I am on day 1… currently laying in bed with 22 hours since my last drink. I drank around a 750ml bottle of whisky everyday 7 days a week for the last 3 1/2 years. I was a functioning alcoholic though. I would go to work everyday not drink all day until I got off of work then I would drink until I passed about so roughly from 4:15pm to around 8:00pm. Sometimes 9:00pm and then wake up for 5:00am to be at work by 6:00am and do it all over again. Luckily I’m prescribed Librium for anxiety 15mg a day, my question is though how bad do you guys think my detox is going to be? I have high blood pressure already and take pills for that and the Librium. One of my two blood pressure medications is to lower my heart rate which I believe has been high from drinking. I just want this over and to be back to normal and lose all this weight I gained also.
My wife hates me right now and I believe my kids do also. My kids are 6,5, and 11.
I need to do this so bad but I can never make it, hopefully this time I do.
I’m 31 years old
Thanks for letting me share
It’s not going to be easy. You know yourself the best, so monitor your blood pressure. Congratulations on your first 22 hours. It’s only up from here. Have you cold turkey detoxed before?
I made it 8 days before… it was horrible
@Travisf20199 you usually withdrawal for around 5 days give or take. It’s pure hell, but it’s the only way out of hell. If you think it would help you could try to detox at a rehab or hospital.
22hrs is great!! I’m only on Day 8 but 1 day at a time! You got this!! It might not be easy but it will be so worth it!!
I’m drinking tons of water … as for the eating I feel like that will make me puke right now the thought of food makes me sick.
That’s the thing I cannot detox at a rehab or hospital because I’m the only one who works In my house and cannot afford to take off of work for a whole week and unfortunately I’ve already used all my vacation time and sick time. So while doing this I have to still go to work which is pure hell!
Did you drink everyday ? And if so how bad was the first couple days ?
I wrote down my thoughts when going through pure misery of detox. So the next time I would want to drink I would read how bad I was. It didn’t always work, but did save me a few times.
Thanks for the advice guys. I think because I’m on Librium which is what the detox places give you anyways that I shouldn’t have it that bad this time I’m hoping anyways lol
CONGRATS on your first 22 hours.
This is a big step to be proud of. I too am on blood pressure and anxiety meds. Alcohol makes these meds not work as well and does increase blood pressure and anxiety. take this one day at a time and know we are here for you.
Yep whiskey and beer it was hard this isn’t my first time trying to stop. I just need to health wise and tired of being tired hung over get nothing accomplished. Iv been working more and finding things to do so I don’t think about drinking. I was pretty energized the first few days psyched about I’m done drinking but now it’s harder each day it seems I try to talk myself into drinking which is odd, like I can just drink a little knowing damn well I’ll never stop. The days matter the more I have the more I don’t want to ruin it. I keep reading in here I deleted Facebook abs just stay on here.
Break the chains and try not to ever put them back on, worst than heroin DTs from alcohol can kill a person once you get over the sleepless nights cold sweats, hallucinations and when you get your appetite back the nightmare is almost over then the real work begins, for me the nightmare is in the 1st drink and i know what hell that brings so i avoid it like the plague. Get a (+) support group try AA it works for me not for everyone but its a place to start a new page get some good insite, reach out for help, keep coming back here to post progress and just be willing to put one foot in front of the other and move forward with your recovery:)
Wont be easy at first but it for damn sure will be worth it!!!
it’s been awful at times, literally couldn’t get to work bc I thought I was having a heart attack on day 3, I’m a grown man and just cried on my knees in front of my Mrs who had never seen emotion from me in 20 years, I then drank again. This is the cycle, this is the insanity of alcohol that we always think next time it will be different. I had to go through a lot of those day 3’s but eventually we must make a choice, Do you want the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. I wish you well on your journey and reach out anytime bc asking for help is not a weakness it’s our biggest strength. You are no longer alone.
I had a similar routine, wake up, work, blackout by or before 8pm then do it all over again everyday for months on end when I was addicted to Xanax. That routine could make you feel like you’ve lost so much time of your life in the blink of an eye but once you break it you could enjoy the time you still got with the people you love. Withdrawals for me lasted multiple weeks and what got me threw it was the fact that they felt like hell and that it was so bad I never wanted to go threw them again and if I used again id eventually I’d have to experience the horrible withdrawals when I decided to get better or the dealers dried up. Use the pain your feeling as a fuel to get threw and never have to feel the pain again. Use every Avenue of support you need to get threw, I hope you can push threw and recover. I got faith in you bro
Thanks man you did your detox at home or In a detox facility?
Its going to be a slow process and your body and brain is going to be expelling a lot of supressed pain.
There will be moments of nirvana and enthusiasm, but also moments of dread and horrible horrible thoughts.
Please push through this brother. Ive been there. Its ROUGH, but dont make it for nothing. Every second your sober will be a painfull WIN.
It gets better for me around day 5 or so. Keep us posted. It doesnt bore or bother us. Some of us live to help each other.
Baby wipes, water, melotonin, light light excercise, steam shower.
Personally I go to AA because I needed more than my own puny brain could supply. Whatever road you choose. It gets easier as you go along it.
Honesty will see you through this. There may be times you want to bolt out the door and run to the booze store barefoot, there may be times you lay there cursing alcohol for what it (really) does to you.
Either way keep posting. Glad to have you on board. Itll get better if you dont drink. (Promise)
@Travisf20199 checking in to see how you are holding up today? Hope all is well
Honestly I slipped and drank 4 beers which I don’t even like beer just to get the pain to go away , even my doctor told me to wean down not just quit. So I decided to get 4 beers of the beer I hate the most and I didn’t even get a buzz just took the body pain away.