I forgot I started this post. I am in the same position NOW, AGAIN. Although this time I have a job that pays weekly (which sucks because if I have a $200 bill to pay, I pay $50 a week for the whole month). I can't work out at work. Like, I can't go out for a walk during lunch and come back sweaty. I am an Executive Administrative Assistant. I am the EA for the two owners of the company. And I had to go out and buy a whole new wardrobe as NOTHING fit in May when I got the job.
I even had to KICK - the employee handbook they mailed me 3 weeks out, along with my job offer, said "mandatory new employee drug test". I did the Chicago Hospital Medicaid Detox, but on my own - two friends who did it told me how it went:
Day One: 30mgs methadone (3*10mg tabs) in morning. 30 more in evening. Anti anxiety and sleepers if needed. (I have loads, I see a shrink who has no idea about the dope and is very loose with the kpins and loreazapam (sp).)
Day Two: 30 mgs in am; 20mgs in PM (same thing with the anti-anxiety and sleepers)
Day Three: 20mgs am; 20 mgs PM
Day Four: 20 mgs am; TEN mgs at 6pm when you're released.
When you leave: GET THIS CRAZY SHIT! you get a script for vicodin 7.5 or 10, xanax BARS (?) and sleepers. Doesn't THAT defeat the entire purpose?
Apparently you can do this medicaid detox once every 30 days. I'd do it just to lay around and take methadone and watch TV and sleep and you also get to pick your food - order whatever you want on menu; break, lunch & dinner.
(Anyone else ever hear of this in Chicago - they're not giving it to the PR people with the one way plane tickets, I'll tell you that!)
So I did it. Without the bonus prescriptions, although I do get KPIN and Ativan from the shrink which I took quite a bit more than my usual.
I was hating myself and shitting everywhere for at least 4 days. By 7 days I started kind of sleeping. By 14 days the fog sort of left my head. By 21 days I found out I didn't need to take the drug test. As I work for a company that does construction (but the office is NO JEANS, NO TENNIS SHOES, TIES(?) for MEN) I had to go out and buy all new clothes (at least 6 days worth - so I could wear one while the others were being washed).
I'd love to get a bicycle. I should look on Craigslist or something for a cheapie one speed schwin for girls. I think I said I get paid weekly so it's impossible to save money. I make sure each week I save 300 for dope to get me through the week (after the bills - which are brutal because my unemployment cut off in december, and got the offer in early may, started on the 26th or so) and end up doing a couple of mgs of methadone on the inbetween days. I'm lucky to have a connection for the tablets. But that won't be forever because his doctor is taking him from 9-10 10mg tablets per day to 8 or something like that so he doesn't have the supply he used to have. So i gotta be careful. Or start paying him more.....!
Enough about me. I have 50 pounds left to lose. Any suggestions out there - we can start a new thread if you like?
Love,
Gwennie - who is thicker than a snicker!
ps haven't been writing lately, just reading - Chicago is not represented the way it used to be! What's up Chinky? Cheffy? Where is you? I need some Belgian waffles STAT! LOL