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Misc Month long alcohol binge?

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Moredopamine

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Hey everyone,

I'm normally conservative with my drug use for the sake of my health. However, recent events have led me to drink anywhere from 1-10 drinks a night everyday for the past month. I've never drank this heavily for such a long time (I'm 19 in a week).

To get to the point--I wanted to know if abrupt cessation of drinking after today (can't resist drinking on New Year's Eve!) would lead to any kind of withdrawal. I'm expecting some difficulty sleeping and mild depression perhaps, but I'm paranoid it might be a lot worse and that I'll have seizures etc. Particularly, I just want opinions as to how difficult it will be getting off the alcohol. It seems difficult to find good timescales on how quickly alcohol dependence develops on the internet so I figured BL would be an excellent place to get a few anecdotes. :)
 
Moredopamine said:
Hey everyone,

I'm normally conservative with my drug use for the sake of my health. However, recent events have led me to drink anywhere from 1-10 drinks a night everyday for the past month. I've never drank this heavily for such a long time (I'm 19 in a week).

To get to the point--I wanted to know if abrupt cessation of drinking after today (can't resist drinking on New Year's Eve!) would lead to any kind of withdrawal. I'm expecting some difficulty sleeping and mild depression perhaps, but I'm paranoid it might be a lot worse and that I'll have seizures etc. Particularly, I just want opinions as to how difficult it will be getting off the alcohol. It seems difficult to find good timescales on how quickly alcohol dependence develops on the internet so I figured BL would be an excellent place to get a few anecdotes. :)
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you will be fine. while you will prolly feel a bit sick the first day without, it will hardly be because of LACK of alcohol and more of your body's attempts to get it out of your system and let you know how stupid it was to go on a binge like that.


you will have no withdrawls, but you will feel kind of shitty for a day.


now if you were drinking a fifth everynight for 6 months to a year you would have a prolbem. a 30 day binge is really nothing. if you can stop drinking now i would suggest it because DTs are some serious and scary shit.
 
You shouldn't suffer any withdrawals whatsoever - apart from depression and desire to drink more.

However, there is a kindling effect with alcohol withdrawal, where each successive withdrawal becomes worse. if you were to do this many time (drink 7+ drinks a night for a month) and then stop, you would begin experiencing wd's when you stop - so be careful.

And drinking milk thistle does wonders for the liver.
 
CitioKid said:
You shouldn't suffer any withdrawals whatsoever - apart from depression and desire to drink more.

However, there is a kindling effect with alcohol withdrawal, where each successive withdrawal becomes worse. if you were to do this many time (drink 7+ drinks a night for a month) and then stop, you would begin experiencing wd's when you stop - so be careful.

And drinking milk thistle does wonders for the liver.
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Ah yes, milk thistle, and eat the liver of a minotaur. Your going to get a lot of post about people saying these weird herbs will help. most of it is bogus, or the herb can befound in food your already eating everyday.
 
Thanks everyone for your input. Surprisingly, on my first day sober (and the second one today), I felt no withdrawal effects whatsoever and have been unusually upbeat. I even fell asleep faster than I normally do when sober for prolonged periods.

Strange but I ain't complaining. :)
 
You won't experience withdrawal from alcohol like you are thinking (seizures and stuff) unless you are constantly drunk. Like drinking all morning day and night for days and weeks. If you just go from drinking at night, to hungover in the morning, to sober in the afternoon, and repeat...then eventually you will scar your liver but not for many years.

That being said, as stated above drinking a liter of vodka in a night and blacking out will get worse each time you do it until you may start having seizures due to acute withdrawal as well.
 
Moredopamine said:
Hey everyone,

I'm normally conservative with my drug use for the sake of my health. However, recent events have led me to drink anywhere from 1-10 drinks a night everyday for the past month. I've never drank this heavily for such a long time (I'm 19 in a week).

To get to the point--I wanted to know if abrupt cessation of drinking after today (can't resist drinking on New Year's Eve!) would lead to any kind of withdrawal. I'm expecting some difficulty sleeping and mild depression perhaps, but I'm paranoid it might be a lot worse and that I'll have seizures etc. Particularly, I just want opinions as to how difficult it will be getting off the alcohol. It seems difficult to find good timescales on how quickly alcohol dependence develops on the internet so I figured BL would be an excellent place to get a few anecdotes. :)
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You'll be fine.

I went through a phase around your age where I drank 8-15 drinks a day everyday for approximately 4 years...and this was not because I was out partying, it was because I needed alcohol just to make it through everyday life.

Aside from 2 days of rock bottom depression after stopping cold turkey, muscle aches, lethargy, and anxiety I had no other side effects and no real craving to drink massive amounts of alcohol.

Liver can regenerate tissue completely and reverse effects of damage from years of ethanol abuse.

And I drink moderately to this day with no desire to over-indulge. Alcohol is a forgiving drug as long as you avoid the acute poisoning.
 
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You'll be fine. You said you are conservative with your drug use so I take it you are conservative with your alcohol use as well. As long as you aren't feeling wd symptoms which you said you aren't feeling, youre fine.

An alcoholic like me, I personally start to get wd's and DT's about 6 hours after my last drink.
 
perhaps a bit of anxiety and depression, but nothing major. when i used to go on wild heavy benders i would get anxious and feel a bit de-personalized
 
Alcohol is a piss poor drug to be addicted to, my father is, and he's wayyy worse off than a junky like me. Dont expect seizures and DTs after a month long alc binge tho, that's mostly for long, long, long time drinkers
 
allrgic addicted alcoholics suffer the worst ,i am one ,once i started i couldnt stop for weeks on end,drink,pass out drink pass out

some of the W/d i went through was utter hell ,your mind is completely fucked,
 
i went on a 3 month binge my first semester of college and i was a little anxious and shakey for 2-3 nights but it was minor. i would say mild hydrocodone withdrawals even worse than that. so yeah not much to worry about....
 
They get worse, far worse. It's the depersonalization and shit that is the hardest man.

It's like you took acid/K (on a really bad one) or something, and can't do anything to stop the trip from happening and there's nothing fun, cool or remotely novel about it.
 
It has been proposed that brain damage due to alcohol withdrawal may be prevented by the administration of NMDA antagonists, calcium antagonists, and glucocorticoid antagonists.


Just something to consider for anyone who is preparing to stop a bad alcohol habit cold turkey (dangerous and not advised)..
 
Thanks for all the responses, I really appreciate them. As I said in my last post--I experienced no w/d at all thankfully.

All the responses informing me that I'd have to drink for far longer even to experience moderate withdrawal encourage me to drink some more at a subtle level. I'm trying my best to 'quit while I'm ahead" however, as someone recommended.
 
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