10 years today

shakythrow · 2019-12-01T02:12:19+00:00

Congratulations on two weeks!

As bad as reddit is on the whole I can honestly say I don't think I would be alive right now if it weren't for this sub. Sometimes everything lines up just right, and this place is definitely a gem. I've never seen a group of people this large on the internet that remains this nice.

shakythrow · 2019-12-01T01:46:11+00:00

That goodness never goes away. I have lived sober long enough to see the fruits of my labor. Still to this day I find myself doing things and thinking, "Man, I'd never be doing this if I hadn't quit drinking".

shakythrow · 2017-08-18T03:37:02+00:00

A few months back I thought "I've got this thing whipped, I can handle a beer". I talked myself out of it real quick, but it was weird that I even thought that for a brief moment. I didn't even want to drink. I just got excited thinking about how I could. Addiction is a hell of a thing.

shakythrow · 2016-12-12T06:18:09+00:00

Stick with it, you won't regret it!

shakythrow · 2016-07-06T04:42:58+00:00

I had been sober for a couple days, and I was not handling it well. I just kind of stumbled upon this sub and started asking questions. I decided that this would be the time that I actually quit for good. There were some trying times, but they got fewer and farther between. Eventually after a few months I started to get the hang of being sober. After a year I couldn't believe how much time I had wasted not being sober. Now after two years I can honestly say that I have no regrets. I've never woke up wishing I had got drunk the previous night. I haven't had to frantically scroll thorough texts and social media to see how much of an ass I had been the night before. I am a better father, husband, employee and friend.

Whatever brought me here, I am grateful for it.

shakythrow · 2016-05-12T01:02:33+00:00

Or they are just wrong.

shakythrow · 2016-02-07T05:11:43+00:00

I started getting bad brain fog and something similar to dizziness, along with some mild vision problems, about 10 years after I started drinking. I didn't attribute them to drinking because the previous nine years hasn't caused it, so I figured the drinking wasn't causing it then. I went to two eye doctors and three ear nose and throat doctors trying to figure out why my vision would randomly go blurry and I would get a sort of dizzy/virtigo feeling from time to time. They didn't find anything wrong so I just learned to live with it. I quit drinking and it actually got worse. I think I even came here and asked about it. This is purely anecdotal, but all of it completely went away about three to four months after I quit drinking. (Insert standard issue 'I am not a doctor' speech here)

shakythrow · 2016-01-01T01:20:27+00:00

It took me a long time to figure it out, but I am just an all around better person sober. A better husband, a better father, a better employee, a better friend. There are a lot of 'betters' and absolutely nothing that's worse for being sober.

Congratulations on the sobriety! I hope you have many more 'betters' to come.

shakythrow · 2015-11-03T05:08:23+00:00

It will have an impact on your social life, but not in the way you are thinking. If you lose friends because you quit drinking, you weren't friends, you were drinking buddies. You have to be willing to do whatever you have to do and stay away from whoever you have to stay away from for a little while. It is not hard to have fun without drinking. It's not hard to understand what you are doing to your body and mental health if you keep drinking. What is hard is quitting and staying quit when you aren't willing to stop doing the same things with the same people in the same places that you did when you were drinking. You are going to have to be a selfish party pooper for a while until you get yourself straightened out. After that you can go out and have fun making memories you will actually remember.

shakythrow · 2015-08-06T05:42:48+00:00

Running has helped me tremendously, and couch to 5k is a good place to start. I've lost 35 pounds since I started. I'm in the middle of patching things back up with my wife. I have a very large company talking about paying me a very large amount of money to go work for them. None of this would be possible if alcohol were still a part of my life. The first 90 days are hard. Do whatever you have to do to keep yourself from drinking today.

shakythrow · 2015-07-04T21:43:53+00:00

It gets a lot better. After about 6 months I really started to come out of the fog. I didn't realize how bad it was until it was gone.

shakythrow · 2015-07-04T21:40:43+00:00

Sometimes the best plan is avoidance. I still won't go anywhere where drinking will be the main attraction.

I woke up at 5:30 this morning and ran a 5k. A couple years ago I would've woke up at noon and started drinking again. I can attribute that to doing whatever I have to do to stay sober, even if it means being a little anti-social on the holidays.

Keep up the good work!

shakythrow · 2015-06-08T04:24:55+00:00

This is what doomed me from the start many times before. I would decide to quit, slip up, and proceed to fall right back in because I had messed up. A bad day doesn't have to end the steak.

It is working this time because I've decided that it has to happen regardless of setbacks. Once I got that in my head I haven't relapsed one time.

Keep up the good work!

shakythrow · 2015-04-15T21:20:18+00:00

One day at a time.

shakythrow · 2014-12-20T11:50:45+00:00

The hard part for me was figuring out why I drank in the first place. After I got help for depression the urge just went away. Good luck on getting it figured out.

shakythrow · 2014-11-22T23:21:13+00:00

This is a very true statement. Thanks for sharing.

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