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Recovery The 2023 Recovery Thread

Still doing the recovery cha cha … a couple steps forward, a couple steps back, couple steps forward … cha cha cha.
It’s my birthday today 💜
there were three "chas" to end on the steps back. haha just fu*kin around.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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I'm 30 days clean of cocaine and heroin 2 days ago, go me!

Totally believe now I can continue this and see 60, 90, 120 days clear of these hard drugs. which have caused me nothing but mysery.

Also with my exercise and diet routine I'm 15kg up, people are commenting how much more muscular and fuller I look.

Long may it continue.
 
hello guys. have been away for awhile. the broken record skipped again and i relapsed and then got a gun pulled on me / jumped to hell, lmao.

i’m back home recovering. almost day 4 cold turkey with the help from some gabapentin & aleeve. i’m on my old phone since my normal one got ruined. got a new iphone dropping in the mail here soon.

much love, just needed to touch base bad
 
hello guys. have been away for awhile. the broken record skipped again and i relapsed and then got a gun pulled on me / jumped to hell, lmao.

i’m back home recovering. almost day 4 cold turkey with the help from some gabapentin & aleeve. i’m on my old phone since my normal one got ruined. got a new iphone dropping in the mail here soon.

much love, just needed to touch base bad
It’s good to see you, I’m glad you touched base 💜
 
I'm 34 days clean o cocaine and heroin here. Which I am proud of. But it is hard.

People getting on at you etc, peoples bullshit, it's like these are all reasons I relapsed before, or even used in the first place.

I have had some diazepam, and I've been using pregablin to combat the daily pains my body suffers. I smoke weed too, although I don't consider that a drug, more of a medecine. Howeveer with all this factored in, it's hard to consider myself completely clean. Although in my mind this is about as clean as I've ever been.

Been smashing the exercise and diet, so much so I've gone from 69kg, to 84kg, the strongest and quickest I've ever been natty.
 
hello guys. have been away for awhile. the broken record skipped again and i relapsed and then got a gun pulled on me / jumped to hell, lmao.

i’m back home recovering. almost day 4 cold turkey with the help from some gabapentin & aleeve. i’m on my old phone since my normal one got ruined. got a new iphone dropping in the mail here soon.

much love, just needed to touch base bad
Damn bro...hope everything is ok now!
 
Well I feel I could come in here with some words..

I’ve been struggling with cocaine ever since my divorce. I had purchased probably a quarter Oz of very clean product last winter and was slowly working on it but had given it to my buddy to hold for me only to give me some at long enough time intervals.

A couple weeks ago I just had this feeling of “fuck it I don’t need this bandaid anymore” and told my buddy to flush the remaining few grams. This was huge for me because in all my years I had proudly never flushed any drugs. But this was needed.

Then what do I do a week later? Buy a half gram when it’s presented to me. I did a couple lines, realized it was pure garbage (like most everything is unless the person talks like it’s the best blow they’ve ever had) and then ended up flushing that too. Hoping that last taste of shit coke will keep me away for awhile.

No drug can get me to flip the script so quick. Sure opiates are my daily bread but those seem more predictable in need.

I think I just need to completely stop hanging out with friends for awhile until I can get back to that place where I can say no again.

My biggest problem in all of this is that I use cocaine to replace sex, and i made a pact with myself to not get involved with anyone for a year (we’ll see how long in reality though I’ve almost broke multiple times now.) I’m trying to heal from past trauma so I can be fully present for my next relationship. It’s been tricky and probably just a symptom of addiction overall.

Since picking this habit back up I’ve had some good gaps of clean time, 2 months here 3 months there, but keep going back. So now back to a week since using and hoping I can hold on this time. Thankfully there’s no more blow in my possession so gotta just not buy another. I can say no to lines, it’s bags that get me.

-GC
 
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Well I feel I could come in here with some words..

I’ve been struggling with cocaine ever since my divorce. I had purchased probably a quarter Oz of very clean product last winter and was slowly working on it but had given it to my buddy to hold for me only to give me some at long enough time intervals.

A couple weeks ago I just had this feeling of “fuck it I don’t need this bandaid anymore” and told my buddy to flush the remaining few grams. This was huge for me because in all my years I had proudly never flushed any drugs. But this was needed.

Then what do I do a week later? Buy a half gram when it’s presented to me. I did a couple lines, realized it was pure garbage (like most everything is unless the person talks like it’s the best blow they’ve ever had) and then ended up flushing that too. Hoping that last taste of shit coke will keep me away for awhile.

No drug can get me to flip the script so quick. Sure opiates are my daily bread but those seem more predictable in need.

I think I just need to completely stop hanging out with friends for awhile until I can get back to that place where I can say no again.

My biggest problem in all of this is that I use cocaine to replace sex, and i made a pact with myself to not get involved with anyone for a year (we’ll see how long in reality though I’ve almost broke multiple times now.) I’m trying to heal from past trauma so I can be fully present for my next relationship. It’s been tricky and probably just a symptom of addiction overall.

Since picking this habit back up I’ve had some good gaps of clean time, 2 months here 3 months there, but keep going back. So now back to a week since using and hoping I can hold on this time. Thankfully there’s no more blow in my possession so gotta just not buy another. I can say no to lines, it’s bags that get me.

-
sometimes isolation can do wonders man 🥺
 
day 4 blehhhhh. the no sleep & anhedonia is killing me. the aleeve, gabapentin, & some found clonidine are helping a little bit. also supplementing DLPA, L-tyrosine, L-glutamine, vitamin c & b, and a mineral mixture. it’s helping somewhat

the wave is broke but god i’m still just bedlocked and having trouble completing tasks. i washed my hair today, hung up some clothes and that’s it
 
Day 5, struggling hard with anhedonia. Tossing and turning. Shaved my face & moisturized and did my hair, as I suppose that counts as something. Got a new cellphone delivering today and some Imodium, maybe that’ll help my sleep.

Much love.
 
I think I started to experience morphine withdraw. I was tapering down from just 60mg a day to 15mg, but did it fast and took gabapentin. But stopped, got weak and took half a 30 MG er pill. When the withdrawals start again how much gabapentin should I take and how often?
with gabapentin, take 2 aleeve 20 minutes before or so, with a spoonful of peanut butter(fat & naproxen potentiate it) if you’re gabapentin naive, take 300mg every 30 minutes until you hit the 1200-1800mg mark. see how that makes you feel. wouldn’t hurt to start with 600 and then stagger the 300mg every 30m.

much love
 
day 6 now, took some kratom today. felt much better, roughly 10g and that’s it. have been reading on reddit that it’ll completely reset my withdrawal timeline, which spooked me but somehow i feel i’m intelligent enough to know a tiny partial agonist like kratom taken on day 6 of fent withdrawal isnt going to send me back to the depths and if it does, i guess lesson learned? LMAO. i’ve used kratom daily for about 6 months until about a month ago, when i started using fent again. but when i used it to quit before i stayed on the kratom. so i’m hoping there isn’t any rebound here, i honestly doubt it and my science degree tells me to disagree with the reddit posts. just scaring myself mentally for no reason.

anyways, it’s 1am and i’m journaling and listening to some ambient tunes.

take care, just wanted to check in xo
 
Nearly 8 months sober from meth. Cravings are almost completely gone but I've started having odd and untimed panic attacks. I don't want to ask my doc for benzos but I might have to if things get worse.

All in all though I've been feeling great and a lot more stable. Saw a friend recently who said I seem so much more calm and grounded! Hope you are all well :)
 
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