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So today is the famous Day 18 for me (from the title of this fantastic thread first started back in March 2019 by Dadict.
I am sure you will all agree that it is an absolute Godsend as we go through the process due to all of the info and positivity it contains.
I am still having big issues with sleeping although last night I did manage about 5 hours which is probably the most since I started.
Trying to eat healthy and keep hydrated but really, I think it is just a case of waiting for time to pass and sleep patterns to return.
I am also keen to restart running and will have to go from scratch again so, hopefully tomorrow, it is hello old friend to Couch to 5k Week 1 Run 1.
Hope everyone is managing ok and feeling positive, not long until Christmas now but I think that is really a time of year not to let the guard down as we are surrounded by people basking in the Christmas spirit (or spirits lol).
Stay strong and fight hard everyone,
Chris
So that is 2 full weeks for me, still struggling badly with sleep and constantly very achey but the rest of the physical symptoms now seem to have passed.
In some ways it has been slightly easier than I expected but I am being very careful not to think about those tablets and how easy it would be…..
So long as I avoid that I am doing ok and my little spreadsheet showing my financial savings seems to be growing very rapidly!!!
Hope everyone is doing well on their own personal journeys, this is the second time in my life I have gone through this process so if anyone has any questions I can help with please just post and I check it every day.
Have a good weekend everyone.
Hi guys
Just a quick update, got through the weekend ok, suprised to find, given the amount of NP I was taking and the amount of time that, so far at least I have no real cravings to take any.
Currently on Day 10 and beginning to get a bit of interest back in things.
However, I do have 2 issues I would love to get some advice on,
The restless legs are still pretty bad, have many other people experienced this and if so, how long did it last before easing off?
Also, sleep or complete lack thereof, even if the legs do feel comfortable, I am only managing about 2 -3 hours per day (usually during the day) and it is beginning to accumulate into exhaustion.
Supposedly strong sleeping tablets from the GP haven’t even touched me, so it is the same question I guess, at what point in the recovery cycle did people start to begin having better sleep patterns?.
But all in all I am happy with the way things have gone so far, I hope everyone else is winning their own individual battles,
Can I ask, is the WhatsApp group I have seen mentioned in some posts still a thing?
Good luck all
Chris
I would just like to introduce myself, im Chris and am from the UK as I believe many of us on here are.
So my own situation, and I’m sure many of you who have been on here a while will probably have come across it before, is that I am a 53 year old guy, after spending a number of year’s drinking to much (at the maximum 2 bottles of wine a night or 4 cans of lager and one bottle of wine) I discovered Nurofen Plus by chance after pulling my back playing golf.
That nice little buzz I got when the 2 tablets got to work was so pleasant…… , you can probably guess the rest.
Within weeks I was taking 16 at night and this quickly increased to 3 lots of 20 each day (morning, afternoon, nighttime), with 12 Benadryl Relief Plus taken at the same time for each.
The financial cost alone is horrific. I have worked it out and have a spreadsheet running that shows me the total amout I’ve saved after each day.
I have tried to stop maybe a dozen times over the last couple of years, always cold turkey, which I know is the only way I will ever stop, but never getting past day 2 or 3.
However, I picked Nov 25th as it would mean I could say 1 month clean on Christmas Day and I am just completing Day 7. Enough is enough.
No nausea, no real dioreah (spelt wrong!!), for me it’s the tiredness, listlessness, and inability to sleep due to restless legs and body.
I have got 4 days of Zopiclone sleeping tablets from my DR today and hopefully these will help me sleep short term and get over the worst of the restless legs without replacing 1 addiction with another.
When I look back at the amount stuff I was taking I am amazed I seem to be in relatively good shape, I have bloods all the time for various things and they never pick anything up, I have been scoped a couple of times and they found nothing more than a small hernia, I must, despite appearances, be a tough old buastard (maybe related to Keirh Richards haha)
Anyway, Day 7 today and a bit of energy coming back, trying to eat healthy and put on some weight but that will take a while as my appetite is seriouly down, but I’ll get there, before these damn tablets I was running half marathons and thats the goal again eventually, maybe by the end of the summer, although I don’t think Eliiud Kipchoge will have much to worry about from my time !!!
So all in all and considering, I feel it is going OK, no real craving to nip to the nearest pharmacy etc. I know the pitfalls all to well but feel this time (to paraphrase from one of my favourite books) I am the master in a way the the tablets never can be.
I’ll keep reporting my progress every few days if anyone on the forum would like that and my message to anyone in the very early stages and getting hit by withdrawals or those who may be to worried to begin is thats its certainly possible, all are different but here I am a heavy use for a reasonable period and at times I am feeling almost normal.
You can do it soldiers, strength and honour.
Chris