Josafe

Hi all

I hope you are all well!

I have been on and off the booze but now made a deal with the GP the completely stay off the stuff. Doc said I need to change my overall life style. Whilst I can drink in moderation, this simply wont work for me. Asked my doc to tell me what to do and he said to STOP until a baseline for my bloods could be ontained.

Managed 5 weeks and then a relapse! Now I have been sober since 7 May. I will remain sober as promised to my mum and Doc until Sept.

WOW it took a pancreas irritation that was caught very early to realise the serious nature of what would happen with a pancreas!!!

Good news so far is that my health has reversed for the better.

It is now easy than I thought to stay sober.
Lots of exercise
Lots of B vitamins
ST Johns Wort
Milk Thistle
Fish oils
Multivitamins
NO facebook
More confidence building
No more people pleasing
Accepting to STOP completely and FORGET MODERATION!!!!!

YAZZ - the only way is up!


Jo

Mentium

Great going there Josafe!

Curious why 'no facebook' though. I ask because I have hardly been near it since I stopped drinking and when I do I find it irritating and annoying. I used to visit and post there endlessly.

Dee74

Glad you're back with us Josafe

D

least

Welcome back!

FeelingGreat

Great progress Josafe. My doc was encouraging for me as well, and used to praise me for being sober every time i visited. He meant it too, because doctors see so many people who can't give up.
Come September surprise him again by not relapsing.

Josafe

Thanks everybody for the caring!

I say no facebook because it can knock confidence and draw you into a world of thinking you are missing something or should be out partying or drinking.

I stopped facebook to stop the noise, build my confidence and to build my identity.

Yes My doc has faith I will make it to Sept. We always think that alcohol affects the liver but think about the damage to the pancreas and what quality of life you would have without it!!!! Scary sobering thought!!!

Unlike the liver, damage to the pancreas is like a forest fire, it will keep causing damage long after the drinking stops!!!.

It took 4 bloods tests over several months before the reversal could be confirmed!!!

Hope this helps to motivate people to give the creature the middle finger

aasharon90

"I will remain sober as promised
to my mum and Doc until Sept."

The word "until" caught my attention when
reading your post and had to wonder what
you will do when Sept. arrives.

Often I would hear this in meetings and
to me it sounds like there is a plan in
drinking when that time comes.

If someone is planning to drink or use,
then more than likely they will and do.

I had to change the way I thought about
my addiction and take it seriously and not
for granted. If I didn't then I would surely
be drinking today if not dead or crazy.

My recovery is solely my responsibility
no matter what others think. My husband
in my first marriage told me after I returned
home from their rehab intervention where
I stayed for 28 days, that if I ever drank
again then my azz would be out of the house.

How dare he tell me that. Big time resentment
flared up and could have made me drink right
there on the spot. However, I showed his azz
up and learned to stay sober each day with
a program of recovery to live upon for a many
one days at a time to reach 23 yrs. today.

My recovery belongs to me and not to
any of my family or friends. Im staying
sober for my own well being, my own
health, my own peace of mind, my own
life.

If I had not stayed sober with a program
of recovery to back it up, I would not have
help raise my 2 awesome little adults as they
are today. I would not have become honest
and end my first marriage to remarry living
an awesome happy healthy life in recovery
today.

The Promises can and will come true if
we are willing to walk the walk of recovery
each day we remain sober.

Josafe

HI

AAsharon well picked up with the UNTIL word but when September comes it will just mean I have achieved something that I have never done for a long time. Will I want to break out the champagne to celebrate - NOOOOOOOOOOO!

BY changing all aspects of my life, I really do not see how alcohol plays any good role.

Will I want to go back on to the booze, personally, I dont think so. This forum taught me that to give up as if it is permanent is the only way. Any thought to start again is not an option. Already with all the B vitamins, exercise, and brain boosting ST Johns Wort I cannot see how alcohol provides any nutritional or health value. It actual makes me feel negative and low.

YAY!