I’m talking like for a serious alcoholic…
This person is currently in the hospital and not had any alcohol in several days, not sure exactly how long. But he’s already almost died once, over the weekend, but now they are saying the same thing again that he may not make it through the night tonight.

I quit drinking in November and was in the hospital because i was withdrawing really badly. The doctor said I was alcohol dependent. He said it would take three weeks to withdraw from the alcohol. Anyways, I slipped up and had some drinks in January and February and still managed to have withdrawals symptoms. I still had the really bad anxiety and confusion like right before i stopped drinking. So how long does it take to not have withdrawal symptoms??

Xanax alone isn’t enough for my panic attacks. Alcohol actually works better but when it’s too intense and I feel like I’m going to die or want to die I take xanax and alcohol. I usually don’t remember what happened half of the night which is what I wanted. I heard it can be fatal although I’ve never come close and have only done this a few times. I know this is not ok, and I want to know how much damage I’m doing. Maybe it’ll make me stop.

How long does irritability and anxiety last once you stop drinking alcohol.

I’ve been drinking lots of beer for 15 years and recently have been drinking almost daily this past year.

I noticed i get irritable and anxious when I’m not drinking.

What can i expect when I quit?
Finchy : Wow, you are good. I couldn’t ask for a better answer. Every thing you said makes sense.

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I would sit around and watch TV and drink beer for four or five hours a night. I did binge drink while watching football all day long on Sundays and then try to recover on Monday night by having a few more. There were times where I would wake up really late in the day and manage until evening. Than I would drink five or six more a night. Maybe I would take two days off a week at most. Anyway, the other day, this being the holidays I got really depressed and stayed drunk from Saturday night to Tuesday night. On Wednesday I woke up at noon and tried to get through the day. But felt horrible. I was not sick to my stomach or anything like that, but did not want to eat anything. In the evening i manage a small meal. I did not have a headache. Just felt like crap. That night I had three small cans of beer, because I felt disorientated and very uncomfortable and thought if I just had a little compared to what I had drunk the three days before that it would relieve the symptoms a little bit. It didn’t really. The next day I still had the shakes and the chills and the sweats. I thought, “What the hell have I done to myself?” I could hardly sleep. I have fallen asleep well past 5am for the past two nights. Most of my sleep has been off and on from midnight to 5am and then I will sleep until 9am then lay down for a nap fro around 1pm to 3pm. I think tonight might be better though. I hope anyway. There is one more thing thats bothering me. Whenever I drank a lot before, I would usually feel physically normal by 5 or 6pm. But since I have stopped I feel a little unsure of myself when I turn my head or walk. I can walk fine, just I feel a little uneasy about it it initially. Not like I could just run down the street like before. My vision seems to be a little strange, when I go to get up or turn my head. I don’t get dizzy, just feeling off visually.

After a nice large dinner tonight, I felt a little panicky and just not right after my meal!. The feeling is like I am still a little drunk visually. I can see fine, just things seem off a bit. I am feeling a little better now (an hour and a half) after dinner. I did some weight training yesterday. It felt good, so I thought I was going to be okay this morning, but the same odd feeling returned this morning and has been there throughout the day, most of the time when I walk. It is like I am unsure of myself. Does that make any sense?

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Today is the first day off the alcohol and now I have SEVERE anxiety, lightheaded and i’m very dizzy and shaking. How long will this last because I am starting a new job in 2 days and I;m afraid I won’t feel well enough and have too much anxiety to even leave my home.

I have been drinking vodka heavy for 2 years. I stopped this habit yesterday, but I’m having very annoying symptoms. My hands are shaking, I’m nauseous, light-headed, and had cold sweats all night. Also kept waking up with a feeling that something was crawling on my body. Also bruise way too easily. How long can I expect this to go on? When does it start getting better? Any personal experiences would be greatly appreciated!

Like I said, I have dealt with depression my whole life. Now, don’t get me wrong, there are moments I have enjoyed. I’m not gloom 24 hours a day. However, the small amount of good, is not worth putting up with the large amount of crappy. So most of the time I withdraw from everyone and disconnect myself mentally from my body to not have to deal. Even as young as 5 I remember thinking “Why do I have to be alive.” Then my mind would go blank and I would feel nothing; suddenly I’d come to and remember that I had to live and get super depressed. Then I’d go blank again and it would repeat for about 10 minutes. I used to call it a temporary amnesia. I thought that everyone felt this way, it wasn’t until I got older that I realized that this was not normal for a 5 y/o in a healthy environment.

As I got older it got so bad that I couldn’t even sleep at night. I used to just stare at the ceiling and hope to disappear. Now I was always well taken care of and well loved, but all that did was make me feel even worse about myself since I knew that there were many people in the world, starving, homeless, oppressed that would have loved to be in my shoes. And all I wanted to do was get it over with.. So, over the years, I just got used to it. I just told myself I have no reason to be depressed; be a man, get over it, and make the best of life. I even had some times where I felt ok. Not great, but not so bad that I couldn’t deal with. I thought that maybe if I got a good job, bought a house and filled it with toys, went on vacations, that I would feel better about myself, thus making me feel better overall. Nothing. In fact the added pressure of being buried in bills just made the depression and anxiety worse. I learned you can’t buy happiness and that I was simply doing what everyone else wanted me to do, not what I wanted to do. I tried to reduce the pressure and anxiety with a less stressful(== less money) job and a simpler existance, but my situation in life had little effect on my mental state. I had no drive to accomplish anything because if nothing gives you pleasure, what’s the reason to do anything? My goal was to simply reduce stress and anxiety as much as possible. I also still thought about death about as often as most men fantasize about sex. (I was too full of guilt about upsetting my family to consider suicide, I just prayed for terminal illness or the like; that way it wouldn’t be my fault)

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I had drink a plenty of red wine every night for a year? Then I day I stoped and suddenly the second day I started to have insomnia. Almost 3 months. I try valerian and melatonin only sometimes works. Now I still don’t know the reason that I can’t sleep well because when I don’t need to work next day I sleep better. Maybe job stress.
Don’t say to me I need 18 months to recover.

This is my first question.

I realize I am a rare case, so there is no need to point that out.

I am almost 25 and recently quit drinking. I was a cronic drinker for the last 7+ years. I have not drank in 36 days (but who’s counting). It was very hard the first 2 weeks and I finally feel like I am not dying. But, I still have no energy and wake up with night sweats every night. Last week my body erupted in break outs and I have never broken out before. Other things have happened, my period was so intence with pain I was crying, and I have missed work with headaches. This was also last week. My question is, why am I still dealing with this? Could it be other issues besides detox? Can I speed it up?

Just a little more back ground, I also quit doing cocain at the same time. I was doing a lot everyday and had been for several months straight.

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