Awesome mlb, you are back on track. Don't worry if another spike comes along and keep posting. Nal-on.

I kept the numbers moving down last week, although not as much as I would have liked.

40 units vs. 100 is still an amazing achievement - keep going

Andy

I haven't visited the forum for the past couple of months. I haven't been precisely tracking my drinking or updating my graph. I've just been taking my pill and drinking what I wanted - a bit less than before TSM, but more than I had been drinking last winter.

A month ago, I got my final refill of nal. I decided then that I would keep drinking as long as the pills lasted and then I would try to quit. I probably could have gotten a new prescription, but I dindn't want to. I've given this a year. I think it has either worked or it has not worked.

Yesterday, I took my final pill and drank all I could. This morning, I poured out what little bourbon I had left. Starting today, I'm going to try to abstain and find out if I am still addicted or not.

I feel fairly confident that I can get through "today". I'm less sure about "forever", though.

I'll check back in a while and let you know what happened - one way or the other.

Thanks for the support along the way and good luck to everyone else fighting this battle!

mlb, You sound committed to the fight.

All I can do is wish you every strength for the future.

All my very best,

Andy.

MLB, I wish you the best. Don't worry about forever - the one good piece of advice from AA I think is to just take it "one day at a time".
EL

Good luck mlb

And remember you can always go back to TSM if the going gets tough. AA helps too - not sure if you are into that or not, but it saved my life 18 years ago. (And on & off since then.)

Take care
Sticky

Hi mlb - I'm fairly new to TSM and to this board. I tore through your thread - thank you very much for sharing your journey.

So far, so good.

I took my last pill and had my last drink on July 31. I've made it for a week since then without a drink.

There were a couple of days when the thought of having a drink crossed my mind, but not to the extent that I would call it a craving.

I think it is too soon to call myself cured, but I'm feeling good and am hopeful.

I quit smoking 24 years ago (after smoking for 16 years) and have felt ever since that if I were to have even one cigarette, that I would be hooked again. I feel the same way about drinking. I think if I were even have one beer at a ballgame, I'd be in trouble. That one beer would turn into several, I'd buy a bottle of bourbon on the way home, and I'd be right back at it. So, I just have to keep from having that first drink.

Best wishes to all.

MLB,

How's it going? Your story is an insperation to all of us.