What it Feels Like to be a Ghost Pt.1: My Life Without Pain Medicine

What it Feels Like to be a Ghost Pt.1:  My Life Without Pain Medicine

So, Wednesday night (Oct. 4th, 2017) was the day I decided to stop taking narcotic opioid pain medicine. It's been almost 72 hours without the drugs that I have been taking everyday for the last 10 years. I'm not abusing the medication. I'm taking it as prescribed. I'm not addicted or anything, but in many ways those drugs had a real control over my life, and I came to the decision that it was time to take that control back...