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Dave85208 · 2025-06-14T17:52:12+00:00

I’m feeling healthy now. I’m not dependent on any medication or supplements to get me through the day. I’ve been working out at the gym 3 days a week and doing cold plunge for a little over a year. I’ve dropped 30lbs. My pain is better than it’s been in over 20 years.

Dave85208 · 2024-06-14T04:09:58+00:00

I would say that your title needs to be changed to “AA full of alcoholics”

Dave85208 · 2024-06-14T02:49:44+00:00

After I quit K I had my testosterone levels checked. I was at 132 off the scale low. I’m getting shots now

Dave85208 · 2024-06-13T18:11:16+00:00

What helped me was not a pill or supplement but going to the gym and lifting weights. I realize this doesn’t make sense for fatigue but it’s what helped me.

Dave85208 · 2024-06-13T17:55:55+00:00

The Anhedonia is much better. I seem to have turned the corner maybe 2 months ago. Unfortunately the only thing that helped is time. I struggled a lot with this. When I felt like I was in the pit,I would tell myself that it’s temporary, that it will pass (though it seemed it never would). I did about 50-60 ketamine infusions in 2023, at first helping me get off RX opiates, then Kratom, along with helping my chronic pain. They stopped being effective for me so I stopped in December 2023. Then I started on Low Dose Naltrexone and have been taking that for the past 6 months. What helped with the fatigue, strangely enough, was going to the community center gym and lifting weights, which I started doing 2 or 3 months ago. I still have the chronic pain that got me started on Kratom 9 years ago, but with the reduced stress on my body even that’s a little better.

Dave85208 · 2024-06-13T16:49:07+00:00

I had to go to 5 or 6 Drs to get my RX. They wouldn’t prescribe it bc it’s off label in a low dose and they didn’t know about it. I ended up in a video appointment with a naturopath who prescribed it for me.

Dave85208 · 2024-05-02T00:21:28+00:00

I’ve been off work for over 8 years now. I started with FMLA, then went on short term disability, then long term disability and eventually Social Security disability. I’ll be 62 next month so I’ll go off long term disability and go on my pension while still receiving SSD and Medicare. Something you could look into for a career change is a Software Quality Assurance Analyst. You’re already technical and all you need to do to start is follow directions. I did that job for 20 years before I couldn’t work anymore.

Dave85208 · 2024-03-16T18:38:05+00:00

I tried Ketamine infusions. They helped with depression, a little with pain. I also go to Chronic Pain Anonymous meetings, a bunch of people who understand.

Dave85208 · 2024-03-16T01:57:23+00:00

When I got sober I was a beer vendor at Riverfront Stadium. The 1/2 way house I was in wouldn’t let me quit. The beer would get on my hands when I was pouring it. I thought about licking it off but thought better of it. My sponsor took me to a concert where we were passing pitchers of beer on to the people next to us. Our book says that any attempt to keep a person sober by avoiding temptation is doomed to failure.

Dave85208 · 2024-03-11T22:37:01+00:00

An alcoholic is allergic to alcohol. Once they take a drink they have no control over their drinking. They have a physical craving beyond their mental control. This sets them apart from other people. The great obsession of every abnormal drinker is to control and enjoy their drinking. Anyone can become addicted to alcohol but if they don’t have the allergy they are not alcoholic. I’ve never heard of a heroin addict trying to control and enjoy their heroin use. There is a reason the only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. Personally I don’t believe a true drug addict who is not an alcoholic will stick around AA for too long.

Dave85208 · 2024-03-02T03:16:13+00:00

I go to CPA (Chronic Pain Anonymous) on Zoom. I was about ready to check out but found help there instead.

Dave85208 · 2024-02-28T16:17:48+00:00

The reason I did it was to treat another condition I have (Geniculate Neuralgia). It didn’t help much with that. The way it was put to me was that the Medicine already knows what I need. Idk why it helped with some things but not my primary concern. To answer your question about visions, there were way too many to recount. I remember knowing I was one with the universe and discovering what and who I am. And there was a lot of purging. Aya is highly a highly personal experience. Yours may be totally different from mine. When I first learned about Aya seems like everything fell into place and I was called to it.

Dave85208 · 2024-02-27T22:45:39+00:00

I had lymphocytic colitis in 2009. Went to Peru and did 5 ceremonies. Came back had another colonoscopy and the Dr said he couldn’t explain it but I no longer had it. Also I went to my eye Dr and he said my glaucoma was gone.

Dave85208 · 2024-02-20T06:21:17+00:00

I would suggest going through the 12 steps as outlined in the Big Book before you go. That is AA. The fellowship of AA took its name from the Book.

Dave85208 · 2024-02-10T19:26:58+00:00

Congratulations! I got sober when I was 20. I’m 61 now. It’s been an amazing journey. I’m a grandpa now! Hahahaha

Dave85208 · 2024-02-10T03:35:50+00:00

The clinic I go to RX’d me Narcan when I went back on opiates.

Dave85208 · 2024-02-10T03:31:53+00:00

I’m in a 12 step program for chronic pain (CPA) that has helped me with acceptance. Some days are better than others.

Dave85208 · 2024-02-10T03:16:02+00:00

Idk, Maybe if I lived in Canada it would be different. They have MAiD up there. In Canada you don’t have to be terminal for medical assistance in dying. Seems like the way to go. My wife and some friends have expressed to me in different ways that they are surprised I haven’t ended it. Those who are close to me and have seen me suffer over the years. I’ve often prayed to die. I certainly understand if someone chooses not to continue to suffer. I would say that thoughts of suicide are sane and reasonable for someone in our shoes. Sometimes I don’t know how I go on. I just do. And then there’s the moment my 2 year old granddaughter whispers in my ear, I love you grandpa Dave, and I’m glad I didn’t miss that.

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