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marbella · **Joined:** Thu Feb 05, 2009 12:50 pm **Posts:** 255

Thanks for the update Q- I will be updating my week 7 later, but basically it is the same as yours.

Goin4More · **Posted:** Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:09 am

That is so encouraging, Q. After a couple weeks of increased diminished drinking, this week has been a disaster. Unless I manage to cut waaaay back tonight, I'm going to end up within a few drinks of my pre-Sinclair days. I think the same is true of my SO. To understand that this is still within 'normal' ranges in the first five weeks helps keep my hopes up.

Thanks!

houtx770 · **Joined:** Fri Feb 06, 2009 7:32 pm **Posts:** 109

It is the strangest process...but as I said somewhere else, the diary is a good thing. I am just writing the time I go for another at this point. No time to write cravings/feelings/blahblahblah... Kids, I CRAVE all the time! Everything is a trigger. I stand in front of the classroom and am talking about ANYTHING and those kids piss me off and I think "GAWD - I can't WAIT to get home!! WINE!!" LOL (Yes, your children's teachers R US) My whole adult life has been to come home after working & working out, drinking all that freaking water, etc...and rewarding myself with wine. 25+ years!! Every day is a carpe diem one w/ me and if I must live each day as if it were my last, I must have my wine. For sure.

I continue to exercise and live each day as if it were the first one of the rest of my life, or perhaps, my last...but I also need to think differently, and I hope I am re-programming my brain with this drug...I sooooo hope so. I do not want my last days to be in a fog. Drunk. I'd like to go to bed & wake up guilt free most days. And I do feel it happening. I really do.

This method is so hopeful, yet so frustrating. But I have realized I am not following it to the letter as I have not (since the first couple of weeks) been tracking every drink, etc. until now. Going back to that. Sorry to repeat myself. I am continuing on w/ the glass half full, literally & figuratively speaking! LOL

houtx770 · **Joined:** Fri Feb 06, 2009 7:32 pm **Posts:** 109

OOps - sorry, Q , use your personal tracking thread to post a general thing...

~Q~ · **Posted:** Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:25 pm

houtx770,

No worries.

I don't mind if you don't. If you would rather this be in another thread, you might PM Marby, Lena, or N101CS and ask them to move it.

Have a good one.

Q

~Q~ · **Posted:** Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:54 am

Week 8 update in original post.

happy4once · **Posted:** Mon Apr 20, 2009 9:48 am

Bump for Q's Week 9

Q - thank you for continuing to outline your progress. I find I focus more and more on the weekly progress reports section to keep my motivation. Hope you are feeling better.

~Q~ · **Posted:** Mon Apr 20, 2009 9:42 pm

Week 10 update in original post.

Krazy1 · **Posted:** Mon Apr 20, 2009 10:01 pm

Hello Q,

It's good to hear from you - I was thinking about how awful you were feeling, and hoping to hear things had turned around. Hopefully you've tackled the last round of the horrible sickness that spread around this spring. When I tried to call my daughter in sick for school, I was put on hold several times, because SO many were calling in at the same time! It would pass, then ANOTHER virus attacked - it's been insane, but I think it's over... :?:

Glad you're back, so we can all drink to your health again! :lol:

Goin4More · **Posted:** Tue Apr 21, 2009 8:55 am

~Q~ wrote:

Week 10: (16 units, Craving 2-3)
I was still recovering most of week 10 from a very nasty virus from that hit me during week 9. In fact, I am just now feeling normal again. I had to completely halt taking Nal for about 3-4 days during the later part of week 9 and into the first part of week 10 because my Dr. put me on an opiate pain killer to help with some rather nasty symptoms I has suffering from my viral infection. I did not experience any adverse reaction to taking the opiate pain killer once I stopped taking Nal nor did I experience any adverse reaction when I stopped taking the pain killer and started taking Nal again.

My overall craving level is WAY down from where it was a couple weeks ago. I'm not sure if this is a lingering side effect of the illness I just recovered from or a true representation of the extinction of my alcohol craving.

As I begin week 11, my craving level remains very low, in the 1-2 range. We'll see how the rest of this week plays out.

Week 11: (underway)

Glad you're recovering, Q. I wonder if your decreased craving might be b/c you were somewhat forced to quit drinking so regularly. . .and now that you can again, realize you can live without so much? I keep thinking I should be able to cut down more than I have, but then habit kicks in and I figure, "what the hell?" and just keep pouring.

Last night I did deliberately cut down to 7 units - from my usual 8 or 9. I had planned to stick to 5. . .but gonna set that goal again for tonight. I really think, at this point, if I can just quit the 'habit' of drinking so much every night, I'll have half the battle licked.

But I sure don't want to have to get as sick as you did to accomplish that!

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