cannot catch my breath and I can’t sleep and there is this horrible pending sense of doom. I went for a ten mile bike ride hoping that that would help. No joy.
I have never taken anything else whilst in the thrall of the oxy for fear of ODÂ’ing. No xanax, lorazepam, or any other anti anxiety agents out there. I even stopped my anti depressants. I am hoping that someone here can tell me what I may be able to do about this bizarre (and very frightening) anxiety whilst I am lowering my dose of oxy. Can I take 1mg of xanax when I have the full 150mgÂ’s of oxy tonite in my system? (I am hoping I can stop at 100 to 125 but donÂ’t want to set myself up for failure)Â…
I would greatly appreciate any advice that anyone can give me. And thank you all for all of your advice and sharing – I cannot tell you how much hope I have gotten from this site. I am also sorry for the length of the post - I will have to learn to shorten my thoughts if I want don't want to put everyone to sleep.
Thanks again.
Pat
