alcohol withdrawal symptoms

Keep it up folks and don't give up. Ive been sober for close to 7 months. The psychological part of quitting still lingers, but Im taking it one day at a time.

Hey Angelic,

I feel your pain. The way you feel now, this too shall pass. It is normal to feel anyway you feel because you are putting poison into your body. Withdrawal usually last about 72 hr to a week. It is important to eat ( i know you don't want to ), go to an AA meeting and reach out for help and drink a lot of water. My suggestion is to go to a detox program because alcohol withdrawal is the only with drawl that can cause death (not trying to scare you). I know right now your feel like a peeled grape with your nerves exposed and your scared but if you go to meetings, call other women and be honest with yourself and reach out for help things will start to change. Your life will be beyond your wildest dreams. I to had to sometimes live life one minute at a time but one day you will look back and see. It works if you work it. Good Luck, I am here for any help you need. Please get two books : living Sober and Alcoholic Anonymous book, There is ONLY one thing you need to do....NOT drink...one day at a time.

It's what it does to your family, 26 yrs of marriagis has been effected by both mine and my wife's drinking.

 

24 year old female here. Have been drinking heavily on weekends for the last 3-4 years. Didn't think withdrawals would be possible but they are! Went through the most terrifying 2 weeks of my life! Thank goodness I didn't have a seizure. I wasn't even aware they were signs of alcohol withdrawals until late last week! Today is the start of week 3 and the symptoms are still there. Definitely not as bad as they were, but dizzyness, anxiety, feelings of overwhelm, and being an emotional wreck are still hanging on. Driving absolutely sucks! I used to LOVE driving, would drive my new car everywhere, now driving is a disaster! I get super dizzy when I drive and I have to open up a window and stick my hand out into the cold air in order to stay sane as I think I'm losing my mind! I went to the doc yesterday, told him about my symptoms but he ruled out alcohol withdrawal like WTF? I am taking Vitamin B-12, Vitamin B-1 and drinking a lot of water during the day. I always HATED taking any medicine, but I know my body needs it. I've also had a problem falling asleep, crazy insomnia, so after researching further on this beautiful support group called the internet, I came to a conclusion that Melatonin should help. I asked my doc about it and he said it is a good idea to try it, as it's natural and it's not a drug it's a hormone. He also prescribed me some Ambien but I decided to not take it as I heard its very addictive. I tried the Melatonin (3mg) and it helped wonderfully! The first night I slept like a baby, woke up with no side effects! The second night, I also slept well but had very vivid dreams and felt like my head was fuzzy until about 3pm after waking up. I will take 1/2 of the pill tonight and hopefully feel normal tomorrow morning. Advice to everyone: drink A LOT of water & gatorate(electrolytes will help you), take vitamin B-12 and vitamin B-1 but I would suggest going to a GOOD doctor when you plan on stopping drinking. The doctor can save your life and shorten the time of the excrutiating withdrawal symptoms. I wish everyone the best of luck. 

Tootles!

This is a great topic I am going throughthe same. Is it ok that I just drink odious near beer?

I'm 31 years old, I have been drinking every night for bout 3 years, practally if I not working I drinking. I've tried quoting myself, after being unsuccessful I stared taking a Antabuse, I've been with no alcohol for 2 and a half weeks. It's simple, even tho I want to drink I know if I drink I will get sick as hell if this drug is in my system. my problem right now is I really want to stop taking it and wait a week and get really drunk. 

To everyone at day 5 hang in there, after a week physical part is gone. the hardest part after that is finding other things you enjoy doing  other then drinking with your spare time. Witch is not easy

Congrats to the people who got over the physical part in a week or so, unfortunately my story is a bit different. I am a 40 year old female with about 10 years of heavy alcohol consumption under my belt. Over the years I starting drinking more and more until I was finishing 2 to 3 liters of henny a week. One night after drinking so much that I could not even form a complete sentence, I slipped and fell down the steps causing my kids to totaly flip out. At this point I realized that enough is enough so I decided I would try cutting back instead of the cold-turkey thing. I did this cutting back thing for about a month until I was able to stop completely.

The first month I barely even noticed any withdrawal symptoms but by the second month all hell broke loose. I woke up one night feeling like I was having a heart attack and I could hear my heart beating in my left ear. Eventually I got over this feeling and went back to sleep but when I woke up in the morning I felt like I was getiing sick with a cold or something. By the third day I felt like I had the flu and my legs, ankles and feet swell up, so I went to the Dr. After telling the Doc about my quitting drinking and the possibility of me having some sort of withdrawal symptoms, she gave me some water pills and sent me on my way. By the end of the week I was so dehydrated from the water pills and alcohol withdrawal that I starting having severe muscle spasms all over my body. I was then rushed to the hospital because I was unable to move due to the muscle spasms (my body was locked from head 2 toe). While in the hospital they pumped me full of drugs and antibiotics never addressing the possibility of alcohol withdrawal. I then started passing out and drifting in and out of some kind of sleep episodes. After 22 days the withdrawal symptoms stopped and I was released from the hospital with Baclofen.

I spent the next 3 months with severe headaches and terrible mood swings. By the six month I starting having heart palpitaions and hearing my heart beat in my left ear again. I am now on month 8 still having problems with my heart, The doctor put me on Metoprolol to control my heart rate but I can still hear it beating in my left ear. At the end of the month I have to take an echo and a stress test to see if I have damaged my heart. This has been the worst 8 months of my life the only good thing about it is that my teenage children have witnessed the entire situation and I hope this will keep them from making the same mistakes I made.

 

Im scared i have to stop and i have seizures can anyone help

I have to admit, i very glad that i stumbled across this post. I seem to be where most all have been. I've been a drinker for years, but the last 2 i've been a heavy drinker( 44 year old male). Last Tuesday i drank real hard, left work early and decided that i needed to quit drinking....... seriously. I'ts now Sunday and seem to be in the midst of withdrawal  Not severe, but on the moderate end. After reading about Alcoholism and withdrawal for several days. I was getting very nervous until i got here. I know i can beat this and will now with what i have read here folks. Thanks. The medical websites don't tell the real story! But you all did. 

 

 

 

AND ROBIN,if your having seizures. PLEASE go see your doctor.

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Thanks for sharing these ideas to withdraw alcohol.. it's not easy task to leave alcohol but if you tried hard you can leave alcohol..

Now a days there are such disease for which you have to leave alcohol like if you have liver disease alcohol would be very dangerous for your health...so try your best to stay away from alcohol if you have any serious disease.. thanks

Hi Everyone, I am on day 6 without a drink and I can't say I can recall 6 straight alcohol free days for about 27 years. I am 42 and have pretty much been a daily drinker for about 14 years. I don't drink spirits, but have generally drunk a bottle of wine a day and two a day usually at least once or twice a week. I'm pretty well done, in that drinking just isn't doing anything for me anymore. I took a brave step last weekend and went to an AA meeting. I've now been to three and would have gone tonight but I am in bed with the worst constipation I have ever felt. Aside from this tonight and slight agitation here and there, I am already feeling good. My moods have level led out, the self loathing is subsiding and the panic attacks have stopped. I am having some pretty out there dreams, but wake up with more energy each day. ( Pretty fatigued in saying that though) I am very very surprised to find that although it's a bit rough, it's easier to get off alcohol than it is to live with the craziness of being a drinker. Point being, if you have had enough, get yourself to an AA meeting or google and call your closest AA Central Service Office. Whatever kind of drinker you are, AA will give you 24 hr support if needed, get you to a hospital if needed and be there for you for the ride. You don't have to be alone in this, no matter where you live in the world or how you feel about yourself. Good luck to everyone and keep sharing, you may save someone else's life x

I recently relapsed after 4 months of sobriety, prior to that i had 7 years, now im going on day 3, fortunately, my recent binge was only 2 1/2 days long, however, i drank morning through night without eating for those 3 days. i spent 2 days in a really good medical detox, and was sent home with a 3 day supply of phenobarbitol (to control siezures and anxiety, i feel ALLOT better, although not over the hump yet, apetite still non existent, insomnia, heartburn, but no shakes or siezures thanks to the phenobarb' some mild anxiety, and minimal cravings but they are manegable now, in my extensive and hopefully final detox experience, 3 days (72 hrs) is the usual duration of the most severe withdrawl symptoms, although they do get worse each detox, im going to do the 12 step thing, seems to be the way i got 7 yrs, i wish anyone going through this good luck and health.

Hi. You can call me Kacey, not real name, I am a Mexican/American male and am 29 years old, will be 30 next month. Been drinking every night on and off since I was 21 or so. I came into this site looking for remedies for sore eyes after withdrawing from alcohol and all post are interesting. I related to pretty much all of the posts. Some of you have been feeling the same after successful months from not drinking. I just found out I suffer from BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder). For some of you, it might be more than the alcohol, it might be you suffer from the same mental illness I suffer from. Read up on BPD, I encourage it. You might learn about yourself as I did. I get lonely at night, don't handle relationships as well, especially break ups, etc.... List full of things. Don't be ashamed. I was at first, but then embraced it. It's not my fault. BPD leads to alcohol. BPD symptoms also include depression and loneliness. For me it's the road to recovery and understanding, understanding why I feel the way I feel, why I act the way I act, why I am the way I am.... Give it a read. It won't hurt. You have nothing to lose, if anything you have everything to gain, especially yourself and your life back.... Something that we all want.... Oh, and happiness.... To be happy and to live a normal life, as normal as can be....

Alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) is the name for the symptoms that occur when a heavy drinker suddenly stops or significantly reduces their alcohol intake. With AWS, you may experience a combination of physical and emotional symptoms, from mild anxiety and fatigue to nausea. Some symptoms of AWS are as severe as hallucinations and seizures. At its most extreme, AWS can be life-threatening.