Hi,
My Ex is a functioning Alcoholic. Works everyday blah,blah.
But he drinks everynight about 12 beers or a bottle of wine or couple of vodka and tonics. Depends on his mood. And then on the weekends he starts drinking about 8 or 9 in the morning and goes all day drinking beer and working around the yard. Then by 7 at night he's ready to pass out and says he's tired from all the work not the alcohol. Anyway he went to the hospital last year thought he was having heart attack turned out it was more a stress thing and his body saying stop drinking so much. I remember how bad his hands shook in the hospital.
My point is I've withdrawn from PP's many times but I've heard that it is harder to quit drinking and the withdrawel is much more intense DT's.
Anybody know if this is true?
Hey J,
I detoxed from alcohol some 9 years ago in a facility. I was given drugs to minimise the withdrawals so I don't really know what they would have been if I'd detoxed without them. I do know however, that before I went to treatment, I would wake up in severe withdrawal. My hands trembled, I was unsteady on my feet, was nausious...that kind of thing. The only thing that helped was to drink. I guess I'm saying that I've not withdrawn from alcohol or pills without medical intervention but even so...detoxing from pain pills was much harder than alcohol for me. I'm wondering why you're making the comparison.
~Callie~
I detoxed from alcohol some 9 years ago in a facility. I was given drugs to minimise the withdrawals so I don't really know what they would have been if I'd detoxed without them. I do know however, that before I went to treatment, I would wake up in severe withdrawal. My hands trembled, I was unsteady on my feet, was nausious...that kind of thing. The only thing that helped was to drink. I guess I'm saying that I've not withdrawn from alcohol or pills without medical intervention but even so...detoxing from pain pills was much harder than alcohol for me. I'm wondering why you're making the comparison.
~Callie~
Hi Callie,
Just brought it up because before I realized I was an addict with the pp's I used to always be on my husband to quit drinking saying just don't drink how hard can that be. Now that I KNOW how hard it is to break an addiction I know why he couldn't stop drinking.
Addiction is a very sad disease. isn't it
Peace
Just brought it up because before I realized I was an addict with the pp's I used to always be on my husband to quit drinking saying just don't drink how hard can that be. Now that I KNOW how hard it is to break an addiction I know why he couldn't stop drinking.
Addiction is a very sad disease. isn't it
Peace
It's an addiction. The physical part's temporary, but the psychological part lasts forever. We are never "cured" and there are a number of ways to detox, including pills. The problem with most alcoholics is that we don't WANT to know how to fix it, 'cause then it can't be unlearned, and the more we're faced with the mounting knowledge, the inevitable starts to creep in: We're powerless over alcohol and our lives had become unmanageable.
Hey. There's a good place to start!
Anyhow, cucumbers are nice, but if they sit in brine long enough the become pickles--and they can NEVER be cucumbers again...
Hey. There's a good place to start!
Anyhow, cucumbers are nice, but if they sit in brine long enough the become pickles--and they can NEVER be cucumbers again...
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| Anyhow, cucumbers are nice, but if they sit in brine long enough the become pickles--and they can NEVER be cucumbers again... |
LMAO...damn, never to be a cucumber again....
Beebah,
I didn't know any better at the time I quit drinking so I did it cold turkey and then 8yrs later when I was a full blown pillhead, I did the CT route again...both had a lot of similarities to them...
I've been told and hindsight is 20/20 that it's dangerous to just jump off of alcohol and benzo's so I am very fortunate to not have suffered or died from withdrawls...
And if your husband is an alcoholic, it isn't as simple as don't drink...lol
Maybe you could check out a couple of AA meetings and listen to others share their stories....
Take care,
Stacey
I detoxed with an addicitionoligist Doctor (who checked my vitals for about 8 days) and had the sweats, insomnia, nausea and trembling, along with everything else & I wrote it down (the withdrawal to refer back to) so I wouldn't forget...during that first few days sober, well I was pretty out of my mind...
