SWB - Long Live Sobriety and BAC!

[TexasAg]

SWB - Long Live Sobriety and BAC!

MaryGoRound;1411731 wrote: I started my Bac prescription 10 days ago. I am trying to keep within the parameters but I admit to go a bit fast. I am at (I am at 40 to 45) when I should be at 30.

I had a horrible nausea/vomiting attack two nights ago but I remember some saying on a post "this is chemo for alcoholics" and I felt I could continue.

I am looking forward to your progress. I wish you all the best.

Mary, how are you doing? Do you have you're own thread?

I don't mean to hijack your thread Sober, but I just wanted to give a shout to Mary.

Cheers!

[soberwannabe]

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Hi Mary,
Hope to hear from you too!

Texas, where is your thread? I'd love to read your 'adventures' and congratulate your accomplishments. You're so kind about praising everyone else.

Wishing everyone a good day.

[MaryGoRound]

SWB - Long Live Sobriety and BAC!

Hi all-

I am enjoying "listening" to everyone else. I have not started my own tread.

But since your asked...I am having similar (and in my opinion good) SEs as Sober. I am getting a calm feeling.. I am getting more reaction time. The wheels in my mind are spinning less.

I also have the vivid dreams. These are not all just random dreams...I am recreating the stressful situations in my past. The most important part is I am recreating the events (although they are bizarre and intermixed with events happening now) and I can feel the event but I am also watching the event from afar. Sometimes I don't know what it means but, if I wake up and try to connect the dots, I get it. I am remembering events that I basically suppressed. It is nothing earth shattering but they are situations that
I can see drove me into "looped thinking." Does that make sense?

I am not AF yet but I can see the day where this will happen. Maybe it is the HOPE that Tex refers to or it is the Bac. I don't care which it is so long as I can keep it coming!

Sober, I am continuing to send you best wishes. I love to hear your progress.

[TexasAg]

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Sober, Mary, I'm so glad to hear y'all are doing well!

The dreams were pretty weird and intense for me. And the energy boost gave me the spark to fix a bunch o stuff around the house that should've been taken care of a long time before.

soberwannabe;1414129 wrote:
Texas, where is your thread?

I don't really have a thread, I kinda hijacked the newbies nest around pg 38. I just read through some of my posts and it's kinda surreal. I'm on day 125 and I'm sober and not obsessing on alcohol (among other things) after 25 years of bingeing! :shocked:

https://www.mywayout.org/community/f2...-38-48420.html

[soberwannabe]

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Congratulations Ag.. I'm happy to share my thread and no worries about hijacking!
I liked your quote too..

The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.~ Shakespeare,

Now I have hope, and hopefully a medicine!

[TexasAg]

SWB - Long Live Sobriety and BAC!

Thanks Sober!

It felt good and bad reading through some of my posts, they seem like such a long time ago. I thank God for leading me to kudzu to MWO to Baclofen to Dr A's book to Dr Levin back to MWO and to the support from posters. Sometimes it feels like it happened so quickly but I have to remind myself that it took 25 years to get here and it's only by the Grace of God that I didn't end up like my college roommate.

It's great that you're here on MWO! JKTTDP!

Cheers and Happy thanksgiving!

[soberwannabe]

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Hi Ag, Mom, Mary, Friends,

I can only say, I feel tremendous gratitude and feel blessed that I found baclofen and MWO.
I can not remember a holiday where I did not binge. Something about stress, holidays and cooking that set in motion a perfect storm.

I went grocery shopping the other day for the holiday dinner and stopped in the beer aisle. I did not feel anything. Nothing! I stayed there thinking .. 'ok.. I'm here .. waiting.. testing you BAC' .. nothing.

What an amazing moment.

There are no words, but a lot of emotions of gratitude.

Happy Thanksgiving my friends.

[TexasAg]

SWB - Long Live Sobriety and BAC!

Whoop!!

Enjoy your family!

Happy Thanksgiving!

[MaryGoRound]

SWB - Long Live Sobriety and BAC!

Sober-

Checking in.Are you still feeling the same after a few days?

[Xadrian]

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I remember when I skipped the beer aisle forthe first time in long history. Laughing. Amazing!

Way to go, soberwannabe.

[soberwannabe]

SWB - Long Live Sobriety and BAC!

one amazing word - Miracle.
I am taking 40mg of baclofen a day 10 mg 4x per day.

My thoughts and desires about drinking/binge have been lifted.
My first sober holiday in years!

I feel at a loss for words. A weight has been lifted off my shoulders and I feel that I live today the way I was meant to live. There is so much hope for those suffering with this disease called alcoholism or 'GABA-B' dysfunction, as I now wonder.

I'll keep checking in.. work has been a bit crazy, but my wits are intact! No anxiety, sleep is good, weird dreams, stress seems inevitable, but manageable.. if I get 'a sense about me' I take an additional 10mg to hold me over to the next dosage. I rarely take more than 50mg per day total.

[lostsole]

SWB - Long Live Sobriety and BAC!

It is a beautiful feeling not planning your day around a liquor store run and what you will be drinking later.

[Ne/Neva Eva]

SWB - Long Live Sobriety and BAC!

lostsole;1418108 wrote: It is a beautiful feeling not planning your day around a liquor store run and what you will be drinking later.

Amen.

[MaryGoRound]

SWB - Long Live Sobriety and BAC!

Sober- this is great news! Thank the stars (or put in your choice of words or thoughts). I can't claim the same success yet but I am glad for you!

[TexasAg]

SWB - Long Live Sobriety and BAC!

soberwannabe;1418104 wrote: one amazing word - Miracle.

My thoughts and desires about drinking/binge have been lifted.
My first sober holiday in years!

I feel at a loss for words. A weight has been lifted off my shoulders and I feel that I live today the way I was meant to live. .

:goodjob:

Congrats Sober! and thanks again for the kind words.