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Madelane
Member
08-20-2001
| Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 7:26 am
I saw you guys discussing this last season but I guess the thread dropped off. My eyes are puffy and I'm trying to work! I have never watched this show before but watched for the first time this morning, the Emily episode. Now I am a mess. That has upset me so much, y'all! Do they do updates again later after more time has passed?
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 8:01 am
I've seen some update shows. Some of the stories have been success stories, some have been failures. I think you can go to the A&E web site to find out more info.
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Madelane
Member
08-20-2001
| Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 8:55 am
Am I the only one watching this season? Wow, these people are something else!
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Stacey718995
Member
07-06-2007
| Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 1:22 pm
I watch faithfully. The mom on the most recent episode, holy cow. I wanted to just go hug her sons.
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Msbullwnkl
Member
08-16-2005
| Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 1:26 pm
I watch this show also. I don't know how they don't realize what is going to happen to them in the end, with the intervention. I think I have only seen one episode where the person figured it out.
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Madelane
Member
08-20-2001
| Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 1:44 pm
Yay other viewers! I know, that Mom was amazing, and I'm surprised she didn't look more haggard. I haven't been super-impressed with the "interventionists." The lady on Emily's episode barely said anything and didn't say anything right, in my opinion. If I were "intervened," I would respond to an authoritative, smart, and professional sounding counselor or doctor or whatever. Those people were way too passive for my tastes and for their purpose.
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Madelane
Member
08-20-2001
| Wednesday, December 19, 2007 - 8:00 am
Y'all! Help me out, I want to talk about this show so badly! I was crying again last night watching the update on Ryan and, I think, Jesus? Jose? He made me cry and cry that he is doing so well now. Ryan still has a way to go in maturity, that's for sure.
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Wednesday, December 19, 2007 - 12:29 pm
I am going to try to catch this show but so far I haven't seen it. I have a brother who I would love to help get off the drugs. Do the users ask for help or do the families make them(or try to make them?)
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, December 19, 2007 - 12:35 pm
I'm not sure how they get on the show, Denecee. They say in the beginning of the show that the addicts think they are being filmed for a show on addiction. I wasn't surprised with Ryan's trials and tribulations. I remember watching his show. I was so happy for Hubert and how far he's come.
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Madelane
Member
08-20-2001
| Wednesday, December 19, 2007 - 12:49 pm
Hubert! How could I forget his name after crying last night? Oh he just looked so great and I'm so glad he accepted help. Ryan looked so familiar - I lived in LA for several years so who knows. Anyway his visit with the family was indeed awkward but I thought the mom and sister could have thought of SOMETHING to say other than to keep asking if he's ok. How about telling him gossipy news, discussing current events or TV shows, asking him about specific people they saw there, about the show, anything to break the ice?
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Sabbatia
Member
08-15-2005
| Wednesday, December 19, 2007 - 7:50 pm
I'm glad I wasn't the only one crying last night over Hubert! I am so proud for him! He seems like such a sweetheart! Ryan.....I don't think he's comitted to it yet.
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Madelane
Member
08-20-2001
| Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 8:52 am
I watched some of the Kristen episode this morning. She's the alcoholic/heroin addict/prostitute. Augh. I think it's a rerun from last year. Egad. Don't tell me what happens, I like to think she'll clean up.
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Madelane
Member
08-20-2001
| Wednesday, January 02, 2008 - 9:09 am
Hi my name is Madelane and I'm addicted to "Intervention." I Tivo'd the whole marathon yesterday and I'm on episode 5 of 8. I can't believe these people! Did anyone else watch the marathon? Or do you have lives.
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Dahli
Member
11-27-2000
| Monday, January 07, 2008 - 11:17 am
Oh sugar!!! I didn't know about the marathon cuz I would have been right there with ya...
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Madelane
Member
08-20-2001
| Monday, January 07, 2008 - 12:41 pm
Well I survived the marathon and I keep finding people who are also addicted to the show. But I do see that there's almost nothing to say about the show, no matter how crazy it is. That must explain why there is so little discussion here.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Monday, January 07, 2008 - 1:01 pm
I watch this show when I catch it. I love it, too. Wish I had known about the marathon, too! (Guess I'll have to start buying TV Guide so I actually KNOW when shows are scheduled. I hate using the one on the tv. Drives me nuts.)
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Bluejaxrock
Member
04-23-2004
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 9:20 am
I missed last night's episode, and they don't post full shows online. What meds was that girl abusing? How did it turn out? I'm in recovery, and from the previews it looked like she was using something I used to use/abuse...soma tia
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Madelane
Member
08-20-2001
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 10:23 am
She was taking jillions of Lortabs a day, plus a couple others. She was doctor shopping. She was completely in denial and insistent that doctors were OK with everything she took. She would pass out while eating, at least 4 times on camera. It was a very unsatisfactory ending because it said that doctors still disagree about her diagnosis (either straight-up rheumathoid arthritis or it's caused by Lyme Disease which she disputes) and basically no one has cured her or helped. She is obviously in extreme pain. Was there an update online?
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Bluejaxrock
Member
04-23-2004
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 12:15 pm
I didn't see any, Madelane. That site isn't as user frienldy as others; however, Monk just started running online episodes, so there's hope for this one.
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Madelane
Member
08-20-2001
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 1:47 pm
I prosecute prescription fraud so this episode was very interesting to me - almost all of my people need help (except the sellers) so I was very unhappy to see this unresolved. I'm glad she's in treatment but what's the plan?! And are they going to shut down the pain management clinic that didn't even check to see if she was seeing other doctors?
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Sabbatia
Member
08-15-2005
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 7:29 pm
Why don't they treat her for Lymes as well as RA? If what's shes taking now hasn't killed her, it's not gonna hurt her to start on antibiotics....just seems like the smart thing to do since she's in a controlled environment and they can make sure she gets them. Blue, it was oxy, lortab and it LOOKED like Soma. From what they said she takes 2 oyx and 12 each of the other two per day....unless she's having a bad day of course...then she takes extra.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 8:56 pm
Hydrocodone, oxycontin, naproxen, and Lortab. I believe that was the extent of it.
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Stacey718995
Member
07-06-2007
| Wednesday, January 09, 2008 - 7:51 pm
This episode was brutal for me to watch. My best friend, my college roomie back in the day got RA at the age of 17. She came to college and never complained. She walked and moved like that and she took some pills but nothing like that girl on pills. I don't know how my roomie did it, she had brutally painful days. Several years ago, I stayed with her on my summer off (teacher) and she completely went off all meds to get pregnant, it was so brutal. She did get pregnant and she had a beautiful baby girl, my Goddaughter. Shows with the chronic pain issues and addiction are so hard, because there are definitely some legit pain issues out there. This one really made me cry!
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Msbullwnkl
Member
08-16-2005
| Wednesday, January 09, 2008 - 8:44 pm
I haven't commented on Brooke's story, because I lived it. (not to that severe extent, but pretty close) I lost many days to pain medication for a chronic pain disease. What the doctor said is painfully true. Even passed out like that is better than living in pain. I will say that now the only medicine I take is benadryl and melatonin to sleep, with the occasional motrin for pain. I just have learned that my days are going to have pain in them, and it is much nicer to remember what I did.
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Bluejaxrock
Member
04-23-2004
| Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 6:18 pm
I guess it also depends on the strength of the prescription. At one point or another over the past year I've been on all those medications, except Lortab and Soma. (Years ago I was prescribed Lortab for extreme menstrual pain - it neither relieved the pain nor gave me any kind of "high". I quit taking it and went back to Midol. At least it relieved the pain.) The only drug I've taken that made me do what we called the "herky-jerky" and then pass out wherever you are were the Somas. 3-5 of them at a time would put me in herky-jerky land. Sometimes I took up to 7 at a time and nothing would happen. Wow, reliving all that makes me so grateful I don't have to live like that anymore.
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