Addictions
What addictions have you battled. Over the years I have had my fare share. Tobacco and alcohol to name a few. How about you. I still enjoy both but I don?t abuse either
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Really liked speed and acid back in the day but do not think I was addicted cause one day I realized that they were holding me back so I stopped.
But the Beer and Cigarettes continued for many years. Being in the hospital for a heart attack and they kept me for a while since I was just 34 helped to break both of those.
No longer smoke but Still have a beer every once in a great while. Now I can have just one and stop.0 -
Being poor my biggest issue lol
Never hooked on anything booze tobacco pot
If any thing I would say having fast cars and guns I can not break away from0 -
Ice cream, chocolate and guns. 0 -
I am still addicted to food and have the resulting obesity . This addiction is driven primarily by anxiety at a medically required level and control has been a real problem for me.
I quite smoking in 1989 which increased an already problematic anxiety, and is likely still a factor. Beating a smoking addiction was a difficult task for me and just last month I found myself reaching into my shirt pocket for a smoke. 29 years has passed so this was how strong a bond that addiction was.
In 2003 during what was suppose to be a simple medical operation I was subjected to a chest spreader used to expose artery bypasses to students . I had that operation three months prior and this procedure was to rewire my chest as the sternum had not yet healed together.
They overextended the chest spreader and ruptured three disks in my upper back as well as doing damage to the right shoulder rotor cup. The resulting pain was beyond imagination and I spent nearly a month in the hospital on morphine, and other opiate drugs for pain control. I left the hospital still on a very high dosage of opiates. When I started to reduce the amount of these drugs it was readily apparent that I was physically addicted. I spent weeks in a taper down program and still ended up back into a hospital to finalize my withdrawal.
My pain is still chronic and significant ,and I have yet to be able to manage it without some level of narcotics mixed with other over the counter pain medication. At the age of 70 I am no longer concerned about some level of addiction. With the war on opiates I do not receive enough to be anywhere near fully effective, nor heavily addicted. I am on 25% of what I was given and needed in 2003.
Addiction is a real bitch, and so is pain, and anxiety. There are no easy answers sometimes.0 -
wow sorry to hear that is a terrible thing
I had bypass 12 years ago and feel for you
I go to a pain clinic ( lower back issues ) as all the doctors dumped any pain med patients on them ( government driven ) 1st thing they did was try and cut my pain med in half . ( did not work out ) not addicted but I do like being some what pain free
the biggest complaint I hear in the waiting room is like your complaint way too much pain and they refuse to give them more pain meds to relieve them
it ticks me off , obvious to even me the people are in need again as proven most good people suffering due to a few who abused the system
I told my wife after the first couple visits its like they are forcing the people to seek out street drugs to ease there pain but make it look good on paper
quote:Originally posted by mnrivrat48
I am still addicted to food and have the resulting obesity . This addiction is driven primarily by anxiety at a medically required level and control has been a real problem for me.
I quite smoking in 1989 which increased an already problematic anxiety, and is likely still a factor. Beating a smoking addiction was a difficult task for me and just last month I found myself reaching into my shirt pocket for a smoke. 29 years has passed so this was how strong a bond that addiction was.
In 2003 during what was suppose to be a simple medical operation I was subjected to a chest spreader used to expose artery bypasses to students . I had that operation three months prior and this procedure was to rewire my chest as the sternum had not yet healed together.
They overextended the chest spreader and ruptured three disks in my upper back as well as doing damage to the right shoulder rotor cup. The resulting pain was beyond imagination and I spent nearly a month in the hospital on morphine, and other opiate drugs for pain control. I left the hospital still on a very high dosage of opiates. When I started to reduce the amount of these drugs it was readily apparent that I was physically addicted. I spent weeks in a taper down program and still ended up back into a hospital to finalize my withdrawal.
My pain is still chronic and significant ,and I have yet to be able to manage it without some level of narcotics mixed with other over the counter pain medication. At the age of 70 I am no longer concerned about some level of addiction. With the war on opiates I do not receive enough to be anywhere near fully effective, nor heavily addicted. I am on 25% of what I was given and needed in 2003.
Addiction is a real bitch, and so is pain, and anxiety. There are no easy answers sometimes.0 -
Tobacco quite 10 years ago now the GunBroker auction side is my biggest addiction 0 -
Oxycontin and Oxycontin IR 0 -
I had a hard time quitting cigarettes, but I had one terrible time quitting skoal
I had actually quit for 2 years and started again. it has been 30+ years now free from all tobacco0 -
Traded the bad ones-drugs and alcohol for good ones-guns and MC's
ADHD and being a adrenalin junkie had me almost buy the farm a couple times.
"Hold my beer" led to stitches and casts too many times.0
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