Al/ck/y thread: Quitting tomorrow edition

I've been completely sober 3 months now after being hospitalized for 6 weeks after a particularly bad bender this past summer. I don't remember the first couple weeks of it at all, but I've been told by my close family and friends that all the doctors at the ER told them I was probably going to die. They all said they had never seen someone so young ( 31 ) in such bad shape. Liver and kidneys were failing, jaundice, internal bleeding, ect. I was getting dialysis every other day. At that point I was averaging a fifth of vodka a day along with some beers. I've been a daily drinker since I was 20 or so but I just completely lost control around 2012. Now all the doctors I see for follow up vists can't believe how fast I've recovered, kidneys working normally, liver is healing, no more bleeding, jaundice is clearing up. I hope I can go back to just enjoying a beer with dinner or watching football again in the future

I hate drinking and I keep doing it.

It makes me feel like shit morally and physically yet I don't stop.

Jesus I did way more than that at my worst. I should be dead I guess

I was up to a fifth of fireball a night when I had to make an ER visit. Doctors said my liver basically said "fuck you" and decided to break itself down instead of the alcohol. I still drink, but WAY less compared to when I was. The key is self control. You have to be able to keep your mind about you, and know when you're going over the limit.

Has anyone here successfully transitioned into an occasional drinker than can exercise moderation?

Or are we all cucked by booze here?

I'm speaking from my own experience when I talk about this, and others may be different, but I totally think this is terrible advice to give an alcoholic. If the person could control their consumption, they wouldn't have the problem or feel the guilt in the first place.

You're giving them this false hope that they can go back--that they can be "normal" again. And there's really a point where you just can't.

You either decide to stop or just say fuck it to life.

If I start to drink in ANY way again, I'll be as bad as was at my worst within a month. It's happened every time.

Keep on truckin!

LOL

I'm getting a liver transplant in a few months. I figure I better wear this one out before it goes in the trash. I'm about banana yellow and drinking a lot of beer.

Out of respect for the donor, I will never touch another drop. Not hard. I did it for eight years prior to this point. I was never a fan of drinking or drug use. I just figured I'd wear this one out.

Pic related. That's me a long, long time ago. 1993.

That can't be you. I was born in '91 almost 25 years old. How old are you?

I'm looking to avoid having to get a liver transplant. All the doctors told me it was my only chance to stay alive for any decent amount of time. Now they are all genuinely shocked after looking at my recent lab results and now say everything is looking good. Makes me wonder if some of them were trying to scare me into completely quitting or they just didn't know what they were talking about while I was hospitalized, granted I was in really bad shape at that time.

For those guys that have been diagnosed with liver damage and things of that ilk how did you first realise your body was damaged? Did you just go for a random check up or did some incident or symptom force you to go to the doctor?

Who else it looking forward to drinking all night and into the small hours while watching this shitshow of a US election unfold?

you used to be handsome

Maybe statistically everyone who was in a condition similar to yours generally needs the transplant so they recommended that you receive one, but it seems you were an outlier

why does my tummy keep gurgling

could be a hernia

what do you think the oldest age on Veeky Forums is

Can you post a current picture? Maybe you can scare some people straight.

Trust me, keep going. You've done great, and it will pay off

36 here, 79 child. Bday next week.

I think there'd be more pain with that. All I get is very minor abdominal pain and rarely worse pain.

A hernia has a protrusion and shitloads of pain.

FFFUUUUCCCKKKING HEEEEELLLLPPPPPPPP I BEGGG OF YOU

Rip in piece liver

Me most definitely. Beers and whisky all night

Just like under my bed

Don't be a puss. That's around 1.5-2 months. That's not that significant unless it continues for years and years.

Sometimes I borrow money from good friends just to buy beer. They ask me whats the money, I don't and I tell them its for beer and I always pay them back. Does this make me a bad person?

Been drunk for 25 years bro

Where abouts in the UK are you? Glasgow I assume?

Also how are you alive

I went from a daily drinker occasioning month-long benders and horrific withdrawals, to a (sometimes twice) weekly binge drinker, never getting drunk more than three nights in a row and never staying drunk longer than two days.

Don't know if that answers your question.

No, it makes you a responsible debtor.

Doesn't excuse you from being a degenerate alcoholic, though.

does Veeky Forums need an /alc/ thread archive for this kind of gold?

Okay. I try not to do it all the time. They just make fun of me for it. lol

I am at over a week no drink. No withdrawals, but have had serious urges. Don't give up OP.

This is the worst advice ever.

I have no idea how you're still alive. Have you had an assessment by a physician recently?

Think I finally have to quit drinking. Sometimes when I drink, the next day I wake up with stomach cramps. Then all of a sudden when I didnt drink last night, I still woke up with stomach cramps and feeling like I have to throw up.

I at one liter of wine and 4 half liter cans of beer so far. I don't feel drunk but I probably am.

im 6 days out of detox. walked to the liquor store out of said detox.

today I spent the day hiding my scratching in secret. my skin crawls. haven't showered in days

don't be who I am fellow anons

i get embarrassed buying liquor from my corner store on a daily bases,so i started to develop a system, see. luckily since i live in an dense urban area there's approximately 4 stores that sell liquor that is within walking distance of by habitat. one grocery store and three corner stores.

grocery stores you can go multiple consecutive days since their mostly part time cashier staff rotates regularly. corner stores, however, usually have their staff schedules set in stone, and usually there are no more than 3 different people that work a liquor store's cashier position. chain grocery stores have an army of dozens of cashiers, and even then they have so many customers a day its hard to familiarize yourself with an individual. I make sure to line up to a cashier that hasn't processed my transaction in at least a week.

buying booze is socially acceptable like what, once a week? So i can go to each of the corner stores three days of the week and space those visits out with visits to the grocery store. Booze is more expensive at a liquor store however. So I figured if I got handles at grocery days and pints in corner store days, I can get my fix at the most fiscally conservative manner while saving face

>wake up covered in blood. Smashed glass apparently all over bed. Laptop on floor. Broken.
>can't get glass out. Turn mattress.
>3 months later. Finally saved enough for new laptop. Rejoice.
>wake covered in blood. Laptop covered in piss. Broken. Sulk.
>2 months later. Wake covered in blood. Broken glass now on both sides of mattress. Oh.
>only one duvet. Carpet cut out months ago due to gallons of spilled urine. Bare floorboards full of splinters. Place duvet on floor. Best bed possible. Use coat to cover me up at night: at least I won't be cold, decent boiler.
>soon thereafter boiler breaks. Oh I see.
>freeze to fucking death. Fuck this. Loan, boiler, penniless.
>last money for alcohol spent this morning.
>2 bottle of vodka a day habit.
>tomorrow there's no more ethanol. Utterly dependent.
>fuck you 2016.

We should do, anyone got the previous pics? I find this totally fascinating for some reason

Was that all you? Don't you drink anything else?

What time period was this drunk over?

time to suck some dicks

I pretty much walk into the same liquor store every day with my underage girlfriend and buy her and me obviously gendered liquor. I know all of the clerks and they even know the exact brand of cigarettes I will want if I ask for them. Fuck it's great having no shame. One time I cracked a huge fart on the way in, didn't even acknowledge it.

I walked 6 motherfucking miles in the motherfucking rain to get a measly 28 fucking quid for a fucking 150 quid fucking phone from a fucking pawn broker. And it was fucking raining. And there are fucking holes in my fucking shoes. And I was fucking puking and fucking shaking due to FUCKING withdrawal. FUCK.
But now I've got 1.4 litres of lovely, soothing, warming, Smirnoff poison.
Totally worth it yo.

Yeah all me. I have a few cans of 'K' (cheap af, 8.2%) ciders at lunchtime too normally too, but those are the only things I drink aside from an occasional scotch.

I've had four non-consecutive days off work in the last 5 weeks and been unable to drink more than at most a bottle of wine at night without being incapable of work the next day. This weekend is free. There's going to be some serious drinking action.

I don't think I am genetically able to reach the functional alcoholic promised land where I can get wasted and still make it to work. ;_;

I've been sober for five days now and told myself I wasnt going to fly off the handle again this weekend, im going to keep that promise. Dunno when I'm going to be back, hopefully never
its been a pleasure posting with you lads

Good job, keep it up.

last weekend

Haven't had a beer in weeks. After work today, I popped by the liquor store and got one of these and a cheeky bailie's (200ml).

Better watch myself. Don't want to finish the bailie's all in one sitting.

I'm pretty good at self control.

> Hey guys, look at what I'm drinking! Aren't I so cool?
> I'm on my 5th vodka of the day and it's not even sun up.
> hehe, you alcofags sure are pathetic
> you don't drink X? Pleb.
> muh personal probs!

Basically 90% of this horrible general.

Oh, and I forgot:
> let me tell you something kid. I've been down that road, too.

Your liver must be refined to fucking god-tier levels of detoxification.

Holy fuck, how are you still alive?

"no"

That's more vodka than you should drink in a year....

And you probably drank it in a couple of months.

well I finally got the "were worried about your drinking talk"

how do I even start sobriety?

Last night drinking before I quit until Christmas.

Seriously.

How drunk do I wanna get? It's 7:30 pm and I have about 4 - 5 drinks left in my bottle of Jack. Do I want to buy another bottle to drink between the 9.30 - 3am bracket or should I just try and quit after I finish what I've got?

thatd take about a year for me ..lmfao. although id definitely would drink more if i could

Go away kid.

Well the first thing is that you stop drinking.

Managed to get my hands on some diazepam. It's now or never.
Thing is... mixing them feels amazing. Gulp. The craving is real.
Wish me luck...

goodbye.

this thread always amazes me.

In what way?

how do I manage the cravings?

It's sub /r9k/ tier.
These people truly are the lowest humanity has to offer.

Could be worse.

They could be the marginally higher on the scale losers who look down on them.

Been roughly two weeks of sobriety. Well, I gave in one day and had a couple drinks, but stopped before going too far somehow. Drank last night but managed to hold off tonight instead of relapsing hard for days like I normally do.

Have to go without my computer for about a week though. This is going to be tough to distract myself and not go insane with no vidya.

Literally can't remember the last time I only drank for one day but I managed to do that the election night.

Yeah nah fucked it up. Chugging vodka.

6 days sober
well and truly done with this poison.
i have cravings. but i have been able to hold off. ive been watching a horrendous alcoholism documentary to remind me of what my cravings will lead to if i walk down that path.

be careful user. mixing them is dangerous.
though ive done it a shit loads of times before, almost died a few times.

>oneitis
Fucking kill yourself loser.

>stop drinking for a few weeks
>hair stops falling out
>drink one one
>hair begins falling out all over the place
I hate this shit.

More like you stopped noticing your inevitable, continuing balding because you were fucked up for a while.

Nope. Literally no MPB in my family whatsoever. Dad is fucking in his 60's with a full head of hair.

Whatever floats your boat, chrome dome

I've noticed this but I don't know if it's due to reduced hair loss due to increased vitamins and overall health or the more positive outlook that comes with sobriety so that you don't eve notice your hair.

Regardless of what the root factor is probably a good supporting argument to quit.

That doesn't make sense. He said his positive feelings about his hair increased during sobriety.

drank for the first time in 3 months

i remembered why i quit drinking: the hangover is awful.

alcohol feels good, but only for 30 minutes. then you suffer the rest of the day.

currently suffering, ate a handful of percs & pounded several IPAs. head is loud, stomach churning.

I've saved up all the bottles of hard liqeur that I have consumed so far this year, 44 bottles, roughly 70cl average in each. Not counting the 500 brews and the 25L of wine.

I decided to make a Coq Au Vin tonight, I chugged the rest of the winebottle, plus a bottle of rum when I woke up. Just fucking end me.

got a pic of saved bottles?

I've got a picture of about 30 or so of the bottles, i'll upload it when my harddrive stops being an ass.

Fuck, ive been browsing these threads lately, telling myself that im not one of you guys, at least not yet. Over the last month, ive been drinking probably an average of 250-300ml of vodka per day. Before that, it was an average of 150ml per day.

The night of the election, i didnt drink at all, I had stayed up the whole night because of the hype, and by morning, even though I didnt get ANY sleep, I felt like a small loan of a million dollars. Whole day was amazing, until towards the night. I was talking with my bro and joking and laughing when suddenly i laughed and felt a pop in my head, and felt fluid draining down my throat. My senses all became distorted. I didnt drink that night either. The next day i was feeling the same way, distorted senses. I thought i was having a cerebrospinal fluid leak, but its more likely alcohol withdrawal. So I drank some last night, and today i feel fine. I am going to pledge myself to lower my alcohol use until I dont feel terrible when i dont drink.

Let it be known that donald trump is already saving lives before he even takes office.

I feel you, man. Just ease yourself off of it, i'm going to start doing the same.

MAGA.

>44 bottles, roughly 70cl average in each. Not counting the 500 brews and the 25L of wine.
so very roughly a fifth of booze, half a case of beer and two bottles of wine a week on average? how are you even alive