Posted by kid_A on June 20, 2001, at 16:42:07
In reply to Re: Depakote and Alcohol » SalArmy4me, posted by Wendy B. on June 20, 2001, at 10:29:11
> Sorry, I think you might do better to just stop drinking, and if that's hard, get some help...If the kind of alcohol consumption that is lionised often enough here is any barometer for society's addiction than I believe that there are quite a lot of people in the world who are in an addictive state...
I -dont- think you should take alcohol to help you sleep, thats probably not a good idea. You also shouldnt be drinking -every- night, just to cope... but hell, I've done it. But I realised there were better alternatives.
Drinking can be a social activity and it can also be a social nightmare (with meds or otherwise), as I found out when I went on a rampage downtown from a not abnormal amount of alcohol for me, and a much earlier dosage of effexor.
The problem is that we're all at the party right, and everyone is dancing and having fun, and everyone's guard is down... But you're stuck in the middle, bone dry and unaffected. It's fun to drink to relax when you go out... I'll even go so far as to say its fun to be a bit crazy... I dj at a bar downtown and it does get a bit insane...
If you can go out and get drunk and have a blast and NOT get arrested, more power to you. BUT if your meidcation is counterindicated to alcohol, and thats a big *if* because most pdr info is very sketchy and boilerplate on this, than you have to ask yourself, which is more important, getting better or getting drunk.
just my 2cents.
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