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The nuts and bolts of my situation is this, I am now attempting for the third time in a year and a half to go off of the opiates. Percocet has been my standard drug of choice and the demon in my life most often. I have always been a strongwilled person but when I experience some of the things like the insomina, constant aches, and depression that as I read more and more about and realize that it may never go away it strikes great fear in me.

I’m hoping someone here with more success then myself in getting off of this stuff and having a decent life again can tell me how or if I can actually get some dependable information as to what I most likely have to look forward to? I know a lot of people who have also been hooked on opiates can attest that this is one thing that some and in my experience most doctors do not understand. I firmly believe that you can only trust the words of a recovered addict when it comes to opiate addiction and recovery and I have volumes of examples with coutless doctors as evidence that I could supply to anyone wanting to hear about them.
This is an epidemic and one that has gotten much worse just in the less then three year period that I have been close to this world. Things are not getting better as far as care and are only getting worse as doctors are aware of the problem but in many cases fearful of the liability of dealing with the problem they along with the pharmaceutical companies created and instead lable anyone honest enough to detail every detail of their addiction and means of satisfying it a ” drug seeker ” and either do not help them at all or put them on highly restricted management programs with no chance of succeeding which will in short time allow them to rid themselves of the ” drug seeking ” patient.

I have done Suboxen twice and was back on the painkillers within a month of completing it, I never felt for a second that it was going to work for me as I could not sleep and had pains all over my body that affected me severely, so much so that my personality changed immensely and I became an angry person for the first time in my life. When you are constantly aching and tired and can think of nothing else you become every sort of sad and angry and you see no hope but getting back on the pills but this time you’re gonna do it right and not get out of control, you learned your lesson, RIGHT!! It doesn’t work like that and it never will. I have heard and read of people with success on the Suboxen but in my two stints in rehab and recovery noone I personally knew was able to stick with it and the ones I have seen that are claiming success to my knowledge were on Suboxen very long term which had I been able to get through the insomnia and pain issues I was having then maybe I could have stayed on it longer and long enough to feel the results of it but the longest I made it was 7 weeks clean and caved.

Again for the record I am a 38 year old male with ZERO history of narcotics prior to being diagnosed with my cancer at age 35 and a half and put on painkillers. I have been a competetive athlete for much of my life and spent a lot of time in combat sports where I had my fair share of injuries which caused me to have to undergo a handful of surgeries that I recovered without the aid of painkillers other then Tylenol 3 and Advil. I would never have ever put a narcotic in my body unless prescribed to me by a doctor as a major element to keeping me alive which it was and I agreed. It may seem like I have animosity toward my doctors but I have none towards the ones I dealt with in the early stages of my situation as they were doing what they needed to do for me to keep me as comfortable as they could as my body was being carved up like a turkey, the opiates served their purpose then.

My problem is that since then as I was forced to move back home and away from my doctors and to new ones when I tell them everything I’m saying here and more I’m labeled a drug seeker and given extremely poor treatment with what I believe is no care for my life and any future I have which highly angers me. I am a person who wants no part of these evil drugs and I take great care to make sure and tell people of the pain I’ve had to go through in dealing with them and how much worse this has been then any and all of the surgeries, very heavy chemo and radiation that I have endured. It is absolutely without a doubt the worst thing I’ve ever gone through and much of the time I believe that this is a battle that I can not win. If anyone out there has a way to help me I’m all ears and very appreciative of any feedback I can get. I just want to know if this pain can ever go away without the “aid” of opiates?

Thank you and good luck to anyone else battling this devil, don’t give up and let your doctors and your loved ones know about it so hopefully sometime something great can happen that will make it so that people don’t have to live like this.

Ben Quinton