I used to drink 30 cans of beer a day. Functioning alco....I'm sure many of you can relate....I can think of a mod in question any way...

I gave up cold turkey 5 years ago.

I just found out that's the most dangerous thing to do as it shocks your system.

Now I feel kaput and I went to doctor and he say maybe best for you to drink again .

Should I start again I will feel better.

I ask my tilak and she say '' up to you mak mak ''

After a certain age it is doubtful whether giving something up for heath reasons is necessarily desirable. Telling a guy 99 years old to stop smoking is ridiculous. However I do admire the fact that you gave up drinking and that you have been saving a lot of money ever since. You know as well as I do that you won't like the first beer but that you will discipline yourself into liking it. My wife thinks I might die if I stop as did two of her neighbours over the years. Difficult.

You're worried you feel poorly because of a shock to your system five years ago?

If you want to drink, carry on. If you don't, stay stopped. I doubt anyone will recommend that you pick up the drink again for the good of your health

SC

I will. Get it up in ya, son. If you're miserable, sick and miss it, might as well have some fun before you die, eh what! Alternatively, you could be drained because of dehydration/wrong diet etc.

try to decrease volume of beer anyway. one can beer-one bottle soda etc

Sometimes I've gone a few months at a time without drinking any alcohol and it hasn't killed me yet.

If you're going back on 30 beers a day I'm sure a few bar owners out there will be competing for your custom.

Your issue is that you haven't really given up alcohol. You're still seeing it as your friend and talking like it is a friend you miss. I think you come on here looking for affirmation to drink.

People who truly quit alcohol, cigarettes etc. first have to learn to hate it and what it does to them. They have to hate it so much they'd never touch it again.

You want your old friend back and you're depressed because you don't have it. Emotionally you haven't seen alcohol as an enemy which controls you, and truly quit. It's still controlling your emotions.

I don't know what to tell you. If you want to go back to spending all of that money, being half looped all of the time and damaging your body, up to you. You certainly have the wrong mindset to actually be a reformed alcoholic.

I predict that you'll go back to drinking and die of obesity or liver damage or some other result of drinking too much.

Cheers.

Get a second opinion. Preferably not from your tilak or on a forum.

Sounds like what the OP misses, is the bars and their atmosphere

No one misses alcohol

He can also get some gasahol if it's alcohol he truly craves

Of course bar girls and bars go together

If thats the case.....

Take a knee, face out and drink water you.

I'm not, or at least hope I'm not insulting you with this post.

How is it possible to label yourself a functional on 30 beers a day? That's a commitment that would consume far too much of your life to a serious dependency to be able to honestly say that. You are an alcoholic and so am I for that matter

I limit myself to two beers a day. They are all I consider reasonable to call myself a functional alcoholic. Any more or any less and the balance I've finally found will tip one way or another. Both tipping points would be the end of me. The devil himself couldnt prize those two longnecks from my hands. God knows I want more but to keep what's really important to me "friends, love, and a liver" that is my self imposed limit.

You're not dead, you just drank so much that you forgot what joys living can bring. My thirst is never satiated, but being thirsty is better than being alone amongst men.

You've done well brother, try not to heed the advice of those telling you to get back on it. Maybe the question you need to ask yourself is what the <deleted> am I going to do with all this time on my hands because I'm bored beyond the pale. not knowing what you should be doing in this functional world took a while to figure out too.

Best of luck finding something(s) to purpose your days

youre an alcoholic. simple!

30 beers ,oh my God ,thats about 6 months supply for me mind you i do like a whisky and ice before bed.

Sounds like what the OP misses, is the bars and their atmosphere

No one misses alcohol

He can also get some gasahol if it's alcohol he truly craves

Of course bar girls and bars go together

If thats the case.....

yes, a lot of bar addicts out there.

Change your doctor.

30 beers ,oh my God ,thats about 6 months supply for me mind you i do like a whisky and ice before bed.

It would take me 60 years to get through 30 cans of beer.

I can't believe that someone would drink 210 cans of beer per week. That's 11,000 beers in a year. That's would be almost 700,000 beers in a lifetime, assuming you lived to 80 odd.....which I don't think any liver could handle.

3 drinkers like that could fill an Olympic Sized swimming pool with beer with their lifetime of beer.

If you gave up 5 years ago, sound like your looking for an excuse to get back too it.

Up to you.

Believe me, I have 3 friends who if they have the money drink 30 cans of beer a day every day. The first thing they do on getting up is have a beer and the second thing is start fretting that they will have enough cans to prevent withdrawal symptoms.

All three used to make a decent living in the building industry and all are now on UK benefits for good. I cannot see anyone of them ever working again.

If you drink 30 cans of beer a day, I would doubt you are a functioning alcoholic. A functioning alcoholic is able to keep his or her job. I don't think you could do that for more than 3 or 4 weeks max.

If you haven't drunk anything for 5 years and are now asking people if it is okay to start drinking again, I would guess that you have already secretly started. The problems may have begun already. If not, they will soon. Sell your car and motorbike today.

Believe me, I have 3 friends who if they have the money drink 30 cans of beer a day every day. The first thing they do on getting up is have a beer and the second thing is start fretting that they will have enough cans to prevent withdrawal symptoms.

All three used to make a decent living in the building industry and all are now on UK benefits for good. I cannot see anyone of them ever working again.

If you drink 30 cans of beer a day, I would doubt you are a functioning alcoholic. A functioning alcoholic is able to keep his or her job. I don't think you could do that for more than 3 or 4 weeks max.

If you haven't drunk anything for 5 years and are now asking people if it is okay to start drinking again, I would guess that you have already secretly started. The problems may have begun already. If not, they will soon. Sell your car and motorbike today.

if theyre on the dole, how do they afford 30 beer a day?

Describing yourself as a Functioning Alcoholic when drinking 30 cans of beer a day sounds like a true statement.

Drinking 30 cans of beer a day would be like having a full time job, not much time left for other things.

I know loads of blokes that drink 20+ pints a night that work.

30 beers ,oh my God ,thats about 6 months supply for me mind you i do like a whisky and ice before bed.

It would take me 60 years to get through 30 cans of beer.

I can't believe that someone would drink 210 cans of beer per week. That's 11,000 beers in a year. That's would be almost 700,000 beers in a lifetime, assuming you lived to 80 odd.....which I don't think any liver could handle.

3 drinkers like that could fill an Olympic Sized swimming pool with beer with their lifetime of beer.

If you gave up 5 years ago, sound like your looking for an excuse to get back too it.

Up to you.

"I can't believe that someone would drink 210 cans of beer per week."

Considering they are small cans in Thailand, 30 cans a day = about 15 Pints,that's not a great deal! I knew several 15 Pints a day Drinkers,and one was well known for drinking 20 Pints of Guinness in a days drinkers,which was witnessed by many,....Yes he is still alive!

30 beers ,oh my God ,thats about 6 months supply for me mind you i do like a whisky and ice before bed.

It would take me 60 years to get through 30 cans of beer.

I can't believe that someone would drink 210 cans of beer per week. That's 11,000 beers in a year. That's would be almost 700,000 beers in a lifetime, assuming you lived to 80 odd.....which I don't think any liver could handle.

3 drinkers like that could fill an Olympic Sized swimming pool with beer with their lifetime of beer.

If you gave up 5 years ago, sound like your looking for an excuse to get back too it.

Up to you.

"I can't believe that someone would drink 210 cans of beer per week."

Considering they are small cans in Thailand, 30 cans a day = about 15 Pints,that's not a great deal! I knew several 15 Pints a day Drinkers,and one was well known for drinking 20 Pints of Guinness in a days drinkers,which was witnessed by many,....Yes he is still alive!

It's 17.5 pints and don't try and pretend that drinking 15-20 pints of beer per day is a healthy thing to do. Thats 1/2 l of pure ethanol every day!

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I knew several 15 Pints a day Drinkers,and one was well known for drinking 20 Pints of Guinness in a days drinkers,which was witnessed by many,....Yes he is still alive!

"Yes he is still alive!"

LOL. If he's alive he probably doesn't know it.

Paul Newman, the now dead but famous actor once stated he drank a case of beer every day.

That doesn't mean he did, but it was widely quoted

Paul Newman, the now dead but famous actor once stated he drank a case of beer every day.

That doesn't mean he did, but it was widely quoted

Maybe he did, if he drank 1 beer every hour in theory he would never get drunk as the liver processes alcohol faster than that.

Paul Newman, the now dead but famous actor once stated he drank a case of beer every day.

That doesn't mean he did, but it was widely quoted

Maybe he did, if he drank 1 beer every hour in theory he would never get drunk as the liver processes alcohol faster than that.

that depends on age, gender and rate of ingestion

i used to drink about 20 beers a week for first 10+ years here. Did the math it wasn't pretty. That's alot of time peeing

I dont have a calculator to figure out was 30 beers a day x 365 x xx years adds up to - but it ain't pretty.

I am 53.

The beers I drank were 375ml at 4.9%.

Once I drink 1 I need another 29.

One drink is 1 too many and 30 is not enough.

I am in building trades in Australia and I am a boss.

We used to bring beer to work.

So I could drink and work also drive no problem.

My life was boring and shitty.

Then I was introduced to Pattaya and all it has to offer.

I have a new woman in my life and I love her dearly.

I have gone from a drinking machine to a money machine.

Being sober and in control is the answer.

I am now a force to be reckoned with and life is good.

Find a 'tilak' who cares more and maybe you won't long for booze mak mak.

I dont know why people say it is hard to quit drinking, I quit at least once a week