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I suppose I'm sort of an average alcoholic - who drank 10 to 15 units a day and averaged about 85 per week.
Day 1 - nasty taste in mouth (like the smell that comes from alcoholics). Sleep OK but wake up early with a cold sweat.
Day 2 - sort of head pain (not an ache but a kind of tightness). A bit harder to sleep and wake up early with a cold sweat again.
Day 3 - Starting to feel really tired. Gums become tender and bleed if brushed hard. wake up early but no cold sweat.
Day 4 - just want to loaf about and can't concentrate for long. Have to sleep a lot but keep waking up and feel exhausted all day. Find the tragedies and misfortunes of others funny and feel generally hateful.
Day 5 to Day 9 - like day 4 but gradually become more productive, sleep better and less inclined to enjoy the suffering of others and feel less hateful. Gums firm up and minor aches and pains subside.
Day 10 - start feeling normal being sober. Begin convincing self not an alcoholic and begin to remember how much fun drinking is.
I'm back to day 6 at the moment after a Christmas relapse. Detox, physically, is not so bad at my level of drinking. But I suppose it's as bad as everybody else's psychologically/emotionally.
I'm not a fan of the detox industry, but I can see from the posts here, professional supervision is needed for some.
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