Month of Sobreity
Beginning September 1st, I swore off liquor for one month. I thought it might be hard to do since I've been completely sauced up for about three months straight (without exception). Thankfully, I think I only have trouble with habit forming activities - not addiction. I had about one day of feeling crabby and then I was fine. No sweat.
I was afraid that I was becoming a bit of an alcoholic. Apparently not.
When I quit smoking it was the same thing - a couple days and the addiction was gone. The trick after that was to avoid them. No problem. I haven't touched a smoke in almost a year even with all of my friends smoking. I kick ass.
The only problem right now is that I am having sleep problems. Sobreity SUCKS ASS. I've been wide awake until 6 am everyday since I quit drinking. WHAT THE FUCK?
I thought about getting some sleep aids. No offence to ariadneK, but I've heard shitty things about ambien so I decided to avoid it. I tried sinutab one day, which did work, but I woke up feeling like a raped cow vagina. Tonight I'm giving benedryl a go. I'm pretty fucked up right now. AWESOME.
You can't do that shit for too long without becoming dependent. Bleah. What to do?
posted by Storm Trooper at 9/11/2005 05:52:00 AM
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You're a pussy. Sobreity if for quitters .
Good for you and good luck with it all...
Yes, Ambien = don't use it (but then again you already knew that). :-)
In fact, I have tossed mine out and am using a single extra-strength Unisom when necessary. It works pretty well.
Sorry I have been crappy with posting; I've been in kind of a funk for the past few days anyway with withdrawal stuff (the side effects physically from stopping it have been NOT cool at all) from the antidepressant I had been on (Cymbalta). I am glad I am off of that shit and would not recommend it to anyone.
later and I'll get back into stuff this week,
ariK
(Random, but here is a very accurate description I found for withdrawal from Cymbalta). FUN, eh?
Again, I do NOT recommend taking it.
Another note for you on sleeping and things that are mild, over-the-counter, that I have switched to using whilst detoxing from the evil Cymbalta and Ambien monster.
You can use herb capsules of Valerian root (can pick some up in any herbal section of health stores or, even in pharmacy chains like Walgreens and CVS). It works nicely, ANother concoction involves obtaning roots from the Kava Kava plant (also can get in herb stores) and steeping them into a warm tea fir 20-30minutes. Strain the root particulates away, and you can drink it, feeling very calm (though an anaesthetic property of the prepared tea makes your lips and tongue feel temporarily numb). With either the Valerian Root capsules or Kava Kava tea approaches, you have a "quality" sleep...neither too light nor too deep...and awaken feeling very refreshed. Long before I was diagnosed I used these approaches, but since my primary (and for now ONLY ONE; I'm so happy to have them reduced now!)medication, Lamictal, has not yet been evaluated in the context of such remedies. On Friday I'm gonna check with my doctor on them though. :-)
Goodnight y'all, and like I said, I will return to "the land of the living" and get on with some real posts soon. :-)
My head works again! YAY!!!!!
How is the sobriety going? Well, I hope. :-) I am finally off of both Cymbalta and Ambien (yay!). I have, uh, developed quite an attitude since being off of the Cymbalta, as in: I don't care to take shit off of people, whereas I used to just suck it up and then bitch about it on my blog instead. Feels good to have that part of "me" back. There is definitely NO FUCKING WAY that I will ever take serotonin and/or norepinephrine regulating medications of any sort again; if they are that crappy to withdraw from, then it's more than my brain needs to begin with (I don't want to fry what little mental capacity I have anyway)...
later,
ariK
I say if you enjoy drinking, do it. Maybe not good advice
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