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What changed for me at the six-month mark

Started 2 December 2024 · 15 replies · 170 hearts · read 2.6k times

BethanPontypridd, UK · 2 December 2024
1.6 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: What changed for me at the six-month mark Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Practical question, and possibly a silly one.

What I am after is the version of this that works when nobody is helping, because that is my situation and most accounts assume otherwise.

I would like to know what other people say when asked, because my current answer is too long and invites more questions.

Six is the honest number. I nearly rounded it in the title and then decided that rounding is how these things stop being useful to anybody.

Sorry for the length. The logistics take longer to describe than they do to do.

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AmbroseYork, UK
#1

What surprised me was how much I did not miss it. I had expected to and I genuinely did not, and that told me something.

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Obi OEnugu, NG
#2

Bethan, I have been where you are and I would rather say so than stay quiet.

My honest report is that I still drink, less, and I enjoy it more, which was not the outcome I predicted.

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EspeSeville, ES
#3

Building on what Obi O wrote rather than answering the original question.

Something practical: I switched to something non-alcoholic that looks like a drink, and the number of questions I get dropped to zero.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#4

Stepping in to say that a household adjusting slowly is not a household failing. Several replies have been quite hard on people who are simply taking time.

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NedChesterfield, UK
#5

The pub is still the pub and I still go. That took a bit of working out and the answer turned out to be that the pub was never about the drink.

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TamGlasgow, UK
#6

Mine hit much faster and lasted longer, and the following day was noticeably worse than it used to be.

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LinneaTurku, FI
#7

Reading this at half past six with a cup of tea and nodding at every line.

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DotFalmouth, UK
#8

What Linnea described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

What I would say is that the change caught me out socially more than physically. My rounds were the same and my capacity was not.

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LucasSão Paulo, BR
#9

Gently disagreeing with Dot, or rather adding the other half of it.

Coming back a year on to say it settled into something I am comfortable with, which is less and better and much less thought about.

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OttoPrague, CZ
#10

Two landed like five for me, very early on, and it took one uncomfortable evening to work out that something had genuinely changed.

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SephNorwich, UK
#11

It simply stopped appealing. I had not decided anything and one day I noticed I had not wanted a drink in three weeks.

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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#12

Picking up Lucas’s point rather than starting a new one.

I found that eating less alongside drinking was the actual mechanism in my case, rather than anything more mysterious.

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RafeBordeaux, FR
#13

Nothing here is medical advice, and on interactions specifically a pharmacist will give you a better answer in five minutes than any thread.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#14

Facilitator note: everything discussed here is a matter for you and your household. We are here for the ideas, not the decisions.

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PerdyShrewsbury, UK
#15

Building on what Bryn wrote rather than answering the original question.

My rule now is that I do not drink on the day, which is entirely my own rule and my prescriber was fairly relaxed about the whole subject.

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