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Any advice for alcohol withdrawals?

 
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01/03/2011 11:22 PM
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Re: Any advice for alcohol withdrawals?
Again, go to the doctor and get magnesium and zinc levels checked, ask a doctor about clonidine and trileptal. tell the doctor you dont want benzodiazepines because you dont want to replace one GABA agonist with another GABA agonist and get even worse.


+1, excellent advice.
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print this off and take to your doctor.
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Re: Any advice for alcohol withdrawals?
Caffine trade one bad addiction for one that is slightly less bad one.
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01/03/2011 11:30 PM
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Re: Any advice for alcohol withdrawals?
I'm in a similar situation, been using and abusing heavily every day for nearly a decade. Im 27, and it never stops it will continue for the rest of my days. I'm in AA but I think I havent given it the chance it deserves as I am still clinging to my chemical comfort.. being sober hurts.

God help you bless you and keep you. I have "ruined" my life with shit related to my disease/disorder. Please if you can go all out in recovery as the way you feel in the middle of addiction is all you ever have to look forward to if you dont do something... I don't know.. good luck I hope you make it honey.. I really do. It's a fucking scourge this disease. Slap some wings on it and you've got a demon. Jesus..
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Even if you have no insurance, go to the hospital. It helps, stay as long as necessary. They asked me to stay longer but I need to go to school and I felt okay enough. You can stay as long as you want if you still feel panicky. They give you meds, make a list of all the shitty things you've done, relationships you've ruined, oppertunities lost. Than withdraw next day, go through it a little while before you go to the hospital, write down how it feels and just keep doing it.

Look at that anytime you want to drink again.
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Re: Any advice for alcohol withdrawals?
Keep your spirits high. The withdrawal process is half physical and half spiritual at the same time. See goodness in all, see the light even in this for the road is rough but the destination is regained clarity of self. Refuse fear. People have died from this. Refuse fear. You were equipped at birth everything you need to make it through this. And you will.
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01/03/2011 11:33 PM
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Re: Any advice for alcohol withdrawals?
You're going to have to tell your boyfriend to stop drinking too.
Everyone dies, but not everyone lives.

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01/03/2011 11:36 PM
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Re: Any advice for alcohol withdrawals?
I can do all kinds of things but the obsession and the "posession" that I experience drives me to use. I can't resist as I can be screaming in my head NO NO but I'm driven like a robot my brain is changed somehow into a drug seeking missile..

IT only gets worse..
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01/03/2011 11:39 PM
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Re: Any advice for alcohol withdrawals?
eat more sugar/juices real sugar and ice cream to substitute the sugars in alc

of course i never went through withdrawals because i never stopped drinking ;)

a couple of cocktails at night..

if you get blitzed every night then good on you for curbing it back..that is no good especially when you get older.

most excessive drinking is emotional, stress..

don't know your back story but best of luck to you and for heavens sake don't beat yourself up in the easing back/quitting process..

if it fucks with your life you need to get a grip the sooner the better.
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01/03/2011 11:41 PM
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Re: Any advice for alcohol withdrawals?
You're going to have to tell your boyfriend to stop drinking too.
 Quoting: J-Rico


He's more than happy to, and he wants to quit smoking so I said I'd do that.

Unfortunately I'm going through two addictions at once =(

But hey, we have alot of friends who are supporting, want to do none alcohol game nights/dinners. Movie trips, all that.

=) lucky to have good friends. One of our friends came over and helped my boyfriend clean out all the empties and ash trays and get the smell out, remove any triggers...
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Re: Any advice for alcohol withdrawals?
most excessive drinking is emotional, stress..

don't know your back story but best of luck to you and for heavens sake don't beat yourself up in the easing back/quitting process..

if it fucks with your life you need to get a grip the sooner the better.
 Quoting: junipero


I'm willing a lot of it is "social drinking".

I'm willing to bet she doesn't drink alone either.
So she's not going to quit easily unless her friends and boyfriend quit or she replaces all of them.

I've known men are much more prone to drinking "alone" than women are. If she is drinking alone, the problem might actually be a little more manageable, but if the problem is "social drinking"... she's going to have to start delivering ultimatums... first to herself and then to everyone around her.
Everyone dies, but not everyone lives.

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Re: Any advice for alcohol withdrawals?
most excessive drinking is emotional, stress..

don't know your back story but best of luck to you and for heavens sake don't beat yourself up in the easing back/quitting process..

if it fucks with your life you need to get a grip the sooner the better.


I'm willing a lot of it is "social drinking".

I'm willing to bet she doesn't drink alone either.
So she's not going to quit easily unless her friends and boyfriend quit or she replaces all of them.

I've known men are much more prone to drinking "alone" than women are. If she is drinking alone, the problem might actually be a little more manageable, but if the problem is "social drinking"... she's going to have to start delivering ultimatums... first to herself and then to everyone around her.
 Quoting: J-Rico


agreed..how old is the op? (late 20's?)social drinking and the whole jersey shore life is not reality.

i enjoy a martini alone in the silence of a winter night ..


and i can go to the bathroom all by myself when i am out with women

never needed a pussy posse..
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01/03/2011 11:48 PM
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Re: Any advice for alcohol withdrawals?
oh and back in the day when single and after work would go out for a drink alone...by myself!!

and would actually talk to strangers...just for the hell of it..

hf

back to op subject..

take it slow darling..you are biting off alot quitting smoking and drinking..
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Re: Any advice for alcohol withdrawals?
Cheers
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hair of dog that bit ya!
K_aren  (OP)

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01/04/2011 12:37 AM
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Re: Any advice for alcohol withdrawals?
Thanks guys, and yes I would drink alone and surf GLP go in GLP chat etc.

Like I said, my boyfriend is quitting as well and our friends all see I have a problem. They're excited and supportive and willing to not drink in front of me.
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01/04/2011 12:42 AM
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Re: Any advice for alcohol withdrawals?
Check yourself into treatment for a week. Come down with prescribed medications from your doctor.

Then follow some kind of treatment. Fuck these no nothings young fucks. You will end up in the same place they are if you do not stay in some kind of long term treatment.

As for those recommending drugs for the come down.......get treatment yourselves. Stay away from these freaks.

The truth is that everyone wants you to be in their misery with them.

Screw them. Seek Treatment.
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01/04/2011 06:07 AM
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Re: Any advice for alcohol withdrawals?
Thanks guys, and yes I would drink alone and surf GLP go in GLP chat etc.

Like I said, my boyfriend is quitting as well and our friends all see I have a problem. They're excited and supportive and willing to not drink in front of me.
 Quoting: K_aren


I know that short term this is all new and exciting... but I'm gonna tell it to you like it is...

Long-term, it won't be as exciting. You need to have a mindset that this is a LASTING change. Eventually once the newness of this wears off... HOPEFULLY your friends will continue that supportiveness.

I've seen many a times where patterns where eventually fallen back into. Friends suddenly wanted to hang out again and called the person "boring" or would say "Liked you better when you drank". Family would urge the person to just have "one beer". Avoid these situations and avoid anyone who is willing to help you fall back off the wagon.

Short-term is always exciting and has that AWESOME feeling to it... but you are going to realize in a few days that you're whole life needs to change instead of just one aspect of it.

But you can do it and that's the important part... realizing that you can.

And then one day, you'll realize you don't need a pussy posse to go to the bathroom... just like junipero.
Everyone dies, but not everyone lives.

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