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Experiences Experience that made me put down the needle

Jen X

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Wrote in blogs but curious if anyone ever had something similar happen......

I've been dealing with addiction for at least 15 years. The past few has been IV fentanyl off and on but until two weeks ago it's been 2 years straight. Waking at 3 am with a shot ready. I've killed so many veins that I was using my feet and little veins in my fingers.

6 years ago I lost my dad. One of the hardest things I've been through until 3 years later my mom ended up in palliative care and I stayed with her til the end. And it almost killed me. I got back home and at that time I was over a year no fentanyl. That didn't last long. I dont have family anymore and kinda stopped caring if I overdosed. I started the needle full time and stopped starting slow to gage the strength. A trap house around the corner seemed so perfect. Fentanyl is everywhere here.

What started to happen a few weeks ago had me questioning my sanity. I'm totally not someone that believes in ghosts or spirits. I would go cop some fentanyl and come home and sit at my desk and do shot after shot. One day as I was doing a shot the computer chair seemed to be pulled back a bit. The first few times I thought maybe it's the floor uneven but I started to feel a little weird because the chair has 5 wheels and it's not that easy to move. One night i was nodding out and I woke up with the chair back 3 feet hitting the couch and I woke up just in time before I fell to the floor. I went and got a level and checked the floor. It's level. My head was on my keyboard so I doubt in my fet fold state that I pushed myself back.

Then I started joking to myself that my parents were doing it (it happened at least 6-8 times). I know that sounds bat sht crazy but I can't think of anything else that could make my chair just move on its own let alone quickly enough to send me into the couch with such force to wake me up.

The next day which is 2 weeks ago i stopped using fentanyl. I got sick unlike I've ever been before. And not once did I even think to get more. Just kept telling myself it would be over soon. I probably should have went to the hospital but I couldn't get off my bed. Last night was the first full night of sleep I've gotten.

As crazy as it sounds and I know it does but I honestly think they were doing it. It hasn't happened since. The chair doesn't even move easily when I try. There's no logical explanation for it and trust me I've tried.

Whatever it was it saved my life
 
Thanks for sharing this with us! Any experience that teaches you to help yourself is a positive and meaningful one. We wish you all the luck and strength in the world on your road to recovery!
 
Needles are terrible.

When you use needles (for any drug), you're adding health risks that would otherwise not be present if you used it any other route. I'm sure OP knows this, but I'm just pointing it out for passersby. Cause I've run into a lot of ignorant people out in the world who try to make claims like "heroin causes heart damage!"... when in reality, heroin itself doesn't cause heart damage. But using needles can lead to heart & cardiovascular damage. So I hate when people conflate the dangers of a drug with the dangers that come from the needle instead.

But I'm proud of you for kicking your fent habit one way or another!

My mom died in 2021. She was living with my sister at the time & after the funeral, me & my boyfriend slept in her bedroom. Her bed was so small that I basically had to put my arm over him & spoon him the entire night. But before I passed out, I turned the TV off & set the remote on the floor next to the bed. When I woke up the next morning, 3 of my mom's rings were laying on the floor, pointed toward us (the bed), next to the remote. And I know for sure that they were not there when I went to bed & put the remote on the floor. And my bf was trapped under my arm the whole night, so I know it wasn't him who did it. I went & got one of my sisters & showed them & asked if they knew whose rings those were (cause I wasn't sure at the time, I assumed my mom's, but there 2 other women in the house as well). And she told me they were our moms rings. But how they ended up on the floor in that perfect configuration over-night, I have no idea. But I've always wondered if that was my mom saying one last thing to me.

So you never know!

Good luck with everything! :)
 
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