After a very brutal six months on acne medication when I was 15 and after seeing the effects of one of my high-school buddies being overly medicated, I sort of went through life trying to avoid medications when I felt it wasn't necessary.
After I broke my leg, I had to detox from painkillers and muscle relaxers. It was one of the worst things I've ever gone through. Even worst than the surgery. Cold sweats, phantom pains my body would produce so I would want to take more, crying for no reason, nausea. I can see why people move on from pain killers to heroin. Once the dosage doesn't do it for you anymore, you will do anything not to feel the way detoxing from them feels.
I found a local south city doctor through an old friend of mine at Wells Fargo. My old doctor was fine. I liked him, he tended to tell me to do Yoga to fix most things. I liked that he didn't immediately jump to pills. And that worked for me when I was in my mid-20s. I felt like everything was still in front of me, so no matter how hard things were, I would bounce back. I was invincible!
