Anyone been to rehab?

my son has, do you need help?

I did an intensive outpatient rehab in 2016 for cocaine addiction and alcoholism. August of this year will be 5 years sober.

I spent 7 months in a rehab in 2019. Alcohol, not opiates like the majority of other people who were there (did my fair share of that too but never got addicted). Got to the point where I was having seizures if I didn’t drink liquor at least every 4 hours. Liver basically stopped working, diagnosed with cirrhosis, was bed ridden for weeks. I was in my late 20’s for reference on how hard I went, getting alcoholic cirrhosis in your 20’s is quite the achievement. Haven’t drank in 2 years now. It’s a lot easier to quit drinking when you know your liver is so bad that if you start again you would probably have just weeks before it failed. Also learned that dying from a failing liver takes a long time and is quite agonizing. Got lucky though, my gastro doc tells me that since I stopped when I was young and my liver recovered better than expected, I should be able to live normally for the next ~30ish years before I might have serious problems again. That’s a far cry from when I first showed up at the hospital looking yellow like Homer Simpson and heard the word “transplant” being thrown around.

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Yep 37 Days June-July and 45 Days Aug-Oct in 2020. Thought I knew everything after the 1st 37 day stint. Decided to work my own plan instead of the recommended one. Needless to say that ended poorly. 2nd time around finally got it through my stubborn brain that this was serious. Humbled myself and truly asked for help. I'll have 8 months sober this weekend and have never felt better physically and emotionally. It works if you work it.

Yep. Jan 2019. Started a thread about it on the way there

Still sober

I went to rehab when I was 17 (alcohol) in 1990. Baton Rouge General Mid City. Wasn't too bad. I quit drinking for six months then got back on the sauce. One thing I learned was that I am a binge drinker. I had nothing on the true alcoholics who could not function without booze. Not that one is better than the other. I still could do lots of damage on a weekend bender. But, some of these people couldn't feed themselves if they weren't drinking. Several had to be strapped to beds to detox. It was an eye opener if nothing else.

I've been to physical therapy to rehab a dislocated shoulder, does that count?

Twice..... didn’t stop me from drinking but did change my perspective on life.......

Rehab is expensive, ain’t it?