I need some advice - PLEASE
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I drink way too much, most days a pint of Crown a day. On a blood test my liver enzymes were up and that scared me alot. My dad was an acholic and is deceased. He was never a father and I never wanted anything to do with drinking. I just kind of started and didn't stop. I quite for over a month and my liver tested fine then. I told myself that I could control it if I had alittle, even went to AA for awhile. But after I had a drink I didn't stop. NO ONE now knows what I do. I live alone, I NEVER go to bars and if I happen to be somewhere that people are drinking I wont have a drop and not even tempted too. I have major sleeping issues and I think it started there cuz it would help me sleep. Then it took more and more so here I am. I hate it and wanna stop. I tapered off before and that was fine but I'm scared! It seems I'll buy some to taper off again then I drink it all then feel guilty, I just want to be done with it. Please don't say to contact a doctor because i won't do that or go to a rehab. I guess I am in desperate need of encourangement and stories of people that have done it on their own. I know I can do it again and when I do, I will never start again. Please someone tell me how you did it. I have to be able to go to work and be smart about it but then I end up home alone with a bottle that I'm only supposed to use to wean off then I drink it. It's a everyday battle! :'( I pray the Lord will take it away and I don't know now to go cold turkey or wean since the weaning isn't going very well this time. I am on meds to help me sleep that is typically used for epilepsy although I don't have that so I'm not worried about seizers. I just need to get through a couple days without drinking and I can do it like I did before. Thing is when I stopped before I had a past boyfriend I finally called and told everything too. He helped and I knew I'd have to answer to someone about what I was doing but he's gone now so I thought maybe I could find someone online to be accountable too, pathetic I know!
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Robin2015 gretchen22024
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Nat666 Robin2015
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vickylou Robin2015
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about 80% strong whisky I think!!
RHGB vickylou
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Nah, the Americans can never get anything quite right. Those of us the wrong side of 50, will remember spirits being severed in 1/6 of a gill (1/5 for the Jocks).
And spirits being quoted in proof, not ABV (alcohol by volume). Proof goes way back to the 16th century and was measured by how well gunpowder would mix with it and still burn. 100% proof was the dividing line and this is how they decided on the Duty payable. 100% proof was about 57% ABV. Which meant that 100% ABV was about 175% proof.
Of course the Americans had to do their own thing, and just doubled ABV to get proof. So a normal 40% spirit bottle is 80% proof, which is not correct. They also couldn't get a pint right as well, so when the OP says a pint, she means an American pint which is 473ml not 568ml.
Nat666 RHGB
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RHGB you are a mine of information! ...That is all really very interesting 😊
JulieAnne101 Nat666
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vickylou RHGB
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Thanks for that mr know all!!
I just googled crown and that was the first thing I saw, obviously it didn't sink in, 80% yes should have thought it odd!!
gwen45436 vickylou
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Haha ha you do make me laugh vicks - but you are right - RH is
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vickylou
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RHGB
hope I didn't offend you with the mr know it all! Said in jest and was meant as a backhanded complement !
JulieAnne101 gwen45436
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Maybe there should be an H prefix...........HRH
come RHGB give us a smile 😊 xx
gwen45436 JulieAnne101
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vicky - I have not been on this site for as long as you guys, and I certainly get your sense of humour - Julie HRH it is then - and yes he will smile - love it and u too
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JulieAnne101 gwen45436
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😊😊??? xx
RHGB vickylou
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Oh, I have rhino skin. It takes a bit more than that. But the stuff about alcohol proof and gunpowder, I was taught that at primary school.
The one thing that did annoy me, was when I was being analysed at the rehab hospital after my stroke. The neuro consultant and then the lead clinician a neuro surgeon, both asked about, what I think we quite inane things that were of no importance.
One of them that I always got asked was my education. I left school at 15 with four o-levels and that was 36 years ago. Life has been an education and what I was taught in a classroom all those years ago, seems an irrelevance.
I can't remember whether it was my meeting with the general manager or the physchiatrist, but I asked the question, why. Now, they didn't answer it quite like this, but this is what they meant. If you had done further and higher education, then they would be carefully measuring you against the tests to see for any brain damage (cognitive) and how your intelligence measured up.
Whereas if you were like me, you were obviosuly a retard before the stroke, so it would be quite normal for you to be a retard after the stroke. And that they wouldn't place too much emphasis on the tests.
I wasn't well enough at the time to explain to them how they were conflating education levels with intelligence, ability and IQ and that they were clearly not the same thing. But that did sting a little bit.
JulieAnne101 RHGB
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