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Aug 18, 2009, 10:30 AM
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Member Since: Jul 2009
Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA
Posts: 2,779
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I can certainly identify with your problem and am so sorry it causes you such problems and such pain. 
From 1990 to 1999, I attended AA. I decided to go on my own, no one told me to, I had just decided that I drank too much and drank mostly alone and it needed to stop. I eventually learned through therapy that my drinking was self-medication for an undiagnosed mental illness and I also moved in 1999 to another state and simply did not continue going to AA. Since that time, I have never abused alcohol and today very rarely drink.
A couple years ago, I had to go inpatient for four days in order to change a medication I was taking. I made the mistake of writing on my history that I had attended AA. Every single day, numerous times daily, someone asked me if I was having "the shakes" and did I need anything for withdrawal. No matter how many times I told them I had NOT been drinking and was not there for detox, no one would believe me!!! This was the most BIZARRE place I had ever been. I could not wait to get out of there. 
Now, I never mention that I ever went to AA. I was never formally treated in a treatment facility for alcoholism so there is not an official record of treatment. So, to avoid such a stupid thing from happening again, I don't even mention it.
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 Vickie
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