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Question by I Block Stupid People: Does anyone know of natural pain management techniques that could be used during recovery from surgery?
I have bad reactions to narcotics and don’t want to overdo the ibuprophen. I’m having a planned orthopedic surgery later this year…had a similar surgery ten years ago and the post-operative pain was the worst pain I’ve ever been in. Does anyone know of some natural (do-it-yourself type) techniques to manage pain that will be pretty much constant for about a week or so?
Massage, ice packs and chiropractic are not going to help at all for localized post-operative pain where my foot will most likely be in a cast. Try again.

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Answer by rockdoc
Massage, ice packs and Chiropractic! Good luck!

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Question by heatherrr323: Does anyone know where there are any jewelry stores in Clearwater Florida that sells recovery jewelry ?
Such as narcotics anonymous pendants or rings, etc.

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Answer by acct10132002
Rare item, that one…good luck and Godspeed on search.

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I’ve been on Methadone for a month now and I went on it for Heroin addiction. It is working well as far as I’m not sick or craving. It is hard on my body though. I’ve had 3 periods since I’ve been on it in one month and I’m always very regular. I would like to go on suboxone but I heard you have to be going through withdrawl before going on it. I hear Suboxone isn’t quite as harsh as Methadone and not so bad detoxing off of when you are ready. How many days would I have to go without taking my Methadone to try it? Are there meds. that would help the withdrawl in the meantime? Has suboxone worked for you or the person you know that’s tried it? I also take Xanax which is prescribed and I heard that it is dangerous to take withi Suboxone but I heard the same thing about Methadone and so far, I’ve been okay except for ‘nodding off’ a bit especially around bedtime. Any info. appreciaited.

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I have an addiction to handbags…. and I have 3 white leather bags. One is Coach, one Balenciaga and the other isn’t designer.
The Coach one is a little older and is pretty dingy. The balenciaga is just a little dirty, slightly not as white as when it was new, and the non designer one is new and clean.
Is there any one product that could be used to clean all 3 bags safely without risk of ruining them?
Or a good professional leather cleaner in NYC?
I’m afraid to take any risks with them because I really like these bags and one was very expensive so I don’t want to ruin them.
Thanks for the help!

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after infidelity from the other spouse?

Is there any hope at all to be able to stay married and work things out after your spouse cheats?

My husband cheated… we are currently in counseling, but he still is not telling me the truth. I am dying inside and I am unable to move past all this without knowing the full truth… he simply ignores the question when I ask what really happened or he continues to make up lies that sound so absurd…

Now the counselor is focusing on his sobriety… he believes that if we can get him into a 12 step program then there is a potential for the truth to come out when he sobers up…

I have already filed for divorce, but need to wait 6 months for the divorce. Basically I told my husband, he has 6 months to get his life together and start making an effort at improving this marriage. If the marriage improves then we can cancel the divorce proceedinggs, but I filed for divorce to make a timeline for things to get better otherwise its over. I feel good I did this, but I feel so much struggle to just get through this… I am a good person, I am and have been a good wife, I feel this is his own struggles with his own morals and addictions…

I just don’t know what to do or if there is even any hope for this marriage… thoughts?
He admitted to cheating after I found the evidence on the phone bill and a car reservation…

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Right now I’m having an addiction to his songs haha so I’m wondering if you know any songs that are great that are by him. Here are the songs I already know so you know what other songs you can tell me:
When I’m Gone, Like Toy Soldiers, Lose Yourself, No Apologies, Cleanin’ Out My Closet, Till I Collapse, Sing For The Moment, Superman, Kim, Stan, Rock Bottom, Mockingbird, Love You More, Crack A Bottle, We Made You, Without Me, Shake That, The Way I Am, and The Real Slim Shady. I know thats a lot of the good songs he’s made but are there any other good ones?
But I love Eminem’s songs.. I dislike rap so much but just something about Eminem’s songs I like. I mostly love rock and techno but thats all.

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NEED HELP! Five years ago, I would have never needed or considered doing this. We were a very stable middle class family. I had raised two children and decided to go back to school and take some classes in psychology. I became very interested in that and social work and soon quit a 20 year job to return to school. Cutting our income in half was bad but after winning an academic scholarship at the end of two years, I went on for a degree in Social Work. I drove 100 miles per day to school. In the meantime, everything went haywire. I graduated in May of this year and have not gone to work because of family responsibilities. While in school, I dealed with a son in drug addiction but now with a long period of recovery. He became a father out of wedlock to a precious baby girl in 2003. She was abandoned to him at 2 1/2 years old with mother coming back in a few months. Shortly after, a 1 1/2 year custody battle began that became ridiculous. He now has custody of her. Both of them live with my husband and I. His work has been cut by the economy to part time. He has no government help or child support aiding with this child. My husband has just had a week a month cut from his job due to economy. Our savings have dwindled away with attorney fees, medical bills, even with a bond to get me out of jail on a false criminal charge. If not for my education, I would have never considered this lawsuit, but I have watched wrongdoing of Childrens Services, classism, false accusations placed in agency files and passed around to others for months concerning me when they were not only untrue but could have been easily tested for validity. Some of these things I have documentation of, a tape recorded interview with the head of an agency showing many mistakes, etc. Other things, I have very strong circumstantial evidence concerning. Nobody here wants to fight the state. The DA’s office sure doesn’t want to be involved when they work for the state also.
Some of the many issues include:
1) Sexual abuse of my then 2 1/2 year old granddaughter. The story came to me after a long period of talking about this person in a very traumatic story one night after seeing his father who looked very much like him. I asked her to tell dad and granddad the next morning. She said enough without going into details as she did with me. They took her to Childrens Services. It was thought that I MANIPULATED the child to tell this, and I doubt was ever even documented.
2) Mother and father still had custody but both sets of parents were ordered by the court to supervise with parents at all times, including me. At the same time, they held a document saying that I was believed to have character flaws, mental illness, abuse prescription drugs, and take illegal drugs. Do you leave a child with a parent that needs supervision to be done by someone like this?
3) I walked out of a Family Meeting according to them because I was unwilling to compromise or something similar. I did walk out and told them the reason why. I had listened to what would be to everyone’s convenience for half an hour. Not once did I hear anything concerning “what was in the best interest of the child.” They also wanted both parents to sign away custody to grandparents. My son refused to do so without it being heard before a judge. I refused to sign to take custody until both parents were said to be unfit before a judge.
4) My son’s lawyer called and asked to see him and that he bring parents. When we got there, papers were already waiting for everyone to sign. Based on a conversation with Childrens Services, she had decided that there was no use representing him. She wanted him to sign rights to us. She would then become our attorney and fight to be able to get us JOINT custody with the other grandparents. She was fired.
5) For about two years this child did not know where home was. She usually was ordered to spend three days at one place and four at the other.
6) My son had held temporary custody since the abandonment. One night probably a year into this hearing, she was talking to me in bed before going to sleep. All of a sudden she said, “Don’t you know that my daddy don’t have custody anymore. Nana and Papa do” I just let it go and said nothing. The next morning I went to the courthouse to see the documents of the hearing. She was right! For 5 months they had held custody of the child. My son nor any of our family realized this. It was done on a court date where the judge had plainly said that he would not discuss custody that day…only visitation. He sent us in a room to decide on visitation for the next 2 weeks and said when settled, we were dismissed. The grandparents lawyer came out and returned to the podium. He said “your honor, we have one piece of business that we didn’t address.” The judge asked what, and bringing the paper to the judge, he said that it was the visitation agreement that we had made to be signed.
I would LOVE to at least have some more comments here!

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Perhaps it’s someone closer than you thought. I am not an expert on addictions, but I’ve been told that an addiction is behavior that is usually harmful and that controls you, rather than the other way around.

Can negative thinking be an addiction? You bet it can. Can it harm you? It sure can. How can you tell if your negative thoughts are out of control? Well, the first step is awareness.Let’s make today your Day of Awareness.

As an experiment, here is something you can try, something I often ask my seminar participants to do. Try going through one whole day, 24 hours, without thinking a single negative thought. No sarcasm, no put-downs, no belittling – of others or of yourself.

Now, most people notice quite a few negative thoughts during that day of awareness. But that is not all they do. They get upset at themselves for thinking those negative thoughts, and they end up caught in a mental double negative.
The question continues and concludes with the credit due to its originator:

So give yourself a break. Just pay attention without blaming. Notice your thought patterns for 24 hours. Once you become aware of how much control negative thinking has over your life, you may choose to change it. It may be a snap to change, it may not be so easy, but you can do it! First, though, raise your awareness of what’s happening today – your Day of Awareness.

Lou Tice
The Pacific Institute
www.thepacificinstitute.com

My addendum:

I wanted to offer this as a sincere Christmas gift to Yahoo! Answers participants, with the hopes that your answer, shared here or not, will enable you to have a truly happier New Year.
This is a question. But it is also something I wanted to ask for my own benefit, and for the benefit of those who respond. Since I have had some elements of negative thinking in my own life, I thought the responses may help me as well as you.

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A Girl….

A depressing story I say
To you that may not care
A girl you might have known
Who sat alone
Without worries she looked
Around at people’s smiles and laughs
And she who never could smile
Stayed alway from those people
They didn’t understand her
Or why she never spoke
Because the turth be told
That she was insane
They say
She always walked alone
And when she got home
There was no difference
Why should she speak
To the ones that don’t care
So she walks up to her loney room
And takes a blade to her arm
Blood drips to the floor
And tears down her cheeks
What she has done so many times
Still hurts her more and more
But the need is addiction
And cannot be stopped
She lays down in bed
And looks out the window
And wonders why this is happening
To someone who never thought
Of this before
Who always knew what she was doing
That always spoke
And always cared about life
But one day came
When people turned there backs to her
So she keeps bleeding
And just keeps hurting more….
This is so not about me….I have a lot of poems….I like writing them to!! I have entered one on poetry.com and I got a award for it. I just write what comes to my head. This one is not about me……but most of my other poems are.

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