2 weeks clean for Wilbsoon

[wilbsoon]

14 days clean as off 7 hours ago! So it has been 2 weeks since I last took Codeine. I still can't believe it myself... My body is finally feeling much better and my brain seems to be getting better. I am sleeping about 6 hours a night so I don't have too much to complain about. These cold symptoms (sneezing, runny nose and coughing) are getting old fast though.

My wife says that the last week I have been "happier" than in a long time. My addictive brain can't comprehend how I could be happier than when relaxed on those wretched tablets. But when I think about it, how happy am I that my life is not ruled by: when will the chemist/drug store be open, when will I be in withdrawel and "need" some more... I am getting out doing so much more with life now, workouts, excercise and just doing life. I still have days of craving something, anything really but I just think of where I've been and I won't go through all that again. Withdrawels really are a good thing AFTER you've gone through them, stopped my brain from rationalizing it's okay to go back once in a while...

I even had an alcoholic drink last night with a friend. And managed to stop at just one which I wouldn't normally do while he drank on. This whole disease has taught me to think ahead of where will I be at tomorrow if I do this or that? And now I feel great, no anxiety after a few drinks cause I didn't have a few!

I know I still have a long way to go and it will always be with me. I am just stoked to have made it this far. A month ago I would not have believed I could go a day without it and now I am two weeks clean and doing much much better than a week ago. I must thank all of you for your support early on. I have still been here everyday just reading and looking forward to all your encouraging posts and to another day clean. It is so worth it. I just hope this new lease on life doesn't fade as I've read the "high" of initially being clean can do.

Oh, and work is so much easier now, which my stupid brain can't rationalize. Why did I start doing what I did in the first place? Hindsight is a beautiful thing.
Cheers,
Wilbsoon

[Peter]

Keep up the good work.

[butterflylover]

That's awesome news! Keep on doing what you're doing!! Hopefully, one day, I can be where you're at...

[windysan]

keep it up keep it up keep it up

[Impurrfect]

That's fantastic!!

I, too, am amazed at how much I enjoy life now, and that I thought getting high all the time was "fun".

Keep up the good work and keep us posted!

Hugs and prayers!

Amy

[ccgirl2]

What Amy said. lol!

[PeachyClean]

Well done! Keep up the good work.

[bvaljalo]

Your doing great, keep up the good work.

Personally, though, I highly recommend AGAINST drinking alcohol, especially this soon in your recovery. It's really NOT a good idea. You stopped at one THIS TIME, which is great. But you're playing with fire my friend. Alcohol and opiates work on many of the same pathways, for one thing. For another, if you wake up hungover one day and *have* to do something productive like work or something like that? You'll be amazed how fast the idea of opiates to 'solve the problem' will pop into your head. And how easy it will be to give in to.

Just speaking from experience my friend ... clean also means SOBER ... at least, to most of us.

[wilbsoon]

Bvaljalo,
Thanks for the advice. I've decided to give going alcohol free a go. You are right, when I get stressed I am starting to think, a few JD's would go down nicely and am relaplacing the craving for opiate with that. Not a good thing. It is so hard where i come from as everyone drinks socially. Besides work mates whom I have stopped really sociallising with (all alcoholics), most people I know go out for dinner, have a wine/beer and that's it or meet at the pub and have two or three beers over a few hours. It is tempting but I don't need that in my life anymore than I did tablets. A friend of mine is a recovering alcoholic and been sober 8 months. When people offer him a drink he just tells people, "I'm an alcoholic and trying to stay sober". They never offer him again! I should go out with him more often, hey?

Thanks for the advice again. Now I have to go back to a thread where I said "one" is okay to someone and correct my erroneous ways...

[woops]

Hi Wilbs

Soon to be 3 weeks!!

Great stuff - keep posting - its so heartening to read of your success and how your life is changing.

Just brilliant.

woops