Originally Posted by
barb dwyer 
It's different with different folks, hon.
You *are* going to a doctor, right?
I came back from the ER yesterday, there wasn't much help from them on the physical symptoms, I fixed the shakes now with a shot of testosterone. I'll be getting on meds and real help soon, tonight has that feeling where I don't want to return to alcohol at all, except that's really only a conscious thought and I want to be back on something to scratch out the awful silence that's around me. As bad as it was shaking, I could always find something to get distracted with until I stopped, went to bed and then it was like all the energy got sucked out. The best way I could describe it is the feeling you get when someone's died and you're trying everything you can to start wrecking all the glasses.