Vodka: 500 ml a day; HELP!!
 

I'm 32 year old male and am drinking more than ever. I'm now drinking 500 ml of vodka daily. Been this way for a couple months. I was a beer drinker until I found the vodka.

I'm so ready to quit. I've been in and out of AA for 4 years now. I did stay sober for nine months once.

Am I going to die?

Relax.....we're all going to die....

On a serious note please see your doctor if you haven't already as you may get some serious withdrawls.

I take .5 mg of Klonopin a day to curb anxiety. I'm going to the doc today.

I'm glad you're seeing the Dr UTGrad - be honest with them.

Welcome back to SR - you could do worse than post and read here regularly, I think.
There's a lot of wisdom and experience here.

Find the people here who have what you want, and do what they did - it's got to be better than what you're doing now, yeah?

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The best advice I have for you is to check with your doctor about how
best to de tox. Be honest about your drinking patterns and ammount.

There is no way to guess how difficult this time will be ..I'm
glad you will be seeing him soon.

Alcohol does not care what you drink beer or liquor .it's all processed
in the same manner and that simply meeeans ...
some of us no longer can tolerate it.

Of course some keep drinking until death.
Some of us no longer drink...which improves our chances on a long
life without booze.

Welcome back to our recovery community....:wavey:

i am glad to see ya wanna stop. we are all gonna die someday, but doin it drunk isnt very pretty.
i had a friend that was a vodka drinker. i wathced him deteriorate over time and eventually watched him take his last breath. it was not pretty. but it doesnt have to be that way!
apparently there was something that intrigued you about AA, so how bout after seein the doc, gettin back to AA, gettin a sponsor, and workin the steps? soberiety rocks and its a journey i would love to see you take,too!

UTGrad please be honest with your doc about how much you drink!! Klonopin and alcohol are cross tolerant and it's very important for the dr to be aware of how much you are drinking while taking it. Please let us know how it goes!!:) oh and sobriety is totally, totally worth it :)

Vodka? You betcha. There are a whole bunch of us that moved to that stuff. I did too, and for some really great reasons. It was the cheapest alcohol proof by volume, with less hangovers. I thought it smelled less on me than other liquor, wine or beer, but now I realize that it just smelled different. 500 ml is quite a bit, too, I was to that, maybe a little more some days, but like you, it was every day.

That day came for me, and it will come for you, too, when I said enough, no more. I quit. No more alcohol. Was it hard for me to do? I don't know how to answer that question, my volunteer state friend, it just got to the point where I was going to quit drinking, even if I was the first person in the world to ever do it. I took it off the table, I closed the door, I removed it from being something that I would allow myself to do. It was very simple, but it certainly was not easy.

You can quit too, TGrad, you can be sober too, but you need a plan. Are you ready to make your plan for continuing to use alcohol? Keep posting here, there is a lot of support here for you.

And see your Doctor, make that appointment now and be honest and straight up. You can do this thing.

Thank you everyone.

Stay this time....Take the suggestions and work the steps...That's what changed and saved my life.

I was a fifth a day drinker for 20 years so it will not kill you immediately. I think of it as controlled suicide. Toward the end my liver was going, high blood pressure and I felt horrible all the time unless I was drunk.

Alcoholism only ends in 4 ways

Death
Jail
Institutionalization
Recovery

I spent $10,000+ trying to recover but I finally decided to give AA a real shot. 7 meetings a week, got a sponsor, arrived early/left late, became friends with people in recovery and eventually worked the steps. I am 3+ years sober and happier than at any point in my life. I still go to 5 meetings a week, still work the steps, still have a sponsor, have a sponsee, have tons of sober friends.

AA works but it is not a free ride. You have to do what the winners do and that is a big commitment but it sure as hell beats being a drunk. AA is not a quick fix, it is a lifetime of positive change

Deer season opens Saturday morning. I hope my withdrawal will not be too bad.

See a doctor you can DIE! from alcohol withdrawal. You won't die from Opiate withdrawal but lots of people die from Alcohol withdrawal. Look it up online this is serious stuff

I will see a doctor. Just saying I hope I can be in the woods Saturday morning.

Deer hunting? Bet you there is no drinking going on there. Staying sober is a series of choices. It is very easy to determine what to do. Is this action moving me toward sobriety or away.

You will not die if you do not deer hunting but you will die if you continue to drink. As always the choice is yours.

Image popped into my head with that one!

Can you repost that link?

Drinking is present everywhere. We love venison, including my wife and kids. It is my passion and the people I hunt with are not big drinkers anyways.

I do see your point. AA taught me people, places and things.

Link is not working

Link still not working lol

I copied and pasted the URL in my address bar and it didn't work.

Must be something funny