<p>im not going to be a nice little kid
and im going to be honest</p>
<p>your freshman year will most likely suck.</p>
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Amen to that :)</p>
<p>That is pretty sad if your whole year will suck because you don’t drink. It’s pretty said period if you don’t know how to have fun in other ways.</p>
<p>I have latent TB and had an ok chest x-ray confirming I don’t have an active case of TB. However the virus is still in my body but is in an idle state and can strike up at any time. However the medicine I am on now will kill the virus. I checked with my school, and it’s fine. I can’t spread anything to anyone.</p>
<p>I am not a bad person because I drink. I like to have a good time and where I come from, we enjoy drinking. We don’t go overboard, but we like to let loose. </p>
<p>Lets be real here. Freshman year of college, what do you think goes on during the weekends? I am angry because more than anything I feel like I am missing out on the frosh experience because I can’t have any alcohol until next march. </p>
<p>Plus anyone who drinks knows its awful to be the only sober one in a group of people who are drunk.</p>
<p>Nine months? Think of it as you just found out if your pregnant. Only intead of messing up your kid, you would mess up yourself. Just wait till March</p>
<p>amen, bmanbs2.</p>
<p>You feel you’re in hot water just because you CAN"T drink alcohol? That is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard! I’m urestrained in any way to indulge myself with alcohol, and yet I choose not to drink. Why? Because I know that drinking will ruin my life forever. Why would you want to get that stuff in your system? If you thought tuberculosis was bad, try thinking about liver cancer and brain damage.</p>
<p>your like addicted to somthing you dont due.</p>
<p>Its like somebody being addicted to cocain but they have never had it before.</p>
<p>it seems as if you’re the kind of person that actually wants to drink, so all this naysaying about not ever drinking won’t do you any good. honestly, you’re first 9 months won’t necessarily suck. you can still hang out and make friends with people who drink, just explain that you cant for said reasons, and that you plan to tear it up as soon as your off the medication. That way when you do get to drink its special.</p>
<p>plus in the intervening period you’ll make lots of friends being the designated driver and hitting on all the drunk girls at parties.</p>
<p>Think of it this way, it’s a good excuse not to drink. Though you might think that’s never gonna happen, there will always be people who think No=Yes and I can’t=One more shot of vodka.</p>
<p>Seriously… just don’t drink. Would you rather possibly die or would you rather have one night of “let[ting] loose”?</p>
<p>I knew of a girl once who drank soda/alcohol with her meds and she had a heart attack. She’s fine now, but absolutely sober.</p>
<p>Just a unrelated comment fyi. I was on the same med for TB, and from experience, when you get off, you lost like 10-15 pounds…just to let you know.</p>
<p>lose* </p>
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<p>IMO, it’s better to be the only one not drunk around everyone else who is. Drunk people make such fools of themselves and can be hilarious to watch. Anyways, I agree with all the people who feel sad for you because you feel like you’ll be “missing out” because you can’t have your beer. 
<em>tear</em></p>
<p>im a rising frosh this year, have never drank before, and dont plan to at all in college. not for any religious reasons or anything, i just dont see the point. its even been proven in studies with placebo’s that alcohol doesnt even help you have a good time, its more what you think the alcohol is doing to you that affects you. anyway, this thread is pathetic, how could you even think of not taking the meds just so you can drink? if you cant make friends without being drunk, you really do have some social problems.</p>
<p>hey actually - you dont have tuberculosis; its just that you might have it in your system. I tested positive on the test and just had to take some medicine for couple months and it neutralized the tuberculosis… as for alcohol, I’m sure you can go couple months without it</p>
<p>I don’t think most people on this board feel your pain, but I understand how your feeling, since partying is an integral part of many people’s college/freshman experiences. What’s the medicine called? Does it say not to drink on the bottle or did your doctor just advise you not to do so? I’ve drank on antibiotics before when I wasn’t supposed to. Your situation is probably more serious than any minor sickness I’ve had, though.</p>
<p>I have a friend who was exposed to tuberculosis as a child. You will always test positive for the virus, for the record, so no, they can’t keep you out of class.</p>
<p>Just…deal.</p>
<p>You’ll just have to live without drinking. It is possible and way better than getting sick with TB or giving it to your college.</p>
<p>That will suck. But its just 9 months, could be worse. Offer your services as a DD to your new friends for the parties…that way you’ll still make lots of friends and will know where to go when your 9 months are up.</p>
<p>I’m not supposed to drink with my migraine medication…but I do…but thats probably alot less serious than TB. Just out of curiosity, ask your doctor what the problem would be if you did drink, it would be interesting to know.</p>
<p>one of my friends is taking some serious medications, but told his doctor privately that he drinks sometimes on weekends, and the doctor said that would be alright with the specific medicine… maybe you should ask your doctor about alcohol, without your parents around or somthing</p>