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[Ldemi3]

Hi I have only posted once or twice before.

I usually drink at least 1.5 bottles of wine a day. I always start prompt at 5pm (no idea where that came from) and I never drink through the day on a work day. Just evenings.
I never get up for a drink in the night either. Through the day I drink water ( about 2ltrs and green tea)
Generally, after 9pm I am on autopilot and in the morning I cannot remember the evening, what I watched on TV etc.

Yesterday I didn't drink until 6.30pm and I drank only three glasses of wine last night and went on to water.

I woke up every hour last night (had better sleep on the normal volume of wine)
This morning I have no appetite and no hunger and I feel lightheaded - I don't want to do a thing bar sit down. I certainly wouldn't want to drive anywhere feeling this "sober" and I do not want to do any work. Just sit quietly.

I took a B6 supplement but I cannot take the other supplements MYO mentions for various reasons of allergies to dried herbs, tea, fruit etc. I cannot take hypnotherapy due to epilepsy

Has anyone had this feeling or is going through it now. Feeling awful.

[FreeFly]

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Hello Ldemi3 and :welcome:

Well our drinking patterns are very similar. I think you probably didn't sleep so well last night as you didn't have as much alcohol as you're used to. Sleep can be disturbed when we first quit/cut down. This will change and you'll probably find you can't stop sleeping while your body heals. Most of my sleep whilst drinking was pretty comatosed and not restorative in any way. Hang in there, you'll feel loads better soon if you can kick it to the kerb. Lots of lovely folk around here to help. Why not pop over to the Newbies Nest for lots of support to get going

[Ldemi3]

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Thanks for helping.

Is it normal to feel you are high (not that I have great experience of that) but floating and weird?

[kuya]

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Ldemi3;1384010 wrote: Thanks for helping.

Is it normal to feel you are high (not that I have great experience of that) but floating and weird?

Yes, feeling slightly out of body is completely normal as is the fatigue. I will explain why. Your liver has been forced to detox 1.5 bottles of wine every night and has develop certain chemicals to do this. When you stop or cut down the liver can start to get rid of some of the toxic waste that your body has stored while you continued to drink. The elimination of this waste causes fatigue. Be glad .....it is a sign your liver is still working

[FreeFly]

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Sorry I can't really help on that issue. I've not felt high really from booze or next day for a long time - just tired and anxious. I guess I have felt like I'm not really present - definitely weird, and that would add to my anxiety. I'd have the sense that the only thing that was going to make me feel better was time, when the stuff was out of my system, I'd had some good food and a good sleep.

[Ldemi3]

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Thanks for explaining and for helping - I can't see myself getting through this day. I'm on my own and I am scared. I wanted to start cutting back today as its a bank holiday and people would be around me until Tuesday morning - stupidly I started yesterday.

[RunningCourage]

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Hey Ldemi,

:welcome:

FreeFly and Kuya giving sound advice there. I've only just started abstaining (11 days done) and fatigue was the thing that started to hit my quite bad after a few days. I've been advised on taking Bvits to help this and, as Kuya says, your liver is most likely in recovery mode beginning to clean itself of the toxins.

Hang in there - today will be hard, BUT it is only a day. Don't think about tomorrow, or even on later today. And don't feel like you are on your own - there's a whole community here to support you. Keep posting, keep us informed, we're here for ya!

RunningC

[Ldemi3]

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thanks - my hands are shaking, I feel so dizzy and I thought I was going to be sick a while ago so I laid down for 20 mins. That felt worse so I came back here.
I've never done a first day before - how long does this last - will I be like this tomorrow?
So, so , stupid to do this on my own. Idiot.

[kuya]

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It will pass, mate, don't panic. Most of this is fear. Can you watch television or listen to the radio?
If you are too scared to stay alone check into hospital, I know you have epilepsy so you could tell them you were worried about that problem

[Ldemi3]

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Can anyone tell me why I am eating so much sugar and wanting to cry and its nothing to do with dreadful movie I have just watched, or why the clock seems to be taking five hours to make an hour. I'm not this much out of my head when I am drunk.

[kuya]

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Really?

[Ldemi3]

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Yep, really.

[Lavande]

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Ldemi,

Welcome to MWO, this is a good place!

Everyone has different experiences during the detox period. I was a big wine drinker too & remember feeling sick, light headed & scared for the first few day. This will pass
Get some fresh air, eat something healthy (even if you think you don't want to eat).
Craving sugar is your body's attempt to replace the sugar in AL. You are probably experiencing unstable blood sugar level right now. That's why it's important to eat some protein & some healthy carbs right now. Keeping drinking lots of water/tea because dehydration is common & causes the euphoric symptoms you mentioned.

Please feel free to PM me if you like
Wishing you the best!

Lav

[nurdl]

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Keep hanging in there Ldemi3! One minute, one hour, one day at a time. Drink tons of fluids if you can and keep up the vitamins. Distract yourself with movies and your new group of AF friends. We've been where you are and know what you are going through.
~a nurdl of hope~

[Ldemi3]

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I suppose after 39 years of drinking every night - the body is going to revolt when it gets a lot less than it wants.
Thanks for the posts and taking time to write.