steve-in-kville

I thought I would post this little story, about my various attempts to quit, false starts, relapses, etc. As I read other threads I find some level of encouragement in the fact I am not alone and others are going through this as I type this. I hope to find some level of accountability and encouragement.

I will go first: I started drinking every now and again in the late 90's. Jack Daniels was my beverage of choice, straight up. I had actually stopped 'round about 2000 for a while. In 2001 I took another job in construction where everyone talked about "beer:30." I started in on beer, then moved to Rum and SoCo, always coming back to good 'ol JD.

Fast foward to the past few years, I was 80% hard liquor, the rest beer and wine. I stopped last summer for a month but was back at it again when I caught a cold and bought one bottle of Rock & Rye and then that'll be it, no more. Heh.... yeah right.

Kept up the cheapo Canadian whisky drinkin' until last week and finally had enough. I was good for three days, had a stupid relapse, now I have my act together a little better.

I'd like to hear your stories as well, as we all are in this together!

steve-in-kville

ETA- a good 50% of the time I managed to keep this all under wraps. I got pretty sneaky about hiding it from my family and co-workers.

Dee74

Here's some I prepared earlier

http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...-part-one.html

http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...-part-2-a.html

I really encourage everyone who's interested to read our Stories of Recovery forum - and if you have a year of recovery, please feel free to add your story

D

LucyJordan

I have to get up to 15 posts before I can upload crap to my profile PLUS I like your thread so here goes:

High School:
MadDog 20/20
Boones Farm
Mickey's 40 ouncers
vokda with Sunny Delight
Purple Passion
Bartles & James Wine Coolers
Disgusting and cheap beer in cans
Keggers
Speed (my Sr. year)

LucyJordan

(cont)

Late Teens - early 20s (i dated guys who really taught me how to drink!):

micro-brews and other high-end beers
finer wines
Crown Royal
cocaine

LucyJordan

Mid-20s:
Pacifico
Corona
Modelo Light (in the blue can)
Don Julio Reposado
Ecstacy and Cocaine

LucyJordan

Late 20s:

Veuve Cliquot
Jack Daniels
(these were what i drank with cocaine)

Don Julio Reposado
Pacifico
Modelo Light
Wine, Wine, Wine - we always drank it at dinner parties and afternoon lunches
ecstacy


Pacifico
Modelo Light

LucyJordan

Early 30s:

Jameson
Bblue moon
Heineken
Stella
Guiness
Bass
Woodchuck cider
Anderson i.p.a.
cocaine
ecstacy

...and now i quit i have to sell my kegorator or take out the tap and turn it into a mini fridge.

steve-in-kville

Lucy, I must say you had tried about everything. I stuck with the basics.

LucyJordan

(high school years were pretty disgusting. drank whatever we could get our hands on.)

LucyJordan

p.s. Good Luck to you too!!!!

LucyJordan

i just mentioned my very favorites :-O

tjhook

About the ages 16-24, pretty much nothing but beer.

At 24, my dermatologist diagnosed me with a facial skin disorder, and told me I was addicted to hops. He even told me that if I drink to stay away from beer....drink vodka! WELL HELL YES I was thinking lol!

So, since that time it has been about 10,000 or so vodka/Gatorade drinks and jagermeister shots.

Knew I was in trouble when I would get 2-3 day withdrawals after only 2-3 days drinking straight. Of course, that didn't stop me for a long time. Since then I think I have had as many withdrawal days as drunk days. The real fun ones were when I would be scared of wd and just keep drinking straight...which sometimes lasted 2-3 weeks. Gee, what a good time...NOT