I'm back after a few years away
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Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: MN
Posts: 1,008
I'm back after a few years away
I'm posting for the first time since about 2012. I was very active on this site from 2010-2012, but then went astray. Now my liver enzymes are messed up or something so I have to stop drinking. I'm going into a treatment, but it'll be a week or so before the program actually begins so I'm nervous until then. I remember this place being very helpful. I'm not nearly as much of a mental loony as I was back when I first joined this place, so that should help.
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Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Soberville, USA
Posts: 4,174
Thrill,
It took a medical scare to get me to stop. I was a dead man walking.
If I saw a Dr. the week after I quit, I would have likely been hospitalized.
Instead I drank lots of water, ate as healthy as I could, and slept a lot. It took months to heal.
I finally went in for a full up check up about 2 years after I had my last binge.
I was considered healthy, minus high BP and borderline high cholesterol.
Not bad.
I since stopped the cholesterol meds and have not had to modify my BP meds yet.
I am getting stronger, especially mentally. It is a wonderful time.
I suffered horrible times to get here med free. It was worth it.
Getting clean is hard and that is why folks relapse. Drinking seems easier, but in the end death by drinking is what the relapser is heading for.
It is so nice being able to look someone in the eye knowing I am a sober man.
Thanks.
It took a medical scare to get me to stop. I was a dead man walking.
If I saw a Dr. the week after I quit, I would have likely been hospitalized.
Instead I drank lots of water, ate as healthy as I could, and slept a lot. It took months to heal.
I finally went in for a full up check up about 2 years after I had my last binge.
I was considered healthy, minus high BP and borderline high cholesterol.
Not bad.
I since stopped the cholesterol meds and have not had to modify my BP meds yet.
I am getting stronger, especially mentally. It is a wonderful time.
I suffered horrible times to get here med free. It was worth it.
Getting clean is hard and that is why folks relapse. Drinking seems easier, but in the end death by drinking is what the relapser is heading for.
It is so nice being able to look someone in the eye knowing I am a sober man.
Thanks.
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