Grungehead

Shoes,

You are not wrong in thinking that Nyquil tastes like a shot. It contains 25% alcohol. That's right, 50 proof cold medicine!

That's definitely one product I think everyone can agree on should be avoided.

foolsgold66

I will agree with Dee, the extremes are difficult but relevant sometimes. One of the very first AA meetings I ever went to an old-timer was discussing his plan to have 10 teeth pulled without any painkiller, just to be safe. Lots of nodding. I was convinced I was the sanest person in the room that day. I'm sure now that wasn't true, that there were others that thought that an overreaction. I still wouldn't make that choice though.

freshstart57

Logical positions, and ones that attempt to be justified with numbers or data can be refuted by the reductio ad absurdum. On the other hand, emotional positions are valid, as I noted, and aren't amenable to rational discussion and cannot be refuted. They just are. A personal decision.

I am freaked out beyond rational description by heights. No justification is possible as it is a purely emotional reaction and makes no sense to me whatsoever. I just get totally squicked. I understand that folks have an emotional reaction to consumption of anything that they feel might have an unacceptable level of alcohol. For some it's orange juice and others it's beer-butt chicken, neither of which have any real content of alcohol at all.

If it's an 'emotive reaction', have at it. We are each trying to make sense of living without alcohol, and some have found their own comfort level already. Ridicule of emotive reactions is not appropriate in this or any other forum. I apologize.

el9292

Interesting - I recently had my first issue with this, and my sponsor told me that it was okay as long as I had no intention to feel the effects of alcohol