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Recovery The 2022 alcohol support thread

Nurse Ratched said:
If you weren't driving how did you get the DUI ?

Did i read that wrong? And yeah, if you refuse the tests it doesn't matter. It's on our DL contract that refusing roadside alcohol sobriety tests WILL result in loss of licence. I get why people refuse them as they think that somehow they will escape the consequences but that's never the case. They don't have the legal BAC content on the record when we refuse but we still go to jail and we still get our license suspended. Refusing anymore doesn't even do that............if we are drunk enough they are legally entitled to take us to an ER for a blood draw. Once the blue and red starts flashing we are usually always fucked.

Sorry you got one. I got one too. Only one thank God ( I quit drinking after I got it........it was the only thing to do )as I drank and drove for 30 years and escaped injuring anyone , myself included, but pushed the envelope much further than I should have. It was only luck that i didn't kill somebody. I took the hint that the law gave me and decided that since I knew i would always be stupid enough to drive after I drank, the only way to end the cycle was to quit. It worked !!
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In the untied states, if you're simply sleeping in the car, it can be a dui. Had this argument with my daughter. Don't sound logical. Doesn't sound real.
 
Nurse Ratched said:
If you weren't driving how did you get the DUI ?

Did i read that wrong? And yeah, if you refuse the tests it doesn't matter. It's on our DL contract that refusing roadside alcohol sobriety tests WILL result in loss of licence. I get why people refuse them as they think that somehow they will escape the consequences but that's never the case. They don't have the legal BAC content on the record when we refuse but we still go to jail and we still get our license suspended. Refusing anymore doesn't even do that............if we are drunk enough they are legally entitled to take us to an ER for a blood draw. Once the blue and red starts flashing we are usually always fucked.

Sorry you got one. I got one too. Only one thank God ( I quit drinking after I got it........it was the only thing to do )as I drank and drove for 30 years and escaped injuring anyone , myself included, but pushed the envelope much further than I should have. It was only luck that i didn't kill somebody. I took the hint that the law gave me and decided that since I knew i would always be stupid enough to drive after I drank, the only way to end the cycle was to quit. It worked !!
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She doesn't believe me
 
Nurse Ratched said:
If you weren't driving how did you get the DUI ?

Did i read that wrong? And yeah, if you refuse the tests it doesn't matter. It's on our DL contract that refusing roadside alcohol sobriety tests WILL result in loss of licence. I get why people refuse them as they think that somehow they will escape the consequences but that's never the case. They don't have the legal BAC content on the record when we refuse but we still go to jail and we still get our license suspended. Refusing anymore doesn't even do that............if we are drunk enough they are legally entitled to take us to an ER for a blood draw. Once the blue and red starts flashing we are usually always fucked.

Sorry you got one. I got one too. Only one thank God ( I quit drinking after I got it........it was the only thing to do )as I drank and drove for 30 years and escaped injuring anyone , myself included, but pushed the envelope much further than I should have. It was only luck that i didn't kill somebody. I took the hint that the law gave me and decided that since I knew i would always be stupid enough to drive after I drank, the only way to end the cycle was to quit. It worked !!
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And in only so far charged with it. Not guilty of it.
 
I'm seriously hurt inside and everyone that tells me I did it to myself just hurts me a little worse. Like I don't know that or something. No shit Sherlock!
 
Snafu in the Void said:
I'm so tired of what alcohol does to my body... I'm at a breaking point.

I have no idea how my alcoholic elders do this disease for 20, 30, 40+ years. I just hit the 10 year mark and my body is just rejecting the alcohol.

I feel like I have fucking brain damage and nerve damage. My past psychosis flares up giving me horrible anxiety. My whole left hand feels arthritic. I've been having muscle spasms for 48 hrs that don't stop. Stomach hurts, puking. My whole body is "buzzing" very uncomfortable. I have random panic attacks that last 30 sec and then stop. Everything hurts. I have zero attention span for anything. I just had the longest most disturbing episode of sleep paralysis I've ever had last night, and 100 other things I can't even think of right now because I've just become "adjusted" to them.

I want to stop so badly, but when I don't drink the weight of all my shortcomings, inadequacies and the general fucked up state of my life pushes me back to drinking. It's like I just want to be blacked out forever just to not exist anymore. Alcohol is death you keep waking up from.

I'm just so tired... so so tired... I'd rather be back on heroin at this fucking point.

I need help but it's so difficult to get it. I wish I could just go check into a fucking rehab but my fucked up country makes that into its own trial and tribulation when you're broke.

Just needed to vent. Love yall.

Sometimes I feel like a broken record as I've said all this 100 times.
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Alcohol has messed up my body also!! I hate it now!! 28+ yrs drinking and I have nothing to show for it, except health issues, stomach issues... messing with my Neuropathy! and I read the results of my new bloodwork, it said pre-diabetic! So my next appt should be great! I have to say Cannabis has done nothing bad to me and I've been smoking it just as long!! :O
 
Broncolover said:
Alcohol has messed up my body also!! I hate it now!! 28+ yrs drinking and I have nothing to show for it, except health issues, stomach issues... messing with my Neuropathy! and I read the results of my new bloodwork, it said pre-diabetic! So my next appt should be great! I have to say Cannabis has done nothing bad to me and I've been smoking it just as long!! :O
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P.S. I have a lot of the symptoms you have, like the spasms!! I went to the doctor for a spasm lasting over 4 days on my left calve and she loaded me up with "Alcoholic Vitamins!"
 
I’ve still continued to Drink, despite wanting Aug 1st 2022 to be my new sober day! However it’s not worked out like that. I got caught by my sister sneaking a free glass of Prosecco at my stepsisters wedding, it was so tough being surrounded by all these free drinks, even were given a double shot of flavoured gin at the meal in a neat little corked bottle. My family had mine filled with fizzy cola bottle sweets. All my mind was doing was figuring out how I could get away with having some of this free booze. Luckily the band playing that day were in a room basically deserted apart from people making a visit to the bar for something other than wine and Prosecco. So I tell my family I’m going to get some ice for the Appletiser I’d brought in to the venue. So I ask for ice, and as the barman is tending to that request I swiftly head to the table of Prosecco block one up and as the first mouthful is going down my older sister turns the corner into the room and my stomach drops “fuck fuck fuxk” I think and say out load too. I try to gather myself. Thinking she is going to flip and tell my mother (stepmother to the bride - who has helped plan this day for months and has been worried I was going to ruin it by getting wasted and making some drama) but to my surprise my sister was cool about it but kept an eye on me all night then. Tbh I’m glad she caught me cos if that craving had been set off (that gulp of Prosecco did nothing )! I would have been thinking of and scheming to get a drink all night and had other members of my family caught me I’d probably have set back a years worth of work with my twin brother having me slowly back in his, his partners and their daughters life.! I drank yesterday and also used heroin, but I have to stay clean now as I start naltrexone on Friday. I’m sure I’ll be fine for a urine drug test by Friday morning and also they state 7 days since last opiate use should have occurred before starting but I think given I’m using once or twice a weeks I’ll be okay. I’ll let you all know! Copious amounts of water and exercise and sauna everyday this week leading up to it!!!
 
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