Alcohol Withdrawal Puns

I'm writing this post for two reasons. 1. For other people in my situation who have also been left in the dark and looking for answers 2. in hopes that it raises some awareness of the deadly consequences our governments "let it rip" approach is having on the most vulnerable people in our community.

Before the omicron outbreak, my 20 year old sister had been desperately trying to get clean and had a lot of difficulty being taken seriously. To cut a long story short, she was able to get on the waiting list for DASSA for the supervised withdrawal/detox program at the Glenside clinic at the beginning of November. We were told off the bat to expect a 4-6 week wait time, possibly longer, which we were all prepared for knowing our mental health system is already stretched to its limit . This has been its own demon of a process, but not the point of this story.

Last week she called DASSA to check on her status in the waiting list as its been over 2 months. Their response? "yeah...that's not going to happen, it was turned into a medi hotel". She queried what she was to do in the meantime, they told her she was on her own.

I called DASSA because it was so bizzare that I thought she might be mistaken, however everything she said was confirmed. I queried what happened to those who were in detox at the time it was transformed to a medi-hotel, they responded that they were simply asked to leave. No referral, no GP or prescription, no social worker, no nothing. Those on the waiting list haven't been contacted with no plan to do so. What's more is that most public and private rehabs in SA wont admit you unless you've done at least 1 week detox at DASSA. DASSA closing means the dozens of drug/alcohol rehabilitation's can not function. It forces people like my sister to chose between continue using, or facing serious medical complications or even death. Going to hospital is not an option as RAH have also just confirmed they have closed the mental health short stay unit to free up more resources. Mental illness, psychiatric episodes and withdrawals are no longer being treated except in cases of emergency.

My little sister is middle class, educated with a strong family support network. A lot of the reason we have gotten this far and even found out what's happened is because I work in the public sector and familiar with navigating the bureaucracy. **I cant even begin to imagine what it's like for those who are marginalized, low soci-economic, indigenous, homeless or

Hello,

I've been a heavy drinker for four years and I decided to quit cold turkey in December last year. The withdrawal symptoms lasted 7 days - 4 days insomnia but I was able to get 4-6 hours sleep afterwards.

However, I relapsed this month.

I decided to restart my sobriety. I am currently on day 6 of the relapse withdrawal and I'm experiencing major insomnia (with some nights of "wakeful sleep"). Also, I'm super anxious, panicky, and depressed.

In the last 2 days I have been exercising and taking 5mg of Melatonin before I sleep. I still haven't been able to sleep.

My anxiety and stress is definitely playing a key role but I'm desperately asking for any tips on how to get some sleep in the interim.

hey guys, been slipping into some bad habits. i started drinking quite a bunch but i’m getting off of it and i have emotional support but the withdrawal feelings are incredibly uncomfortable. does anybody have any information if using kratom to help with alcohol withdrawal is helpful? and better yet if anybody has experience? thank you!

Patient I saw in hospital yesterday had alcohol withdrawal who kept wanting to leave, physically abusive. He’s not my patient and I don’t know what happened in the end but in this scenario would you use the mental health act or mental capacity act.? Surely it’s the mental capacity act when the patient doesn’t have capacity (which he didn’t), but the staff kept talking about having him under a section 5.2 which is a mental health act section? Sorry if this is a dumb question but I’m not sure which one is suitable

21, 6'0, 155 lbs, male

i been drinking literally every single day since the summer. very few days id have jus a beer or 2 but i usually always aimed to at least get tipsy so id go a lil higher especially on the weekends. so i never stopped and since my tolerance kept rising in the past like 2 months i been crushing at least like 15+ beers a day easily and probs even more on weekends.

longest i been without a beer was a few days ago and i mayb lasted like 10 hours before i had to have a few drinks jus to take off the edge and get me to stop feeling low energy and sad. the reason id been drinking so much is for personal reasons that i been trying to push away but also cus i like to party so idk if this affects it too but since the summer i also completely stopped working out, stopped eating, sleep schedule was beyond fucked up, i jus wasnt taking care of myself

so have i been doing this long enough and going hard enough to experience withdrawals? if so how bad will it be and how long?

i know u cant predict this stuff cus is different for everyone but have i even been drinking hard enough to the point where i reached a dangerous level?

thanks for any of ur comments

Every note card and practice question I’ve seen has said only use the three non-liver metabolized benzos (L.O.T.) in patients with cirrhosis. First day of medicine clerkship we’re using Valium, which is broken down by the liver, left and right. Does anyone know why this is the case and what’s with the discrepancy when it comes to shelves/step?

Or the wall bleeding or the black creepy crawlies coming out of the wall (but staying on the wall). I can't remember. He is freaking out and screaming at seeing this

That is all I remember from the movie I saw when I was young back in the 80s. I don't even remember if it was black and white or in color.

Hi everyone. This is my first post on here. I hope you’re all doing well in your journeys. I’m going through a bit of an experience at the moment and figured this would be the best place to come if I had any questions regarding anything.

So basically I’m 23 years old, 24 in a few days. For maybe the last 2 and a half years or so, I’ve been drinking pretty much every single night. My main drinking habit would be to have 3 or 4 large bottles of 6.8% cider to end the night on, then eventually crash to sleep. I’m not even sure how I allowed this to become a nightly habit in my life, but here we are. I’ve gone from a guy in a school not too many years ago, beaming with confidence, always complimented on my looks, skinny/lean, and had the whole world ahead of me. I am now barely a fraction of that person that I used to be. I’ve put on a load of weight and have let myself go completely. I’m ashamed.

I made the decision around the 18th of December to not have any alcohol until I went and spent time with my family on Christmas Eve, so I went 6 days without any alcohol at all. To be honest I surprised myself and it was only the sleeping side of things that I would struggle with to start with, I’d shout out in my sleep a lot if I did eventually get off and would jump at nothing a lot too and wake myself up. I didn’t crave alcohol at all during this time off that I had.

I’d planned to keep this going. I want/wanted to stop drinking every single night and still do now of course. Over the last week and a half or so, I adapted myself to having say for example 4 days of drinking, then 4 days not drinking and I planned to stick to this. I had a drink 3 nights ago (6 cans of strong cider), but told myself I didn’t want to have a drink for another 5 days or just however long felt good for me. Well the day after having the ciders, I began to experience heart palpitations. I’d probably stopped drinking and went to sleep at around 2am, and began to feel them 2pm the next day so like 12 hours later. I’ve had them before but from what I recall only ever the day after having cocaine or other stimulants. The palpitations would ALWAYS be gone the following day when I’d woken up in a better state, so I just assumed that my drinking from the night before had caused them and that they would be gone the next day. The day goes on, I’m still getting palpitations but doing my best to ignore them. I run myself a bath and while doing so the palpitations feel worse, I get in the bath

Does anyone have experience with going to the doctor to get help with withdrawal? I’m thinking of going to an Urgent Care or ER but worried they’ll just tell me to go to a detox which is out of the question at the moment. I’m looking for outpatient options. The tremors, insomnia and nausea really suck. What can my local doctor do for me? Can they help?

My last dose of kratom was probably 2 weeks ago after using a year (or so). Not too much maybe 10-15 gpd. Right now I’m feeling pretty much normal, I don’t even know if I still have PAWS. Today I’m going out with my friends after a long time and I just wanna know if it’s safe to have a few drinks (because I don’t wanna be sent back to my withdrawals). I’m aware I’m not gonna feel great tommorow, either way I want to give it a try. Thanks for your answers!

For starters, I’m posting on day 6 sober.

I wish I could say that I only had to go through the process of withdrawal one time but, so it goes.

The point of my post is that I went to an E.R. to detox and was treated poorly by the provider. Had this been my first time, I may have never gone back and sought out the care I needed again. Which we know with alcohol withdrawal can mean seizures, coma, or death.

My first experience I was treated with kindness. With respect. Like a person with an illness. Like a human. I was made to feel comfortable. I was closely monitored. I.Received.Care.

This last time was different. Please allow me to be clear, the nursing staff was AMAZING. Unfortunately the P.A. that was overseeing my care was extremely condescending. I prefer to give people the benefit of the doubt (maybe it was the end of a long shift, bad day, etc.) but, in hearing him going to different patients, it became obvious that I was being treated differently. There are many more details but none of them get us closer to the conclusion.

My point is this: If someone is at one of the lowest points of their entire life and is able to build up the ASTRONOMICAL amount courage to walk into that hospital for treatment for the first time only to be treated like garbage… would they do it a second time?

Needed to edit this real quick: Really late here. Don’t ever be discouraged by someone treating you poorly. Your health is your health.

Think of the person you love the most in the world. That person that you would do anything for. Then let that person be you.

Over the past two years, I’ve been drinking more and more. I drink every day at this point. Usually beer and wine. I probably average 5-7 drinks per day spread over many hours so I’m almost never “drunk”.

I want to stop or at least cut way back to where I used to be (a couple drinks a week). My thinking is to go cold turkey for a couple of months to break the habit and then hopefully I can go back to an occasional social drink.

Question is, am I in any danger of serious withdrawal based on this volume? Should I instead cut back to 1-2 drinks a day for a couple weeks to be safe?

After half a year of constant drinking daily I developed withdrawal symptoms. I stopped drinking and my symptoms did eventually go away. After being symptom free for a week my boss offered me a beer. Since I still wanned to be careful I only had 2 beers in total that night but to my shock my symptoms returned for a week afterwards.

Does anyone have experience with the scenario I described?

I never want to go back to the daily drinking but would like to be able to drink on special occasions without going through withdrawal again. I am currently symptom free for 3 months and am scared to try and drink a beer.

I am not an alcoholic. I don't have a hard time not drinking and don't seek opportunities to do so. What I did was stupid and I am just joung and was unedited on how quickly alcohol can fuck you up.

I basically had a bottle of 700ml vodka every day since December 23. I stopped for two days so far and last night I felt sick and almost puked, today I don't feel sick but it feels like I've had a few shots of vodka and I'm tipsy, is it normal? I don't know if I'm going to stop drinking, but I'm not drinking tonight..

I just tapered off Clonazepam. I was wondering if havig a few drinks in the weekend will put me into withdrawal again?

Terrible. Wretched. Disfiguring. Contorts you into a different state of being. Heaving, puking, shaking, anxiety, nightmares, hyperventilating, insomnia, dissociation, numbness, craving, gasping, isolation, voices, hallucinations, tears, laughter, injuries, endings, goodbyes, tomorrows. Losing things you didn't even know you had. Creating reasons to get more. Serving a part of yourself you don't really want to subscribe to but it's too late to cancel. Accepting the demons. A crown of thorns.

Would I do it again? Over and over. 2/5 stars and a whiskey glass.

I've been using F-phenibut off and on for awhile but the past 2 months had been daily use of between 400-600mg. I tapered down from 600 over the last 2 weeks and yesterday was my first day of no phenibut.

I've been dealing with extreme paranoia and anxiety these past few days and my feet and fingers swell and hurt. Also have tinnitus in my right ear.

I plan on never taking phenibut again but in one week I will be seeing family for Christmas and would like to drink alcohol because my family can be, let's say tough to be around.

Is one week enough time between my last phenibut dose to drink some alcohol and not screw up my progress of getting through withdrawals?

Thanks for all your help, this sub has been a godsend for helping me get through this.

Im just wondering if anyone jas any experience with these things and whether a quick 12 day reduction wpuld produce any withdrawal, especially considering I went through a benzo taper relatively recently. Im going from 50mg chlordiazepoxide 4 times a day and they are cutting 20 mg a day (5mg off each dose). Was feeling ok but suddenly had that benzo anxious rush. Probably my brain just trying to reset itself - im down to 30mg four times a day. Thanks all!

So, I've developed a problem with alcohol. I'm drinking half to 3/4 of a fifth every night, and sometimes drinking more throughout my sleep (I have narcolepsy and frequently wake up throughout the night).

To be honest, I dont even wanna drink anymore. But I'm afraid to stop. I know how dangerous alcohol withdrawal can be.

Keep in mind, I don't drink during the day, at all. I wait until a few hours before bed usually. And I generally dont experience any noticeable symptoms during the day besides anxiety, but I already have horrible anxiety anyway (which contributed to my use), I don't get shaky or hot or anything.

This has been going on since around June, getting progressively worse over time. I'm aware of the kindling effect, and fortunately I have never been addicted to alcohol before.

So I guess my question is, how severe would my withdrawal be if I stopped suddenly? I want to go to rehab but I don't have the money (live in murica). Should I see a doctor? I kind of just want to get a week's worth of Benzos so I can just taper and get on with my life.

Would it be dangerous for me to stop without medication?

Never used CBD before, ordered some gummies to see if it would help with some pain issues(I try to avoid OTC painkillers cos I have history of ODing), anxiety and sleep. Should I hold off on giving them a try until the withdrawals are over just to be safe or should it be fine?

For context, I grew up with two alcoholic parents. My dad died Jan 2021 from liver failure. I care for my mom who is incredibly disabled due to issues stemming from a stroke and subsequent alcoholism.

Now the person I thought was the love of my life, who was beside me in my dad's final days, who has seen my mom go through the worst parts of addiction, is in the hospital from alcohol withdrawal. He had a seizure. This isn't the first time he's quit drinking and had a seizure, but it's the first time his family has gotten involved. He's unemployed. Luckily he has a good family that is willing to help him with anything, but I am the one who has to live with him.

He has agreed to quit drinking but he refuses to see a therapist or get any sort of professional help. He gets incredibly defensive when its brought up. I am not trying very hard to be sympathetic. I am still not over my dad's death. I loved my dad deeply despite his drinking, and I am bitter that he died such a painful death. My bf knows all about my parents, my childhood, and still somehow went down the same path. I know its an addiction, and addiction is a disease, but I will not lie: I am livid beyond measure. I am hurt, and I feel deeply and irreparably betrayed.

As a child of alcoholics, specifically alcoholics who tried to get better time and time again but always failed, I know this cycle intimately. And now I'm stuck in it again. It makes my head spin. I could leave, but he is still my friend before all else. I want to see him get better because for once in my life I want to see what that looks like...to get better from this fucking awful addiction.

But here is my fear: he won't want to recognize that he has an addiction and therefore a few months from now when he thinks he's good, he's going to have one beer with dinner. and that beer will turn into a few beers. and then he'll go back to liquor. and then he'll realize he's dependent and try to stop leading to another bout of withdrawal.

I just don't know what to do.

So I've had some really bad anxiety after a heavy spell of binge drinking I'm tapering with alcohol at the moment but my anxiety is the worst it's ever been I'm phoning doc tomorrow.

Does anyone know if docs in the uk prescribe benzos for this.

First part of the title speaks for itself. When you’ve been straight for a month and the days just go on like Martin Sheen in that room in Apocalypse Now, you know you have a lot of terrible problems, and none of them are alcohol or drug related.

Do you all have a pointer or two about how to use Ativan to ease withdrawal symptoms/keep from dying during withdrawal? Dose, timing? I’ll have some vitamins onboard so hopefully my hands and arms don’t go numb again while I’m driving 😬.

About to initiate a wicked bender.

Godspeed to all.

I’m male (23) started drinking after I graduated high school (2016) and immediately started binge drinking on weekends. I have very bad anxiety I’m not sure if this plays a role in this. Drank on weekends and some weekdays (got drunk every time I drank never could really only have a few beers). It started in early 2017 I would wake up the day after drinking (8 hours after) and would feel like I was dying. This made me want to quit alcohol. If I would drink a lot of alcohol it would amplify the effects and I would feel like I was literally dying having a heart attack or something. Pretty much quit drinking mid 2019. Off an on would have a beer or a few and the symptoms persist. Fast forward to last weekend I felt like I was dying so I drank a couple beers and took some shots and felt relieved, (alcohol or Xanax always fixes this problem). I wake up 4-5 hours after drinking literally going crazy thinking I’m dying and felt like I was losing my mind. I’m not sure if this is alcohol or anxiety I haven’t drank since last Sunday. I still feel weird, I’m not sure if I became dependent on alcohol because I used it for social anxiety and panic attacks or if it’s just anxiety, I would say I was borderline alcoholic got a dui and drank everyday for weeks sometimes other times only weekends and some weekdays.

So for the past 3 years I've been addicted to benzos. I put off ordering more until about 2 weeks ago, & the vendor scammed me, so Sunday morning I ordered an Express & a Priority package, neither which I've received.

I have enough Klonopin to last me through Friday morning. I take 1mg every 12 hours.

If I'm still waiting on packages by Friday, can I use alcohol to mask the withdrawals completely?

I would imagine it'd at best prevent me from having a seizure & experiencing full-blown withdrawals, though I'd imagine there are benzo-specific receptors that alcohol doesn't bind to which would still make me feel like shit. I'm planning to maintain a low-level drunkenness Friday, Saturday, Sunday, check the mail Monday & if nothing, go to the ER.

I recently lost my job because alcoholism had finally caught up with me. I went to the doctor and he told me my liver enzymes were just slightly high and it was nothing to worry about if I quit drinking now. He said we could check in two months and more than likely the numbers would be back to normal range. I felt like this was a big wake up. I have stumbled since, but I consider 3 days in 15 days a victory from where I was. Side story aside, I'll get to the meat of my post's intent.

I have been having strangely realistic dreams for the past few months. So realistic I couldn't remember later if they were a dream or real life. I could list several examples, but I hear the more you talk about dreams the more you'll have them and I don't want these dreams messing up my life lol. I had a job interview with a company recently and I felt like I hit a home run. I know that in real life (via my phone conversation history) I called him asking if he had made a decision. He told me to wait until after the new year until they interview a few more candidates. I was the only candidate they interviewed so far. Anyways, I dreamed the next day one of the people in charge of hiring wrote me an e-mail telling me they understood my urgency to want a job, but that they were going to wait until after the new year. I checked my e-mail later that day to respond and I could not find it. I checked all my e-mails, spam, trash, and archived folders and found nothing. None the less, I wrote the guy a response saying I couldn't find the e-mail but I appreciate him letting me know he would contact me after January. I know he said this in person as well, so I don't think it sabotaged me. Well, I just woke up from another dream that I ended up in the hospital for severe withdrawals, woke up in bed next to my wife and asked her if it was true, and she said "Yes, this is the first day you've been home in 2 weeks" Of course, I wake up later and she pinches me and I've not been in the hospital for withdrawals for 2 weeks. One last example, at my last job I would dream I would schedule pickups and write them down in a book. Then when I reminded my employees about this scheduled arrangement they looked at me like I was crazy. That none such existed.

That was probably more words than even the Biblbe would have wanted me to share. Has anyone else experienced realistic dreams indistinguishable from real life from alcohol withdrawal?

Side Note: I have safely discussed with my doctors way

Like does it have the same impact of other things that would result in PTSD?

Rehab and going to the hospital to detox aren’t an option for me, so please respectfully don’t have that be your suggestion. I would need to do this at home, does anyone know if there’s meds I can be prescribed to ease the physical symptoms of withdrawal?

Hi everyone. This is my first post on here. I hope you’re all doing well in your journeys. I’m going through a bit of an experience at the moment and figured this would be the best place to come if I had any questions regarding anything.

So basically I’m 23 years old, 24 in a few days. For maybe the last 2 and a half years or so, I’ve been drinking pretty much every single night. My main drinking habit would be to have 3 or 4 large bottles of 6.8% cider to end the night on, then eventually crash to sleep. I’m not even sure how I allowed this to become a nightly habit in my life, but here we are. I’ve gone from a guy in a school not too many years ago, beaming with confidence, always complimented on my looks, skinny/lean, and had the whole world ahead of me. I am now barely a fraction of that person that I used to be. I’ve put on a load of weight and have let myself go completely. I’m ashamed.

I made the decision around the 18th of December to not have any alcohol until I went and spent time with my family on Christmas Eve, so I went 6 days without any alcohol at all. To be honest I surprised myself and it was only the sleeping side of things that I would struggle with to start with, I’d shout out in my sleep a lot if I did eventually get off and would jump at nothing a lot too and wake myself up. I didn’t crave alcohol at all during this time off that I had.

I’d planned to keep this going. I want/wanted to stop drinking every single night and still do now of course. Over the last week and a half or so, I adapted myself to having say for example 4 days of drinking, then 4 days not drinking and I planned to stick to this. I had a drink 3 nights ago (6 cans of strong cider), but told myself I didn’t want to have a drink for another 5 days or just however long felt good for me. Well the day after having the ciders, I began to experience heart palpitations. I’d probably stopped drinking and went to sleep at around 2am, and began to feel them 2pm the next day so like 12 hours later. I’ve had them before but from what I recall only ever the day after having cocaine or other stimulants. The palpitations would ALWAYS be gone the following day when I’d woken up in a better state, so I just assumed that my drinking from the night before had caused them and that they would be gone the next day. The day goes on, I’m still getting palpitations but doing my best to ignore them. I run myself a bath and while doing so the palpitations feel worse, I get in the bath

I just tapered off Clonazepam. I was wondering if havig a few drinks in the weekend will put me into withdrawal again?

For context, I grew up with two alcoholic parents. My dad died Jan 2021 from liver failure. I care for my mom who is incredibly disabled due to issues stemming from a stroke and subsequent alcoholism.

Now the person I thought was the love of my life, who was beside me in my dad's final days, who has seen my mom go through the worst parts of addiction, is in the hospital from alcohol withdrawal. He had a seizure. This isn't the first time he's quit drinking and had a seizure, but it's the first time his family has gotten involved. He's unemployed. Luckily he has a good family that is willing to help him with anything, but I am the one who has to live with him.

He has agreed to quit drinking but he refuses to see a therapist or get any sort of professional help. He gets incredibly defensive when its brought up. I am not trying very hard to be sympathetic. I am still not over my dad's death. I loved my dad deeply despite his drinking, and I am bitter that he died such a painful death. My bf knows all about my parents, my childhood, and still somehow went down the same path. I know its an addiction, and addiction is a disease, but I will not lie: I am livid beyond measure. I am hurt, and I feel deeply and irreparably betrayed.

As a child of alcoholics, specifically alcoholics who tried to get better time and time again but always failed, I know this cycle intimately. And now I'm stuck in it again. It makes my head spin. I could leave, but he is still my friend before all else. I want to see him get better because for once in my life I want to see what that looks like...to get better from this fucking awful addiction.

But here is my fear: he won't want to recognize that he has an addiction and therefore a few months from now when he thinks he's good, he's going to have one beer with dinner. and that beer will turn into a few beers. and then he'll go back to liquor. and then he'll realize he's dependent and try to stop leading to another bout of withdrawal.

I just don't know what to do.

I can't sleep I've been really sick when I stop drinking. I have a few bottles left but I feel like complete shit. Fuck get me out of this