I'm going to quit drinking

[Eyes On the Roll]

When I quit blues I started drinking to help fall asleep and stuff. That was almost 2 months ago. I now drink about 16 beers a day, with a 4 loko or two in between. I'm highly functioning while drunk, which is why i never saw it as a problem. I began having bad hangovers, and the only way to alleviate them was to drink, thus being perpetually drunk. My acid reflux is just horrible now. I have Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and I feel like I'm falling apart and becoming mentally ill. I gotta stop. We'll see how today goes.

 

[Deleted member 170540]

The withdrawal can be dangerous if you've been drinking that much for two months... Maybe you should go to detox or something. I'm an alcoholic too but I can keep drinking that much only for a week or two before the acid reflux gets so bad that I have to take a few days break.

Developing an addiction to alcohol that quickly sounds like 'type II alcoholism'... Does any of your close relatives have an alcohol problem?

http://alcoholism.about.com/cs/alerts/l/blnaa18.htm

Cloninger and co-workers (23) hypothesized that so-called type II alcoholics--characterized as having an early onset of drinking problems, usually being male, and displaying personality disorders such as antisocial behavior--had a more heritable form of alcoholism (26).

 

[stardust.hero]

I had the same exact problem. I was a drinker before using heroin. I would usually down a bottle of wine per night and pass out drunk. I too have always had difficulty falling asleep (so I substituted with drugs and alcohol). My symptoms got pretty bad with the alcohol where my vision was very very grey, I would feel like I was falling out throughout the day, anxiety galore. Then I discovered heroin and it was quite easy for me to start repairing some of my alcohol symptoms. I stopped drink. Then I needed to quit using heroin so of course feeling an absence in my life I went back to drinking. This repeated a few many times.

I personally found alcohol to be the more difficult one for me to get off of. I feel for you a lot because I know exactly how hard that is. I've found for myself, I tend to lose my acquired taste and hunger for it after being off it for 1-2 weeks. I haven't drank habitually in quite a few months. I am a wine person. I love the taste, the process of drinking an entire bottle is just as fun if not more than actually getting drunk. I recently went out to a concert and decided to drink. It was an awful idea since I had lost the taste for it (every sip was disgusting) and I really didn't even enjoy the process of drinking it like I used to.

You just gotta give yourself a good 1-2 weeks and I think you'll notice a huge decrease in the hunger and need to drink.

If you find yourself at the liquor store after all attempts to abstain I would suggest trying to get something you usually wouldn't buy. So if your alcohol of choice is beer, get something you haven't acquired a taste for yet. (hopefully the experience will be less enjoyable for you than with your regular alcohol of choice) I don't want to make you feel like you have a reason to substitute. But I did find that it helped me get off it the last time when I switched from my choice (wine) to mixed drinks. It really wasn't enjoyable since my taste for alcohol was in wine. I just forced myself to drink the mixed drinks and I ended up disliking them too much to even drink enough to catch a buzz.

Goodluck! Keep us updated .

 

[Eyes On the Roll]

Yes, several of my relatives were or are alcoholics. There is also a wide range of various mental illness associated with blood relatives, such as Bipolar, Schizophrenia, Depression, Anxiety, several personality disorders, and autism. I don't think I'll experience withdrawals, unless I already am and I've just been calling it off as hangovers. It hasn't always been daily, with days off here and there, but the past 6 days has been what I indicated in my first post. Today I feel pretty bad, like my physical form has been fading away. I don't feel depressed, and I haven't been depressed in a very long time.

 

[captaincaveman]

I was a chronic alcoholic for years. Almost cost me my career, my house and my life. The good news is that if you're still getting hangovers you're not too far gone. Sounds weird but if I drink now (which hasn't been for a good while) I go straight into alcohol withdrawal. I long for the days of a splitting head ache! Depending on how strong you are you could try to reduce your alcohol intake yourself (this never worked for me but hats off to anyone who can pull it off). I think you can reduce by as much as 10% a day but check this! I did multiple detoxes and used various types of benzos depending on the facility (from oxazepam to librium) and personal detoxes with valium and xanax. Pretty painless but as everyone will tell you on here you don't want a benzo gorilla on your back! Good luck mate, it can be done and you can get back to living again

 

[Vaya]

Please check into our Alcoholism Discussion Thread. You'll notice it's version five, so you're hardly alone in the struggle!

It helped me a lot this time around quitting heroin/MXE. Drinking always felt like some steady, go-to solution to alleviate the heartache caused by my other drug problems.
Until, that is, alcohol itself became the new problem.

If you're physically dependent, it s actually quite common to detox under the care of a physician using chlordiazepoxide (the maiden benzodiazepine, Librium).

But, it is especially important to remain vigilantly mindful of the repercussions of alcoholic withdrawal.naside from benzos, it is the sole substance whose withdrawals are potentially life-threatening via extreme tonic-clonic seizures.

Quit drinking!! Just remain informed about the process I'm glad you shared your intentions with us!

Wishing you the best,

~ Vaya

 

[Beat It]

Like everyone else has said, alcohol withdrawals can seriously be deadly. I've worked at a psychiatrists office for a long time and this very smart and beautiful girl was a functioning alcoholic. She did well in work and had a lot of friends and no one would have guessed she was a alcoholic. She hid it from everyone by drinking vodka in orange juice bottles. When she came to the office for help quitting our therapist advised her to go to the hospital to detox. She refused. She died that night from the withdrawals. Very sad story.

 

[ronney]

Now days we seen quite much that kind of issues everywhere.Basically it is pretty much hard to withdrawals suddenly from smoking or drinking.we've to consult some specialist first then step by step take it down because it could b quite injures for health to do that kind of act suddenly and without consultation.I have elder brother who has same kind of issue which he is trying to get rid of it.