It has a 90% failure rate, that is not good. They also do not advocate the use of medication to help, that is not good. They also feature heavily on god/higher power, and in the UK (this is a British forum) we are not really religious and believing in a higher power, so that isn't really good either.
Telll me, are you in the UK or the US?
I'll never be "cured " of you making me laugh...thank God!
Missed this one earlier. I am very happy for the both of you. It is actually amazing how the body can actually bounce back, if the drinking stops.
Sorry to be a bit thick but am I missing something here? Stop for a month then what? Huh?
Two more posts to go, Helen. You'll get there!
Thanks RH. You helped a lot. Many people did but your straight talking finally got me thinking "This guy is RIGHT."
Hey, how did the endoscopy go - or did you mention it somewhere else and I missed it?
The very notion is enough to make someone turn to drink! I don't get this at all
No, not being thick. You just give up for a month. Sometimes you grow a moustache for a month or shave you hair. It's all in the name of charidy.
And then, the OP is suggesting, if you get through the first month, you go for a second month, then a third and so on.
It's easy, I don't know what everyone is doing on this forum, just give up for one, two, three months, the rest of your life and it is easy.
If you are struggling, the A-A and 12 steps will sort you out.
You found it at last, dearest.
I mean, it only took you seven hours, so that's pretty good considering what we went through last night.....................
Good job you're not suffering with AUD, then, or your months of not drinking would collapse after a day.
In fact, A DAY AT A TIME.
The meetings are also incredibly boring. I know this because I went to a few with Jim.
We were boggled at how people could just ramble on.......and on......and on......about nothing.
Also, we discovered that people get addicted to AA! They go to three meetings a day, every day. I think I'd rather continue drinking. That's if I did in the first place........
Thank you for that.
Perhaps I have no right to post an opinion because I do not have an alcohol problem, But my friend did, So, on his behalf, I think it's a cruel expectation to ask someone who wakes up every day, their body cryng out for a drink, to be faced with the prospect of a whole month at a time!
I'm just trying to understand. We need to learn of other people's struggles or we will be useless at helping should that need ever arise. I have the utmost admiration for those who overcome alcohol addiction.
Thank you again
Helen
The only smile moment I had, which I still remember, is when I said, don't have a go at him. He knows better than anyone what he is doing to himself and he will only use you as a justification/blame to carry on as before. I wrote it a little bit better than that, but that was the jist.
As for the ultrasound and endoscopy. The radiologist said to me, your liver isn't brilliant, but no worse than two years ago. She did notice 0.5cm gallstones, but as they are not giving me trouble, to leave them alone. And no portal hypertension. The gastroscopy they completely knocked me out after I suggested they might not like someone my size thrashing about. And my oesophageal varices have gone. However, I have gastritis, which I think is because of 25+ plus years of drinking fizzy lager/cider has stripped my internals. I also don't drink tap water, just bottled sparkling mineral water, which obviously doesn't help.
LOL ! It was one hell of a bumpy ride, Tess!
And let us not forget 17120 who is devastated at the moment because she was doing so well and then had a relapse and is begging for our forgiveness!
Not that she needs forgiveness, but she's taken it so hard it's heartbreaking.
Sure was. But we didn't get out accounts deleted, thankfully.
Amen to that At least I made a vey pubic apology, which cannot be said of the worst offender.
I can do no more. It will either be accepted or declined.
He'll accept it. He's a nice bloke. And he accepted my apology and I was worse than you. And he apologised to both of us for calling us trolls.
I think we know who the real troll was...............................
Aw Tess, you were not worse than I! I have a warped humour that gets the better of me.
YES, indeed, we know who the troll was. Such filthy language...shudder!
Come off it, Helen. I wrote the first reply and that opened the extremely large can of worms.