How does one stop fixating on the OW and move on?

[saffie]

husband,

What pain killers are you on? Are they prescription ones or over the counter?

You must come off them gradually. A rule of thumb is that you must gradually cut them down over as many months as the number of years you have been taking them. This is in order for you to gradually wean yourself off the emotional support they give you together with giving your body time to adapt to the reducing amount of drug in your system and also to allow your body to gradually start manufacturing its natural pain killing endorphins, ( which would have reduced due to the effcts of the drugs in your boy). Stopping the pain killers, (depending on what they are compiled of), in a cold turkey way can be dangerous and cause your body real problems.

I think you are very wise to not stop smoking at the same time but try kicking one habit before the other.

GOOD LUCK - I am very interested in how you get on. The pain killers I am addicted to have Codeine in them which acts as an opiate in the brain. I was really shocked that the amount I was taking, under a doctors advice, could be likened to 2 hits of heroin a day!!! That can make you feel like but I know in my head that its really

Saffie