I currently decided to get medical help to detox from alcohol after a few months of consuming a handle of vodka every 3 days. I've been a drinker for 20 years but wasn't until I started getting massive panic attacks the next day over the past few months that I said to myself this shiz gotta stop. I'm on day 4 of a 6-day Librium taper and feel fine thus far. Probably not the best idea but I met my wife for happy hour yesterday and thought, I'll just get a St Pauli N/A or two.. I still like hangin' with my buds.. just not the bud lights :-) The day before I had a few Buckler N/As and felt fine. THIS time I had 2 St Pauli N/As and the anxiety started slowly building in my arms (many of you know the feeling. It was about 8 hours since my last 2x25mg librium dose. I immediately popped my next 1x25mg dose and in 10 min was fine. Mind you, this was day 3 of abstaining... what I heard can be the worst. My question is, is my brain hypersensitive to 0.5% ethanol?? I thought, no way... there's more alcohol in OJ for Christ's sake. I thought more likely I needed the next dose, as I'm in the "thick" of withdrawals still. Here's the deal, the idea of not drinking real booze anymore is much less frightening than the panic attacks but it would be nice to enjoy a few N/As with my friends... hell, not like I wanna suck down 12 of those just to get fat for no reason. Have any of you seen or heard of N/A beer consumption leading to the kindling effect? I'd HATE to get through this outpatient detox and then one day drink a Beck's N/A, Clausterhaler etc, and then go into full blown DTs...
thoughts?
-iplaye9
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Mornin iplay,
My ex husband was an alcoholic for most of his life, starting when he was 14. He placed a bet on the Superbowl, the bet was he would stop drinking if Buffalo lost, they did and he stopped drinking. That was 17 years ago. He started to drink the N/A's as well. He would drink 10 or 12 a day, and he would get a buzz off them. He had an acquired taste for beer and that's why he drank the N/A. I asked him to cut back on them but he refused to, i called it a bandade, he disagreed. If you drink enough of them, you can feel it. He allowed his stepson to drink them when he was just a kid, today he is 30 and is an alcoholic, beer is his preferance.
We are now divorced and he is back at it again, this time it's the real thing along with substance abuse (drugs). I think that if you have come this far, you should avoid anything that tastes like alcohol, including the non alcoholic stuff. Until you are free from this monkey on your back, you probably should stay away from the bars as well.
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