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Harm Reduction (Alcohol) - Quitting drinking, worried about w/d's.

Lawrence Arms

Bluelighter
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Alright, so I realized as of I guess yesterday now, I've drank everyday for two years on the dot. I've decided to quit drinking for about a month, maybe longer and give my liver and kidneys and stomach and brain and wallet a break. I'm 24, and before a nine month break due to jail, there were only a few days missed here and there for quite a while. Basically I am wondering if anyone else who has quit with a basically all day everyday drinking habit, minus most of the time at work, not inebriated, had any input on taking a big break and dealing with the initial w/d. Should I be tapering? I'd say the amount consumed could be from six on a work day not doin shit afterwords, to 20+ just gettin a bottle and drinking beer with it. My kidneys and liver and general back area have been hurting for a good while now, and i'm also worried about this, due to a combination of morphine with it for the past year, on and off. Maybe this is better suited for TDS, please move it mods if you think so. Basically looking for advice on the w/d and tapering though. Thanks guys
 
I would absolutely get seen by a physician. As soon as possible.

Pain in the area of your liver and/or kidneys is a sign of organ damage. You need to have bloodwork done and see what's going on inside you. At the same time, I would never quit drinking without consulting a doctor. Too many variables involved including the risk for seizures.
 
The topic of alcahol withdrawals is interesting since the way it is often used and stopped and such, you would expect some form of it to manifest now and then enough to make it a concern to the general public but until bluelight made me realise the rather obvious, i had never once hard about alcahol withdrawals besides possibly a few mentions of rehab patients etc. It could mean anything but with the general concept of withdrawals, it should be a common thing, even to the general uneducated public, like how benzo withdrawal sorta is, right? Or is it less harsh or less obvious?

Anyways, the biggest factor in my interest is the fact that a while back, a few years and before my BL and drug education i was self medicating a bottle of spirits an evening, purely to help with the obsessive ptsd reactions and bad related fears and anxiety.
It was drink or spend the night roaming the house and investigating every sound, real or otherwize. Fear, anxiety, ptsd, all fine and managable, but obsessive compulsions thrown in there is a fucking nightmare.

Anyways, i got meds and stopped the drinking on the same days due to uneducated fears on combing it with ssris and i never had any issues? Didnt know better then but now its stuck me as odd and something i should look into one day maybe. No benzos or stuff that can keep it at bay either and im sure ssris dont do this either.

But yeah, pretty much assume the opposite to anything i say or pretty much ignore any assumed intended recommendations or whatever, im not to be trusted right now, read on for further confirmation of this.

Yeah the rest can be ignored, an annoying side effect i tolerate, so sorry but posting this shit stops the voices and pain for a while, or read at risk of the abyss sensing an innocent vessel nearby.

What is possible is that it went mostly disregarded and irrelevant unless it was going to kill me sooner then the ptsd nightmare scheduled for the evening. If not then it was just some other helpful reminder why my later murder will be a blessed escape from this cruel hateful world.

Anyways, now i laugh at fear, like whats worse then your planned death daily for a long time, and anxiety is some distant memory of a human weakness, a form i have left beyind some time ago. Now i take meth and do fucked up shit all the time and never give a shit or get scared, its awesome. Well this isnt really true and im sure my fucked up tweaking brain wanted to make some profound point about how fear and anxiety is good and protects us in moderation but ive gone two days now with this fuckers ever present running commentary of profound shit in my brain, i cant take it much more. Its time to increase dosage drown that fucker out with the sounds of insanity banging on the windows. It senses weakness but ill fend him off or if not i wont give a shit, a win win. Farewell humans.
 
Alcohol withdrawal requires you call 911 immediately because as the saying goes "Opiate withdrawal will make you feel like you are dying; but alcohol withdrawal can and will kill you unless you immediately get medical attention so that you can properly detox without the possibility of life-threatening seizures.

Best wishes
 
Definitely consult a physician. If you are drinking 20 beers or a fifth of liquor a day then you will likely experience delirium tremens and/or death from alcohol withdrawal. I've watched people detox from alcohol during rehab and it scared the hell out of me just seeing what they were going through.
 
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