Mark Allen and I’m 29 from Decatur Illinois, I have only been sober 5 days from beer and cocaine. I was drinking over a 30 pk a day and doing cocaine everyday hard. It’ got to the point where I wasnt getting enough yayo the lines kept getting bigger and bigger and spending way too much money. After waking up one morning from a 10 day binge and finally told myself I’ve had enough. On top of everything I’m type 1 diabetic
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Welcome Mark Allen. Congratulations in your 5 days clean. Keep it up and come back often. This is a great community.
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Thank you.
Welcome @Mark_Allen. It not only 5 days man, it’s 5 days!
5 days of your new life
Stick around a while.
Hey @Mark_Allen, keep checkbook in to let us know hide your doing. You may struggle in these first days, that’s too be escorted. We can help By sharing our experiences and tips. Each day sober is a win!
Hey, congratulations on five days of sobriety. That’s no small accomplishment! Like others have said, keep coming in here and reading as many threads as you can. This site has been an invaluable part of my sobriety. I was a wine, whiskey and cocaine gal myself…when I look back on that last morning that I woke up, shaking, nauseous, headache, feeling like death…I realize what an incredible gift it was. I don’t know what made that time different than the hundred or so hangovers before it, but it was. I woke up and said “enough. You can either keep doing this to yourself…or you can stop. I was down the road of each choice a little and I made a choice. I can say without hesitation that it was the best decision I’ve ever made for myself. For me it helped to delete every connect I had in my phone, regardless of my level of “friendship” with them. I got all the booze out of the house. I stayed at home except for when I was working for a decent part of the first month binge watching tv and letting my body do some healing. Every time a craving hit, I took out two pieces of paper, one with a list of every reason I could think of I wanted to be sober and the other with a detailed account of my last hangover in all its sensations and thoughts and feelings. I rested as much as possible and handled all the thoughts of “why do I STILL have headaches?!” Or “are you really getting sober to spend your life watching tv?!” By replacing them with a calm voice reminding me that “your body is just righting a ship that was on the wrong course for a very long time, be patient” and “ your body mind and heart need some time to heal right now. When you’re feeling better the drive to do more will come…be patient”. I also read everything I could about addiction and recovery. These are some things that helped me in the early days. Really glad you’re here buddy🌅
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