Mel12

Hi PHRD - is the blood condition caused or exacerbated by alcohol? I hope your 2016 quitting effort succeeds! Wish me luck too . . .

ChrisBen

I have 360. But I have 25 years of cringe worthy really? moments. I take a lot of deep breaths, remind myself that the past is the past and this is a new chapter of my life. One that I plan on completing sober. I use a few of them as reminders of why I want to live my life sober now. I also think we make things bigger in our heads, at least I think I do. If I take some of these moments apart I remember that the people I was with were stupid drunk too.

PHRD

Geeze now I get a call from the school that my 12 year old daughter tried alcohol the other day and told a friend. That's fine - great excuse for me to dump all the alcohol in the house! Well I put my husband's wine and two beers in his garage. There done! I had a huge panic attach because I couldn't post and thought I got kicked out. It was because I changed my email and hadn't verified it. Phew! Breathing, breathing, no stress... Yeah well when I went to my new blood doctor a few months ago I had quit at that time for several weeks. I said no I don't drink. She said "Good because I've seen some really bad cases where alcohol reaks (spk?) havoc on platelets" Alcohol kills platelets and new ones need to be made.... I have less to start with. B12 and two irons a pill now though and I have more energy than I've had in years. Sorry to overpost. Okay I'm back to work.

PHRD

Add good luck Mel12! I'll be a quiting partner!

Auggie

No such thing as over-posting.

360startstoday

I keep telling myself that and think of Good things. I'm not sure if it's an AV thing telling me this is why I drank or if it's my mind saying this is why you stopped. I'm sticking with the latter. This is why I stopped, none of those things will ever happen again!

360startstoday

I like this bright side! I didn't even consider that.

360startstoday

I do make things bigger in my head, and I doubt anyone else is sitting there thinking about what we did or I did 15 years ago. And you're right, they were all as messed up as I was.

opalblue

Me too! I was sleeping really well and now I am struggling again

GardenGal

I have a sore throat and a runny nose this morning, UGH. But hey, I'm not hungover! Slept like a log after taking melatonin for the first time. Your body makes it naturally, so who needs Nytol? Ok, I only ever tried that once [recently] as well. I've never been one to reach for the pill bottle [and never did drugs] -- wish I could have felt the same about the wine bottle!

Have a great day, everyone! March 2, Day 2.

p.s. Thanks for the Campral stories -- I hope not to have side effects! Nausea would not be good.

Freedom1982

Day 16 quiting smoking and drinking. Feeling great and the cravings has subsided. Will have to carch up in all the posts sometime just very busy at work and i am trying to get normal family life going again.

Well done to everyone for sticking it out. I need to make some plans for the weekend to keep me properly busy.

Keep up the good work!!!

GardenGal

That would be wonderful, but addiction is a VERY strong force, one that can't easily be rationed with or talked out of, unfortunately. It's taken me a while to figure this out, that's why I'm now getting help. I thought I had enough willpower and intellect to do this fight on my own (I think my husband did too), but I was wrong.

knb, my son is 11. I've been pretty open about it with him, because he is now very aware of when I'm drinking. He used to think I was having a sugar low [type 1 diabetic], but even that I can't hide, because now he checks my CGM [constant glucose monitor] constantly.

PHRD, I'm really sorry to hear that about your daughter. This scares me more than anything! My son has cried, saying he will never touch alcohol, but we all know how that goes. He is 'different' [Aspie], and I think those teens have more tendency to drink to fit in.

PHRD

Did you see GardenGal where my 12 year old tried alcohol and was feeling sick at school? I just dumped out all the booze and guess what I did which was a huge gigantic step for me? I told my husband that I'm done drinking and that it just keeps causing problems for me! I had kind of said it a couple days ago casually but this time I said it very concretely. DONE

PHRD

Oh you did sorry. My oldest has Aspergers. He's 21 and in college now. All grown up and doing amazing!

360startstoday

My 12 year old son tried pot. I could've choked him, then I found out his friends MOTHER was buying it for them and actually taught them to smoke. He was doing this while ditching school.... Talk about an eye opener for mom.

JL2014

My wife often says she doesn't want our 2 boys at home, to grow up with alcohol in the house.
She's right, I think.

GardenGal

That's good news. My son is a straight A student [3 A+s!], pretty nerdy, but every year he makes more friends. I vet them out pretty well.

Silicon Valley is loaded with Aspie's -- there are plenty of opportunities for them there. I'm quite sure Steve Jobs was, and wasn't his old logo "Think Different"? mm hmm.

JL, your wife makes a good point. I think it's ok for kids to see the occasional glass here and there, but not bottles being downed.

360, what are you going to do regarding this friend? And the mother?? I'd have strong words for her...

360startstoday

I think she's right too, we have both quit and removed it from the house. The change is amazing and it's barely coming up on a month now... It's really important to me to have them grow up right and in a good environment.

PHRD

My other older son, step son who is now 21 put use through a nightmare with his alcohol and drug use in high school. And yep, one time he took alcohol from our house and one time he had a big party we allowed and supervised really well but figured out they were putting vodka in water bottles.

I don't think I'm strong enough to raise one more teen while dealing with my own issues. None of them have been easy and this last one is the worst. So great in so many ways. But has been a challenge since she was very little. I've had to homeschool her for several years because she couldn't go to school without my being asked to come get her because she was having issues...

Badger07

Good morning. Day 28 and allergy season is here. Dee thanks for the reminder. I know. I know. It can be hard though.