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johnrottingliver

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Ok so iv using opiates for a while now. And due to not being able to reliably find tar, i been smoking feddy. Now heres the deal. My family has a history of very bad veinous return. Now couple that with about 10 years of shooting heroin and speed. When i go to get blood drawn or need an iv at the hospital, they have to poke and prod for close to an hour before they find a good vein if they dont have a highly skilled tech. I stopped IV drug use around 3 or 4 years ago after i started smoking fedy. Now when i started smoking fedy i started having problems with my right foot. I was always in pain, couldnt walk without a limp, would get gnarly cramps, would wake up to my calf feeling like my veins were on fire and id be acreaming in pain until it subsided. I cant recall how long it would take but it was very very intense. My right foot also had an open wound that just came out of nowhere on the left side just below my ankle bone. It evenrually kept fetting bigger and would get infected and then another wound opened up on the other aide of my right foot and got pretty bad. I didnt hurt it or injure it in anyway. Wasnt picking at them or anything. I was going to a methodone clinic everyday at the time too. I eventually went thru the withdrawls from feddy and still continued going to the methodone clinic everyday. My wounds healed up complrtely after i quit smoking feddy after just like a few weeks. The strange thing about this now that after i quit smoking feddy the wound would now bleed instead of just ooze out corosive yellow liquid. But then every 2 or three weeks i would wake up to intense stomach pains that would make me throw up becuz the pain was so bad. Not from nausea but from the pain. My espphogus also was very sensitive when this stomach pain happens and just swallowing my saliva would sometimes make me throw up. Nothing would make me feel better besides drawing a super hot bath and just laying there for hours. Sometimes it would go away right away. Other times it would linger for a day or two. I cant eat drink or hold anything down . I cant sleep or even sit still. The stomach pain would just come right back after ten or 15 minutes of getting out of the bath. It made it impossible to hold down a job and i was essentially useless, i couldnt commit to a schedule of any kind my life was completely unmanageable (i was sober at this point) . I was so unreliable that non of my friends talk to me anymore my life was essentially over. I couldnt work, i couldnt do anything. I couldnt even fo to the hospital while it was happening . Ifs just too fucking painful and id be screaming but they would just tell me to be quiet i cant scream like that. Ok u tell someone who has there hand cut off to stop screaming. It feels like my stomach or watever organ is by my belly button is literally on fire . I could not help it and i have a very high tolerance for pain. So hospitals couldnt do shit for me. The only thing that keeps me from having those intense stomach pains is opiates. So i eventually got fucking sick of being completely useless, my self esteem was non existent i was hoping to die everynight i fell asleep. So i picked up . And i picked up again and again and the cycle continues still. But now my right foot is going thru the exact same shit. Its really badly infected right now but i already know if i quit smoking my stomach pains are gunna come back and ill be roght back wishing i was dead. I basically concluded that my right foot is slowly dying, as no blood is going to it, at least very little if any. Becuz the wound is just oozing out the corosive yellow liquid just like last time. I dont want to lose my foot. But i also dont want to be completely useless and want to die. I am stuck in a big catch 22 and there doesnt seem to be a way out of this. Unless i can get a doctor to prescribe me clean opiates without other bullshit mixed in. That is pretty much not gunna happen this day in age as doctors are afraid to lose their licenses when prescribing opiates. I dont have an underlying cause on paper. Any time i explain this stuff to a doctor they think i am doctor shopping trying to get drugs for recreation. I can hold a job while smoking feddy without any issues. Nobody even suspects that im doing anything. I just got let go feom my job becuz they ran a background chrck on me and i have a fedy possesion on there just before it became a felony in california. There was no other reason dor them to let me go. I had just gotten a raise, i was a temp thru a stsffing agrncy and the director of the company told me he was gunna hire me fulltime along with the raise. Then all of a sudden i get a call after work that they let me go. No explaination nothing. But i am certain it was becuz of that. Anyways i am here trying to find a way to make these wounds go away without stopping feddy. If anyone on this planet knew of a way, i would be able to find them in these forums. I cant go on like this. But i also dont want to stop becuz of my damn stomach. I dont know what to do. I have prayed over this shit and i am certain god doesnt give a shit. His plan for my life fucking sux watever the fuck it is. So im just pleading if anyone knows of a way that i can get blood to my foot im all ears. Anytime i talk to an er doc they say stop smoking. We dont want u to od blahblah typical fucking stupidity. Even if i wanted to i cant seem to smoke enough to od. I always nod hard and wake up later. No matter if i dab or watever. I just want to be able to have a life where im not scraping by on disability and actually be able to enjoy things and go on vacation. Support my damn self cuz i cant seem to do it when i get sober. Whenevr i get sober my life gets worse. I know its the opposite of what every one tells us in recovery but it is true. I dont like doing thinfs over and over again expecting things to change. So i dunno hopefully somebody here can help. I dont know what to do anymore im desperate.
 
Thank you for the reply. One thing i forgot to mention: about a year or two ago i was seeing a vein apecialist and he had the bright idea to kill off some of the veins in my toght calf/thigh becuz he thought that if they killed off a few veins that it would increase the blood pressure in the remaining good veins that i have to help push blood back up to my heart and minimize pooling at my feet. It turns out rhis dude was wrong af and thats when this thing where my foot gets infected and blood pools down there and even worse circulation now. They wanted to do the operation on both if my legs and luckily i told them to eff off they fucked me up. Cuz within a week of them doing the lrocedure i starting getting a wound out of nowhere and this fiest bexame an issue. I know i probably should have gotten a second opinion, but it takes so long to get an appointment at that time and even still now. Mind u im in california on medi-cal. If i made a call today to make an appointment to see a specilist id have to first see my primary and then see the specilist it would have taken 2 minths just to do so and at the time wat dude was saying made sense to me so i went for it. It ended up being a huge mistake and im paying dearly for it now.

Ok now this is what iv been doing the past few days. I first went to urgent care and they told me to go to the ER. I went to the ER around midnight and they put me on iv antibiotics all night and partial morning. I left AMA around 1030am. I started getting sick and couldnt take it anymore. I also did not think i was gunna be there more than an ovrr night stay. I did not plan for arrangements to feed my dogs and cat. So i made arrangements for the animals. I went back to the ER around 5pm the same day that i left AMA. They had me back on iv antibiotics, i brought a bout a g of fdy but i didnt know they were gonna go through my stuff so thoroughly as they didnt the day before. They found my stash and threw it away. Im lucky cuz there werr cops already there with a patient so im very lucky they didnt just hand me to them. I said i shared this laptop with a friend i have no idea wat was in there i just grabbed it real quick so i wiuldnt be bored in my room. They prolly didnt buy it but either way im still here. Im sure they see this at least once a day. Back to wat i was saying i stayed at the hospital another day and left around 4pm cuz i was sick again and they wouldnt give me anything. So again i AMA left on my own and have been keeping my leg elevated and been watching for any sign of the infection coming back or spreading and so far so good. My leg is not swollen i can see my calf muscle jiggle as i go side to side with it and it does not hurt when i feel around there. I was given bactrim to take at home and have been taking it 2 times a day every 12 hours. As of niw im just worried about this infection and making sure it doesnt come back.
To make things even worse i got a job offer that i really wanted and they wanted me to start right away, but i told the staffing agency that i have a foot infection not sure when it will be good andni can work. I gotta call them and tell them that i was releasdd from the hospital and im just keeping an eye on my leg as i dont sanna say ok i can work and have something happen and not go to work. But i want them to know thatt i possibly will be able to work in a few days. My chick is in jail prolly for another 2 months cuz she opted out if drug court and just is gunna do the rest of her time. She maies way more than i do as she is a licensed ultra sound tech and i have no licenses just a lot of experience doing alot of diffrent things. Im iur only source of income at the moment so i gotta start making money sooner than later. I know my situstion sucks ass but it is wat it is.
 
Also while i was at the hospital this might be a God shot, i ran into my old podiatrist and he told ke to call him and make an appointment as he works very closely with a vein specialist at his same office. So i know its not the idiot i went to before and im hoping i can figure out some sorta plan to make sure this doesnt keep happening
 
Sory another thing im very much against the way treatment centers / the recovery community do things as i feel that telling ur self ur addict every second if the say is harmful and keeos u in a bad mindset its im possible to move forward if u dont think forward. I believe that integrating back into society is the best say to keep people out of returning to wat is comfortable( self harm, self medicating all that) iv been in and out of treatment centers since i ws a teenager and the longer i stay away from them the better i do. That is wat i found works best for me. Becuz even if i am using i am not out there hanging out and wasting my time sith othrr addicts. I am working in my garage either building guitar pedals or working on othrr projects that i have lined up. U wouldnt know i was using unless u followed me around all day to see my wat i do and nobody is gunna waste their time doing that. I maintain my appearance very well. Luckily i still look young and most people that dont know me are surprised when i tell them wat i do as i dont fit the part. Not to say that none of the trsatment center stuff works or that the recovery community is wrong. It just doesnt work for me. I have had periods of sobriety on my own. And i would do very good. And i cant blame anyone but myself. I have been in the process of trying to slowly ween myself off of fdy. This time i want to be free of methodone so at some point im just gonna have to go for it cold turkey when the time comes . I know there is not a way to avoid this as hard ss we try . But i do know with fdy its super intense but it doesnt last as long as heroin or other opiates.
 
One more thing my diet consists mainly of wild caught salmon or chicken brest mixed ina Bowl of jazmine rice and a lil bit of sweet soy sauce. I eat alot of green beans with oniins and garlic, im drinking nothing but water and a beetroot supplement that is supposdd to help with blood circulation. I cut out almost all sugar intake. (I used to only drink red gatorade never water and eat a ton if candy at least two king size caramellos everyday and prolly more after that. Stsrbucks caramel frapps with whipped cream, not too much soda but occasionally would have. Squirt or 7up. i also would makemyself at least two peanut butter and cinnamon sugar sandwiches everyday) i know its alot i dunno how i dont have diabetes. But i cut all that out as of a week or two ago and thr cramping that used to happen in my thighs doesnt happen anymire. I would have to run warm water over the effected muscles to grt the cramps to go away.
 
One more thing my diet consists mainly of wild caught salmon or chicken brest mixed ina Bowl of jazmine rice and a lil bit of sweet soy sauce. I eat alot of green beans with oniins and garlic, im drinking nothing but water and a beetroot supplement that is supposdd to help with blood circulation. I cut out almost all sugar intake. (I used to only drink red gatorade never water and eat a ton if candy at least two king size caramellos everyday and prolly more after that. Stsrbucks caramel frapps with whipped cream, not too much soda but occasionally would have. Squirt or 7up. i also would makemyself at least two peanut butter and cinnamon sugar sandwiches everyday) i know its alot i dunno how i dont have diabetes. But i cut all that out as of a week or two ago and thr cramping that used to happen in my thighs doesnt happen anymire. I would have to run warm water over the effected muscles to grt the cramps to go away.
I also eat 5 or 6 eggs everymorning with some salt and pepper and sometimes with swiss cheese and a few peices of toast. Iv bEen mixing proschetto (thinlysliced ham) and ill break the eggs open and let them cook a lil over easy or sunnyside up and break the yolk open and mix it all together so its like a over easy scramble mix but no runny stuff.

I use a lot of soy sauce on green beans and with the chicken and rice sometimes. Ill eat a few pink lady apples and those yellow kiwis every day as well. I do not eat fast food or go out to eat very much, i mainly prepare my food at home from stuff i buy st the grocery store.
I used to eat alot of nuts but my stomach hasnt really been liking it lately. As i have that stomach issue that happens whenever im sober .
Im sorry i know this is alot i just santed to be thorough and give as much accurate information as i can think of.
 
TL;DR

Having lived thru decades of addiction, serious attempts at recovery, & dozens of relapses, I was convinced that I was a hopeless case. I couldn't live with it & I couldn't imagine living without it.

Finally it came down to killing myself or trying one last time. I figured that if I was still breathing, maybe I still had a chance. It was shaky for a while there, but I'm good now. I'm not entirely drug-free, but I have zero interest in alcohol, street dope, or prescription drugs.

When I was ready, I found a way.
Until then, I found excuses.
 
TL;DR

Having lived thru decades of addiction, serious attempts at recovery, & dozens of relapses, I was convinced that I was a hopeless case. I couldn't live with it & I couldn't imagine living without it.

Finally it came down to killing myself or trying one last time. I figured that if I was still breathing, maybe I still had a chance. It was shaky for a while there, but I'm good now. I'm not entirely drug-free, but I have zero interest in alcohol, street dope, or prescription drugs.

When I was ready, I found a way.
Until then, I found excuses.
What changed that made you ready? Did it feel different?
 
What changed that made you ready? Did it feel different?
Frankly, I can't explain it. I was just done & I knew it. Oddly enough, it wasn't the worst "bottom" I'd hit, either.

But it had been a while since substances had worked for me: I couldn't kill the pain, no matter how fucked up I got. So there was no relief to be had & I was truly sick&tired of being sick&tired.
 
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