Hi, I am new here at the although on week three, today starting on 100mg topamax. I have read My Way Out and doing the supplements too, but don?t have the hypnosis tapes, although I do listen to other motivational tapes. Still having a lot of sleep probs in spite of the Calms Forte (it doesn't help me one bit), hoping that tonight will go better. I haven't been able to exercise much because of the loopy feeling...I call it "dopymax" because that is how I feel sometimes. It has helped me a lot with the drinking, although if I do get in a situation where there is booze, I do end up caving in, but only have a couple, which is a GREAT BIG improvement. I will go check out the holistic healing forum.
I had a big awakening as my health has been affected...my last check-up showed high cholesterol/high blood pressure, which has affected my heart (mitral valve insufficiency) and the dr put me on cholesterol medicine and warned me that drinking the way I was drinking (I was "fairly" honest and he was shocked...imagine had I been completely honest!...)along with the Vytorin (cholesterol medicine), would severely damage my heart. This was a month ago. It has been a very emotionally hard time for me (the adjustment).
Beer is pretty much the bond that holds my husband and I together (we are high school sweethearts, married now 38 years). He always stops at a local bar on his way home from work and has quite a few, sometimes I join(ed) him, and when I didn?t, then I had then home alone, most nights, anywhere from 4 to 9 to 11?the first week I stopped he kept doing it and it really was hard and he realized it, and so he has been making a big effort to keep me company?last week he came home every night and we went out Friday night (there was a party) and I only had 3 (he got bombed). He went out Saturday, I stayed home and it wasn?t a problem (yay Topamax). I realize I can?t dictate his fun or he will resent me, and I appreciate his backing me up. I hope I can find things to do as time goes on?.right now I my mind is just too muddled and tired to even think of alternatives. I really hope I will start feeling better and more energetic soon as this is kind of scary for me...this feeling that I may never feel ?normal? (whatever NORMAL may be!)
I had a big awakening as my health has been affected...my last check-up showed high cholesterol/high blood pressure, which has affected my heart (mitral valve insufficiency) and the dr put me on cholesterol medicine and warned me that drinking the way I was drinking (I was "fairly" honest and he was shocked...imagine had I been completely honest!...)along with the Vytorin (cholesterol medicine), would severely damage my heart. This was a month ago. It has been a very emotionally hard time for me (the adjustment).
Beer is pretty much the bond that holds my husband and I together (we are high school sweethearts, married now 38 years). He always stops at a local bar on his way home from work and has quite a few, sometimes I join(ed) him, and when I didn?t, then I had then home alone, most nights, anywhere from 4 to 9 to 11?the first week I stopped he kept doing it and it really was hard and he realized it, and so he has been making a big effort to keep me company?last week he came home every night and we went out Friday night (there was a party) and I only had 3 (he got bombed). He went out Saturday, I stayed home and it wasn?t a problem (yay Topamax). I realize I can?t dictate his fun or he will resent me, and I appreciate his backing me up. I hope I can find things to do as time goes on?.right now I my mind is just too muddled and tired to even think of alternatives. I really hope I will start feeling better and more energetic soon as this is kind of scary for me...this feeling that I may never feel ?normal? (whatever NORMAL may be!)
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He went blind when he was four, first in one eye, then a year later in the other (from cataracts) and since I live in Honduras I couldn't do anything about it. He is now ten. I also have two Dobie/Rottie mixes and three kitty kats and that are rescues AND a very small house and some days I think I am going NUTS with all these animals lying around tripping me up! Thanks for the welcome.
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