Was it a slip?

[cally]

17. I'm very scared of taking pain meds during recovery

I've had two medical procedures---acute ear infection and shingles--where the doctors wrote scripts for pain meds against my "wishes". I knew a part of me wanted those scripts too much for other than pain relief so I went to the HMO pharmacy and asked them to cancel the script so I didn't have access to it ever.

I don't think taking prescribed meds are a slip but I also know myself and that I relapsed once many years ago on prescription pain meds given to me for a legitimate reason. I know that one day I may want/have to take them but I will have someone else administer them to me. So far, I've used non-narcotic pain meds like Naprocin when I have medical issues instead of other type of addictive pain meds. I've been told in the rooms that Vicodin in particular works similarly in our bodies as alcohol and is one of the worst ones for recovering alcoholics to take. I would ask around the rooms and maybe someone could give some advice and which type of pain reliever to ask for. I found other AA members knew much more about this than my own doctors and helped me find meds that I could take when I was having acute pain.