Re: Abdominal lesions - help!

sjbisluk@xxxxxxx wrote:
On Sep 11, 8:07 am, sjbis...@xxxxxxx wrote:

Thank-you so much for your reply, I really appreciate it.
Yes, my consumption of alcohol over the past couple of years has
definitely increased,
and I don't (until now) give myself alcohol free days. It's about 9
standard drinks a day (beer)
which I know is excessive.

My plan now is to just quit altogether (cold turkey) - wondering if
occasional headaches etc
would be part of the side effects.

Nine drinks a day for several years is alcoholism.

It's true that you've been under substantial stress, and it's very
important that you learn better methods of stress management or you'll
go back to drinking when you're next under stress, or under the continued
stress of your wife's pregnancy and raising your child. This will ruin
your life, and may ruin that of your wife and child.

Ask your doctor for advice and recommendations on quitting drinking, and
counseling or classes about stress management techniques. Community
organizations like the YMCA, or your employer may have such classes.
You should also consider AA as a resource. Note that denial is a
classic symptom of alcoholism.

So at least I feel a little better (psychologically) than I did last
night/this morning. It's actually nice to get a 2nd opinion.
I think the stress wasn't helping though, so I bought a B-Complex
vitamin (with A &C) which may help boost my immune system
again and stop me from being tired.

You need more than vitamins, although they certainly can't hurt. Nine
beers a day is a *lot* of calories, and if you aren't rapidly gaining
weight on that regime it's because the beer is displacing food, so you
may well be vitamin deficient. But your real problem is in managing
all this stress by getting drunk -- this is a real vicious circle, and
one you have to break by finding more constructive methods.

Dr #1 said it's still okay to have the occasional light beer - it
won't kill me :-)

People who have a tendency toward alcoholism are taking a risk every
time they drink. Just as someone who has quit smoking can fall back
into it from smoking just one cigarette, a single beer is a bad
idea for someone who has dried out, even if they've been sober for
a long time.

I hope you'll take what I've written seriously. It's hard to admit
that you've let yourself become dependent on alcohol, but you have to
do so before you can quit and stay sober. It isn't easy, but the
alternative is catastrophic. Alcohol is doing something for you that
you have to learn to do in a better way, or you'll end up destroyed
by it, and you may take your family down with you.

Best wishes to you and your wife.

.

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