Morphine withdrawls.What's the difference between addictions?

What's the difference between a 'junkie', 'true addict'' do anything it takes addict' and myself and other pain medication users who decide to cease medications? What makes us all different, yet still get labled and put in the same 'addict' box?
Find out too the truth about pain med addiction.
You WILL go through withdrawls when you cease your pain meds. The same as every other person or 'addict'. The withdrawl is the same no matter what reason for the meds and getting off them.

A BIG difference.
I now tell you why.

It has been 28 hours since my last dose of Morphine 10mg SC in hospital.
I have been in hospital for the last 8 days due to uncontrollable oesphageal pain that was beating even my Neurostimulator implant. If I had turned it off I have no idea how bad the pain would have been.
I have been on Morhine and Valium since being admitted.
I discharged myself last night against Doctor's advice due to family issues.
The Doctor wanted me to stay longer and start me on Endone, another Opiate, before going home. Plus I was still suffering from pain and unable to eat and drink without Morphine to kill the pain.
The Doctor fell over when I said that as soon as I got home I planned to cease all meds!!!!
I told him he could write a prescription but I wasn't going to fill it or take it.
And consequently me still having the pain while eating and drinking and not taking any pain killers, I am unable to eat or drink. It has been 32 hours since I have had anything to eat or drink.
I must check how long it takes for dehydration to start REALLY effecting you.
I am already dehydrated.
It is only going to get worse.
But I am ready for it.

This afternoon slight 'creepy crawlies' under the skin started. So too has the hot/cold flushes and stomach cramps. Sinus blockage. And lower right leg and foot cramps.

If any of you have seen my previous videos, you would know why I go Cold Turkey. For those of you who have never seen these videos or have any questions al all, please ask me as I am more than happy to truthfully answer.

I become physically addicted to pain meds while taking them for many years for GENUINE pain. Once I got my pain under control through non-drug methods I ceased the pain killers.
Something ALL Doctor's tell you is "If you take pain meds for pain then you can not become addicted." That is TRUE!!! But what they don't tell you is that if you ever stop the meds for whatever reasons, you WILL go through withdrawls the same as a 'druggie', a 'true addict', BUt you are NOT an addict. Your BODY IS.
There is a MASSIVE difference.

Anybody who has gone through withdrawls at any stage then get labled as an 'addict'.
No matter if it was withdrawling from Morphine after being in hospital or if you were a 'junkie' or 'slight' user, you get labled the same. ADDICT! And then EVERYONE see's you as just that. And to be labled an addict is hurtful and shameful.

The reason I choose to show you such a private and painful, literally, part of my life is to educate everyone on the truth.

I hope that is what I am achieving.

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[chrissteezybezzy]

lmao i took morphine 30 s for 6 months for my knee and you guys majke it seem soo hard to quit just smoke bud and find xzanx

[balckbettystack]

@chrissteezybezzy Yep! You just swapped one addictive drug for 2.To me that makes no sense.

[chrissteezybezzy]

@balckbettystack weed isnt addictive people like you make me sick ive beeen smoking eed for years i stop for a month guess what no withdraws haha i see youve been brainwashed

[balckbettystack]

@chrissteezybezzy Weed is addictive. I have plenty of friend's on it. One even had a Psychotic breakdown because she was smoking so much.

I haven't been brainwashed.I studied drug and alcohol abuse, plus the personal things that make me personally not like to use weed. It means I wouldn't smoke it. But you can if you want. My Aunt smokes it for chronic pain.

And you can applogise for the "People like you make me sick." comment thanks.

[hollybee43]

I was an "involuntary addict" to Klonopin. Always took it as prescribed (actually, I usually took LESS than what was prescribed). It still got me. 4 months later I'm still going through withdrawals.

[balckbettystack]

@hollybee43 This is all so very common.I took less medications than prescribed & I still ended up having to withdrawal.It is something I know a LOT of Dr's don't warn their pain patient's that by taking the pain meds or benzos,that the body develops a torlerance & the brain chemistry changes.So when you come off them or lower the dose,the brain automatically goes into overdrive,which causes the withdrawal symptoms.

I hope you are winning your fight.If you want to chat,I'm here to listen.

[HardWorkingNurse]

As a Nurse.I have seen 'real' pain patient's come in to have their pain controlled.Like this woman.Only to find their body once they go home and stop the meds goes into withdrawls.

This is what this woman is trying to show people.

Have you bothered to read her profile?Read about her chronic pain?And how she now controls it?

Why would she become an "addict" as you claim,when she STOPS as soon as she get's AWAY FROM HOSPITAL?An addict does NOT DO THAT!

Educate yourself as you are in deniial.

[GomerSanchez]

You're incorrect. Opium has three main chemicals: Morphine, Codeine and Thebaine. Morphine is found naturally in Papaver somniferum, which is the plant that is used to create opium. Heroin is a semi-synthetic OPIOID that is synthesized directly from morphine. Morphine is a natural OPIATE, and Heroin is a semi-synthetic OPIOID made from morphine. Also, the correct name for Heroin is Diamorphine. They are VERY similar, in fact, Heroin is turned into morphine when it reaches your brain.

[balckbettystack]

@The3rdPlateau The local aboriginal people here won't allow women,in fact all tribes this is the rule,to play the didgerido as it causes infertility in their laws.But when I take off up the bush I can get my hands on ones.

[balckbettystack]

@The3rdPlateau fatty tissue layer in the skin.That's why it lasts the longest as it has to go through fat,tissues and into the capalaries before hitting the brain.I think because it stays in the capalaries which are tiny blood vessels is why it lasts so long.

[The3rdPlateau]

@balckbettystack haha i can't hear my own accent either...and that's what it sounded like when i first started playing it, but if you mess around with it for like 30 mins to an hour you can probably get it down pretty well

[The3rdPlateau]

@balckbettystack what is subcut? i'm currently on suboxone which is buprenorphine & naloxone, which definitely lasts the longest for me, but poppy tea is my favorite, straight from the opium poppy...which lasts about 24 hours. suboxone lasts closer to 48 hours