The giving up/cutting down alcohol support thread!

eselt

On the driving front- I lost my license for a year because I had an alcohol withdrawal siezure, and you need to not have one for 12 months after a fit to get your licence back again- bloody nightmare when you live in the sticks in the middle of nowhere.

I think its really interesting how quickly/slowly people process alcohol- when I had my home detox I had a proper 'end of alcohol' party with myself the previous day and when they breathalized me in the morning to check that I was alcohol free I had nothing left in my system- amazing really, particularly as I felt p==ssed as a fart and really wobbly. Everyone must be different I suppose- but it did get me thinking that if I processed alcohol so quickly that might be why I needed to top up so much-but had to stop , at the end of that road lies madness after all.

Cheers all

eselt

welcome viking!!! Bottles of vodka eh?- don't even start me telling you about where that could lead- bloody stuff, just the mention of it makes me shiver! Bad bad times.....

mollypolly

Welcome Iceland-Viking and good luck on giving up/cutting down.
Love Mollypollyxxxx

shopaholictiedtheknot

Hi Viking, nice to know people read and absorb our ramblings!! Good luck with cutting back - I am guilty of thinking one thing cancels out another too- half an hour exercise three times a week and eating salad for lunch will NOT cancel out all the stuff (alcohol and food) I can shove down my gob each week :rotfl:

shopaholictiedtheknot

eselt wrote: »

On the driving front- I lost my license for a year because I had an alcohol withdrawal siezure, and you need to not have one for 12 months after a fit to get your licence back again- bloody nightmare when you live in the sticks in the middle of nowhere.

I think its really interesting how quickly/slowly people process alcohol- when I had my home detox I had a proper 'end of alcohol' party with myself the previous day and when they breathalized me in the morning to check that I was alcohol free I had nothing left in my system- amazing really, particularly as I felt p==ssed as a fart and really wobbly. Everyone must be different I suppose- but it did get me thinking that if I processed alcohol so quickly that might be why I needed to top up so much-but had to stop , at the end of that road lies madness after all.

Cheers all

How did you cope? i would be lost without my car!

Wanna_Bee_Free

Back again, managed an AFD yesterday and only had a sip of wine on Sunday as too hungover.

WB, hope you haven't gone to the shop, good luck today.

Welcome, Iceland Viking, and well done for taking the first step!

graemecarter

jo1972 wrote: »

Graeme, I'm presuming you go to AA? How often do you go?

I go to three meetings a week. Combined with a little bit of reading, and speaking to my sponsor, I probably spend 5 hours a week on getting sober. Not much compared to when I used to go out at 6.30pm and not come home to the early hours, having been drinking for 8 hours or so.

No-one is too busy for it. A few hours a week is all it takes. If you think you are too busy, then you have not hit your bottom yet. You may lose your family, job, home, etc before hitting that bottom and deciding that it is 5 hours a week well spent. I didn't want to lose everything, so I started going to AA.
It works for me as I can not give up by myself. I am not strong enough, so I let people help me.
It doesn't work for everyone, but it saved my life.

I am going through a lot of bad stuff now, but the last thing I want to do is drink, and that is a miracle.
the desire to drink has been lifted from me.

eselt

Hi shoppy- when I lost my car I was in no fit state to be driving around anyway, I'd left my job (just before I was sacked), I was too drunk to drive anywhere after 9.00 in the morning, and my childrens dad's wouldn't let me drive the children anywhere because I was likely to be over the limit and they were right. I spent 8 weeks in a sort of catatonic state, just staring at the ceiling, I didn't eat anything solid, my sister used to check on me everyday and feed me teaspoons of milk which were hard to keep down- I've got a corner shop opposite me and I used to try to keep down a teaspoon of honey to give me enough of a sugar rush to get across the road to get alcohol then just collapse for the day trying to keep the rattles at bay- didn't wash or anything. Christ what a state- so having no car was a good thing really, think of the damage I might have done if I'd been behind the wheel in that state. Shudder when I think about it....bad bad times.

Anyway, on a lighter note I've been sober for a year on the 14th Dec and I can honestly say its great to be alive, and the prospect of a future is a real possibility now, and I love it- I wanna be like graham, bis and molly, and the rest of you- I think you are all inspirational- thanks

Bismarck

eselt wrote: »

Hi shoppy- when I lost my car I was in no fit state to be driving around anyway, I'd left my job (just before I was sacked), I was too drunk to drive anywhere after 9.00 in the morning, and my childrens dad's wouldn't let me drive the children anywhere because I was likely to be over the limit and they were right. I spent 8 weeks in a sort of catatonic state, just staring at the ceiling, I didn't eat anything solid, my sister used to check on me everyday and feed me teaspoons of milk which were hard to keep down- I've got a corner shop opposite me and I used to try to keep down a teaspoon of honey to give me enough of a sugar rush to get across the road to get alcohol then just collapse for the day trying to keep the rattles at bay- didn't wash or anything. Christ what a state- so having no car was a good thing really, think of the damage I might have done if I'd been behind the wheel in that state. Shudder when I think about it....bad bad times.

Anyway, on a lighter note I've been sober for a year on the 14th Dec and I can honestly say its great to be alive, and the prospect of a future is a real possibility now, and I love it- I wanna be like graham, bis and molly, and the rest of you- I think you are all inspirational- thanks

good for you...

welcome iceland_viking...remember well the argument with self..."I'm training so I can drink what I want"....hmmm....

Vodka....there are lies about alcohol and various attempts to get you to drink more under the guise of fancy wine labels or 10 year single malt distillation or special vintage brandy but has there ever been a purer liquid evil than this stuff?

Anyone who tries to advertise the special 3 times filtered stuff is for the taste is talking completely out of their %%%%. If it wasn't such a versatile poison it wouldn't sell...."look at me, I'm drinking coke...honest"...yeah right....if there was one drink to ban, that would it for me.

vent over!

have a good day everyone!

eselt

Vodka would be my first ban, swiftly followed by that vile white cider stuff at about a pound a bottle- yuk, I can still remember the smell of it coming out through my pores when you sweat it out, arrgghh.