When You Trade One Addiction for Another

Hang in there Michelle. I hear you on the painkillers too. After my WLS I worked the doctors (my WLS doc and knee doc) for 8 bottles of Lortab before they cut me off. I didn't need it for the WLS recovery but for my knee. However, then it began to be for something else...it was like drinking for me and this was before I became an alcoholic. After I was cut off I didn't take anything for about a year but then I started drinking and low and behold that same good feeling again. Then it kept getting progressively more and more until I ended up in rehab. I don't know what it is either...I seem to do everything in excess. Anyway, you sure aren't alone, there are lots of us struggling right beside you and we have keep the faith. Bev

This is a real problem.....at least it has been for me.....I had surgery 8/05 and sometime thereafter lost my job due to corporate downsizing. I went into deep depression and during that time started spending money......foolishly without regard to anything...went through a divorce without hardly blinking an eye....my spending addiction is now being investigated as a crime..I am still depressed.....don't know where my life is headed.......not sure if I will get time or just what.......I really think more needs to be done upfront on counseling and discussing trading addictions. This is a huge problem. Any suggestions.....!