DavidR7845

Well guys for the better part of over a week I have been struggling to stay off drink and every night coming up to last sale of alcohol in the shops at 22:00 is a huge challenge for me. Again last night I was walking to the shop to buy drink and somehow managed to talk myself out of it. It was 21:45 and In remember thinking to myself that this is the worst possiblle time to start (on Saturday) as I still have five whole days ahead until work again, Sunday is my favourite day for drinking so may drink all day and by Monday I would be in bad shape. Closing in on the end of the week I would be unstoppable. There is something important I need to do during the week that requires me to be sober and it was remembering this that prompted me to re-evaluate, and realise the timing and so on. I have been sober exactly three calender months yesterday and want to try go on to make it the longest yet. I dont know what to do though thinking of going to my doctor to see about medication (accomprosate??), and maybe the option of some short term medicaton to calm me down a bit. Just very stressed, did not sleep well last night, slept for 11 hours, nightmares etc. Has anyone else experienced these difficulties around the two-three month mark?? Had no craving before recently, thanks

dawnrunner

Well done on getting past the shop!

From my experience and from reading this board, 3 months does seem to be some kind of danger zone. That was when I started thinking, "I can be sober no problem; so why not drink?" How very logical. !!!

Do you have a clear plan for sobriety including support and resources? For me a prescription drug would not have been a good answer as those little vials of pills could so easily be my next big problem.

Sobriety is so much more than just not drinking - it does require mind-changing and habit-changing, in my experience. And some human support, in whatever form you can get it.

Best wishes staying sane and healthy!

CarolD

Have you considered it might be PAWS?

Post Acute Withdrawl - Relapse Prevention Specialists - TLC The Living Center

Glad you resisted the urge...well done on thinking it thru...

As you do have time off work coming up...why not check out your local AA meetings?
You can just go to listen and hear what others are doing to win over alcohol.

sugarbear1

It keeps getting different, then better! Yes, I felt that, too! Are you in aa? The steps do work.

xxzzfile

I fought it (Recovery) for 10 years and blew through all the 'yets' one by one. And then one day I faced death and knew it. There was my bottom. Bing....last floor. Antabuse and AA combined was the trick for me. And of course a doctor or 2.