My "BIG PLAN"...
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Join Date: Dec 2006
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Luck homer.
See you can pick up a book at an AA meeting, "Living Sober." Lots of tips for the early days. Interestingly, having a bit of sugar during cravings is one of the tips.
You don't even have to stay for the meeting just buy the book!
Or if you are really unable to make it, I think Amazon has it.
See you can pick up a book at an AA meeting, "Living Sober." Lots of tips for the early days. Interestingly, having a bit of sugar during cravings is one of the tips.
You don't even have to stay for the meeting just buy the book!
Or if you are really unable to make it, I think Amazon has it.
Hope3
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Upstate, NY
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Originally Posted by IMHomerSimpson 
im on my laptop so excuse my typing as i lay in bed.im feeling lousy right now,sooooooo angry at the world,nothing is helping.i had a physically hard work day which didnt help and came home to multiple family issues,all minor,son getting pulled over for car stereo too loud,neighborhood kid threatning my younger son forcing me to go talk to his parents(expected a fight but all went good),and just wierd little things that maybe happen daily but cuz im not feeling well they all bothering me.i had a very sweaty night last nite and am down 9 lbs in 2 days,im sure some is dehydration from sweating but ive also only had 3 small lowfat meals yesterday and today.the fear of illness is starting up again,just as always when im not drinking.i am drinking plenty of water,is it good idea to give into my craving for ginger ale? im really craving ginger ale LOL.should i do antabuse for a while? or try the other medicine? i cant seem to make any decisions tonight,had to force myself to nicely explain to my wife that im very irritable and please bear with me for a few days,every other words ive had with her and others have just been mean and nasty,not yelling but just similar to a drill seargeant attitude,i just cant help it so im just trying to stay alone and not bring anybody else down with me.so what about that ginger ale? lol,forget it im going down and pouring a nice sweet glass of it LOL,and i never have anything with sugar,NEVER.ok gettin too long,bye
this is from the NIAAA site, infor on the 3 approved meds for alcoholism:
Which medications treat alcoholism?
Three oral medications--disulfiram (Antabuse®), naltrexone (Depade®, ReVia®), and acamprosate (Campral®)--are currently approved to treat alcohol dependence. In addition, an injectable, long-acting form of naltrexone (Vivitrol®) is available.
These medications have been shown to help people with dependence reduce their drinking, avoid relapse to heavy drinking, and achieve and maintain abstinence.
Naltrexone acts in the brain to reduce craving for alcohol after someone has stopped drinking. Acamprosate is thought to work by reducing symptoms that follow lengthy abstinence, such as anxiety and insomnia. Disulfiram discourages drinking by making the person taking it feel sick after drinking alcohol.
Other types of drugs are available to help manage symptoms of withdrawal (such as shakiness, nausea, and sweating) if they occur after someone with alcohol dependence stops drinking.
Although medications are available to help treat alcoholism, there is nono "magic bullet." In other words, no single medication is available that works in every case and/or in every person. Developing new and more effective medications to treat alcoholism remains a high priority for researchers. (See also "News Releases," Jan. 17, 1995: Naltrexone Approved for Alcoholism Treatment and "Publication," Alcohol Alert No. 61: Neuroscience Research and Therapeutic Targets.)
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Holmes,
That's awesome man!
Keep chuggin' the ginger ale (they make diet if you don't want the sugar, but sugar is the least of your concerns so drink what variety of GINGER ALE that works for you.) Ginger has natural anti-nasuea properties, so drink up!
Cheers,
PR
That's awesome man!
Keep chuggin' the ginger ale (they make diet if you don't want the sugar, but sugar is the least of your concerns so drink what variety of GINGER ALE that works for you.) Ginger has natural anti-nasuea properties, so drink up!
Cheers,
PR
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Thanks to all supporting my efforts,I truly appreciate it.Its day 3 and still feel like crappola.Im tired,very tired but HAVE to goto work.I almost fell alseep on the job today because of lack of sleep.For those who read another thread Im involved on,I did NOT mean to include everyone,just a few that to me,seem to be getting "high" on dragging my past record so they can boost their own egos.Anyways,thanks for the love,Ive probably had one of the worst days Ive had in a while today,everything that could go wrong did and the days 1/2 done.Im taking vitamins,drinking mostly water,eating lowfat healthy meals and snacks and getting rest when I can.Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day,if anything positive other than not drinking would be blood pressure reading normal and lost 9 lbs. of water weight,I guess.I gotta lay down for a bit,Ill be back soon.
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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Homer,
You have one day than I do, so be proud of yourself. "mind clearer which always scares me cuz its reality that fears me." Yep, think you have hit the nail on the head. Hang in there, I plan to as well.
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PDX
You have one day than I do, so be proud of yourself. "mind clearer which always scares me cuz its reality that fears me." Yep, think you have hit the nail on the head. Hang in there, I plan to as well.
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PDX
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Wow Homer, it sounds like you have a lot going on in your life aside from getting sober. You need to give yourself a giant pat on the back, you are doing great. It's amazing you recognize that you are craving sugar; I didn't even understand that at first...there is tons of sugar in alcohol and on an alcohol diet we feed our sugar cravings that way. So any time I was either thirsty or my blood sugar was low I would think I was having an alcohol craving, it took me a while to figure out to carry water with me at all times and eat something sweet when I got a craving. Those things you listed would drive anyone up the wall aside from trying to get sober in the midst of it. I hope the people around you understand that your main focus needs to be sobriety and that you may not be able to fix anything other than yourself right now. The fact that you are getting sober and holding down a job is a miracle and you should be commended; I'd gotten myself fired right before I got sober so I didn't have to be responsible like you are. God bless you, my friend, we are all rooting for you.
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Get through these crap days, Patrick - they will go away, and you will feel better. I've been through them and they are he** but they pass - one of those situations where you have to GO through them to GET through them.
Keep posting! And don't drink today!
Keep posting! And don't drink today!
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I been faking my way thru life for so many years
Comes a day that we realize.... I did what I knew till I knew better and when we look back, we see that we may have been faking things for a long time.
Not only are you giving things a go at it, you are thinking things through so well and taking proper actions where need be. Sure sounds like more then any 12 year old I know.
Way To GO!
Good job.
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guess what? i watched my 10 year play his best baseball game ever tonite,and I not once thought of going home,I was mentally there(aside from the occasionally italian dinner take-out I was planning lol).Im soooooo tired but getting out did help my anger issue Ive been having.Im drinking more water than soda but drinking soda makes me feel like one of those people Ive hated to watch all relaxed and clearminded sipping on a good tasting beverage while I was burping foam from many beers and hiding from people so they didnt know I was drinking,but,I beleive they knew anyhow.Im off to p/u my food,its not a lowfat low cal dinner BUT,who the hek cares right now,not me.Later guys and Im not on a pink cloud cuz I am still feeling like crap but its feeling strangely good.Thanx for all the supportive replies,I needed them.Patrick
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Glad to hear it Patrick.
Question for you, what are you doing differently this time ? We've all white knuckled the withdrawls. Some of us more severe, and more often than others.
Personally, I could always quit after a 2-3 days of puking and shaking, and always felt better after about a week. (Well, until the end at least) The hard part was staying stopped. There wasn't a darn thing I could do to stay stopped. There is no magic this time unless you do something different.
Not knockin 'ya, just speaking from expereince. I know you've relapsed a few times yourself too.
Get some help & keep it up !
Question for you, what are you doing differently this time ? We've all white knuckled the withdrawls. Some of us more severe, and more often than others.
Personally, I could always quit after a 2-3 days of puking and shaking, and always felt better after about a week. (Well, until the end at least) The hard part was staying stopped. There wasn't a darn thing I could do to stay stopped. There is no magic this time unless you do something different.
Not knockin 'ya, just speaking from expereince. I know you've relapsed a few times yourself too.
Get some help & keep it up !
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Patrick I will back up what GP said, you are doing well so far, but getting sober as crazy as this sounds is the easy part, the staying sober part was the bear, the only way I managed to stay sober was by putting as much time into staying sober as I did drinking, I did this by going to AA meetings (A lot at first) and staying busy.
I drank for 40 years Patrick, in the end I was physically incapable of not drinking, I had to drink! I did what you are doing now an awful lot of times during the last 10 years I drank and some how because I was not changing my self, all I was doing was not drinking I always wound up relapsing. Like I said I finally reached that point where I had to drink every day, I had no physical choice.
Once I realized I could not stay stopped on my own, that I needed help, I went to AA.
Patrick you obviously want to stay sober, if you are like me (sure sounds like it) you are going to need some sort of long term recovery program, AA is what worked for me. I now have all kinds of real friends that care about me thanks to AA.
I drank for 40 years Patrick, in the end I was physically incapable of not drinking, I had to drink! I did what you are doing now an awful lot of times during the last 10 years I drank and some how because I was not changing my self, all I was doing was not drinking I always wound up relapsing. Like I said I finally reached that point where I had to drink every day, I had no physical choice.
Once I realized I could not stay stopped on my own, that I needed help, I went to AA.
Patrick you obviously want to stay sober, if you are like me (sure sounds like it) you are going to need some sort of long term recovery program, AA is what worked for me. I now have all kinds of real friends that care about me thanks to AA.
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