Thought Id write this up in case anyone here is dealing with "Alcoholism" as much for my benefit as their's.
Little history on my drankin, I drank to blackout stage EVERY night for 10ish years until late last year.
Typically Id consume a 1 liter bottle of cheap red wine followed by 4-6 full strength beers on an empty stomach, weed was in there too. For the last couple of years Id get sharp pains now and again in my upper right stomach/liver area. Towards the end of last year I noticed a few other symptoms the worst being loss of libido and loss of physical strength (Power lifted at a low level last few years) . No pun intended but I just had this gut feeling that something was wrong.
For years I trawled the various alcoholism forums and blogs looking for advice on how to quit and the common narrative was as follows;
- You will die or have major complications if you quit cold turkey.
- You will also damage your liver by quitting suddenly
- You will have a seizure
- You must take benzos for a couple of days at least.
Well I said "fuck it" and went ahead and tapered off without medical supervision, I went from the above consumption to 8 beers the first night of tapering, then 7 the next night and so on till I was down to 0 within a 9 nights. What I did to help was to start drinking one hour later each night during the taper, so ordinarily Id start at 18:00 so by the 9th night I stayed up till 02:00 then hit the sack after a bowl.
Here is what I experienced;
- First few nights I had some of the best dreams you could imagine, im talking Technicolor dreams as real as you could imagine. This stopped by the 3rd or 4th night of taper (bummer)
- Increased irritability, I was angry AF for days, slightest thing could set me off and I had zero support from the wife who would constantly try to goad me cause shes a fucking reject.
- Days 1-2 I felt like shit, like my head was going to explode until the kids asked me to take them to a frozen yogurt place, TA DA! it wasnt alcohol withdrawals that were making my head explode it was my body craving sugar, one small bowl and I was feeling 99% better.
- My numbers in the gym shot up in these first few days even while I felt crap, I benched a PB, Skwatted a PB all while feeling shit.
Before christmas I started drinking again almost as heavily as before but havent touched a drop (cold turkey) in the last two days, greatest empowerment was the first night off I had an altercation (verbal) with a relative which would normally "trigger" me lol to say fuck it Im drinking again but this time I thought "That POS cant control me I planned to quit and im gonna quit"
My advice to anyone facing this;
- I know youre stressing about the insomnia, DONT DONT DONT STRESS, youll be fine, a night or two of no sleep and no alcohol wont kill you, long term alcoholism will. Down load some movies, grab some books you want to read, destroy your cock watching porn all night just dont drink.
- The couple of days (honestly like a day and a half) where you are "withdrawing" still feels MUCH better than a mild hangover, you shall be fine. You WILL thank yourself, you WILL hate yourself for drinking when you know you shouldnt.
- Have lots of sweets and water on hand, eat and chug them both respectively.
- After the first two days no more sweets start the holistic lifestyle change, better diet, trane, work on yourself etc
- Again I stress dont worry about the insomnia, people told me this for YEARS and I second guessed them, I get rid of all the drink in the house and be ready to quit then panic when I knew the store was closing and run out and restock cause I didnt want to deal with not sleeping. Im retarded
- According to an addiction doc I spoke with during my last sober period, the heavy life threatening withdrawals only effect those who suffer one or a combination of the following (in which case disregard my advice and see a doc); crave alcohol within 3 hours of waking, throw up in the morning regularly, had a history seizures in the past either related to alcohol or not.
TL;DR - Quitting Alcohol is MUCH easier than you could imagine.
Best of luck...
Little history on my drankin, I drank to blackout stage EVERY night for 10ish years until late last year.
Typically Id consume a 1 liter bottle of cheap red wine followed by 4-6 full strength beers on an empty stomach, weed was in there too. For the last couple of years Id get sharp pains now and again in my upper right stomach/liver area. Towards the end of last year I noticed a few other symptoms the worst being loss of libido and loss of physical strength (Power lifted at a low level last few years) . No pun intended but I just had this gut feeling that something was wrong.
For years I trawled the various alcoholism forums and blogs looking for advice on how to quit and the common narrative was as follows;
- You will die or have major complications if you quit cold turkey.
- You will also damage your liver by quitting suddenly
- You will have a seizure
- You must take benzos for a couple of days at least.
Well I said "fuck it" and went ahead and tapered off without medical supervision, I went from the above consumption to 8 beers the first night of tapering, then 7 the next night and so on till I was down to 0 within a 9 nights. What I did to help was to start drinking one hour later each night during the taper, so ordinarily Id start at 18:00 so by the 9th night I stayed up till 02:00 then hit the sack after a bowl.
Here is what I experienced;
- First few nights I had some of the best dreams you could imagine, im talking Technicolor dreams as real as you could imagine. This stopped by the 3rd or 4th night of taper (bummer)
- Increased irritability, I was angry AF for days, slightest thing could set me off and I had zero support from the wife who would constantly try to goad me cause shes a fucking reject.
- Days 1-2 I felt like shit, like my head was going to explode until the kids asked me to take them to a frozen yogurt place, TA DA! it wasnt alcohol withdrawals that were making my head explode it was my body craving sugar, one small bowl and I was feeling 99% better.
- My numbers in the gym shot up in these first few days even while I felt crap, I benched a PB, Skwatted a PB all while feeling shit.
Before christmas I started drinking again almost as heavily as before but havent touched a drop (cold turkey) in the last two days, greatest empowerment was the first night off I had an altercation (verbal) with a relative which would normally "trigger" me lol to say fuck it Im drinking again but this time I thought "That POS cant control me I planned to quit and im gonna quit"
My advice to anyone facing this;
- I know youre stressing about the insomnia, DONT DONT DONT STRESS, youll be fine, a night or two of no sleep and no alcohol wont kill you, long term alcoholism will. Down load some movies, grab some books you want to read, destroy your cock watching porn all night just dont drink.
- The couple of days (honestly like a day and a half) where you are "withdrawing" still feels MUCH better than a mild hangover, you shall be fine. You WILL thank yourself, you WILL hate yourself for drinking when you know you shouldnt.
- Have lots of sweets and water on hand, eat and chug them both respectively.
- After the first two days no more sweets start the holistic lifestyle change, better diet, trane, work on yourself etc
- Again I stress dont worry about the insomnia, people told me this for YEARS and I second guessed them, I get rid of all the drink in the house and be ready to quit then panic when I knew the store was closing and run out and restock cause I didnt want to deal with not sleeping. Im retarded
- According to an addiction doc I spoke with during my last sober period, the heavy life threatening withdrawals only effect those who suffer one or a combination of the following (in which case disregard my advice and see a doc); crave alcohol within 3 hours of waking, throw up in the morning regularly, had a history seizures in the past either related to alcohol or not.
TL;DR - Quitting Alcohol is MUCH easier than you could imagine.
Best of luck...
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Great thread btw. I ain't quitting drinking but yeah.
