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r/stopdrinking • … • u/Starlingstumble

Does this count as Day 5?

On and off for several years, I’ve been trying to quit. It’s pretty easy for me to go through the workweek sober, but weekends test me. Most weekends, I drink on either Friday or Saturday night. This last week, I drank on Saturday evening and woke up Sunday morning feeling like death warmed over. Totally fatigued, all my muscles aching, I got in bed and stayed there until 6 pm. It was perfectly clear to me that I never wanted to feel that way again. My resolve to not drink was absolute. The next day it turned out my terrible hangover was actually Covid-19. I’ve been pretty sick all week. Can I still count this as sober time? I am certainly not planning to drink again once symptoms end.

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