Hallucinations
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Hallucinations
So, what kind of hallucinations have people had during their withdrawal? I found them really really confusing the first couple of nights, but now i'm expecting them, cant wait to see what happens tonight 
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On the few occasions where I've managed to string together 4 days I noticed some strange vivid dreams where I'm not quite asleep but not fully awake...like a trance like state...not sure if that's the same sort of thing tho...
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Anything I had was similar to Keen2clean's. Have to say though, that as each withdrawal is worse than the last one, I'm definitely not risking another one! The thought of full blown ones, is plain terrifying.
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As it happens i didn't have any last night, also didn't have any night sweats for the first night, slept 6 hours straight, day 5 now.
I've just come back from the doctors and she is happy with how i'm doing and says i seem to be over the worst of it now
. She put me in contact with the community alcohol support team, dont quite get what their going to do. She also didn't put me on any medication.
I've just come back from the doctors and she is happy with how i'm doing and says i seem to be over the worst of it now
. She put me in contact with the community alcohol support team, dont quite get what their going to do. She also didn't put me on any medication.
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I'm confused if they were what people class as them. I found a really old thread on here about them and people talk about crocs climbing up the bed and stuff, it wasn't anything like that.
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So the first it might a bit more sense if you realise i'm a programmer as my job.
I was trying to settle in bed and couldn't sleep. Each time i got back up i couldn't understand how my wife was asleep and i wasn't. I pictured us laying in bed as the different source files in a project, and i kept trying to delete me as a source file so the project would compile again, and i'd be able to sleep. Probably more confusion than hallucination?
Next night was seeing a weird shape in a room and it was actually a flashing light, i thought a saw a massive feature (3 ft long), but it was the shape of the light on the floor.
Another night my cat climbed onto our bed (for real), i couldn't sleep and started making the bed, and thought my cat was helping me make it.
I think thats it.
My sobriety started when an ambulance took me to hospital with stomach pains, and they gave me cocodamol and one of the side effects of that is hallucinations as well, so it could have been that too.
The doctor didn't seem too concerned though today.
I was trying to settle in bed and couldn't sleep. Each time i got back up i couldn't understand how my wife was asleep and i wasn't. I pictured us laying in bed as the different source files in a project, and i kept trying to delete me as a source file so the project would compile again, and i'd be able to sleep. Probably more confusion than hallucination?
Next night was seeing a weird shape in a room and it was actually a flashing light, i thought a saw a massive feature (3 ft long), but it was the shape of the light on the floor.
Another night my cat climbed onto our bed (for real), i couldn't sleep and started making the bed, and thought my cat was helping me make it.
I think thats it.
My sobriety started when an ambulance took me to hospital with stomach pains, and they gave me cocodamol and one of the side effects of that is hallucinations as well, so it could have been that too.
The doctor didn't seem too concerned though today.
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Ahh ok..sounds a little similar to a couple of strange half awake out of body trances I've had when trying to sleep...and I've come out of them with a sharp jerky reaction...(had to giggle at the cat helping you make the bed 
) but cocodomal is strong and can make your brain a little mashed...probably the mixture of both and sheer exhaustion...none of us drinkers ever REALLY slept...we just passed out.
) but cocodomal is strong and can make your brain a little mashed...probably the mixture of both and sheer exhaustion...none of us drinkers ever REALLY slept...we just passed out.
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I put myself in the er march of 2012 with hallucinations. I had giantt spiders crawling over my ceiling fan. Swore i saw mt neighbor killed his dog was paranoid in the hospital of anyone in uniforms. I pulled out my ivs.once in the er. I heard music on the radio talking about killing me. Trust me hallucinations can n ot be forgotten and they are very scary. B
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