scoob12

Hey everyone. I'm new here, (joined a long time ago, but decided now to start posting again) and I thought I would share my experience.

I've been drinking pretty steadily for the past 6 years now... binge drinking about once or twice a week... when I did drink, it was about a fifth of liquor or case of beer.. for the past several years, it was almost always to the point of blacking out. I quit a while back, and was four months clean before falling again and drinking like this again for the last 3 months. I've already gotten 1 DUI a couple years ago, and I'm ready to seek help to get clean.

I am 5 days sober so far, and don't plan on going back. What about yall?

Dee74

Welcome back Scoob

I drank just enough not to kill me.

Whats your plan this time?

D

Pedro1234

I drank way too much Glad that you are here and congratulations on your 5 days.

AZliving

scoob12

What I can tell you is that I drank way too much. I did have black outs. one horrible thing about this disease is that it does continue to get worse. If you don't stop drinking it will kill you, one way or another. A DUI, that must be scary. People drink and drive, and sometimes end up killing themselves or kill innocent people. You have been given another chance to work through your illness. I was given another chance, and I am working on my issues. I hope you will do the same. Great job on 5 days sober. The first 5 days were the hardest for me. Big hugs to you...stay sober.

TroubledJoe

Until drinking more was no longer an option, whether that be through passing out or running out of booze after the shops shut.

Every time.

least

I drank enough to make me hate myself.

yeahgr8

Depends in my 20's i drank the same as you. In my 30's it got more frequent. Mid 30's it got well out of hand which is saying something as it was already well out of hand in my 20's!

Gottalife

I have found that how much I drank and what I did are not the things that qualify me as a real alcoholic.

It is much more about how I drank and how I felt. These are the things I identify with when another alcoholic shares.

newwestdork

Started binge drinking every few months, then every month, then every week, then a few times a week, then most days a week. I often drank at bars so my count was fuzzy, but given that I could down a 26oz bottle and want to keep going, it's safe to say it was "a lot." I'm sure that I'd probably have moved on to being a daily drinker if I hadn't started working on sobriety when I did.

It was enough to cost me a lot of things, and did not really help with my then-untreated depression.

Glad to hear you're starting on your journey to sobriety. It's hard but it's better than the alternative.

BrendonM

at my worst it was a 375ml bottle of vodka daily.

karate

It does not matter much how much the volume is ,its how it affects you .

At my worst point 12 pack of beer a day and 1-2 half gallons of jim beam a week .

I quit for a while ,then started back up ,I started back with a single 24 oz beer a day .
In a matter of a few months I could drink a 12 pack when I was off ,and a 6 pack after work . See the progression ?

Nevertheless

I always drank ALL OF EM
Of course if I couldn't drink "all of em",I simply drank till I passed out.


Glad you aren't planning on going back.

Fred

karate

Sure we could ,finish off the rest when we got up .

Hair of the dog .

biminiblue

One too many.



It's like when someone asks me how long I was married. One day too long.

alphaomega

Since this disease is progressive, I suppose it would depend on which decade of my alcoholism.

Regardless of the quantity, I was always sicker than a dog the next morning. Hangovers were withdrawals a long, long, LONG time ago. I just didn't know it.

It just took more alcohol to get sick towards the end of my drinking.

At the end, when my body was refuting what my brain was demanding, it was over 2 bottles of wine a night and a couple of long pulls off the vodka handle.

And I'd go to bed almost sober.

And then I'd wait....

gaffo

I drank 70,000 beers, give or take a case or two.

Taking5

I don't like to answer this question. I do not want some one to compare my volume to theirs, decide they "aren't that bad", and continue drinking.

I would prefer to spare a fellow alcoholic from another decade or so of misery

bizzybee

Welcome back! For me a daily thing was almost a fifth of silver tequila and a 24oz can of Coors lite. I'd drink that everyday on top of a bad hangover! Everyday! SICK, SICK, SICK! Today I don't have that hangover on top of hangover! Feels Soo good being sober! 113 days today! Keep going on those 5 days!!

DoubleBarrel

Enough that you could line up the cans and they would stretch to where they came from. (Milwaukee)

Grungehead

Yep, same here D.

It wasn't so much the quantity as it was the reasons why I drank and how it affected me on the inside. Yes my actions from drinking got me in some trouble, but not nearly as much as the toll it took on my psyche.

As for quantity, I was an all day, every day drinker however much that is.