silence7RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.
My 20s and early thirties are a blur. 2009-2015 is pretty much completely missing from my memory. My 6 year binge (with my overall drinking) might have some presents for me in my future.
I’ve been sober for 2 years but it does scare me that I already did the damage. Oh well I guess. At the time, it was my coping mechanism. I don’t have cravings anymore because now I can clearly see it as poison but the damage might already be done.
As someone who drinks pretty much every day, how much were you drinking??
It was different every day but the absolute minimum was a 6 pack. That was on a day I had things to do. If I had a day where I had obligations, I’d settle for a six pack with a 6%abv because I could regulate it by the hour because of my body weight.
On average I was drinking a handle a day. Easy.
On days I was trying to “regulate myself” I was still drinking 9%abv IPAs.
Was in it.
CorkyskogA handle meaning 1.75 liters of something 40% ABV? A day?
Seems almost hard to believe. Did you have any seizures or anything when you quit? Did they taper you off on some medication?
No seizures. DTs landed me in the icu a few times with major hallucinations going on.
It was recommended I taper with gabapentin. It helps manage but I still have trouble with nearly nightly sweats and insomnia. I still shake and tremble if I try and do something that requires finesse or dexterity.
A handle EVERY SINGLE DAY is a no, that was overstated. 4 days out of the week, yeah. Red stag was my liquor of choice for a long time. I’d blackout and just keep going until I woke up wherever. Drunk tank, ER, in the grass on the side of the road in the middle of the night.