Current Events > Been suffering from DT most of the week. Anyone go through some nasty withdrawal

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The only good thing about it is the audio hallucinations. I heard an entire concert coming from my air conditioner a couple days ago. Not sure who it was but there were lyrics and a crowd cheering.

Those aren't really happening anymore but the spasms and shit still happen if I sit down to long. Then I have to walk around.

And had a weird thing happen today. Not sure if it was a "miracle" or what. I decided to clean the living room just to stay active, and found this wooden cross pennant in a drawer that someone in AA gave me 8 years ago. Not really religious but I literally cried. I have no idea how it got there when I kept it in this elephant cup in the kitchen. I stayed sober for a few years and relapsed.

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DTs fuckin' suck

Donald Trumps?

Questionmarktarius posted...

DTs fuckin' suck

I think this is my first time with it. I've had withdrawal before but not on this level. Blacked out for a few seconds in the kitchen Tuesday and almost called 911, but I don't have medical insurance so was like fuck it, if I die I die. I'm not getting a $5000 bill in the mail.

I went cold turkey off sleep meds once so I feel your pain. It'll be over soon is about the only nice thing I can say about that.

I wasn't a daily drinker when I stopped but I was binge drinking hard every weekend, staying shitfaced from from Friday noon until Sunday night, sometimes longer if it was a holiday. I thought because I wasn't a daily drinker and gave my body a 4-5 day break from alcohol that I would be fine but I ended up experiencing almost all of the symptoms of DT.

The surprising thing is that they started about 10 days after my last drunk. I had a really rough three day hangover then felt mostly fine. I thought I was in the clear but right around the time I would have normally been coming off my next binge, I started experiencing it. It lasted for about a week, then it took another two weeks or so for this general haze to clear. It wasn't until a month later that I finally felt "normal."

Stay strong and get to a healthcare professional if it gets worse. I wish I would have tbh.

How much have you been drinking that you're going through DTs?
I drink way too much and am pretty worried about this happening

Went through opiate WDs a few times. Whole different type of hell though.

In July i'll be sober for 2 years, I went through some horrific withdrawals and DTs when I was quitting. I entirely relate to the audio thing, for me it was the fan in my bedroom and in the bathroom, but it was coming out as music exactly as your are describing.

The worst of it is the hallucinations when you are in a dark room, like clothes in the closet, wrinkles in the bed spread became all kinds of weird shit. At one point I thought there was another cat at the end of the bed that I didn't own.

There was a pretty big detachment from reality also, the few minutes I was able to doze off, if I was sleeping, I had vibrant memories of things I believed happened that didn't, like I thought my wife's sister had come by to do laundry that morning and I had a conversation with her, but it never happened but I believed it did. It all went on for about 5 days, the insomnia never really ended for me, I never slept well, but since quitting it's been worse than ever. I essentially sleep in spurts of 2 to 3 hours, 4 if i'm lucky.

I went to the ER recently because of withdrawal and was taken care of with ativan for two days, then sent home with a librium taper regimen. The WD I was feeling before I went there was awful and I don't think I would have been able to do it alone.

MabusIncarnate posted...

In July i'll be sober for 2 years, I went through some horrific withdrawals and DTs when I was quitting. I entirely relate to the audio thing, for me it was the fan in my bedroom and in the bathroom, but it was coming out as music exactly as your are describing.

The worst of it is the hallucinations when you are in a dark room, like clothes in the closet, wrinkles in the bed spread became all kinds of weird shit. At one point I thought there was another cat at the end of the bed that I didn't own.

There was a pretty big detachment from reality also, the few minutes I was able to doze off, if I was sleeping, I had vibrant memories of things I believed happened that didn't, like I thought my wife's sister had come by to do laundry that morning and I had a conversation with her, but it never happened but I believed it did. It all went on for about 5 days, the insomnia never really ended for me, I never slept well, but since quitting it's been worse than ever. I essentially sleep in spurts of 2 to 3 hours, 4 if i'm lucky.

Congrats on 2 years. It's easy to fall back into so don't be tempted. That's where I messed up last time. Sober for 4 years then "just one beer".

I kept hearing things in the living room when I was home by myself during that week. Like someone moving around. Then I heard what sounded like the front door open and close and could have sworn I heard my brother call my name who also lives here. I went out calling his name asking what he wanted but no one was there. I was peeping around all the corners to see if someone was in the house. Shadows seemed to be moving and I kept flinching.

I literally couldn't sleep the first 3 days after not drinking. Not at all. Every time my mind would try to shut down to sleep, it's like someone kicked me and I'd jump and be wide awake. I'd have these spasms or whatever and had to hold my left arm down so just said fuck it and paced around. It was the weirdest shit I've ever experienced.

Mrbakerman25 posted...

How much have you been drinking that you're going through DTs?
I drink way too much and am pretty worried about this happening

Went through opiate WDs a few times. Whole different type of hell though.

It was a lot. I've been off work for a while. I woke up Sunday morning last week and saw a shitload of empty beer boxes in the kitchen. Pretty sure my brother helped but he said I kept downing one after the other. I'd also been drinking daily for who knows how long. It's not the first withdrawal I went through, but the most severe. They say it gets worse every time.

It's day 10 now and I still can't drive in traffic without panicking so I've just been staying home. Completely wired during the first week, and have zero energy this week. I think what happens when you drink is your neurons have to fire extra fast to counter the depressant. So it was still doing that when I stopped. Now it's trying to balance itself out.

Don't know the medical terms for all this but I have insurance now and should probably see someone about it in the next couple days.

How are you feeling today OP?

Super load yourself with B-vitamins

DT?

TonyKojima posted...

DT?

Delirium Tremens, very nasty alcohol withdrawal

BowflexPeloton posted...

How are you feeling today OP?

Super load yourself with B-vitamins

Still tired as hell and get winded easily but not experiencing the same level as last week. Luckily I take a beta blocker and I think that helped with the rapid heartbeat and whatnot I had last time.

I would have definitely went to urgent care earlier if I had insurance at the time. I told my brother I'd rather die than get thousands in bills and he laughed. I was like I'm fucking serious. The way life has been going that would have sent me over the edge.

Hope you get better tc