" I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok ....."

ROTFL - MY B!!!!!!

But Greg - On your March 7th post you must've made a typo & said (I can't do the highlight/copy thing - am way tech, challenged) "...my units were 80/per wk & considering I am female..." blah blah blah. Maybe you meant considering I am NOT female...??? LOL I was going along thinking of you as Greg, the guy until this. Then I thought, ok, it's a manly woman we are talking to!!! Whatev - but thought maybe you were depressed in part b/c of sexual orientation issues!

I'm sorry!!! LOL PLease forgive me! You came across as masculine at all times. I was thinking maybe "Greg" was your dyke name. I am seriously rolling on the floor laughing at myself - and do apologize profoundly to you!! I could have asked in a much more diplomatic way. But...well...I didn't! I am soooooo sorry for causing you any embarrassment - it is ALL on me!! I did not read thru the typo.

Now go back to being who you are. I was as shocked as anyone to think you were a girl named Greg (LOL again!!) Sharing your feelings is a wonderful thing and DO NOT STOP!!! In all seriousness, I care about you no matter who you are. I feel and share your pain. I hope I did not cause you any more distress and if I did, I sooooooo profoundly apologize.

PLease stay with us. We are your friends here and you will never be lonely as long as you log on and hang in here with us. This is the beauty of and technology at its best. And you also tend to drink less when you are typing and surfing the threads...true??

Luv ya, MR. Greg!! :-)

My word - talk about having missed alot.
Greg is back, has a plan and was for a day or so possibly female! Classic stuff all.
Hey Greg - you know how this works and you know yourself - good luck with what you decide is best. It sounds to me like you really want to kick this and I am confident you will. Go well. I agree with the theory that even for the honeymoon period where you wont hardly want to drink on NAL may be a good easy first step though! Hey if doens't work - then go had to detox and all that! Nothing to lose here that is or sure. Just a thought - go with the gut and good luck.
Greg, Austalian, Canberra - so blokey I can't belive it! Although I do actually know some gay people that live in Canberra strangely so that was a funny comment about your little town.

This whole female thing has given me a much-needed laugh to be honest! It's great to know we can be facing a very serious addiction and yet still laugh at such a hilarious misunderstanding. It's been an interesting few days being so in touch with my feminine side lol!

Hey houtx you had me seriously worried that I had said "my units were 80/week and considering I am female", but I've looked everywhere for such a post by me (including checking all my posts on and around March 7) and I can't find it. I'm sure someone else must have said that because my drinking level is nowhere near 80 per week and hasn't been that low for several years, unfortunately. It's closer to 170-180 per week, or around 140 standard drinks per week. I was especially worried that I could have been writing posts in which I was saying I was female...if I did then it had to be a typo. Not to worry anyway...as I said this has given me a great laugh and I can only imagine the hell my mates would give me if they knew I had been considered a woman for a few days!!

I hope everyone is doing well.

You're right - I misread a post that Marbella responded to. She quoted you then wrote her own comments. I misinterpreted who was saying what...glad we all got a good laugh and hope you are doing well!

That's ok houtx, the misunderstanding allowed us a few days of great humour. And yes ART, I imagine you would also have been a bit concerned about my apparent gender identity issue! Best wishes to all.

Hi Greg - just catching up on posts...this one made me laugh.

I wanted to comment on some of your pre gender-switching questions, however.

I think there have been several reports of using Balcofen + Nal successfully to help with anxiety / depression. may want to search for those (oceana ocean and Ashl both use the combo)...

I am a big proponent of hypno and natural supplements...I still do the MWO hypno tapes (they are about $250 if you order from through the MWO site). I had great success with them originally but they did not help me sustain my sobriety long term. I then tried to add Topa to the mix and had horrible results. The hypno tapes help me tremendously with stress/anxiety/mood..and then remarkably I don't feel like drinking as much. I also take supps for depression -- I use Thorne Research supplements but I started with the MWO supps. GABA has been great for me...all-one is also great (I now use something similar from Thorne, but the all one will work). St. John's and everything else I have tried don't really help me. Increasing my fish consumption and taking Cod Liver Oil does help me. I'm still not 100% 'happy' but I'm going in the right direction and without anti-depressants which was my goal. Nothing against anti-d's I just wanted to try to fix myself without medicating further. Other than the Nal, it's all natural for me...I only decided to take Nal after much internal debate because for me it's a medication that is fixing something, not just masking the symptoms. It is working for me..and I too did not think I really 'craved' alcohol. It's just something silly I did every night out of boredom...after the kids are in bed I'd sit down and have 1/2 bottle of wine, which then became 3/4...which then started going to a whole bottle. Nights out with company were a free-for-all. You need to remember that addiction is a very sneaky thing...very easy to convince ourselves that we are drinking because of this or that and that we are not addicted. Anyway, I have also tried topa and it made me depressed and angry. This med does not...I barely notice it's there...it does not decrease my pleasure in life at all..I'm happier these days than I was without it.

The Nal fixes the very subtle wirings in our brain at a level that is too miniscule to notice. If you decide to try, there is plenty of support here and plenty of experiences, at this point, to refer back to.

Take Care,