!!! DON’T SIMPLY STOP !!!
When we’ve accepted we have an issue with the amount of alcohol we are consuming, it’s dangerous for us to simply stop.It’s always advisable to seek the advice of your doctor, or a medical professional, be honest with them and ask for a LIVER FUNCTION TEST.
It’s imperative we are honest about how many units of alcohol we are drinking per week, both to ourselves and the people we wish to gain support from. When we aren’t open and honest, from experience, it won’t be an enjoyable experience.
At thirty years of age, I stopped consuming alcohol abruptly, fortunately, I’d been in contact with two doctors concerning my health, how I was feeling and the symptoms I was experiencing…one of the doctors called the ambulance that took me for my first alcohol/lifestyle related visit in hospital.I was hallucinating for 4 days, almost sectioned for the first time and spent a week on an intravenous drip, that’s for another post.
It’s an experience I wouldn’t wish anyone else to have in their lives.Once we verify what’s happening in our body, we can then address cutting back on our levels of consumption.It’s also important I feel, that we are making this decision ourselves, for our benefit and health. Not because of outside influences, comments being made, or pressure from a third party.
There is far more likelihood we will succeed in what we are setting out to do, if we have created the intention based upon the conclusions we ourselves have drawn.
This is not what I did when I stopped the first time, I based my decision to refrain from drinking alcohol, on a comment made by a business partner. I had no intention of stopping in the longer term, although I was told to by the consultant, didn’t change the relationship with myself or the people around me and after another pain filled decade, almost lost everything.