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I was sober for 3 years and relapsed 1.5 years ago. I'v been drinking 6 to 10 beers a day for that time (1.5 years).

I stopped on Oct 24. I'm back committed to my sobriety. Since the day I quit I'v had nausea, foggy head, and headache. I'm now close to 30 days sober and I still have these symptoms. In the past I'm fine/back to normal after 3 days.

My questions are:

When ...

Hello. I have been watching this forum and finally, I decided to sign up and ask for your opinions. I'm a young woman, who is living with her brother and mother, the latter who is an alcoholic. She's had drinking problems since I can remember, but the situation has become worse in the last four years. She has lost her job and all of her friends. Her personality has changed completely. She begs, threatens and ...

I am a teen and about 5 months ago I took laxatives to have a bowel movement while I was on a diet that has low fiber. I noticed I lost weight so I kept taking 4 a day and was at blank and got down to blank and then had to see a doctor for slight liver damage. I stopped taking the laxatives and started again a few weeks after . Then I stopped ...

Sorry. Stupid venting post. I just need to focus on my blessings.

I've been sober almost 5 months now. I feel like i have so many things to say that i really don't know where to start; i'm afraid it'll all sound so convoluted that no one will be able to make head or tails of it -_- i guess i should say that i'm 22 years old. I did gymnastics competitively as a kid, for 11 years. When i hit puberty i put on a bunch ...

THIS IS MY STORY With Alcohol :

My name's Aymen *mod edit*, I'm 30 years old, 10 years ago, I was a member of a basketball team in high school, I loved hanging out and partying with my friends. I drank alcohol, because it was all around me, Everyone was doing it, At every party everywhere I went, it was the norm. It was something I felt everyone did and I was supposed to ...

I've been relatively clean for years now. I say relatively because I am not into the whole 12 step thing and one slip-up every few years doesn't destroy my confidence in my ability to make wise choices overall. I have never felt that occasional use was all that bad. So I went from using drugs every day to using them roughly once every couple of years or so.

I've used everything. I had my weed ...

So, here's the deal. I am dealing with a long-term boyfriend who can't stay clean to save his life. I've done the whole intervention ordeal, threatened never speaking to him again, etc but no matter what- he can't seem to maintain his sobriety. I'm on facebook with a thing called the GRR (weird name I know) and they say that they specialize in 'long-term' treatment and have a minimum of 6 months but rec a ...

I have been completely clean off of everything now for 7 months. My main reason for this was because I found out I was pregnant. Before this I was addicted to basically anything I could get my hands on but mainly Cocaine and drinking were what drove me. I feel good an all but now that I'm entering the last few weeks of my pregnancy I find myself thinking constantly about partying again. I know ...

Hi, very new n writing from cell phone, so please forgive brevity n mistakes ahead of time... I'm waking this morning feeling n knowing (emotionally n intellectually) that my life I'm creating these last few months is at rockbottom. How does a 47 year old woman change these crazy impulse control/behavioral junk that I am creating...finally? I don't know where to begin although going to a meeting keeps coming in to my head... Instead though ...