I’m totally high right now. On pain pills. Jeeze, I’ve never even tried marijuana folks. Give me some credit, I am a youth leader at a church guys.
The thing about being high (on pain pills) is that after being on the drugs for like two or three months I started to think I was getting used to them, and by extension hiding their crazy side effects really well.
I mean ya, when I first started taking the things, I was felt really, really stoned. Like all the time. And I never tried to mask that fact.
I didn’t want anything crazy to happen and then to have someone come up to me like a week later all, “Wait, a second, you were HIGH when that happened? Dangit, I thought you really liked my chocolate and spinach cake recipe!”
Or worse, for someone to just assume I had transformed into the kind of person who has a dopey smile on their face most of the time, random outbursts of tears some of the time, and trouble thinking of the word she wants to use all the of the time.
So, I would go around telling everyone that yes, I was feeling a bit better these days, but it was only because I was taking insane amounts of pills.
Looking back on it now, I was probably so forthcoming because I was high.
Anyway, so ya, I’m pretty high right now. Well, not like, as high as I used to be, but 21 perscription pills a day is a lot for anyone’s system to handle, so even though I’m a little more used to the high levels of drugs, I’m still not really myself. Or at least that’s what people tell me.
And by people, I mean my friend Lynn who came to visit me today. After being amazing and cooking me food and cleaning my house, she told me I looked stoned.
If I wasn’t high when she said it, I would have totally been offended by the comment.
I called my mom to ask if I looked stoned on all the drugs, and she said something about dark circles under my eyes. However, I think that has more to do with the fact when the pain pills wear off it feels like a butcher knife is lodged between my sixth and seventh ribs, and sometimes that happens in the middle of the night and so my sleep pattern pretty much sucks.
I asked my boyfriend about it, but being smart and all, he denied the whole thing and then quickly changed the subject to how much he missed me today because we hadn’t seen each other in a whole 24 hours. Well played my friend. Well played.
Anyway, it appears I’m pretty much chained to these stupid pills for at least a little while longer because nobody really knows why I hurt like hell, or how to fix it, but the pills at least kind of mask it. And I have to say, I’m really, really hate it.
I ran out a couple weeks ago and there was some drama about getting the refill a little earlier than I was scheduled to, so I had to go through a cold-turkey withdrawal AND endure the pain of a stab wound all day while I waited for it to all get sorted out.
Let’s just say I didn’t think I was going to die — I wanted to die.
To be safe, I looked up what exactly pain pill addiction means, and the internet says it’s defined as taking more than the prescribed dose to get high. I never take more than two at a time of the opiate I’m on, and I never take them for anything other than to relieve pain.
So the good news is, I’m not an illegal addict or anything. The bad news is, my body doesn’t appear to know the difference, and if this pain goes away before I do die, and I have to go off all these crazy drugs, I’m pretty sure it’s going to suck. A lot.
Whatever dude. Anyone got some munchies to snack on?
Which meds did they put you on?
I was the one who mentioned the costo before – which is what I was diagnosed with originally… and update on my case…. I have THREE broken ribs that they never diagnosed until 3 weeks ago!
I’m on Norco 10/325 for the pain. I have the same fear because everyone tells me about addiction and reliance – so sometimes I don’t take the med and just deal with the pain… which is bad too. So I totally get what you were saying!
Pills are not the answer. I loss 7 poudns in one week just by this routine 630- breakfast- cereal (special K) 7-8 am run/jog or swim 8-845 gym workout 9-11 work (job, house, ect.) 1130 lunch (healthy sandwich, apple sauce, banana) 12-1 jog or walk 230 snack (organic pretzles and fruit or other healthy snack) 3-5 Do what ever needs to be done 5-530 make dinner 6 eat dinner (salad, salman ect.) 630- rest 8- feeling hungry then (fruit or yogurt) 9- bed hope this helps