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Dear Forum,
After 3 years 10 months of sobriety I am still frustrated by my inability to control, must I?, my use of prescription drugs.
I quit,cold turkey, alcohol, cigarettes, prescript drugs, nonprescript drugs and bad eating habits. I was so amazed at my physical shape had gone so far downhill I could hardly walk up a hill. I saw how bad I was one night and threw everything in the trash. I was still finding things a week later hidden all over my house. I took my last paycheck and banked it. I started walking to meeting, my car wasn't registered, and then riding my bike. I felt good again about the second week. I felt real good after one month. I went to AA meeting all day some days two or three. I felt so good I took off for LA to work and never looked back.
I started smoking again, I wanted that back first. Then came the precription drugs. If I needed precription drug, better make it out for a year, I will use them up in a month anyway.
So, still attending AA, I want to stop the reasonable things. Alcohol has never returned, thanks to AA and my higher Power. I I want to take care of the other stuff now. I am really into Klonopin and Tegretol. So far it has been a week without Klonopin. I enjoy this freedom from addiction and a better future. I look forward to retirement. I have had a wonderful nursing career in the operating room and med surg. And travel has been good to me.
I am clean so wouldn't mind the questions and would like to support my fellow RN's with AA and addiction 'issues', That is my daughters term for problems, lol. Thanks for listening and keep coming back, AA and your Higher Power are your friends. Leslie:endof: