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My boss 30 years ago had quit drinking like 3 years before I started with him..... He would always tell the guys on the job site that one day he was gonna start drinking again....... As the years went by he would just keep saying that but never did...... I think it was just his way of coping with a tough moment or day!!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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I choked at the wedding. We had rented a house in Scottsdale. That morning I stopped by Costco and got the big bottle of Knob Creek. Snuck it into the freezer and made myself some drinks during the day. By like 7pm I was pretty lit. Ended up falling asleep on my bed and didn't wake up til the next day. Fawk I felt like such a dumbass. Been beating myself up over it ever since.
I had drank about a 1/4 of the bottle that day. After that I tried drinking it some evenings, but really wasn't into it. I took the bottle with me out the desert last weekend ago to party with friends. Felt like shit the next day. After that it was almost gone. But it was still in the cooler just outside my bedroom door on the patio. I finished it off, a swig or two at a time, on Friday night. But I just wasn't into it. Friday night there was 2-3 glasses left (I liked it over crushed ice straight out of the freezer). Yesterday morning I felt like shit again. I'm done. As Ive tapered off Ive noticed I'm thinking much more clearly. And of course waking up actually feeling rested, despite only getting a few hours of sleep each night. I feel more rested after 4 hours of sober sleep then I do with 8 hours of drunken sleep. So today is day 2 of sobriety. I have no real desire to drink tonight. It feels good to not be in a haze all day (even though I rarely drank during the day). I look forward to waking up tomorrow feeling better then I do today. To satisfy my cravings I've been on the sparkling water over a glass of crushed ice in the evenings. I mix a little 7up or grenadine with it. I like to crunch on the ice and it seems to be enough to satisfy my cravings. Even when I'm stuck in front of my computer doing invoicing and scheduling til midnight, trying to keep my business running. Thats when I drank before. As a bonus my wife has backed way off her drinking. I hope she can get hers under control and quit for good. It would make it easier on me for me, and vice versa. She's an alcoholic just like I'm an alcoholic. We've been drinking nightly since before we were married 33 years ago. Feb 4th 2018 I fell off a 9' wall and broke my back in 6 places. Fucked me up good. I got back on the Oxycodone then, and didn't stop until last Sunday when I ran out of my script a week early. I messaged my doc and asked for a Suboxone script to help with the withdrawals. I took that last week while withdrawing from those evil little pills. So today I am clean and sober, off the pills and the alcohol. Today is the first day Ive been completely sober in probably 10 years. Ive had back problems for many years after a car accident, and have been off and on the pills pretty much for the last 10 years. It feels good. I think I'm gonna keep it going....
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That's fucking awesome man! Keep it up. Friday was 8 weeks for me and I couldn't be happier with my life right now.
It's also a lot easier to clean pools while sober
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Made it a month after being diagnosed with gout at 36. Came down with that after a trip to Germany for work, sampling every beer I could get my hands on, but pretty sure it was from drinking 4-8 beers nightly for 15yrs because I hated my stressful job(s) so much. The gout was a good reason to stop, told by wife if I cant stop drinking in the face of a threat of massive foot pain I need some pro help. Made it just fine, realized my super stressful job was a trigger so I quit that as well, figuring out what to do next LOL. Feeling great and I'm on a diet now and eating better. On vacation and just had one glass of wine I got for free from the hotel and this will be it for the trip. Glad it was a looong habit and not an addiction.
This is annoying as I am kind of on the fat side, 230 and 5,11, probigly down to 215ish now, but no where near lard ass. Just ate a ton of meat and drank alot, and came down with this shit. Evreything happens for a reason I guess! Stay strong dudes!
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Reads like it could have been my life. It’s been so long since I’ve woken up feeling like shit I seriously can’t remember it. Life is going well for me and I joke with my wife about her getting sick ‘cuz of the beer’ and she only drinks 2-3 beers a week. I’m pushing 6 months and sometimes I think I’d like to crack some beers open and drink with my father in law or on the couch but I can do a ton of stuff that would put me in bed at 8:00 and wake up at 4:00 that don’t involve drinking.
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![]() Friend’s husband has gout. She was hoping it would make him quit drinking or eating meat. Three kids didn’t even stop that so I told her a medical condition wouldn’t but I think he knows his exact limit.
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Gout sucks ass and alcohol can cause flare ups, considering the pain in my toe was worse than when I broke my collar bone in two places, seems like a no brainer. I have been trying to quit drinking for a long time, just kept saying "tomorrow I'll do it" and always found another excuse to drink the next day. Hope this makes me kick it for good, time will tell. I really think I was leaving the incipient stage and entering into drinking problem stage before this.
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Yeah. Running is fucking stupid. Just ask me. I’ve run every day for the past 28. I’d rather have friends to drink with.
Just tell yourself “I said tomorrow yesterday.” Tomorrow isn’t ever a good day to start something like this. Yesterday is.
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Thanks man. So far so good. I made it another couple nights sober. Feeling better every day. Although my back and foot pain (sciatic nerve damage) is pretty wicked at times. Still trying to figure out what to do with that.
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![]() I never went down the pill rabbit hole, even after taking them before and after my hip surgeries. They got me high as fuck, especially if I had a couple drinks with them, but the next day just felt wiped out, so only took them till the pain from the surgery was tolerable. But... When I met my wife she was on the Norco bus. Got addicted to them after a ski pylon ripped out of the floor of a boat and whacked her ankle on the way over the transom. Anyway, she wrote me a letter explaining that she was addicted and wanted help to get off them and had already tried cold turkey. I let her stew on it for a day and then responded with, "OK, I'll help you, but YOU are going to come up with the plan, and YOU are going to stick to it no modifications when it gets hard. And you'll start right now, not next week". She decided she wanted to be clean by the end of the year and it was February. She was taking 12-14 pills a day, so I had all the meds in my possession, and she started by cutting down two pills and taking them on a schedule rather than just when she felt like it. Each month she'd back it down a couple more and by November she was done. Still very proud of her for following through and not going back.
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few weeks ago (Oct 16 I think) was 2 years sober for the gf. She is not into the whole AA thing but I wanted to commemorate it so I got her a 2 year chip from Amazon
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Realistically a microdiscectomy and laminectomy is your only shot at sciatic pain relief. It's a minimally invasive surgery that is done outpatient.
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![]() I hadn't done the math in a minute so I decided to check. 2 years, 6 months, 5 days without a drink. Time flies. I remember when I couldn't get 2 and a half weeks without drinking. Still rebuilding my life, but its unbelievably different than it was 2.5 years ago. People who haven't seen me in years don't even recognize me. Life is good.
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In January of this year I had the same laminectomy all over again. Except this time it didn't do shit. I saw a physical therapist a few months ago. After a 20 min exam he looked at me and said "the surgery didn't work because its not in your back, its in your hip". The sciatic nerve runs through the hip in the "femoral triangle". Well sure enough he was right. I can bend my back any direction and it doesnt bother me, but if I move my hip/leg just right I get shooting, burning pain in my foot. I need to find someone who can help me with it knowing that. The PT just seemed to make it worse for the most part.
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