DrugBuyers.Com: hydro usage

IMSUSCOT1,

Thanks for the advice, and also the comment about my username

For some reason, he's alwyays been my favorite character from Winnie the Pooh. I feel like I can kind of relate to him, bad stuff's always happeinging around him but he's got the "Oh well, what are you gonna do about it?" attitude. He's all about not getting your hopes up because in the end, the best kept off the board is eventually gonna hit the fan again, so you just deal with it. Somebody once asked me why Eeyore seemed so glum all the time and my only answer was "Hey, you wouldn't be a cheerful person if you had a tail nailed onto your butt, either!"

As for my sister, I was the one who actually showed her how to get meds online because I was afraid that she would lose her nursing license if she kept her Best if kept off the board up. Most of the time, she was taking meds from patients who were asleep when she was making her rounds (she worked the night shift), and if they weren't awake the second time she checked in with them, she'd pocket the other dose. She got fired from 3 jobs because they suspected her of doing it, but none of them reported her to the State.

I'm pretty sure she became addicted to them after she took a really bad fall while she was 5 and a half a half months pregnant and her baby died in utero and she had to be induced to deliver a stillborn.

I know that must have messed her up in the head more than a little bit, you know? Plus, she herniated a disc in her back and was on pain medication for it. So, in my opinion, she took the pain pills for the back pain and discovered that it might have taken away the pain of losing her son, and she's been on them ever since. After she was taken off the pain meds, she did a lot of "doctor" shopping and after a while, it caudght up to her and nobody would prescribe it to her anymore and when she doesn't haver her pills, she's sick as a dog!! I've heard a lot of horror stories about benzo WD, but seeing her go through hydro WD made me wonder why she ever picked it back up agian, that's the most puzzling part.

I guess it was kind of morally unethical for me to introduce her to OP's, but it's much better than stealing medication from sick people to feed your habit, right? She pays for it herself, so she's not stealing, and more importantly, not stealing off of sick elderly people.

As far as her stealing my meds, I don't have anything on hand that she'd be interested in. I have a bad back injury, myself, but I've never asked to be prescribed any hydro type drugs because of how my sister acts. I recently aggrivated my condition in work and had to go out one Worker's Compensation. The srongest meds they gave me were Flexeril and Tylenol 3. She might have tried to steal the Coediene's, but the doctor only gave me 8 of them, and I was in so much pain that I was taking them. (They didn't do squat for my pain, BTW).

My sister gave me a couple of her vicodin around this time, and found that it worked really well for my pain, and I only took maybe 5 of them in a 7 day period. I made sure to taper off of them because I don't want to know what it's like to go through hydro WD, after seeing what my sister goes through.

I feel like there's nothing in my immediate control that I can do to help her situation. I've tried a million times over to try to get her to kick this habit, and honestly, I have fecal matter to deal with in my own personal life. I know I probably seem like a cold-hearted person for saying that, but I learned from a lot of experience with people with drug dependencies that you can't force someone to stop what they're doing unless they really want to. And saying things to them about it gets exhausting. So when they're ready to get help, they'll get help, end of story.

I come from a long line of alcoholics (both parents, grandfather on my mother's side, several aunts uncles and cousins from my Dad's side) and I have attended support groups when I was younger and I just live by what it says the serenity prayer, for the most part.

But my point is, addiction is in my genes, and experts say that it's hereditary. I'm sure that played a huge factor in how my sister got addicted to hydro, she must have inherited her addictive personality from my parents or something.

But enough whining about the problems with my family already. I'm almost positive that every single one of us here on DB has had someting traumatic or unfortunate happen to them in their own lives, otherwise we wouldn't need to be taking meds for our conditions.

When pain medication is being substituted for emotional issues (as is my sister's case), then a real psychiatric evaluation is in order. She's just reluctant to get help for her depression because she is a nurse, and doesn't want that coming up in her records, and a mother, and doesn't want that to go against her in court if her husband tries to get custody of the kids.

It happened to her best friend, her ex-husband got full custody of her kids because she was admitted to a psychiatric hospital for severe depression and a benzo addiction. Believe me, my sister will justify the death out of why she has her reasons for not seeking mental health treatment. Plus, she recently moved to a small town almost a 3 hour drive from where I live, so I doubt she'll be able to steal medication from me.

Not that she would need to, because I would give them to her if I knew she was going through WD, because I know what is going to happen to her if she tries to go cold turkey. I really wish there was more that I can do to ty to get her some real help, but I know her well enough to know that even though she says she's going to stop, it's just going to turn into another situation where she starts stealing meds from work again.

Sorry for all the rambling, and once again, thanks for the advice and the friendly ear. It's nice to know that mostly everyone here is so welcoming and friendly to one another. This, is by far, the BEST board in the world!!

~Eeyore

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~ R.I.P. Darrell Abbott 12/08/04