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AITA 5w
AITA for not wanting to drink even though my mom wants me to? The main reason I don’t is cause it conflicts with my medications (Cymbalta and Gabapentin) but when I decline to have a drink with her she gets really upset cause she wants to have fun with me
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Anonymous 5w

Literally no wtf is wrong with ur mom

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Anonymous 5w

Uhhh what a shitty mom wtf

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Anonymous 5w

she doesn’t care about your health. nta obviously

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Anonymous 5w

No absolutely not. I’m the same. My mom thinks it’s something I should try, same with others in my family, but I’m firm against it. One thing you can do is tell her that your doctor won’t let you / doesn’t recommend it. My mom actually recommended I ask before I went to college (didn’t give the answer she was expecting) and said I could have basically 1-2 sips. I just decided to never drink then.

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Anonymous 5w

Nta. No is a full sentence. If you don’t want to drink you don’t have to. No one should make you feel bad for not wanting to put a drug in your body. (Yes even tho it is the most socially acceptable drug it is still a drug)

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Anonymous 5w

What not at all?! Your health is the utmost priority, faaaar ahead of your mom having fun

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Anonymous 5w

idk ab cymbalta but my mom takes gabapentin 3 times a day and still drinks and shes all good. not trying to get you to drink but just incase this was holding you back in any way

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 5w

To be clear, she’s not like an alcoholic or anything, we’re on vacation rn and she mixed up some Mai tais and wanted me to have one, and when I declined she still insisted I at least “taste” it (I didn’t)

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

No that’s not the point, the point is she’s actively endangering your health (and potentially ur life if the complications are bad enough) just bc she wants to “have a little fun”

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

I get that, I’m sorry my comment was harsh. But you’re on both an antidepressant and a depressant, I feel like a normal mom wouldn’t encourage you to drink alcohol with those. It wouldn’t be that bad if she just offered you a drink sometimes but to actually get upset with you over declining is just wild

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 5w

Yeah, I’m also a lightweight on top of everything else so it’s not like I even enjoy drinking to being with (plus the rum she was using was really strong and not something I would have, meds or not)

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 5w

When I asked my doctor how much you could drink on Cymbalta, she basically said “you can’t.”

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 5w

Sometimes it’s about the combination of medicines and how they interact which can be amplified by alcohol. Plus why they are taking it does matter. For some medications it makes symptoms worse, others it can make the medicine less or ineffective. Not to mention dosage is everything.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 5w

Yeah, I take gabapentin for chronic pain and Cymbalta for depression and also chronic pain

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

ahh i see its the cymbalta thats the problem. i have no experience with that one so i was unsure

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