Serious Cravings
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Serious Cravings
Day 12 here, and the intense cravings are setting in. I've been taking Naltrexone which had been helping, but there's only so much ANY medicine can do, right?
I'm also dealing with some unrelated illness stuff that's keeping me in a grumpy mood today and in enough pain to sit balled up on the couch, having to miss IOP tonight.
I don't want to let myself down and cave, but I also, almost MORESO, don't want to let my friends, family, and group down. I won't pick up tonight, I'll just sit here with some chips and guacamole and an emergency pint of ice cream and ride out both the pain and cravings with my pups and my new best friend Netflix.
Hope you're all well xo
I'm also dealing with some unrelated illness stuff that's keeping me in a grumpy mood today and in enough pain to sit balled up on the couch, having to miss IOP tonight.
I don't want to let myself down and cave, but I also, almost MORESO, don't want to let my friends, family, and group down. I won't pick up tonight, I'll just sit here with some chips and guacamole and an emergency pint of ice cream and ride out both the pain and cravings with my pups and my new best friend Netflix.
Hope you're all well xo
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Stay strong! I promise it gets easier and it is so completely worth it. I drank every day of my adult life, all day every day for the last couple of years before I stopped. I suffered terrible cravings and was completely terrified of doing anything sober at first, but as the weeks and months passed sobriety became normal. I'm now over a year sober, and I swear if I can do it absolutely anyone can! 
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Originally Posted by Cloudysky 
Stay strong! I promise it gets easier and it is so completely worth it. I drank every day of my adult life, all day every day for the last couple of years before I stopped. I suffered terrible cravings and was completely terrified of doing anything sober at first, but as the weeks and months passed sobriety became normal. I'm now over a year sober, and I swear if I can do it absolutely anyone can!
And thanks everyone. Posting > drinking, right?
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Reaching out here is a great way to take the power away from the urge, craving to drink. One of the ways that old urge bites us is when we let it develop into more than a thought. Put it in its place...take care
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Great job on day 12 and reaching out here for help when you need it Alpha. I could have avoided my relapse in June if i just would have reached out here before drinking.
Stay strong, lucky day 13 is just ahead... My son was actually born on Friday the 13th so I do consider it extremely lucky; lol; for me anyway.
Stay strong, lucky day 13 is just ahead... My son was actually born on Friday the 13th so I do consider it extremely lucky; lol; for me anyway.
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Emotional pain? Physical pain? or both Alphabet?
Some days of sobriety we definitely have to EARN...without a freakin' doubt.
Hang in there sister. You can do this. You can do this. You can do this : )
Some days of sobriety we definitely have to EARN...without a freakin' doubt.
Hang in there sister. You can do this. You can do this. You can do this : )
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Originally Posted by Nuudawn
Emotional pain? Physical pain? or both Alphabet?
Some days of sobriety we definitely have to EARN...without a freakin' doubt.
Hang in there sister. You can do this. You can do this. You can do this : )
Some days of sobriety we definitely have to EARN...without a freakin' doubt.
Hang in there sister. You can do this. You can do this. You can do this : )
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Originally Posted by Alphabet
Physical pain, but you're right, its absolutely earned. Still sitting pretty with my soda water and binging on... Bridezillas ��. Not gonna cave and get that wine or vodka I'm jonsing for because it won't be worth it at ALL!
You would get drunk...
then feel like a giant loser..and maybe cry...or...worse.
Instead you are building some sober muscle and will possess an opinion about whether or not Bridezilla's is worth a watch.
Hot bath and epsom salts?
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Now it's serious cravings + crippling depression. Recovery is fun, huh?
Hopefully this won't last, but I'll be sure to let my doctor know as they wanted to forego meds I've taken in the past for what they THOUGHT was bipolar because it might just have been alcohol withdrawal symptoms all along. I wasn't going to argue, the less medicine I have to take the better, though I have battled depression on a large scale since I was a child.
Day 13 = more pizza, more soda, more ice cream, more netflix. No booze, as much as I'm mourning that loss today. I'm also weirdly wanting to start playing World of Warcraft again, but I'm not gonna take up the space on my dude's computer for that nonsense.
No motivation to even shower, just sitting on the couch crying. I guess I'll just jump on the "international relaxation day" bandwagon for the day and hope for a better, tear-free tomorrow.
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Hopefully this won't last, but I'll be sure to let my doctor know as they wanted to forego meds I've taken in the past for what they THOUGHT was bipolar because it might just have been alcohol withdrawal symptoms all along. I wasn't going to argue, the less medicine I have to take the better, though I have battled depression on a large scale since I was a child.
Day 13 = more pizza, more soda, more ice cream, more netflix. No booze, as much as I'm mourning that loss today. I'm also weirdly wanting to start playing World of Warcraft again, but I'm not gonna take up the space on my dude's computer for that nonsense.
No motivation to even shower, just sitting on the couch crying. I guess I'll just jump on the "international relaxation day" bandwagon for the day and hope for a better, tear-free tomorrow.
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