MAkiong a drastic change

fluxy

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Time to formulate a plan and carry it out.


Ive been on methadone for 4 months and and am on 150mg daily. I still use. MY takeaways are more of a pain than a pleasure becuase i know i can control my use. I try to keep justt enough so i woint be sick sick sick and somehow it works out.

I just had a great job, Drving for a company that knew i was on the done and everthing and i still managed to screww it up. it lasted all of a week and a bit. But boy the feeling of working and contributing and having a paycheck to look forward too, being able to make future plans, and so much more made me realise i need to be working.

If im not working, i shgould be in a resedential rehab. There is one that will take me in on my methadone dose and (of course no other drugs excepts avanza anti depressants etc.)

I take a lot of benzoes and come close once a month to kicking the habit that is until my scripts are due and i stuff up again. (this time i lost my job for being to smashed and too late.

Im a really goodf worker, and the boss is pleading for me to get my shit together and come back. I must say i feel gutted because ive lost count of how many jobs ive gotten and lost because i chose to try and have it all. but knowing they think highly of me gives me a sense that its not me, its the drugs and take them away and ill have a chance.


MY other idea was to moved up north with my Sister, we are close as close can be, we are both christians and she has a lovely ready made support group up there, church, friends and hopefully work and accomodation. I want to try and find separate accomodation so as not to put pressure on the relationship any more than i have to. I think its a lot to jsut rock up and say, "im screwed sis, help me" weve talked about it before, i hope she is still keen.


I need to break the cycle of drug use that ive been used to, including 90 oxy 80s a month, 100- 150 xanax 2mg. 100 valium (this is all in a month) and dont forget the 150mg of methadone on top.

If i moved away to my sister, straight away i lose all the benzoes, and the oxycontin. at this stage i could taper off my habit if i had a box of 5mg valium. I think this would change my life dramatically, as i remember being a lot happier and MORE relaxed without the ned for benzoes).

This might be the only chance financially i get to move up there and make a clean break. (after consulting with my methadone doctor for a transfer). My sister is very loving but at the same time wii not take my BS. And at the same time she is inspired by me from where i have come, and where i have got to. (its been a rough few years) Im really running under Gods Grace here.


Any ideas? anything at all? Basically i would get up there and get a job and taper my dose down to nothing and do a rehab. (depending on how things were going i guess) id probably consdier naltrexone tablets dispensed by my sis daily. Drugs are the one thing i cant help but lie about, the rest i really try my best not too.


So,

Any thing? would most appreciate your feedback. My
 
i really enjoyed reading your story. I can testify to the horror of trying to hold down a job while servicing Miss Opiate. I had a huge job interview which i just managed to blow, because i couldn't refrain from the spike for a single hour... grr. makes me mad just typing that.

scary thing about what you wrote-- i can't really tell whether you are forced to quit, or actually want to quit. that is scary. i mean, no prob if you aren't ready. if you aren't working, maybe you can bring limited supplies and sort out a short taper of everything? i guess yer probably staying on methadone... but all the while, you should be sorting your head out. i'd seek the mental support of some sort of recovery organization... maybe christianity... stay away from the judgmental types. definitely go to yer sister's place. get your balls together! *slaps across face*...now i wish someone would slap me. *sigh*
 
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