Hey PunkD....just wanted to offer you my support, too. I think it's a wonderful thing you're doing and I wish you the best of luck in beating this. You know your NT buddies will be behind you 100%!

Hi Punk D!! Congratulations on having the courage to admit you have a problem and reaching out for help...this is wonderful and this is the start.
I did not go to my doctor for his help when I quit drinking. I wish I had of. He wished I had of. I went thru weeks of withdrawl and should have been medically supervised as I drank daily..40 oz tequila..my kids thought I was dead a few times and I did not know if I would survive at times as I was so ill. Ended up my liver was so swollen still after 6 months of sobriety!!
I think you should definitely see a doc....lay it all our for him...even your fears about your meds.....doctors can help. You have other serious health issues and that makes a docs help even more important.
There are lots of AA meetings and other support groups to attend....the sooner the better. I find that the support of others who really do understand me is a tremendous help!
You are about to do something that will be one of the biggest things you ever do....get support for yourself...including coming here. The journey is so worth it Punk D!!! My life is wonderful....I still have problems but I am able to deal with them. My drinking went out of control and I crossed a line when I found out my daughter had been sexually abused by her step dad...over a period of 2 years. She was only 5 at the time. The impact it had on me was undescribable...unbeleivably painful and I drank my way through it or rather around it! I pretty much forgot about what my daughter was going thru and focused on myself.....I had to deal with it all later anyway and I did. Enough rambling from me.....I am sincerely glad that you are here and that you are ready to change your life. I promise you, you will not regret it!!! Remember....1 day at a time...it makes it easier. Special hugs for you! Take Care

I guess to answer your question, can you stop drinking and be fine physically? Sure absolutely, it's possible!

However, how are you going to deal with the underlying reasons that drive you to drink?

You are so Right GladysD .Like they say when you go in a Therapy 20% is the drinkink problem and 80 % are the reasons why you drink .It won't be easy but you have to share with anybody that will listen to you.
Bye richard

well done I think your so brave to come out & share your problem with drink,am new on here & the drink caught my eye being a x drinker myself.
I remember waking every morn wanting to give up,it was awlful till it gave me up with Liver failure & all the other things thay go with it,I was lucky to survive,i crawled from hosp when i tell you it was hell belive me it was I was killing myself day by day over 20yrs
I lost all family & respect etc 12yrs on still hav'nt had a drop since.its a life time change for me its a case of all or nothing.so the doc is the 1st one to talk to,belive tablet is given daily for home detox with all the advice & support of this forum

Have your wife check out Al-Anon. She'll learn the ways she can help herself and that will help you, too. Alcoholism is a sickness that likes to infect others around the alcoholic, too, in emotional and spiritual ways that they need help for in order to heal themselves and understand what's happening to you, too, and what ways they might have fed into it. I have a 24th birthday coming up on May 5th and I owe my life to AA. I strongly recommend it. I'm a widow now, but I was an Al-Anon member when my husband was alive, too.

I'm proud of you for having the courage to come out and admit publickly that you've got a problem. That's a great big step in overcoming your problem.

You definitely need to talk this over with your neurologist, though, because drinking affects your central nervous system and you'll need his help keeping a balance while you sober up.

How you doing, Drew? Were you able to curb your alcohol consumption on your own?

Sorry for your loss. I hope you will take good care of yourself.

What I meant to say wasn't that I'm going to be 24 years old, but that I'm going to have my 24th anniversary of sobriety May 5th. I WISH I was 24 again! I'm actually 63.

Hi There,
I recently helped a friend who had a drink problem. He has always been a heavy drinker but when his girlfriend left him he became really bad. He was drinking day and night not sleeping properly and always drunk.
He phoned me one day and said he wanted to disappear and not come back. This alarmed me because he had people that still cared about him and he could have a good life if it wasn't for the drink.
I persuaded him to go to the doctor and I went with him.
He was told it was dangerous just to stop drinking just like that, and was persuaded to go into a place where they could monitor him for a week. He had vitamin injection to help his liver and reqular monitoring.
He came out a new person and is doing so,so, very, very well and I am so proud of him.
He is enjoying life now and feels like he has never felt before.
What I am trying to say is there is so much more to life my friend and it is all yours for the taking.
You can do it you just need to be determined and you will get there and I have seen first hand the change it can make.
Get help, be strong and do it for you.
Best and fond wishes to you.

OUTSTANDING!

Always glad to hear success stories so thanks for sharing that.