how close I came to suicide

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So many of you had strong feelings about suicide that I thought I would tell you about my own brush with it. A couple of years ago I had a very painful case of shingles, and I was put on very strong pain med. Yes Ocxicodine was one of them. After the pain grew less I felt I no longer needed all those strong drugs and made up my mind to get off of them. I had never had any experience getting off of drugs like that but knew you had to do it by reduced usuage. The first day I gave up one, the second day two and the third day it happened. I was in extreme drug withdrawl, I went crazy and all I could think about was stopping it, I wanted to kill myself, I went looking for the gun, Thank God Hubby was home and noticed something wrong with me, I told him I just couldn't stand it anymore and he got my poor hysterical self to the Doctor right away. The Doctor knew what had happensd and told me, then he shot me full of those same drugs and set up a withdrawl system under Hubby's care which finally got me off of the drugs. As soon as I was sane again I realized how lucky I was that Hubby was home and I Thanked God for this very scary lesson. I will never judge another person on drugs or off who feels their answer is suicide. I know how they must feel to consider this answer. And I give great credit to any one who comes off of drugs.