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**StuckinLA** · February 15, 2013, 01:30 PM

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:welcome:

Way to go with the AF day. I'm let's maybe call it on day 1 as well. Nice to know I've got some company. :l

**dundrinkn** · February 15, 2013, 01:32 PM

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Welcome! I am new here as well. Started liquid bac on monday afternoon. Have had two days AF and working on the third. I am only at 20mg daily. Will go up to 30mg and stay there to see if I can keep this going. I have felt immediate relief. I was drinking everyday, starting at noon and pacing it well so I never appeared intoxicated. In fact, aren't many aware I was drinking at all. Not much to be proud of... a sneak and deceiver. Oh well. I am hopeful and feeling good. Seems like some people continue to drink on the way up, some don't. I am trying not to, and hoping not to have to go up too high to maintain this feeling of relief and... freedom from my obsessive mind. Hope you find relief as well. So here's a lifeline. Hold on and lets find our way out.

**Bart-man** · February 15, 2013, 01:44 PM

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I'm right there with you guys

On day 3. Feeling hopeful. I took way too much the first evening. Prob 100 mg. Was a bit Euphoric and I felt and stumbled like I was drunk. But also had taken my other meds and smoked some weed. Day 2 was 40 mg. Fell a sleep at work and after work. Day 3 I feel great. So far only 40 mg. Will try some more later. I stopped the Naltrexone and Campral. But last night I could have cared less for a Scotch. But I had a light one and felt a slight buzz. But didn't want anymore.

Little background: I had stayed home from work drinking numerous days. Drove to pick up my son drunk. This was the worst feeling in the world. That was my low point I think. My brother passed away last week after being in a nursing home after a drunken fall. So I get it honest.

**dundrinkn** · February 15, 2013, 02:01 PM

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Hi Bart-man. Glad you are here. Happy I am too. I drove all the time...buzzed. And yes, that includes with my kids. The car was, in fact, my favorite place to drink. Just kept the beer in a cooler in the back. Not kidding. I was worried about getting pulled over for something unrelated, but the truth is, I was half intoxicated all the time, so my functioning that way was my normal. I am just damn lucky that something didn't happen though. I am not so stupid or arrogant to not realize that. I don't, however, beat myself up for my drinking. I don't have shame about my behavior. I am just trying to change it. I am feeling good today. I still find that my "drive time" is the hardest not to stop to pick up beer. But for two days now, I have not done that. It hasn't been too difficult, and when I check in with myself about it, I didn't actually want to drink. It was more of a habit, or even a fear of "I better stop just in case." Sorry about your brother. That is sad and must be really hard for you.

**DimensionDrifter** · February 15, 2013, 02:34 PM

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Eat Salads and..

It usually takes me up to 10 days or even more to feel calm and not have anxiety. But during that time I force myself to eat lots of salad,tuna,lean meats,garlic,peppers and take magnesium and other vitamins with them. Plus I do a daily work out to get the blood flowing. Also a big thing that is destroyed during being wasted is the proper stomach and intestinal bacteria to digest food properly! There are pills you can take to replace them and ramp up your metabolism, so that all that good food is used properly and gets where it needs to be in the body.

**GeauxGirl** · February 15, 2013, 03:45 PM

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Thanks to all for the welcome. So far, I'm okay, but I have to go to the store. And they have champagne on sale. Maybe I'll go to a different store. Late afternoon blahs are my worst times. Not able to exercise for a few more days. Alcohol messed with the antibiotic so still have sinus infection. Not very smart! Knew better, just didn't care. Now, maybe, I do.

Again, thanks, and glad to be here!

**anxiouscat** · February 15, 2013, 03:49 PM

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Another noob here--I'm on day 1 (well, I took 5mg last night but mostly because I had a headache) and like yourself I already had some Baclofen for a different diagnosis (migraines). I wonder if I should go up to 10mg, 5mg doesn't seem to faze me at all. I took 10mg for migraines before. I just ordered some liquid, good to hear it ships fast!

**Bart-man** · February 15, 2013, 04:08 PM

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Hey Dundrinkin,

Very cool on going a couple days. I know what you mean. That's what I really like and want from this. Is to not care about drinking. Not feel like I am missing out. Because I am one who resents that and will find a way to get it. But if you don't care, then your happier about not doing it.

Yeah, my brother's life was sad. His wife left him over booze and he only turned it up. It is a wake up call for me. I went on a bender last week and didn't really know why. But he passed during this time and I realized I needed some serious help.

GeauxGirl, maybe take some bak before you head to store? I just nodded off at work again. Hopefully, nobody notices. But when I knock things off my desk and come back awake, they probably do. LOL.

**DimensionDrifter** · February 15, 2013, 04:09 PM

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Antibiotic plus booze = bad digestive system.

Ask at the pharmacy about tabs to replace the good bacteria in your digestive system. If your on antibiotics AND booze! It was destroyed for sure!

**anxiouscat** · February 15, 2013, 04:23 PM

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GeauxGirl;1463479 wrote: Thanks to all for the welcome. So far, I'm okay, but I have to go to the store. And they have champagne on sale. Maybe I'll go to a different store. Late afternoon blahs are my worst times. Not able to exercise for a few more days. Alcohol messed with the antibiotic so still have sinus infection. Not very smart! Knew better, just didn't care. Now, maybe, I do.

Again, thanks, and glad to be here!

Oh I feel you, as annoyed as I was that they don't sell wine in grocery stores here and the nearest liquor store is a 30 minute drive, in a weird way I think it's helped me--I can't just throw a few bottles in my cart when I'm getting groceries.

**anxiouscat** · February 15, 2013, 08:51 PM

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DimensionDrifter;1463483 wrote: Ask at the pharmacy about tabs to replace the good bacteria in your digestive system. If your on antibiotics AND booze! It was destroyed for sure!

I second this, get some probiotics. Healthy gut flora is really important in some ways that we never realized. Hope you feel better soon!

**GeauxGirl** · February 15, 2013, 09:35 PM

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Thanks DDrifter. I always take probiotics when I take antibiotics. First time I've drunk alcohol when on the anti's. That's an indication to me that I am flying into addiction, and not "just" abuse. Yeah, right. Mom abused A for years, and in later years fell totally down the rabbit hole. Would much rather not use her as my role model. Spent 50+ years releasing myself from her forms of child rearing; do not want to end my years like she did.

Made it to the store w/o buying any A. Looks like I'll make my first AF day! Yippee!! 1 done, a lifetime to go. But you start where you are, like it or not. Good night, all. Glad to have made your acquaintance.

GG

**GeauxGirl** · February 21, 2013, 11:21 PM

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Total of 3 days AF. So wanted/craved a bottle but didn't let my car turn into liquor store on the way home. Today is the end of my workweek, and I still really want drinks/companionship to decompress. Instead, I went home to the fur babies.:dog::dog:

I took 40mg today. No SEs, but am beginning to feel really sleepy - but it is my bedtime. I will take liquid bac, starting tomorrow, 40 mg, 10/10/10/10. I have 3.5 day weekends, so I will use them to titrate up.

I'm so glad this site is here. And that bac does seem to a real possibility.
Iwill post my history with regard to alcohol and other roadblocks on the way to a full life shortly, as a way of introducing myself. I really want/need to be a fully vetted member.

Night, night.

GG

**spacebebe01** · February 22, 2013, 05:57 AM

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Just want to pop in to welcome all you newbies and with you all good luck x

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