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03-25-2015, 09:52 AM | #3 | ||||
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Welcome here. I have been a guitar player for 40 years now, so I'm not totally unfamiliar with this situation...
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For those who do stay stopped, while recovery may not be 100% in most cases, the difference can be between constant pain and agony up to slight bother and having bad days. Peripheral nerves are slow to heal - for the same reason they are the first to fail. It is an ongoing process, and there will be setbacks as well. Expecting them and not freaking out is key. Stress is your enemy, especially when suffering from neuropathy. Quote:
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Also, for me, taking high quality fish oil has been a big help. And I know it's not just placebo: after I got 95% better I started slacking on both vitamins and omega3... Pain slowly came back but in a "frog in slowly boiling water" way: I only really noticed when I decided to commit to my diet/fish oil intake again. Different people react to different substances, but even most doctors know that omega3 can be a good help. Quote:
As for playing guitar: a break would be a good thing, as he might start to hurt some muscles/joints because of the impaired feel/feedback. Slowly building up again using a very easy to play guitar with very light strings would be best. Back off when it starts to hurt, this is not a "no pain no gain" thing. As for the music scene: you would be surprised how many sober musicians there are these days (and there have been). One book I can really recommend - as it helped me to reframe my "I'm a musican, a songwriter, an artist, I can't be sober!" stance is "Le Freak" by Nile Rodgers, one of the living guitar legends, a producer who sold about 300 million albums, and ... a horrible junkie living on cocaine and booze for most of the 80ties. He got sober in 1994, and writes freely and with humor about his breakdown and stay in rehab. He's been sober for 21 years now, and still had a number one hit last year with Daft Punk's "Get Lucky". This book probably saved my life. So yeah, it is absolutely possible to be sober and remain sober while being a working musician, but the commitment has to come from inside, and most people (if not all...) need some kind of program to help them to stay focused, and deal with sobriety. Personally, I bought a grand piano from the money I saved on drinking in the first 2 years of sobriety, and playing around on that every day is one of the nicest feelings I had in a very long time. It beats drumming on empty bottles. Good luck, lots of things to try, never give up hope. |
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