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    One day AF!

    I am happy that didn't drink yesterday, and I plan on today being day two AF. Still, I'm in a strange mood this morning. Not near as much somnolence. I took the 10 mg last nigt, but only 5 this morning. It is a beautiful day, and I need to be able to go out and enjoy. Alcohol interferes with antidepressants, but over the past couple of months I haven't really felt depressed. So why, today, do I have the slight "aura" of depression?

    Some info about me/my situation. I recently retired from education. Last year was weird. My plans to begin an "adventure" were derailed by my new found feelings that I am more a homebody than a risk taker. So, I have started nesting, big time. Cleared out and organized my house and all the papers that reproduced nightly!

    I have been a functioning drinker. Drink at night. Used to love single malt scotch, but it gave me a killer hangover when I over-indulged. Champagne has become my goto drink. 2 bottles a night and no bad mornings. How can that be bad? Lol

    Other issues include an eating disorder. Have eaten myself back up to previous pre-gastric bypass weight. My people I have heard about can't drink much after surgery. I was not so lucky. No enforced behavior mod for me, dam it! Would have been sooo much easier. I'm not sure what nutritional issues may be in play from the surgery, other than Vitamin D deficiency which seems to be the current human condition.

    Enough. Plans for today include a little shopping, maybe coffee with a friend, repotting a bonsai. Right now I hear the mourning doves cooing. So nice when no a/c/h sounds.

    Everyone, I hope the day is good for you. And that we all feel in control, whatever that
    means to each one,

    GG

    #2
    One day AF!

    GG - way to go girl! I cannot believe you could drink 2 btls of champagne a night and not have a wicked hangover. With all that sugar? You may feel depressed after not drinking these first few weeks. You should s,tart taking vitamin supplements as you've been depleting your body of precious nutrients. There's loads of info on the site a bout supplements. I take a daily vitamin, B complex and niacin. Getting active today sounds like a terrific idea.

    What did you do in education? Teach, administration work? I'd hire you to clean out my house. . Well, have a fantastic day and keep checking in. Love your name!
    ~nurdl
    :notes:
    we are human beings with alcohol problems not alcoholics with problems caused by drinking

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      #3
      One day AF!

      Glad you were able to go AF! Definitely look into supplements, get your blood work done (or if you don't want to go to a doc, you can order tests online and just go to a local lab), some of the damage due to deficiencies is irreversible, like nerve damage from b12 deficiency. I'm one of "your people" and have had deficiencies and anemia even when I didn't drink a lot. I sometimes wish I'd never done it, because the whole "drunk faster, but leaves your bloodstream faster" problem is probably what led me where I am. If I could only go back to the days when a glass of wine would leave me buzzed for more than 30 minutes.

      Glad you're getting out and enjoying a beautiful day! It's nice out here too, but I have to take care of some neglected chores before I can get out in it.

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        #4
        One day AF!

        I would just like to say: Yay! Ewe Geaux Girl!
        "My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them." Jack Kerouac

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          #5
          One day AF!

          anxiouscat;1463850 wrote: Glad you were able to go AF! Definitely look into supplements, get your blood work done (or if you don't want to go to a doc, you can order tests online and just go to a local lab), some of the damage due to deficiencies is irreversible, like nerve damage from b12 deficiency. I'm one of "your people" and have had deficiencies and anemia even when I didn't drink a lot. I sometimes wish I'd never done it, because the whole "drunk faster, but leaves your bloodstream faster" problem is probably what led me where I am. If I could only go back to the days when a glass of wine would leave me buzzed for more than 30 minutes.

          Glad you're getting out and enjoying a beautiful day! It's nice out here too, but I have to take care of some neglected chores before I can get out in it.
          The number of peeps I hear that had gastric bypass then became alcoholic is scary!

          No, I will put it stronger than that......it is criminal.

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            #6
            One day AF!

            kuya;1463924 wrote: The number of peeps I hear that had gastric bypass then became alcoholic is scary!

            No, I will put it stronger than that......it is criminal.
            I have an idea that it is because it causes one to be constantly hungry and the best way to get quick energy is drinking alcohol, particularly if you can only get liquids past the gastric band or have a smaller stomach from a bypass. Perhaps the depression is caused by blood sugar lows and lack of serotonin. I would suggest L tryptophan which you can get from Biovea in addition to nutritional supplements. That is what is recommended for serotonin issues by Seven Weeks to Sobriety.
            BACLOFENISTA

            baclofenuk.com

            http://www.theendofmyaddiction.org





            Olivier Ameisen

            In addiction, suppression of symptoms should suppress the disease altogether since addiction is, as he observed, a "symptom-driven disease". Of all "anticraving medications used in animals, only one - baclofen - has the unique property of suppressing the motivation to consume cocaine, heroin, alcohol, nicotine and d-amphetamine"

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              #7
              One day AF!

              Great news GG keep up the good work

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