The Giving Up/ Cutting Down alcohol support thread - number 11

missmucksmum

Thankyou heath there is 1 meeting i could get to in my area i will ring to find out about it thankyou xxxx

tracy_36

8AF please Shaggy
I have a date tonight, am driving so will stick to the diet coke, or maybe back on the lime and sodas

missmucksmum - echoing everyone else, use this thread to rant etc....it does help

MarkMan

bigdrinker wrote: »

4 AFDs for me please

I was interested - has anyone ever been to the docs for a liver function test? I would quite like to go but I'm afraid it might label me as an alcoholic

Hi everyone again. Trying to cheer myself up so reading back the 6 weeks ive missed. I had a liver test after some pains didnt go away and was asked what I thought they may be.Results came back 3x what they should be but nothing to do with my pains i had! The test just made me stop thinking that i might just be a hypochonriac.

I cut down massively - for about 2 months! I would only get it done again if i thought thing may have improved. Still waiting for that miracle to happen though...:p

MarkMan

Just wanted to wish you and OH all the luck in the world. Itll be painful for both of you but it will be the best thing OH ever did (except meeting you by the sound of things).

Keep posting - youll get great support here.

missmucksmum

Thankyou I cant wait to come out the 'other side' and both rebuild our lives and learn to live rather than exist I have many hopes and ambitions and just want my husband by my side (sober) x

trainingdad

Hi everyone, I stumbled across this thread earlier in the year and knew I would be back sometime. Interestingly, I came across a post by crazymum and new it must be my Sister. There was just something about the tone. She is an amazing lady and a quite incredible Mother.

I know she is trying so very hard to overcome here alcoholism and sings the praises of the support she, and all of you, get on this thread.

Here I am, to join in. To admit (again - and again and again and again) that I do have a problem with alcohol.

I did give up, about 10 years ago, for 4 years. 4 years! Not a drop passed my lips. It was a fight; sometimes easier sometime harder. I recall one evening trying to get drunk on Caliber lager. You can get bloated, but that's about it! But I figured that if I could pour so much energy into my drinking, fully aware of the destruction it was causing on my life, then I was actually a very strong person. I just had to take that strength and point it in a different direction.

I went cold turkey - from being to tipsy drunk every single day from lunchtime to gone bedtime to nothing. I just stopped.

Yes, I had headaches and rubbish sleeps for about a month but things did then get better. And better and better.

Wonderful sleeps. No trouble at all being woken up at 5am on a Saturday by my beautiful daughter asking to be taken fishing. So much energy for other things.

And then it crept back, after my marriage broke down. One glass at a time (I didn't need much more at first to feel drunk again). And here I am today, fighting the same old battles again on most days. As crazymum says, it's boring and I do want to stop.

Well, I'm going to try again and this marks 1 day AF. I can do 1 day. I can do 2 days. 3 days will be my first real achievement.

Wish me luck!

And craymum - you're the best sister a bro could ever wish for. An inspiration (don't fall of that pedestal now) x

MarkMan

Cant write much.bad time. But had to say hi and good luck

MarkMan

I hope there are plenty of new AF days for everyone trying.:j

Another bad nights sleep for me but I think I feel most of the pains are going.

I feel like I've just got to get to Friday night, but then I know what that means.:mad:

Well, I'm going to have to try harder and get at least 1 AF day done.

Fingers crossed.

And a proper welcome to TrainingDad - good luck. At least you know it can be done.

shaggydoo

Morning :hello:

Back on the wagon last night. I read an interesting article on the BBC website, thought I'd share.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19260423





Shaggyx

shaggydoo

cheesedoffwithdebt wrote: »

Hi can I join please? I've developed dreadful drinking habits to deaden the reality of my troubles over recent times. I want to have more money, lose weight and get back in control f my life! Through August I've drastically cut down my drinking and in the month have had in total what I would have normally had through a weekend. I do look slimmer and have loads more energy but it's always tempting come the weekend to want to slip a bottle in with the shopping!

Rolling out the MSE Do you want to join the September challenge?