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re: Anyone on a sober streak?
Posted on 12/23/21 at 10:44 am to Billy Blanks
Posted on 12/23/21 at 10:44 am to Billy Blanks
07/04/1987 was the last time I had a drink. I wanted to show my children you could enjoy life and have fun while sober. Do not miss it one bit!
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Posted on 12/23/21 at 11:42 am to Billy Blanks
For those of you that were heavy daily drinkers, did you just stop cold turkey? I know that can be extremely dangerous, I'll go months without drinking then go on a bender for a week or two. Even that puts me in extreme withdrawal for a few days when I finally stop, I can't imagine what daily drinking for years then stopping feels like
Posted on 12/23/21 at 11:50 am to Billy Blanks
It's the holidays.... I'm on a whatever is the opposite of sober streak
Posted on 12/23/21 at 11:53 am to Billy Blanks
8 months. best shape and feeling of my adult life.
Posted on 12/23/21 at 11:56 am to Billy Blanks
Yep, haven’t anything to drink today but I’m finished with work in a couple of hours so my streak will be coming to an end shortly
Posted on 12/23/21 at 12:07 pm to Corso
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For those of you that were heavy daily drinkers, did you just stop cold turkey? I know that can be extremely dangerous
I did and the withdrawal wasn't fun. I didn't have the DTs or anything like that, but the extreme lack of emotional control, irritability, insomnia and depression hit hard after 2 days and stuck around in one form or another for about 2 weeks. Then they came back in less and less frequent waves all the way through about 10 months.
Part of my decision not to enter a medical facility to detox was my home life situation, but if you're at all concerned, seek professional help. If I had begun to exhibit any of the more concerning signs, I had someone with me who knew what to look for and could get me where I needed to go. It's not something I would recommend going into without a plan in place.
Posted on 12/23/21 at 12:16 pm to Corso
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For those of you that were heavy daily drinkers, did you just stop cold turkey
full honesty, yeah, but in rehab and first week in a detox hospital.
Posted on 12/23/21 at 12:17 pm to Billy Blanks
About 35 years or so worth
Posted on 12/23/21 at 12:19 pm to Corso
Straight up cold. Physician scared the be jeebus out of me - something about destroying my pancreas
Posted on 12/23/21 at 12:21 pm to Billy Blanks
About 24 years now...
Posted on 12/23/21 at 12:23 pm to Billy Blanks
I had to switch to beer. I love whisky too much and lose all self control. I can moderate my shite much better drinking beer.
Posted on 12/23/21 at 12:49 pm to caro81
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first week in a detox hospital.
I've always wondered what they actually do in a detox. Fluids? Valium? Or do they just monitor you while you go through withdrawal hell?
Posted on 12/23/21 at 12:51 pm to The Last Coco
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was at 15-18 drinks/day
Holy shite. I thought I had it bad with downing a bottle of wine. I always had some guilt doing that
This post was edited on 12/23/21 at 12:52 pm
Posted on 12/23/21 at 12:59 pm to Corso
valium every 8 hours. complete monitoring for first 3 days including while i "slept".
other meds to help with comfortability like trazadone.
square meals.
at least that was for me and alcohol. the guys there for opioids and other shite, i dunno. i didnt go around asking.
other meds to help with comfortability like trazadone.
square meals.
at least that was for me and alcohol. the guys there for opioids and other shite, i dunno. i didnt go around asking.
Posted on 12/23/21 at 1:04 pm to Corso
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For those of you that were heavy daily drinkers, did you just stop cold turkey? I know that can be extremely dangerous, I'll go months without drinking then go on a bender for a week or two. Even that puts me in extreme withdrawal for a few days when I finally stop, I can't imagine what daily drinking for years then stopping feels like
Nope. I couldn't do it, plus it was dangerous as hell if I could. I ended up going to Palmetto in Rayville for 90-something days and detoxed/got started on recovery there. The folks there were giving me meds for the withdrawals and I was still seeing and hearing shite. It was pretty rough.
Posted on 12/23/21 at 4:21 pm to Billy Blanks
Three days today.
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