Question About Withdrawals
 

I relapsed but am nearly 48 hours sober. Sleeping is a struggle. Mostly because I jerk awake feeling very confused. It takes me a few seconds to get my bearings. I'm on a lorazapam taper proscribed by ER doc. But I'm wondering if anyone else experienced this.

After a binge it usually takes a few days to sleep again, the second night is usually nightmares I can wake myself up from because I don't think I'm fully asleep. It takes time. Try to go to bed the same time you normally would and eventually it will pass.

I've been 2 weeks sober and I sleep like a baby.

Try not to stress about it.
Withdrawal is nasty but necessary.
It'll ease in a day or two.
Just try and remember you don't ever have to go through it again.

Detox is not pleasant for any of us.
Your experience sounds within the bounds of normal though flyfisher.

I hope you'll start to feel better soon.

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Thanks for your answers guys. I felt surprisingly great during the day. Shakes were all but gone, just drinking water like a camel. Pounding vitamins and nutritious food along with my lorazepam taper. Last hurdle is sleep on the detox end. I let the frankly great way I felt during yesterday making me underestimate the difficulty of the whole sleep thing.

During my 27 years of daily drinking my quality of sleep got worse as time went on.

At the tail end of my drinking I had severe sleep apnea, I was very sleep deprived, depressed and exhausted all the time. The only time I felt half way decent was when I was drunk - and eventually I would pass out - often landing on my face, breaking my glasses and being left bruised and/or bleeding.

How I functioned all those years in that state was a miracle. I was on auto pilot and booze was my fuel.

Today at 103 days sober I am a new man - that dark period of my life is a fuzzy memory.

Detox isn't fun. The sleep problems were horrible for a few days. But now, just over a week out and I am sleeping better than I have in years.
Hang in there, it will end! :)