How many of you still drink

Sad to say but my drinking has started again

Sorry to hear that but you can always quit again. Keep your head up.

Probably somewhere on this thread I sounded a lot smarter, saying that I didn't drink.

Last week I had a relapse, which lead to other dangerous behaviors. Even though I didn't/don't drink every night, maybe just once or twice a week, the alcohol makes me very irrational. At times, I think that t and pdoc have it wrong, but I'll have to be humble when they ask the drinking question next time.

I'm sorry, Laura. Good luck with getting it back under control.

I had to stop drinking about two years ago and although it was hard at first, I am feeling the best I have felt since 1984 and don't want to risk not feeling well again.

I got hospitalized and resuscitated a couple of days after my birthday when I drank to cope with not only my bipolar...but the anniversary of my granddad's death and a few other discrepancies I'd rather not get into. I spent about £130 (around 202 dollars) in 4 hours on alcohol in a few pubs. I was drinking to forget.

The near death experience didn't stop me. I was an alcoholic for two months. I became a totally different person; my bipolar spiralled out of control and I lost a lot of friends.

Now I drink only one day of the week, and that's out with friends. I'm a recovered alcoholic, but I can still enjoy that once-weekly social drinking session.

RB ♥

I drink on occasion. 1 or 2 drinks.

...I am these days but I have to be really careful with it. I can go for weeks and sometimes months without a drop and did so recently but decided I need something to slow me down at times.

alcohol is not the best choice but it's all I trust and just barely, and I am determined to manage it somehow.

have to be so mindful of what it can do to me when I have lost control in the past.

someone wrote something about bipolar and alcohol and avoiding it completely to keep stable and that haunts me a bit, but I have always done what I wanted or needed at the time.

I still drink about once a month...although now that I'm on Seroquel I'm more wary about drinking and might just stop all together.

I don't drink at all as it worsens my depressive episodes plus my meds say not to drink on them so ........

I too like a glass of wine but I am finding that I pay for it the whole next day with mind fog and fatigue, so I have had to cut it out.

I drink but I talked to my doctors and they said one or two drinks is fine. You really need to talk to your doctors and see what the say about it for you. Some meds one or two glasses is no big deal others even one glass can kill you. It really depends on what your doctors say. Inform them that you drink a glass of wine at night and see what they say.

I didn’t start drinking until I was 19, and I didn’t start drinking a lot until I was 23 or 24. My bipolar diagnosis came when I was 21.
I spent most of my mid-20s in bars, getting drunk almost every night. It was not a good time in my life in general: I was out of college and working a dead-end retail job. I started drinking at home. It became a ritual – four or five glasses of wine pretty much every night – enough to get me pretty drunk. It was an escape, and a wonderful one. I loved the feeling of being drunk, especially when I was “buzzed” but not yet completely incapacitated.
Then a couple of things started to happen: I noticed my anxiety, which has been an almost constant companion since before high school, was getting worse, almost unbearable. The other thing was I felt incredibly guilty about my drinking, because it was interfering with my ability to move my life forward.
So last spring, as I finished off a bottle of chardonnay, I decided it was time to apply to grad school, and I knew that drinking and grad school were not compatible. So, that was the last night I ever drank, and will ever drink.
It wasn’t too hard to quit drinking, probably because I had a new focus: applying to grad school. I can say with certainty I will never drink again, and I can also say I don’t miss it.

Congratulations! Best of luck applying to and studying at grad school!!

I stopped drinking 3 months ago thanks to AA and lots of willpower,my pdoc has put me on new meds in addition to all the other ones I was on. I've been warned many times not to drink and I finally decided to listen, good luck,

I drink and get drunk once or two times a week. My pdoc said it was okay as long as I don't take my Klonopin. I have also been smoking a whole lot of weed lately.

My pdoc knows this and said she doesn't know what weed will do with my condition, and I just told her that it relaxes me which it does.

I have never been much of a drinker unless I am manic and then I'm supposed to be but on my meds but I'm not anyway. Now as I am on my meds I will have an occasional beer, wine cooler or margarita or bloody mary. It doesn't seem to matter much, but at the first sign of being tipsy I quit.

Sometimes when I want to be knocked out because I can't stand lying awake in bed, hoping that the Seroquel will make me drowsy enough to fall asleep. I chug a 1/2 cup of vodka mixed with juice or pop and take my meds. I'm able to fall asleep within the hour doing that. I only do it when conditions are extreme and I'm worried about what I'll do if I'm still puttering around awake.

When I was on Lexapro, it was as if beer was just invented. Now I'm on Cymbalta, and although I usually enjoy a beer with a good steak dinner, I've concluded that beer and cymbalta don't mix at all. I guess I'd rather be mentally okay more than I want another beer.

I don't do champagne or wine....Rarely that is....It's mostly liquor straight or fruity strong mixed drinks....I don't drink much....Maybe a few times a year...Maybe more....When I do, I normally go over board...Which, is why I avoid drinking...Severe depression and drinking....Horrible combination...

no drinking here. medications don't interact well with alcohol for me.

I just had a beer and regret it. Now im trying to sober up lolol

Drinking in a bad mood isnt smart.

My pdoc wanted me to quit drinking back in november. since then i have gotten tipsy only once. it really does interfere with your meds. it causes me to cycle.