You stayed clean today! GREAT! Tell us how! - Page 4

ruby · #46 (**permalink**) 10-01-2004, 10:16 AM

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quote:Originally posted by pmallen4

I stayed clean and sober today by saying "No" to a doctor, on scrip for Vikes. That's a new one for me. Mike.

Nice work!!! That would be a true test for anyone..... You should be very proud of yourself!

*~Ruby~*

Aphex2 · #47 (**permalink**) 10-01-2004, 10:22 AM

Garden hose..haha..I still have the thing near me in this room. In the waste basket. I can't open it, maybe the thing is alive, OD unsuccessful and its plastered eyes... hahaha

jacks · #48 (**permalink**) 10-01-2004, 10:54 AM

OK throw the entire waste basket out.
GET IT OUT OF THERE ! ! LOL!

Aphex2 · #49 (**permalink**) 10-02-2004, 03:59 AM

It's done man!

jacks · #50 (**permalink**) 10-03-2004, 12:54 AM

Cool! Hey its like the Twilight Zone... Talking Tina? I was gonna tell ya to wrap the top with tape...put a cinder block on it....and THEN get rid of it hahahahahaha!
*Winks*
JAx

Aphex2 · #51 (**permalink**) 10-03-2004, 06:09 AM

Jax, Twilight's Tina...hahah..very good!!!
My day...it's 6h+ here..i was on a bike, riding, then with one friend talking bout biz things, and the most important - first day without pot. My doc said two weeks ago that i should'n smoke it, cos of my hidden fears and panic, but first weeks i needed something to 'forget' coldturkey bull****. Better panic than pain.
I think i am real me now, without any drug and that's NEW.

jacks · #52 (**permalink**) 10-06-2004, 12:04 PM

Thats good to hear!
And take if from me I know how debilitating PANIC can be
but PAIN is THE great motivator as it has been called!

someday · #53 (**permalink**) 10-08-2004, 09:14 AM

I stayed clean today because I'm too busy working. I'm on my 11th day of sub maintenence, and I've never felt better! I have so much extra money, and so many things I want to save for. It's nice to know the expensive stuff is attainable now. All I have to do is work hard and not waste my money on pills. It's a great feeling

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

selfwilly · #54 (**permalink**) 10-08-2004, 09:28 AM

congratulations someday!what you said reminds reminds me, too, when i got my first job out of rehab, got my first tiny little check, i felt rich!! hell that check would have barely covered a days habit in the bad old days!!

slingblade · #55 (**permalink**) 10-08-2004, 01:15 PM

I stayed clean and sober today by reading 'just 4 today' and readin in Big Book, which I thought I'd thrown away the last time I got cured, and by reading and rereading steps 1 & 2 in 12 X 12. Can't find my NA stuff, but using what I've got. Also I killed a wasp today, with my bare hands (no wimp here.) Slaughtered the m*therf*cker. Felt great. What a rush. So spent the rest of the day wasp hunting. Clean n sober, yep. Powerless over my addiction and my life is unmanagable. Yep. Restored to sanity . . . ? Not too sure about that one. Mike

startinover · #56 (**permalink**) 10-09-2004, 07:26 AM

hey there!

I'm on day 11 from my taper and my time at detox. I guess that would make day 20 from my drugs of choice which were perc's and ativan.
It's been really hard. I got clean for the first time 10 years ago, and slipped about a year and a half ago.
These past few days out of detox have been rough. Not sleeping, the shakes, my moods going haywire. I'm glad I have a 'progam' and for me that has been N.A.
I also have a very loving support system. Good friends, have been invaluable.
Really, have some support in your life. You might have to go look for it, it will be worth it.

startinover · #57 (**permalink**) 10-09-2004, 07:42 AM

just came out of detox last week.

Coming off opiates and benzo's.
not fun, not at all.
I will do it, though.
I know this is not all there is to life.
I had nine years clean.
Stopped going to my meetings.
Now I am counting the minutes, hours of not using.
When I first got clean in '94 it was much easier.
It gets harder each time a person relapses-it can make one think, why bother?
I know why I bother. For me, I do like myself clean and my fabulous 14 year-old son.
One day at a time.
thanks

ashley80 · #58 (**permalink**) 10-09-2004, 09:24 AM

Startinover, thanks for the hopeful posts!!! You helped someone today (me!) and I hope you are being good to yourself.

Are you starting to feel better? I soooo agree that it is easier to get/stay clean the first time. I had almost 15 years clean before I relapsed....it just gets harder.
Ashley

selfwilly · #59 (**permalink**) 10-11-2004, 07:52 AM

startin-how're you doing and congrats on your choosing life over drugs! you really got me thinking and i finally went to a meeting sun nite! surprised myself! i felt like an alien but it was great to go! i took the easy way out and went to a speaker meeting, but i'm trying to chip back through the ice. i DON'T want to relapse! it was hard enough getting clean when i did and reading posts like ashley, yours, and others who went back out kinda scared some sense back into "mr do it all by yourself". thanks charlie

ashley80 · #60 (**permalink**) 10-13-2004, 09:04 AM

Charlie.... Have you been to another meeting? I'm gonna go back tonight, it's been a couple weeks since I went, and they weren't good weeks, if you catch my drift....

So, I'm back on track! But I AM gonna find a speaker meeting....don't feel like sharing tonight...too emotional and I HATE crying like a fool at meetings. Just refuse to do it.

anyhow, haven't checked in at the staying clean forum in a while....Glad you decided to get back to the rooms.
Ashley