Withdrawal is weird

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11-20-2018, 11:28 AM

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JackD89

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Withdrawal is weird

For me, it comes in waves these first couple days. It’s like every ounce of my being wants a drink. But I know I just need to get through it.

I feel exhausted. I’ve had an appetite again and I can keep food down, which is good. This is the feeling I want to remember, though. The feeling of how terrible it is for your body to crave something so much.

Hopefully ill be out of the woodwork but tomorrow morning.

11-20-2018, 11:44 AM

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Wastinglife

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I am also going through withdrawal. I have no appetite and can't sleep. Hard to even leave the house. I was sober for almost a month before I cracked from an anxiety attack that came out of nowhere. Very hard to get through panic attacks. Beer is instant relief but of course I can't stop after that.

11-20-2018, 01:09 PM

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DriGuy

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I never went through full tilt withdrawal, just the 3 day jitters. Withdrawal seems like a nightmare. But what happens next, or are you too busy drying out to think about it.

11-20-2018, 01:49 PM

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Ghostlight1

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Yes withdrawal is weird. We've dumped poison into our body and it's the process of getting it out of our system.
It gets weirder, believe me. The shakes, vomiting, horrible anxiety, racing thoughts and the shakes.
I've been through it a hundred or more times. For ten years.

Take my word for it, the only cure is to not drink.
Get some sober time behind you, after your mind clears, and think you never have to feel this way again.
It's not natural. It's foreign to our body. And it never gets better and you never get used to it.

Trust me.