I need serious advice

Freebase Dali · 03-19-2013, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

If you and your partner both have mono, does that make it stereo?

No. AND IF YOU KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT AUDIO, YOU WOULD NEVER HAVE POSITED SUCH A THING!!!!!!!!creed

Necromancer · 03-19-2013, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

If you and your partner both have mono, does that make it stereo?

COBY CX-CD241 - boombox - CD. ($19.08)

**Janszoon** · 03-19-2013, 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

No. AND IF YOU KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT AUDIO, YOU WOULD NEVER HAVE POSITED SUCH A THING!!!!!!!!creed

Boooooooooooooo!

Sequoioideae · 03-19-2013, 11:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

No. AND IF YOU KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT AUDIO, YOU WOULD NEVER HAVE POSITED SUCH A THING!!!!!!!!creed

CAN YA TAKE ME HIAAAH *guitar riff*
TO A PLACE WHERE'A BLIND MEN AH SEE

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 03-19-2013, 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Exoskeletal

I mentioned a page ago that I had a more detailed update coming. Here it is...

Last week Ryan went to the hospital with what was considered a bladder infection. He got a weeks worth of 10 mg pain percocets and was for the most part okay. Like his regular medicine...the pain killers were to be administered by us twice a day. He complained of pain and he ended up getting three or four a day. When he wouldn't give him one he would pout and eventually give up but we started noticing he would go into the bathroom multiple times a day and stay in there going through drawers for 20 minutes at a time. Every time we asked him about it he'd deny doing anything.

The day we got our puppy which was three days ago he left without telling us and didn't come home until two in the morning. He was high and I was disgusted. Yesterday he spent the whole day with the puppy and around five o'clock he asked for a percocet. We told him that he didn't have any left and that he wasn't getting any more. He then starting wincing in pain complaining of sharp pain. He apparently asked my mom to bring him to the hospital and she said no.

I had no idea this happened. I was downstairs. The doorbell rings. It's the cops. Ryan called himself an ambulance and didn't tell us about it. The cops know my dad who has been a volunteer fireman for 30 years in our town. They asked if Ryan really needed to go and we told them if he did we would take him and to call off the ambulance. They left and we dug into Ryan. He kept begging us to bring him and we kept screaming at him that all going to the hospital would do is waste seven more hours and waste a hundred dollars for them to say the same thing last week. He cried and begged. It was strange. He wasn't even listening to us. Just kept saying he needed to go. Just kept repeating it. Very strange.

Twenty minutes later he put on a coat and boots and walked out the door. It snowed seven inches last night. He walked out into it with no phone and no money. He never came back.

I called everywhere and finally found out he had hitchhiked to the hospital. He talked to me and told me that the doctors said he had kidney stones. I actually ****ing apologized to him.

Today my parents went to the hospital. There's nothing wrong with Ryan. He made the whole thing up. The nurses said he asked for drugs all night. They had to actually tell him they couldn't give him any more because all the tests were negative.

They called a social worker and a psych doctor. Ryan is a drug addict. He told them he's been snorting heroin and that he has voices in his head telling him to hurt people. Now he has security in his room 24 hours a day and he's being admitted to a psych ward. I won't be seeing him for a while. We finally found out what happened. And now it's being taken care of.

I'm actually happy. He's safe and being protected by professionals and now I can sleep. What a ****ing month.

I know they'll be more responses and and replies from me but I just wanted to tell all of you who have been actively following this story and providing support that I thank you from the deepest depths of myself. Really. Herm, Troll, Vanilla...everybody else...you guys are really good people and I'm happy to say I know people like you even though it's on the internet. Thank you.

Wow. Wow, wow, wow. I am in a way not surprised that he was doing heavier drugs, it makes a lot of sense for his behaviour, because weed generally doesn't change people so aggressively. It's really great that you know the situation now. At the end of the day, he wanted more because of the side effects he will get from the withdrawls. They are pretty nasty, like Restless Leg Syndrome and runny poos.

It's excellent that you can finally get him psychological treatment and rehab. I really am praying for it to work so he can be back to normal for not only his family but for himself. He will be able to have a positive life and maybe even start a career.

Plankton · 03-20-2013, 12:16 PM

Definitely a downward spiral, and hopefully this is his bottom. I salute you and your family members for being strong and not giving in. I know it's a hard road to take.

~~Sansa Stark~~ · 03-20-2013, 12:27 PM

Ah man opiate addiction + bipolar are for real the worst. I don't have any advice cause I'm still dealing with my own addiction (and have been for the past 8 years) , but I hope your brother gets better help than I did.

Trollheart · 03-20-2013, 01:46 PM

I'm glad you finally got to the bottom of things, Exo. Jesus it must have been scary when he just disappeared into the snow. So it's heroin then? I know nothing of such addictions, thankfully, but I do know it's one of the major ones, so it's great that you have him finally where he can get some help, and almost as importantly, the rest of your family can catch a breather, not have to keep jumping at every noise and wondering where he is and what he's doing. A time of peace for all the family, including him. God knows you all deserve it.

Great to hear, though it sucks he's an addict; but these things can be cured I believe or at least controlled. Anyway he's in the right place, and I'm sure you can now sleep at night for the first time in a long while.

Stephen · 03-23-2013, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

So it's heroin then?... these things can be cured I believe or at least controlled.

Only if his bro wants to control it. Nobody else can make it happen. Also a pretty dangerous time. I don't know how many times I've heard of people ODing on a relapse.

Trollheart · 03-28-2013, 05:19 PM

Once again I'm just bumping this up before it falls off page one, to ask how things are going now? I'm sure you're probably busy but I'm still thinking of ya as Easter approaches and hoping it'll be a more relaxing one than you've had in a while.

Chocolate frenzy!

03-20-2013, 12:16 PM	#86 (permalink)
Plankton Just Keep Swimming... Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: See signature... Posts: 7,765	Definitely a downward spiral, and hopefully this is his bottom. I salute you and your family members for being strong and not giving in. I know it's a hard road to take. __________________ See location...

03-20-2013, 01:46 PM	#88 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,994	I'm glad you finally got to the bottom of things, Exo. Jesus it must have been scary when he just disappeared into the snow. So it's heroin then? I know nothing of such addictions, thankfully, but I do know it's one of the major ones, so it's great that you have him finally where he can get some help, and almost as importantly, the rest of your family can catch a breather, not have to keep jumping at every noise and wondering where he is and what he's doing. A time of peace for all the family, including him. God knows you all deserve it. Great to hear, though it sucks he's an addict; but these things can be cured I believe or at least controlled. Anyway he's in the right place, and I'm sure you can now sleep at night for the first time in a long while. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

03-28-2013, 05:19 PM	#90 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,994	Once again I'm just bumping this up before it falls off page one, to ask how things are going now? I'm sure you're probably busy but I'm still thinking of ya as Easter approaches and hoping it'll be a more relaxing one than you've had in a while. Chocolate frenzy! __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

03-20-2013, 12:27 PM	#87 (permalink)
~~Sansa Stark~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Eyrie, Vale of Arryn, Westeros Posts: 3,234	Ah man opiate addiction + bipolar are for real the worst. I don't have any advice cause I'm still dealing with my own addiction (and have been for the past 8 years) , but I hope your brother gets better help than I did.