just beer

[SCAREDTODEATH39]

I was aheavy drinker from age 14 to 40. I quit drinking completely for 1 year. I have begun to have a few beers once a week. I enjoy these beers but i always feel I want more. I have not drank hard liquor during these sessions. I have not started drinking during the week, this once a week beers has been going on for six months. Should I be scared it will lead back to getting drunk 5 days a week like I used to?

[SCAREDTODEATH39]

Thanks for your responses. Merry Christmas to all of you.

[zj123]

I belive you have already awnsered your own question ( and thats not a bad thing )  I lost my brother at around your age and all he drank for years was beer.....Im a recovering alcoholic and I can tell ya I drank anything and yours to (what ever you left in your glass)   AA has save my life and the lives of many others. Just a suggestion. Hey like me  Go to one and if you think everybody there is nuts and a buch of fonnies and all that stuff that I was thinking at frist ...Then your in the right place.   may the force of a power greater than your to your understand be with you...

[ibizan]

u go girl......we need to hear what the truth is.....worse thing 2 do with alcoholics/addicts is sugar coat things or walk on eggshells......this is a nasty disease and i've seen it kill,ruin marriages,turn children hateful,take jobs,health,ruin ones finances....its a lose lose situation all way around!

[jo929]

the answer to your question is yes you should be worried one leads to another then another so the merryround goes on and on .quit while you are ahead
but then that is your decision . but you did ask for advise
                                               lots luck jo

[ibizan]

yes it probably will!sonds like ur white knuckling it with clenched teeth to control the numbers of beers ur having....doesn't this tell u something?i had periods of stop start with alcohol and drugs and would leave one poison and pick another telling myself i can control it.....and all hell broke loose in the long run......i was a miserable failure at social drinking and recreational drug use!

[uberadtx]

I can tell you that alcohol is insidious.  It might not happen tomorrow or next week but you will be back to where you were when you quit drinking. You may even pass the point where you left off.  You won't even realize its happening. That is the truth about alcohol.  A lot of people call what you are doing research and development.  Only you know if alcohol is dangerous for you.  Normal people do not drink in excess. They don't get drunk and they usually don't finish their drinks.  People with problems with alcohol have trouble controlling what they consume.  Keep us posted.