I have been binge drinking daily for the
last 5 years (since college). I have
gone to bed sober about 7 times in that
time span. While i've always prided
myself on being able to hold my liqour I
have suffered withdrawl syptoms as of
late. I am not talking about a hangover
but rather extreme weakness/fatigue, high
fever and copious sweating. While I
binge consistenly, I have noticed that I
have tremors in my entire body (especially
hands) in a somewhat cyclical manner. I
also have devloped a aversion to eat solid
foods. I get hungry but I really dislike
eating. Ultimately, I will eat 700
calories of solid food, a smoothie and a
ton of alcohol. I used to love a big
steak but now hate to chew.
The point of this all is this... Does
anyone else experience this? If so how
do you deal with it. Are there any ways
to minimalize or stave of the physical
withdrawl? Does a decreasing regmien of
valium cure the ailement or just creat a
new desease?
Deep down I think fighting any addicton
just takes dedication and guts. I don't
think i'm there yet. I just want to be
able to fuction until I find my resolve.
I know i'm low. I pray I avoid the rock
bottom.
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shadowalker164
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 14 Jan 2005 Posts: 175 Location: Tampa, FL
Posted: 01-10-07 13:58pm
It seems there is no real rock bottom, no
matter how bad it gets, it can still get
worse. Up until death of course.
Not to worry uclaguy, the needed resolve
is coming your way as we speak. Over any
appeasable length of time, alcoholism only
gets worse, never better.
One day you will be at the stepping off
point, can’t imagine life without
alcohol, and can’t imagine life with it
either.
If you binge drink every day, you are
going to keep getting what you are
getting. It would be foolish of you to
think it’s ever going to be easy.
It’s a hard, tough road we walk while
actively drinking. I know.
Richard
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uclaguy
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 2 Location: sacramento
Thanks For the Response Posted: 01-11-07 07:02am
Thanks for your input.
I would like to hear more of your
thoughts.
Aim mrtylardurden
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shadowalker164
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 14 Jan 2005 Posts: 175 Location: Tampa, FL
Posted: 01-11-07 11:48am
Uclaguy, good to hear from you again. I
don’t want to come off as a hard ass on
this, but for guys like me, straight talk
was what I needed.
Guy, I drank like you for a lot longer
than five years. Your body is tough, you
probably have 10 maybe 20 more years
drinking like you are now in you. Sure
eventually your liver will shut down, (by
the way, that is what your sweats are all
about, early liver failure. It can’t
throw off all you are throwing at it, so
your body is sweating the toxins out.) we
all got them. Ever wake up in the morning
and find your pillow soaking wet? It’s
the same thing.
The shakes are a form of neurological
damage. Some guys keep shaking for months
after they quit drinking, but for most of
us, symptoms like that clear up rather
quickly once we quit. Like I said the
body is tough. It can fix itself, if we
give it a break.
You bet valium works, almost any
barbiturate will work. Class a pain
killers, the ones derived from opium also
work like a charm as well. Well, all that
crap works for a while. But guy, trust me
when I tell you your alcoholism will not
be denied. Everything that is going on in
your life right now is just a preamble to
what is coming.
The next time you are out, take a good
look behind the dumpsters at the
convenience store. You won’t have to
look too long before you see them. The
lucky ones. Most alcoholics like me die
long before we get there. Liver failure,
auto accident, shot in a bar fight, heart,
stomach or pancreas disease. Mostly
something else takes us out before that
kind of rock bottom comes up and hits us.
Your body is tough, but it ain’t bullet
proof. When we find ourselves drinking
with desperation, drinking even when we
don’t want to, trying to cut back and
failing miserably, then trying to quit all
together and being unable to do it. We
are probably closing in on the last act of
this tragic play called active alcoholism.
I reread your original post, and you
almost said something about quitting.
Almost. Have you tried to quit yet? For
guys like us, it ain’t that easy.
Alcohol will never willingly let us go,
and sadly we have the hardest time letting
go of it ourselves.
But here I am. A hopeless sot. I more
than that, I am an alcoholic who hasn’t
found it necessary to pick up a drink in a
little over eight years. If getting a
sane life back is at all appealing to you,
we can talk more about how you might pull
that off.
Till then, I am your friend in this long
strange trip
richard
