Has anyone else every experienced this after binge drinking
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Has anyone else every experienced this after binge drinking
For weeks on ends.
When you stop drinking for the first two or three nights, these things happened:
1. You cannot sleep. You keep waking up what seems like every 30 seconds/1 minute. When you arrive at a point of actual sleep, you just jolt back up awake and this goes on throughout the night and morning until finally at 6 or 7 A.M., you're able to get some rest.
2. You have really terrifying nightmares.
3. On day two or day three, you start to wake up gasping for air.
After Day 4 and 5, you feel better and nothing else happen.
When you stop drinking for the first two or three nights, these things happened:
1. You cannot sleep. You keep waking up what seems like every 30 seconds/1 minute. When you arrive at a point of actual sleep, you just jolt back up awake and this goes on throughout the night and morning until finally at 6 or 7 A.M., you're able to get some rest.
2. You have really terrifying nightmares.
3. On day two or day three, you start to wake up gasping for air.
After Day 4 and 5, you feel better and nothing else happen.
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Yep, those can certainly be common symptoms of withdrawal. They generally get worse each time too. Eventually they can become dangerous or even life-threatening. While somewhat rare, seizures, strokes and cardiac arrest are also severe complications of withdrawals.
The good thing is that all withdrawal symptoms are 100 percent avoidable....you actually get to choose if you have them again or not.
The good thing is that all withdrawal symptoms are 100 percent avoidable....you actually get to choose if you have them again or not.
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Originally Posted by Joybot 
For weeks on ends.
When you stop drinking for the first two or three nights, these things happened:
1. You cannot sleep. You keep waking up what seems like every 30 seconds/1 minute. When you arrive at a point of actual sleep, you just jolt back up awake and this goes on throughout the night and morning until finally at 6 or 7 A.M., you're able to get some rest.
2. You have really terrifying nightmares.
3. On day two or day three, you start to wake up gasping for air.
After Day 4 and 5, you feel better and nothing else happen.
When you stop drinking for the first two or three nights, these things happened:
1. You cannot sleep. You keep waking up what seems like every 30 seconds/1 minute. When you arrive at a point of actual sleep, you just jolt back up awake and this goes on throughout the night and morning until finally at 6 or 7 A.M., you're able to get some rest.
2. You have really terrifying nightmares.
3. On day two or day three, you start to wake up gasping for air.
After Day 4 and 5, you feel better and nothing else happen.
Ugh. Thanks for the reminder, not going back to that nonsense.
Hallucinations are a symptom of alcohol withdrawal, for sure. You're not crazy.
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Originally Posted by BrendaChenowyth
Oh my goodness, yes. I would even wake up to see things that were not there... one time there was a deranged old lady in the corner wielding my bandage scissors and about to pounce on me!
Ugh. Thanks for the reminder, not going back to that nonsense.
Hallucinations are a symptom of alcohol withdrawal, for sure. You're not crazy.
Ugh. Thanks for the reminder, not going back to that nonsense.
Hallucinations are a symptom of alcohol withdrawal, for sure. You're not crazy.
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Originally Posted by BrendaChenowyth
Oh my goodness, yes. I would even wake up to see things that were not there... one time there was a deranged old lady in the corner wielding my bandage scissors and about to pounce on me!
Ugh. Thanks for the reminder, not going back to that nonsense.
Hallucinations are a symptom of alcohol withdrawal, for sure. You're not crazy.
Ugh. Thanks for the reminder, not going back to that nonsense.
Hallucinations are a symptom of alcohol withdrawal, for sure. You're not crazy.
I tried to quit a few months ago, and the hallucinations were crazy. Two nights in a row I saw some very odd things... More than once I was startled awake to see some cartoonish character approaching me. The weirdest part was when I would hear voices, and music playing. One day at work I even asked somebody if they heard that song playing. Talk about awkward. Haha. Unfortunately I turned to drinking again, but now I'm one month sober. No withdrawal symptoms this time.
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I have a month, too. Was on the phone with a friend in recovery today, and we talked about the "pink bubble" or whatever you want to call it.. the honeymoon phase when you first quit and you feel utterly fantastic. Because the other shoe is gonna drop eventually.. Anyway...
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Originally Posted by BrendaChenowyth
I have a month, too. Was on the phone with a friend in recovery today, and we talked about the "pink bubble" or whatever you want to call it.. the honeymoon phase when you first quit and you feel utterly fantastic. Because the other shoe is gonna drop eventually.. Anyway...
I've been having that same thought recently. At the moment it seems too good to be true.
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Originally Posted by AJJ510127
Congratulations on one month!!!
I've been having that same thought recently. At the moment it seems too good to be true.
I've been having that same thought recently. At the moment it seems too good to be true.
I feel like I shouldn't say that in here almost... but why kid ourselves. The withdrawal mess does pass. Other things won't pass as quickly.
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Originally Posted by Joybot
For weeks on ends.
When you stop drinking for the first two or three nights, these things happened:
1. You cannot sleep. You keep waking up what seems like every 30 seconds/1 minute. When you arrive at a point of actual sleep, you just jolt back up awake and this goes on throughout the night and morning until finally at 6 or 7 A.M., you're able to get some rest.
2. You have really terrifying nightmares.
3. On day two or day three, you start to wake up gasping for air.
After Day 4 and 5, you feel better and nothing else happen.
When you stop drinking for the first two or three nights, these things happened:
1. You cannot sleep. You keep waking up what seems like every 30 seconds/1 minute. When you arrive at a point of actual sleep, you just jolt back up awake and this goes on throughout the night and morning until finally at 6 or 7 A.M., you're able to get some rest.
2. You have really terrifying nightmares.
3. On day two or day three, you start to wake up gasping for air.
After Day 4 and 5, you feel better and nothing else happen.
Every single time I quit cold turkey! The first 3 days were sleepless, and when I did sleep I had nightmares.
That's why I tapered the last 5 days before I went sober. Took some discipline, buy way less pain and suffering!
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Originally Posted by leviathan
Thanks for the reminder. Crap. All of it. I sleep like a baby and wake up well rested. No morning anxiety attacks. No retching in the shower.
You can leave it all behind you.
You can leave it all behind you.
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Originally Posted by Dee74
Good to see you back again Joybot 
When did you stop drinking?
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When did you stop drinking?
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Roughly about a year now.
Alcoholism doesn't care if you're Ernest Hemingway or Joe Blow from down the street. It will eat you alive if you let it.
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I would get nightmares when withdrawing, I usually only have nightmares very rarely. I would experience a kind of semi-conscious sleep where I would perceive being awake and experiencing something or someone in the room attacking me (for example a dog biting my face, something other uncomfortable). I would think this real but it would a very 'real' bad dream. I would hear things too, bad voices in my head, in this semi-conscious state. Difficult to describe but very unpleasant.
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