Posted by afatchic on August 14, 2000, at 19:15:40
In reply to Re: Problems with Alcohol - Kath/Thomas/Caroline, posted by Lisa Simpson on August 14, 2000, at 10:59:05
I've had problems with alcohol since I was a teenager. At age 37, I finally feel that I'm OK. There's something that I wanted to pass along to others. I discovered that when I took trazodone, my craving for alcohol diminished. Even better, when I took Wellbutrin the desire nearly vanished. I don't take Wellbutrin or any other prescription AD now but it seems like the Wellbutrin has a lasting effect.
> Kath, thank you so much for your words. It means a lot to me that someone has taken the trouble to write in such detail to me. (GMT by the way, stands for Greenwich Mean Time!) And thank you Thomas for your note. It looks like you know what I'm going through. What have you tried so far? (And thank you Caroline for thinking of me last night.)
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> Well, I spent the evening without a bottle of vodka in my hands. I drank enough diet lemonade to sink a ship. Surprisingly I managed to get to sleep when I went to bed. And for the first time, this morning I didn't feel sick.
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> Tonight is going to be more difficult. One day is easy. I've done one day before. It's doing two, three, four days that's the problem.
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> The other problem is, of course, that deep down I don't really want to stop. I enjoy drinking... very much. Why should I stop? After a day at work, I deserve something to help me unwind. Is the fact that it's a danger to my health, it makes me sick, it makes me fat, it makes me bad-tempered to people around me, good enough reasons to make me stop?
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> I hope so.
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> Lisa
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