What to expect now?
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What to expect now?
Hi y'all... this is all new to me. I've been scouring the Web trying to learn as much as I can, but I think experience can sometimes speak louder than Web MD. :-) it's been about 96 hours since I had my last drink. I haven't had any real withdrawal symptoms to speak of other than trouble getting to sleep and being incredibly hungry all the time. I could go thru about a half gallon of vodka every 3 days during the week, and 1 between friday and saturday, every day for the past 5 years. I was beginning to have some health issues and knew I had to stop, get my life back, and quit letting the bottle have control over me. With all that said, do you think at this point ( 4 full days without) that I escaped the withdrawal symptoms? I sure hope so! Was scared to death I was going to be at work and have a seizure or something. I'm doing this cold turkey, on my own. One day at a time....
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Originally Posted by FromNowOn2017 
Hi y'all... this is all new to me. I've been scouring the Web trying to learn as much as I can, but I think experience can sometimes speak louder than Web MD. :-) it's been about 96 hours since I had my last drink. I haven't had any real withdrawal symptoms to speak of other than trouble getting to sleep and being incredibly hungry all the time. I could go thru about a half gallon of vodka every 3 days during the week, and 1 between friday and saturday, every day for the past 5 years. I was beginning to have some health issues and knew I had to stop, get my life back, and quit letting the bottle have control over me. With all that said, do you think at this point ( 4 full days without) that I escaped the withdrawal symptoms? I sure hope so! Was scared to death I was going to be at work and have a seizure or something. I'm doing this cold turkey, on my own. One day at a time....
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Hi fromnowon 
Everyone's different with withdrawal. I had 'good' withdrawals where not thing happened and 'bad' ones.
If you're on day 4 I'd ezpect the worst to be over, but you still may be a little up and down for a while?
If you feel concerned in any way, your Dr is the best bet for help
D
Everyone's different with withdrawal. I had 'good' withdrawals where not thing happened and 'bad' ones.
If you're on day 4 I'd ezpect the worst to be over, but you still may be a little up and down for a while?
If you feel concerned in any way, your Dr is the best bet for help
D
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Your emotions may be a little all over the place. Don't freak out, they level off in time.
And like I said, sleep works itself out.. the biggest problem is anxiety and going over and over things at bedtime because it's so quiet..
And like I said, sleep works itself out.. the biggest problem is anxiety and going over and over things at bedtime because it's so quiet..
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I think at four days you are probably through the worst of it. I was drinking a fifth of vodka a day and quit and the withdrawals were not very bad.
I was gentle on myself, ate everything in the house, slept as much as I could and drank a ton of water.
Welcome to SR. Best of luck.
I was gentle on myself, ate everything in the house, slept as much as I could and drank a ton of water.
Welcome to SR. Best of luck.
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