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    #1

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    Hi, my Doctor made me promise that I would do something serious about how much I drink. I have to go back to her next month with some results or she will send me to a psychologist. I actually don't have any problem with my drinking...I drink a bottle of wine every night and most people in my life know that because I never hide it. The doc is concerned for my long term health and I agree that it's not healthy. I do however, hold down a demanding job and I do it very well. I also have a beautiful loving relationship. I'm an independent woman who provides very well for herself...so when the doc asked me to make a promise I said that I would try. I suddenly feel scared and that's illogical, because if I drink less, or manage to finally have an AF day, then it will only benefit me in the end...I'm going to give it a try on Monday..I'm getting ready for sleepless nights and bed sweats...stay tuned
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    #2
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    Hi Emmy, as they say doctor knows best. I drank a bottle and a half at least every night and woke up in a fog and haze daily. Today on Day 7 i have woken to a beautiful Melbourne day and have plans to do something other than get in my car at 4.45 to go and buy wine. We all have our excuses on why to drink but I had no excuses on why not to drink until i tried it and the benefits are definitely so much better. The sleepless nights go, I find now I am bone tired but today i woke feeling that fog has lifted and the sweats dont last that long. Life is really so much better without AL. I am one that wont be able to have a couple of wines or else it will lead to a couple of hundred more but thats okay.

    Best of luck for Monday and if its what you want to try then you are thinking about it. My health started to go downhill with the shakes and sore gums and the list goes on. None of that today, the monster of AL is leaving my system thank god.

    Keep on here it is a godsend in this journey
    AF free 1st December 2013 - 1st December 2022 - 9 years of freedom

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      #3
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      Hi Emmy. I was also a nightly wine drinker and held down (still do) a demanding job, good relationship and wonderful child. Don't be fooled. Your dr is right - this will be doing harm to your body and probably your mind. the problem is that AL intake can increase over the years and you need more and more - or scenario no 2 - it affects you more adversely and unpredictably with just a few drinks (possibly cos the liver is not working so well)

      In my case my health was seriously affected and abstinence is my only option. I can now see the other benefits - huge ones - to being abstinent. I came to realise that I was pouring poison down my throat and I also became bored with it - and myself.

      Why not try a break from AL and take it from there.
      Normal drinkers don't have to consume a bottle of wine every night even if they are under stress.
      best of luck and check out the Newbies Nest on MWO for great support:welcome:

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        #4
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        So why are you on this forum then?

        By the way being successful, running your life well doesn't mean you don't have a problem, in fact it can keep you in denial. Many people are high flyers whilst developing a serious alcohol problem.

        If you don't have one then quitting for a while won't be any problem at all, yet you mention night sweats and sleepless nights. If these are symptoms you get by having an AF day or two then wouldn't you say that you have a problem, or at these normal symptoms people without an alcohol problem experience?
        I used the Sinclair Method to beat my alcoholic drinking.

        Drank within safe limits for almost 2 years

        AF date 22/07/13

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          #5
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          :bump: Hi Emmy
          Just wondering how you are getting on ?
          This isnot a critisism -but -on the 'Know your are an Alcoholic' thread you named quite a few reasons ?
          Yet here you say you don't have a problem ?

          Just wondered having read here a few days - have you changed your mind ?

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            #6
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            Thanks for your thoughts

            Hello to all of you, thanks so much for your responses, I'm only sorry that it's taken me this long to find my thread again. I wrote it, and it just disappeared. Now I'm a little more familiar with the forum thing hopefully I can keep up.

            Thankyou 'Available' and 'Treetops' for your very supportive messages and suggestions, it is very uplifting and gives me a positive outlook on the whole thing.

            'Benji' and 'UK Blonde', thankyou both also, (yours were the kind of responses that I was expecting-perhaps even wanting?), and you are absolutely right. Yes, I think I knew I had a problem when I wrote this, it's really hard to explain that for ages now I've known that my habit constitutes alcoholism. My reaction to it has been 'well that's fine. I'm not hurting anyone and it's not impacting on any part of my life' I've even gone so far as to admit to anyone who suggested it that I am indeed an alcoholic, and that is not always a terrible thing...I think now it's time for a change though. I have no idea why it's taken so long to want to change but I'm hoping that chatting and reading here will help.
            I had my first alcohol free night in years last night...it was OK too. I listened to a drinking moderation hypnosis CD and just kept myself busy...also drank lots of cups of tea, and went to bed late so I was very tired.
            I woke up at 7am!
            Tonight I will have a drink because I am meeting my boyfriend at a club, but I will have 3 MAX. And tomorrow is alcohol free again. My aim is to be able to have 2 or 3 drinks only when I am allowing it, and to have 3 alcohol free days each week (this is actually what my Doctor has told me is normal...I've never wanted to be 'normal' before but now I do!)

            Thanks again so much,
            I feel better now that I know someone read what I wrote and responded,

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              #7
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              Emmy Lou;1550669 wrote: Hello to all of you, thanks so much for your responses, I'm only sorry that it's taken me this long to find my thread again. I wrote it, and it just disappeared. Now I'm a little more familiar with the forum thing hopefully I can keep up.

              Thankyou 'Available' and 'Treetops' for your very supportive messages and suggestions, it is very uplifting and gives me a positive outlook on the whole thing.

              'Benji' and 'UK Blonde', thankyou both also, (yours were the kind of responses that I was expecting-perhaps even wanting?), and you are absolutely right. Yes, I think I knew I had a problem when I wrote this, it's really hard to explain that for ages now I've known that my habit constitutes alcoholism. My reaction to it has been 'well that's fine. I'm not hurting anyone and it's not impacting on any part of my life' I've even gone so far as to admit to anyone who suggested it that I am indeed an alcoholic, and that is not always a terrible thing...I think now it's time for a change though. I have no idea why it's taken so long to want to change but I'm hoping that chatting and reading here will help.
              I had my first alcohol free night in years last night...it was OK too. I listened to a drinking moderation hypnosis CD and just kept myself busy...also drank lots of cups of tea, and went to bed late so I was very tired.
              I woke up at 7am!
              Tonight I will have a drink because I am meeting my boyfriend at a club, but I will have 3 MAX. And tomorrow is alcohol free again. My aim is to be able to have 2 or 3 drinks only when I am allowing it, and to have 3 alcohol free days each week (this is actually what my Doctor has told me is normal...I've never wanted to be 'normal' before but now I do!)

              Thanks again so much,
              I feel better now that I know someone read what I wrote and responded,
              GREAT :l
              My best wishes to you. You remind me of me when I started out.
              Knew there was something but not admitting to being full blown alko.... as there is always someone worse. Once I stopped daily drinking I was happy but continued on and am AF now most of the time. Maybe that is ok for some to curtail it.
              I still hold to this but I KNEW I had a problem when I went in search of this site not once but many times before I started to post regularly.
              :thumbs:

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                #8
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                Yo :wavin:

                Just found this thread - hello Emmy Lou and nice to meet you. Just gotta pipe in as what both you nad Satz says is very like how i was with me drinking. And i'm kinda in a similar place to Satzuma. Also your "you know you're an alkie" list from that thread Emmy Lou echoed well (apart from the exfoliating of lips... this gecko doesn't do that :no: :H)

                Yeah - good to read this. :thumbs:

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                  #9
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                  Hi Emmy - You might as well be telling my story. Almost word for word. I understand how you feel. Seriously...almost word for word! The only reason I'm giving this a go is I don't want to die. And drinking a bottle of wine each night will kill me. Plain and simple. I think it might even make quitting harder when there's not a "problem". So I wish you much success and luck in your journey.

                  PS I'm only starting day 2 so by no means an expert..I just understand where you're coming from.

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