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Posted on 6/13/25 at 10:09 am to TigerLunatik
Posted on 6/13/25 at 10:09 am to TigerLunatik
Congrats to you. A little of 6 weeks for me now. Had been drinking myself to a brown out for longer than I can recall. Woke up one morning with a gut wrenching feeling that my 26yr old son and I had gotten in a fight. Turned out it was a lot worse. I had just screamed at him about being stupid and a loser. Same shite that my mother did to me growing up. Had promised myself that I would never do that to my children. Said there and then that I had to stop. Didn't want my grands to see me like that. The first couple of weeks were rough while withdrawing.
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Posted on 6/13/25 at 10:55 am to Deek
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A little of 6 weeks for me now. Had been drinking myself to a brown out for longer than I can recall. Woke up one morning with a gut wrenching feeling that my 26yr old son and I had gotten in a fight. Turned out it was a lot worse. I had just screamed at him about being stupid and a loser. Same shite that my mother did to me growing up. Had promised myself that I would never do that to my children. Said there and then that I had to stop. Didn't want my grands to see me like that. The first couple of weeks were rough while withdrawing.
This is the kind of shite that gives me chills. Congrats to you, brother. I mean this more seriously than you can imagine, if you ever need to vent or talk about this, I'll be here.
Posted on 6/13/25 at 11:50 am to TigerLunatik
Thanks for the offer. It's still a daily struggle.
Posted on 6/13/25 at 12:19 pm to Deek
Some of the things that helped me was...
1. Cutting ties with anyone associated with it.
2. Find something to occupy your time that includes a goal. For me it was exercising and losing weight. Literally saved my life.
- I used to keep a desk calendar on the back of my bedroom door so that I could put a big X over each day that I completed sober. Those x's started to really mean something to me after a while.
3. Avoid any triggers that make you want to drink again.
4. Counseling. I did more anger management type of counseling but it helped so many thinking errors for me.
1. Cutting ties with anyone associated with it.
2. Find something to occupy your time that includes a goal. For me it was exercising and losing weight. Literally saved my life.
- I used to keep a desk calendar on the back of my bedroom door so that I could put a big X over each day that I completed sober. Those x's started to really mean something to me after a while.
3. Avoid any triggers that make you want to drink again.
4. Counseling. I did more anger management type of counseling but it helped so many thinking errors for me.
This post was edited on 6/13/25 at 12:21 pm
Posted on 6/13/25 at 12:20 pm to TigerLunatik
Posted on 6/13/25 at 4:07 pm to TigerLunatik
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Some of the things that helped me was..
5. Swap addictions. I can't tell you how many cops I got off the sauce but now they are coffee and Krispy Kreme addicts. Every time I see cops eating coffee and doughnuts my mind kicks to recovering booze hounds.
Posted on 6/13/25 at 4:40 pm to TigerLunatik
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Those x's started to really mean something to me after a while
I'm fortunate to not be born with that gene (as we've discussed), but this overall motivational concept certainly helps me with other things, like eating healthy, not smoking, etc.
Once you've stuck it out for a while, it's hard to look back at something like that and not think, "Man, why would I screw up all of that progress for one extremely brief moment?"
That is, the farther I successfully move away, the more I don't want to waste the pain of what I've already accomplished.
Posted on 6/13/25 at 4:45 pm to paperwasp
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"Man, why would I screw up all of that progress for one extremely brief moment?"
Depends on the vice
Posted on 6/13/25 at 4:47 pm to Cheese Grits
Posted on 6/13/25 at 6:14 pm to TigerLunatik
this thread is about me isn't it...
"hint, hint, Harry Rex..."?
"hint, hint, Harry Rex..."?
Posted on 6/13/25 at 6:53 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
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Harry Rex
T rex had hair?
Posted on 6/15/25 at 3:21 pm to TigerLunatik
Congrats, man, it takes strength and courage to overcome.
What do you do when you get the urge?
What do you do when you get the urge?
Posted on 6/15/25 at 3:34 pm to BuckI
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What do you do when you get the urge?
I don't get them anymore really. I think about it now and then. But, I've had to take pain meds for my plethora of injuries so maybe that's held me over so to speak. I have zero desire to do anything illegal. But, my biggest vice was pain meds. I can get hydrocodone anytime I want it. I just choose not to.
Posted on 6/15/25 at 3:59 pm to TigerLunatik
I hope the pain meds give you the relief you need to make life comfortable. I can't imagine going through all that. Were you hurt on the job?
I'm scared of drugs. I wasn't too sure when they first gave me morphine in the ER, but it made me feel so much better. Now I see why people enjoy it.
I'm scared of drugs. I wasn't too sure when they first gave me morphine in the ER, but it made me feel so much better. Now I see why people enjoy it.
Posted on 6/15/25 at 4:15 pm to BuckI
I've had 4 surgeries in 3 years. 
Posted on 6/15/25 at 4:49 pm to TigerLunatik
Man, you've been through a lot. Wish I were that tough.
I had minor eye surgery. They did not put me out, so I was awake. Someone put their hand on my crotch during the procedure, and I thought, I hope it's one of the women.
I had minor eye surgery. They did not put me out, so I was awake. Someone put their hand on my crotch during the procedure, and I thought, I hope it's one of the women.
Posted on 6/15/25 at 8:55 pm to BuckI
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Someone put their hand on my crotch
That's awful. Which doctor do you go to?
Posted on 6/16/25 at 8:45 am to 1BIGTigerFan
She was a pretty Hispanic woman named Arraya. I was her last patient before she moved to Florida. Think I can sue the Wexner Medical Center?
Posted on 6/16/25 at 8:51 am to BuckI
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Man, you've been through a lot. Wish I were that tough.
It gets to a point where I just laugh at it. It's always been this way for me. I don't know any other way.
Posted on 6/16/25 at 9:07 am to TigerLunatik
as they say when you are sick and tired of being sick and tired you will make a change. sadly some people dont seem to have a bottom. insanity is doing same things expecting different results. went into rehab 1998 when firstborn was 2 luckily neither one of my boys saw me in active addiction. congrats to anyone wiling to do whatever it takes to make any positive change in your life. prayers to the addicts still suffering.
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