My drunk ass is looking for advice

[radioactive_man (OP)]

long story short, what gum is best for booze breathe? i've learned from rehab and fucking AAA(anonymous alcoholics anonymous) that the stuff oozes our of your skin. how your breathe smells is just one aspect of how to schedule your drinking activities.

i know i have a drinking problem. i drink to make life a little more bearable. i know it is fucking up how my body functions. i'm dehydrrated all the time and pretty sure malnourished.

work sharts(hehehe) at between 2 and 4pm. i always plan ahead, as far as the drinking goes. the worst part is i sweat my ass off. i figure that could be acute alcohol withdraw. all i do is sweat, but i chew gum. today someone told me i smelt like peppermints.   

i can't lose this job, even though it, well.

advice anyone?

maybe remember to feed myself

also it fucking sucks working at a place that i have no respect for

just trying to keep my head above water

give me your years of earthly wisdom

[LadyKalma]

Remember, a job is a way to get money from people who don't care about you. This isn't always the case but often is. So just smile on the outside and don't worry about if you respect them or not.

Drinking more water for sure helps dilute the sweat and make less smell come from your pores. And eating of course, at least have some toast or something like that with carbs, fat, preferably some protien too.

What booze do you drink typically? Is it different or better or worse depending on what type? Can you handle having a drink before work and stopping at one so you're not withdrawaling and sweating so much?

You could take some b vitamins too, just make sure to eat first or you'll probably puke. The b vitamins stink and cover other sweat smell with vitamins smell. And give energy.

Hope other people have good advice, thats all ive got. I don't drink usually, but if i have no other options i drink, and its not a pretty picture. There was a year i didn't do opiates, which lead to drinking too much everyday and hating myself and being alive. It does not really agree with me, and the older i get the more hung over i get, now it happens if i drink at all ill be puking and have a headache all the next day. But i feel your pain if booze is your only option.

[Opi-ette]

Not too sure how much wisdom this is or just old wives tales but I've heard:

Penny under the tongue
A nice sloppy spoon full of peanut butter
If the gum works, try adding the liquid breath drops to the mix.

(I found chugging super strong coffee to cut some of the smell)

Yes of course feed yourself. And take in liquids other than booze.

Booze smell comes right out of the lungs so I'm not sure there's really a "cure all". I know you've been struggling alcohol for a while, have you considered detox?

[radioactive_man (OP)]

What booze do you drink typically? Is it different or better or worse depending on what type? Can you handle having a drink before work and stopping at one so you're not withdrawaling and sweating so much?

There was a period of time when it was a pint before work, a pint at work, I don't wish anyone a habit as bad as that. After work I'd get a litre and save a pint of that. Fun way to learn the metric system, eh, eh?

Anywhose, it's usually wine at night. This afternoon I had a few tall boys before I went in. I made myself eat a sammich, banana. and hydrate. I still sweated my ass off, but not nearly as bad as the past week or so. You know when you sweat so much it's embarrassing?

Thanks for listening to my ramble Lady Kalma and Opi-ette.

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Something here may help a little.

[Z]

Hey man.  Hope your girls doing well too.

I don't have much to offer unfortunately.  Drinking is one of those things that you think you're hiding well but you aren't. Still, if you can manage it okay it seems to be tolerated better then some stuff.  If you aren't getting odd looks and showing up half in the bag I bet you'll be okay for a bit at least.


Idid the drinking to replace opiates thing too.  I did better on smack honestly.  The only thing worse for me was an out of control coke habit. I feel so much better to have that in my past.


Anyways, hang in there.  You can approach booze like maintenance maybe and find out the smallest amount you need to function.  Don't some benzos help cut back withdrawal significantly too?  It might be a before or during work option I guess, but a benzo habit sounds worse even.

[Hooman]

...Don't some benzos help cut back withdrawal significantly too?...

Librium (Chlordiazepoxide) works really well at stopping alcohol WDs - it's a really 'weak' benzo, but is what they use clinically to maintain/detox alcohol patients, and it works really well. A GP might be persuaded to prescribe some if you explain what you want to use it for.

[Thoms]

Hey bro. Much love from us here. Try and get yourself over to the benzos man. Those gaba drugs are a mother fucker but you have to get to something that’s easier to maintain on. You can obviously handle your shit because you’ve held it together this long but I think getting on some kpins would do you a world of good. From what I remember you already fuck around with them but I’m not sure. I’m here to encourage you though. Booze and benzos are both gaba drugs. Maybe throw some gabapentin and/or lyrica in there too. Best of luck to you, yours, and the hens bro. From me, mine, and the pits.

[Chip]

as Thoms said, gabapentinoids are very useful here.

Balclofen (chloro-beta-phenyl-GABA) is another drug in that family. it's easy to obtain in Oz as is not seen as an addictive fun drug nor a dangerous one either.

if you want a break from the alcohol and still get some subtle anxiety relief then this skeletal muscle rexalant may be worth a look ... see a study on it below:

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/847201

[LadyKalma]

Glad you ate filling food and drank water and it helped a bit. I for sure know about sweating too much and being embarrassed. Im about 100 lbs and usually cold so you'd expect me not to sweat so much but you'd be wrong. Even my hands are always wet, like if im holding onto paper or something itll have sweat all on it. I usually bring extra shirts and keep on drying my pits and back with a shirt i already sweated through.

I heard cinnamon is helpful for reducing sweating though and am gonna start eating it every day to see if it does anything.

Also, if people say bacoflen or however you spell it helps, its really easy to get from the internet in the us too. Ive actually seen it on a pharmacy site someone posted about on here.

[dillydudeEL14]

Like others have said getting on benzos wouldnprobabky be better. Idk but maybe if you drank fireball and chewed cinnamon gum you would just smell
Like cinnamon? Idk I havent tried this I just thought of it now. But benzos will definitely keep you out of alcohol withdrawal and won’t smell and as long as you don’t overdo it you should be more able to act normal too. And I would think benzos are more healthy. Alcohol is just so toxic to your body. Good luck tho man for real.

I have replaced opiates with drinking and I went downhill fast. It was when I was like 21 and I was alone in my grandmas house cuz she was in the hospital recovering from hip replacement and my parents sent me there to get off pills. I had a credit card and eventually got to the point where I was drinking one of the big bottles of vodka every day or maybe slightly less on some days but never less than half of one. The house was trashed with empty pizza boxes everywhere lol. I used to drive her car around drunk and god I’m so lucky I didn’t hurt anyone or myself or get arrested 

That went o for like a month or 2nbefore I came home and idk how but I didn’t have withdrawal. That was like 7 years ago and I have tried other times to replace opiates with Alc and it always ends badly. Goes ok for the first week but then I start drinking earlier and earlier and more and more and eventually get to where I black out everyday.

[radioactive_man (OP)]

I ended up walking out on the job I hated. It was better for my mental health. I can't handle a tweaker as a boss.

So I found another job where they treat people like people. I work with adults, which is nice. A little bit of maturity goes a long way.

The insanity has been replaced by fucking FEAR!

I found out yesterday that I have a kiddo on the way. Some genetic testing came back and said that all the chromosomes are there and it's a boy.

I'm scared on a lot of levels. Having to raise a boy that will eventually become a man. I don't even have my shit together. The one comfort I have is my woman. How she's managed to put up with my bullshit for fourteen years.

Back to the job situation. I've got a pretty set drinking schedule, very schedule orientated. Sometimes I deviate from that and it makes me nervous. Today, out of the blue, I projectile barfed and couldn't wear my coat after that. It was pretty embarrassing even though no one was there to see it(sitting in my car on my lunch break).

Fuck, I'm rambling.

One step forward, two back. I am happy just want to get my head on straight.

Fucking wish dope was legal!!!

I'm struggling hard god damnit. The more I think about it the more I realize I am really powerless.

Sorry for the novel....

[Thoms]

I love you you sexy fuck.  And congratulations on the parasite (haha fucking with your beautiful ass), na congratulations on the beautiful soul that you have created with your soulmate. If you love the baby like you love your chickens he will have a great life. I know that you have fought this demon for a long fucking time but it is time to step up your game and get to a doctor, like I’ve told you before benzos are as close as you can get to hitting those gaba bits as medically possible. I don’t mean this as a dick, you know me, I don’t judge and a are an amazing soul no matter what, but this is something that you need to do for yourself because yourself is going to be a father soon. I’m here for you message me for anything dog, you got me on the fb. Now is the time. Here is the place. The stakes don’t get higher. You can do this. Take the first step, find the help. Better living through chemistry and all that. I don’t know what else to say but you know everything I say is because you are my vomit yo..

[MoeMentim]

hey rm, sorry you're struggling, i feel ya.  yesterday was 3 weeks without booze for me.  im taking antabuse which is making it pretty easy not to  drink.  my mind  goes to the needle though.  yesterday i drove to denver to cold cop but came home empty handed.  all my go-to spots were desolate.  all for the better i guess.  seed tea today which has been once a weekend since i quit drinking.  hang in there, i hope the new job is better.

[Hooman]

Nicely done. 😉