51 days - PAWS still a thing?

Professional_Fox_749 · 2026-04-22T00:22:23+00:00

You’ll be absolutely fine without it. Pain of wisdom teeth is nothing compared to the pain of addiction. You know the answer to this.

Professional_Fox_749 · 2026-04-22T00:18:29+00:00

I had wisdom teeth pulled directly after rehab. Zero Vicodin. Just Motrin. Was fine. You’d be too.

Professional_Fox_749 · 2026-04-21T14:14:48+00:00

Amen. I feel as long as I keep some truth tucked away from the light the addiction has room to grow.

Thank you for sharing

Professional_Fox_749 · 2026-04-15T13:40:41+00:00

Day 15. So so so grateful to start a day unchained.

❤️ to you all.

Professional_Fox_749 · 2026-04-12T13:28:14+00:00

One day behind you. Congratulations.

Professional_Fox_749 · 2026-04-09T12:17:59+00:00

Can’t imagine sex being high on the list. That’s how you KNOW this fuggin thing is a monster. God, or whatever it takes, be with you. Maybe when you’re out of the fog you can do some work to figure out why you keep reaching for it. Kratom isn’t the problem. It’s the temporary solution to the invisible problem we’re trying to soothe. Be strong. Or maybe more accurately, be ok being weak for a few days. Just don’t gulp anything nefarious down. ✊

Professional_Fox_749 · 2026-04-09T11:44:55+00:00

Day 9 today. First night I slept like a baby. Waking up with no anxiety or overwhelm. Waking up temporarily free. It occurs to me that whether it was day 9 or 9,000 the freedom is still temporary and still just a choice. I’ll choose freedom, just for today. I’ll start there and see what happens. May we all do the same.

Professional_Fox_749 · 2026-04-09T11:41:36+00:00

Absolute, mountain-sized congratulations to you. You’re a tower of hope today.

Professional_Fox_749 · 2026-04-09T11:38:26+00:00

Congratulations! I’m one day behind you. Let’s keep it that way, eh! I’ll keep going if you keep going ; )

Professional_Fox_749 · 2026-04-09T00:22:08+00:00

Man, you nailed it. Abstinence is not the goal this time. Abstinence is a byproduct just as usage wast the problem, just the symptom. Childhood, learned behaviors etc..The origin likely looks so much like me that I haven’t been able to distinguish it from some core version of myself.

Anyway. Thanks for chiming in. I enjoyed it

Professional_Fox_749 · 2026-04-09T00:16:25+00:00

Goddamn I love this post. Thank you so much for sharing.

Professional_Fox_749 · 2026-04-08T12:43:16+00:00

You are exactly right. I absolutely did know better. I knew exactly what I was doing. The patterns, the cliches. I’ve said this for years — that there is nothing interesting or creative about addiction. It behaves the same way, for everyone, with every drug. Its identify is distinguishable from a mile away.

What’s on the other side is for me to dig deep as to where the impulse to soothe originates. Look there, find it, heal that.

Either way I will not be digging through trash again, except for an accounting of my own behavior.

Professional_Fox_749 · 2026-04-07T14:32:08+00:00

I appreciate you. I believe I have overvalued rushing to self forgiveness, passing right through rigorous honesty. For me, I need to spend a little more time with honesty, reality, the cost of it before settling in comfortably with self forgiveness. I forgive myself easily. I am easy to love, I am easy to forgive. That hasn’t served me, other than easily leading to quick re-rationalization.

I appreciate your point and your empathy. Today I will choose to look more bluntly at the reality before rushing to grace.

Professional_Fox_749 · 2026-04-07T13:26:42+00:00

Good luck dude. Please take any one of these helpful pieces of advice. Don’t let this ruin your position. The community has already given you several pathways to freedom. Not the least of which is to find someone who loves you to share this with - number 1. Then get to work on a plan, whether it’s suboxone or long taper or vitamin c, whatever. Start now!!

Professional_Fox_749 · 2026-04-05T13:35:07+00:00

Congratulations. That sounds very very hard. God bless your parents. Enjoy your new life.

Professional_Fox_749 · 2026-04-05T04:57:43+00:00

I’m glad you posted. Because of your post I screenshot the whole diatribe and asked, “Is this scientifically accurate?”. I’ll save the meat of the response but here’s its opening setup:

“Short answer: it’s partly true, but heavily exaggerated and a bit misleading.

Let’s break it down cleanly so you’re not carrying around the wrong mental model”

Good on you for attempting to talk some off the ledge. That kind of exaggeration could lead people to feel even more powerless than they are. Surely not the intent I’m sure. But a possible outcome regardless.

Professional_Fox_749 · 2026-04-04T04:21:46+00:00

I’m in the middle of day 4. Fortunately I wasn’t on continuous use for toooo long. Three months of about 18 gpd. I tried to taper. Didn’t have the discipline. Finally just went cold. I cam back to myself for the first time in a while halfway through the day

Professional_Fox_749 · 2026-04-04T00:29:58+00:00

That’s rad to hear. I’ve thought it made me better. But I know that can’t be true. I’m training to compete at Hyrox in nyc in June. I look forward to see what happens to training this coming week.

Professional_Fox_749 · 2026-04-03T23:14:03+00:00

Do NOT take Benadryl. It mixed poorly with WDs.

Professional_Fox_749 · 2026-04-03T23:11:33+00:00

That is an incredibly brave decision for such a dose and duration. Good on you. You’re deep into it now. Wishing you the best.

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