I guess everyone's body is different. I suffered very little in withdrawal. I was actually really confident that i'd suffer nothing at all (I didn't know the dreams were coming) but I still took the diazepam the doc prescribed. I pretty much thought I hadn't been drinking thaaat much to suffer withdrawal symptoms.
However, my blood work results came back with elevated liver values which shocked me because, again, I didn't think I was consuming thaaat much. I'm still bitching about those high liver values. It shocked the sense into me. My dad died from liver cirrhosis (alcohol) and here I was slowly following in his footsteps. No way!