Hello all. I'm not sure if many of you will remember me, but I came to these boards 3 - 4 months back seeking help for my morphine addiction. I'm still off the pills, other than what is prescribed to me to help me sleep....Restoril i think it's called. And I only take that if i've been up a couple days and can't get normal sleep. I just wanted to stop by and say hello and thank you for those who helped me with either similar stories or sound advice. Thanks you chef, Rosie, John 3:16, happy dad, banker, and the twin sisters (cant remember your names..) plus anyone else I may have missed.

I still get the occasional craving. I'll still have days where my bowels are messed up. And I still have trouble sleeping. But I'm not swallowing pills. thanks gang. I'll try to stop buy more often.

oh..one last thing I wanted to ask all of you....Do you think it's possible I've damaged myself permanently? Because the sleep/bowel thing isn't really improving all that much. I can get through this...but I'd rather not have to take restoril or ambien every couple days. Does that improve? I'll tell you honestly...that's the biggest temptation to get strung out again. Normal bathroom visits and a solid 6 hours sleep.

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oh..one last thing I wanted to ask all of you....Do you think it's possible I've damaged myself permanently? Because the sleep/bowel thing isn't really improving all that much. I can get through this...but I'd rather not have to take restoril or ambien every couple days. Does that improve? I'll tell you honestly...that's the biggest temptation to get strung out again. Normal bathroom visits and a solid 6 hours sleep.

i guess the bowel thing can last for awhile i had a friend plus from experience she quit vicodin/oxycotin 5 months ago and still every now and then has the bowel issue and for me 90 days methadone free i still suffer a little bit from it i can't give advice in the sleep department i was on trazadone the whole time and never had a problem sleeping trazadone was a god sent for me have you tried benydrl howard 678 uses it and says it works pretty well hope i helped i was on methadone and have read it can take years for a normal sleep pattern but everyone is different and methadone is different you could be sleeping tonight try a vitamin b complex it gets your brain back to normal it doesn't work over night but it definitly helps congrats on your recovery your doing awesome and i promise things get better kelleigh :angel:also try immodium ad itworks pretty well