My story
 

I never really told my story on here, here is a quick timeline of my drinking. Also, my grammer, wording, etc is very poor, never been good at it.. so I apologize for that.

I remember when I had my first drink at 17, the first time I felt that "buzz" I loved it. Until then I was a good boy who would never drink, but I was invited to a party by a girl and wanted to look cool.

I spent the next 2 years trying to get friends who were older then me to buy me alcohol on the weekend. 19 is legal drinking age here so when I was 19 I started to buy my own nearly every weekend.

By the time I was 23 I was not only binge drinking every Fri and Sat night, but I had started having a few drinks when I came home from work nearly every night. This continued until i was about 27 when I got laid off of work.

Getting laid off work was the worst thing for my drinking.. I started ealier and ealier in the day until finally I was drinking as soon as I woke up. I was laid off a full year and pretty much drank the entire time I was off.

Once I went back to work, my drinking during the week went back to drinking a few after work... but during the weekend I would be drunk pretty much the entire time.. morning till night. I was always very sick on monday and couldn't remember what I had done all weekend. This continued until This past new years(I'm 30 now) when I found this place.

I am now nearly 3 months sober the longest I have been sober since I was that 17 year old kid trying to impress a girl by showing how "manly" I was. I consider myself lucky to have came to the realization that I needed to quit while I was still relatively young.

Thank you.

Congrats on your upcoming three months! It feels good to feel good again, doesn't it? :grouphug:

30 is young to get it! Have you got a program in place, e.g. AA? I went to an AA meeting or two at 30 and was sorting myself out at the time, think i had about 5 months under my belt at the time, i thought what a load of rubbish...went back when i was 38...pretty amazing how bad it gets, hope you don't have to find out for yourself too...congrats on the 3 months:-)

congradulations and keep it up. thanks for sharing your story

Well done.....:funjump:

Good for you!

congratulations on your sober time Krodos :)

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Krodos, thanks for sharing your story. Mine's very similar, except I didn't get it for 20 more years! Be proud of yourself. You're on the way to leading a full life without being in a fog half the time. I'd give anything to go back & do it all again without the booze.

It's great you found SR - it's made all the difference in my life too.

Congratulations! 'Getting' it now...is the best part. :)

Just wanted to pop in and update, I'm a day or so away from 4 months sober now. It feels like forever since I have drank. I'm not much of a talker, but I'm still lurking around here reading some stories and whatnot, many thanks to all of you.

Thanks for the update Krodos!! 4 months is a real achievement!

peace

Congratulations on 4 months Krodos! :)

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Big (((hugs))) to you for reaching four months sober! :scoregood

Awesome work mate! Have you just been going cold turkey or are you working a program? I'm not trying to pimp AA or anything just wondering what's working for you at the moment :)

keep it up anyway brother:c011:

Congratulations, Krodos! Some of the posts you made in the Class of January 2010 inspired me to join SR and the Class of Jan '10. Thank you for sharing your experiences and wisdom!