Originally Posted by bigjim89

I went to see my doctor few weeks ago & explained that the help that I have always been offered & refused I now want to accept as I'm at the point in life where I'm sick to death of drinking every day I have forgotten what it feels like to feel normal without feeling hungover or to have withdrawal day after day..

I'm 23 have a family business & have a weekend job, anyway.. my business is not going so great so i have been stressed and drinking a lot more the past few months I'm sick of drinking & want to change my life.. been drinking 150-200 alcohol units a week for about 6 years now & now I finally want to stop completely.

Anyway my doctor put me in touch with some alcohol specialists and i had a meeting and asked for a detox.. they turned round to me & said they would rather me taper off alcohol than to have a detox because of my age.. we worked out an alcohol plan, I start at 7 pints of beer a day and after every three days I minus a beer so the pattern looks like this

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I personally would rather just quit & get it out the way with but I guess this is worth a try,

So far I have had one slip up where on the last day of drinking 7 beers I had 15 but apart from that I'm back on track, also I have gone from 6 beers to 4 a day which I'm on now to speed up the process..

Withdrawal symptoms so far have been nothing out of the ordinary that I'm use to apart from my heart beat seems to be alot harder, still shaking Abit and feel sick when I wake up & anxious

I'll be fine after the withdrawals pass

But hopefully I can beat this illness & after Christmas I can be clean from alcohol altogether and start my life again!