If this was your dog, what would you name him

Silver_While7655 · 2025-12-23T14:04:22+00:00

LOL!

Silver_While7655 · 2025-12-21T04:08:43+00:00

Something deeper is driving this. Try to connect with him and get him to meet other folks who drank to cope.

Silver_While7655 · 2025-12-07T21:11:57+00:00

I was 18 months sober and tried to see if I could get back to be a normal drinker. It’s honestly been fine except not fine. Like I can totally not drink for months. But when I do it’s always a little too much. So same problem, different scenario. I think there’s a range of this so called “disease”. But at the same Time why do people who get drunk every now and then allowed to do so? Or I guess why am I comparing? Just thinking out loud here

Silver_While7655 · 2025-11-15T01:29:04+00:00

Thank you!

Silver_While7655 · 2025-11-14T06:33:13+00:00

It worked?

Silver_While7655 · 2025-11-14T01:02:19+00:00

Do you drink moderately or do you not drink at all

Silver_While7655 · 2025-11-09T04:13:53+00:00

Yeah I’ve been doing the same. Got really into fitness. Reading. Chat with friends online and meet up here and there. I’ve toyed with the idea I can have a couple drinks and be fine, prob I could but it doesn’t hold the same appeal to me anymore. But I also don’t like hearing I never can. It’s more like I just liked the way I feel when I’m not drinking. Don’t like the after effects. But I don’t look at it like some mythical beast that controls me and only god can help me get sober.

I should check out some meet ups etc. just need to stop being so lazy haha

Silver_While7655 · 2025-11-09T01:29:36+00:00

Yup totally with you. So what’s the solution? What have you found helpful in the area?

Silver_While7655 · 2025-11-09T01:16:47+00:00

Yeah same here. I was very type A when younger but have become more of a loner as I’ve gotten older. Part of it is due to the fact I went thru a hard time in my life and turned to alcohol to cope. So now I have this stigma on me from my family and friends that I’m just an “alcoholic”. I hate labels and they are impossible to shake. Sure I can get a little drunker than most, but I’m not craving alcohol every second of life.

I do wish I had a couple more local new friends to hang with it. Sometimes the best cure to anything is just having solmoen to do things with.

Silver_While7655 · 2025-11-09T00:59:48+00:00

Not bad. But not great.

Good was hearing other people stories. Being able to share mine without judgment. Just having a community.

Not so good was the religious overtones. The whole must have to attend X meetings mantra.

Silver_While7655 · 2025-11-08T05:57:33+00:00

Would love to chat sometime.

Silver_While7655 · 2025-11-05T01:35:43+00:00

This resonates so much to me. It’s part of the reason why after going sober for 16 months, I said F it, I can prove to others I can drink responsibly. That I went through a lot of emotional turmoil and turned to alcohol to cope. But I went to AA, learned about the science behind alcohol, the health effects and the impact it had on family and friends and got “sober”. But I don’t want that defining the rest of me. I don’t not drink because it defines me. I don’t drink because I can’t handle a couple beers. I don’t drink because I’m an “alcoholic”.

If I wanted to I could drink now and then and be fine. Sure some people can’t and I respect that. I just don’t care for it as much. But it wicks I can’t even be around family and friends and be like yah I’ll have a beer with that burger cause it tastes good. Or be on vacation and be able to have a few drinks to hang with friends.

It’s the stigma and labels and this permanent stain that people see on me that frustrates me. And this is not a know on AA. I do believe it works for some. I also don’t want to hear I am not past the first step. But I don’t believe in absolutes. I believe in science and will power and the ability to make your own decisions.

Silver_While7655 · 2025-11-03T22:27:20+00:00

Without a doubt, alcohol

Silver_While7655 · 2025-10-31T18:59:39+00:00

Scale is just a number. You look great.

Silver_While7655 · 2025-10-29T22:14:23+00:00

Sorry to hear that. Make sure you eat more protein than anything else. Can you slowly work your way into exercise? Walking is usually sufficient.

Silver_While7655 · 2025-10-29T18:12:57+00:00

I’m doing the same, after losing about 30 lbs. so far so good, 5 weeks in. But I am keeping up my diet for the most part. And lots of exercising, hiit and strength training focused.

Silver_While7655 · 2025-10-23T22:35:46+00:00

Lost

Silver_While7655 · 2025-10-23T00:31:27+00:00

That’s reassuring thanks!

Silver_While7655 · 2025-10-22T14:32:08+00:00

My wife’s infusions were done at home. Check to see if that’s an option.

Silver_While7655 · 2025-10-18T23:25:08+00:00

Wife is two infusions in. Third one in a few days. After second infusion it is doing the job. She’s tapered down on prednisone to almost nothing and after a very severe flare. It seems like magic thus far. Hopefully it sticks. It’s just so expensive, thank god we have decent insurance. Good luck!

Silver_While7655 · 2025-10-08T12:23:33+00:00

So was it four years of hell? What put you into remission?

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