I'm so glad I typed into Google 9 days alcohol free and ended up on this page I have been spending most of my evening reading everyone's stories and realising that I with everyone else on here are on the same journey. I've realised a lot in the past few months that I don't want drinking to consume my life anymore. I've always been a drinker started at 14 and after a particularly heavy 4 years of drinking pretty much everyday but because I loved drinking I didn't see there was a problem. I knew I drank for a reason in the beginning horrible job bad break up but looking back I have realised that it actually came down to habit, as soon as I had a day off work me and my friends would start a 12-16 hour "sessions" where we would drink at a friends and then head into town and continue to drink. It's only now 4 years later that I'm tired of drinking I don't get that same buzz anymore and it's hard to stomach a drink now. What initially opened my eyes was I was never cold and always sweating the sweat would pour out of me constantly and I kept waking up in this pools of sweat and never noticed that it stopped when I had another drink until I googled it and then everything unraveled and here I am. So day 9 and I'm starting to feel better had the horrible headaches and the aches and pains and the lack of sleep and an intense itching, not realising it's all withdrawal symptoms. I'm going this alone as I feel it's harder for me to tell people what's happening because it's made into a joke and then a challenge to get me to go out for a drink. So this is my release for the time being, ill be back in the next few days no doubt to hopefully read that it gets better and I'll stop being so anti social. 

All the best my friends 

Q