Correction, clean since Dec 2nd, 2009.
Congratulations on your being clean.
My sister was functioning too on prescription oxy. She had kind of a hack job back fusion and then a revision. She knew where she was and told the doc after the revision she couldn't go home addicted. She went to a facility for PT and her pain management doctor helped her get all the way off at the same time. It took a month. Been about 5 years for her. She will never touch anything other than tylenol now.
My wife had toe surgery and was given oxy. Right when she was getting over it she blew out her back and back to the oxy. She new it wasn't a good thing though she will tell you that the feeling of drifting off when she went to bed was hard to replace. It took a couple rounds of epidurals to get away from it and it wasn't easy but was headaches, restlessness and irritability for a couple weeks. She won't touch that anymore either. Her back isn't great but she manages it with tylenol, stretching and gabapentin.
