steph
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Just decided on Saturday evening that I'm quitting alcohol. Not sure if completely, or for how long. I don't mind having a drink or two with my buddies from time to time, but they will stay a drink or two.
Had some chest pains a while ago, which started like mild discomfort then progressed into something ocasionally more painful. Had some nausea too, though no vomiting, nor gag reflexes.
Thing is, I've got the worst approach ever to it. I still haven't gone see a doctor since I'm scared
less that I'll find out I'm dying or something, so I've resorted to quitting drinking and waiting to see whether the symptoms subside or I'll have an acute crisis of something which will force me to hitch a ride in an ambulance and find out the hard way. I don't even think I'll need one...the hospital is literally 10 minutes away from my place. Except for debilitating pain, I'll walk.
I don't have much trouble quitting beer (easily spent months without drinking), and it's now day 3 and I'm not having much withdrawal symptoms. Sure, insomnia and not being able to calm down much, but that's also because I don't know WTF is happening (there's a dreadful panic that taints every minute of your life when you fear one of these things, panic which doesn't really go away unless you're beyond numb on alcohol or have a serious phylosophy footing on life), hence why I kept drinking myself to sleep daily for slightly more than a week.
Thinking about it, I'm not really into much of a risk group. Age 25, lost a lot of weight a few years ago due to running,which I still practice and I've been drinking more seriously since I've been about 21, with more than a year long pause until I've gotten to 24. My alcohol tolerance has gone up for the last year or so (8-9 beers, sometimes more per night, ), which might have contributed to the symptoms. But then again, I've seen stories of alcoholics who were over 30 and downing over 20 beers per day, for years on end, and not even they had immediate problems.
Now, since Saturday, there does seem to be a slight relaxation of the symptoms like nausea and pain, but I'm not quite sure , since I spent the last week in a drunken haze because I was too afraid to face the problem.
One of the other things that's been puzzling me is that it doesn't really seem to corellate with alcohol consumption, at least not completely. It's not like I'd get bouts of pain while drinking, more like the opposite, probably due to the sedative effect of alcohol, and tolerance hasn't suffered at all prior to quitting.
And then again, even liver failure and hepatitis don't happen THAT fast. They can kill you , sure, but not in the span of a few weeks.
Anyone else been through something similar? Feel free to chime in
EDIT: the funny part...I didn't really have much of a financial problem due to alcohol. You see, there's this bar in town which has something they call warm-up, where you pay something like 2$ and they let you chug all the beer you want for about 2 hours. Since most people stay below, say, 4 beers at most, me and my friends started calling ourselver the bankrupcy crew, since if everyone drank like us, there's no way that bar would stay in business :rofl:
Had some chest pains a while ago, which started like mild discomfort then progressed into something ocasionally more painful. Had some nausea too, though no vomiting, nor gag reflexes.
Thing is, I've got the worst approach ever to it. I still haven't gone see a doctor since I'm scared
less that I'll find out I'm dying or something, so I've resorted to quitting drinking and waiting to see whether the symptoms subside or I'll have an acute crisis of something which will force me to hitch a ride in an ambulance and find out the hard way. I don't even think I'll need one...the hospital is literally 10 minutes away from my place. Except for debilitating pain, I'll walk.I don't have much trouble quitting beer (easily spent months without drinking), and it's now day 3 and I'm not having much withdrawal symptoms. Sure, insomnia and not being able to calm down much, but that's also because I don't know WTF is happening (there's a dreadful panic that taints every minute of your life when you fear one of these things, panic which doesn't really go away unless you're beyond numb on alcohol or have a serious phylosophy footing on life), hence why I kept drinking myself to sleep daily for slightly more than a week.
Thinking about it, I'm not really into much of a risk group. Age 25, lost a lot of weight a few years ago due to running,which I still practice and I've been drinking more seriously since I've been about 21, with more than a year long pause until I've gotten to 24. My alcohol tolerance has gone up for the last year or so (8-9 beers, sometimes more per night, ), which might have contributed to the symptoms. But then again, I've seen stories of alcoholics who were over 30 and downing over 20 beers per day, for years on end, and not even they had immediate problems.
Now, since Saturday, there does seem to be a slight relaxation of the symptoms like nausea and pain, but I'm not quite sure , since I spent the last week in a drunken haze because I was too afraid to face the problem.
One of the other things that's been puzzling me is that it doesn't really seem to corellate with alcohol consumption, at least not completely. It's not like I'd get bouts of pain while drinking, more like the opposite, probably due to the sedative effect of alcohol, and tolerance hasn't suffered at all prior to quitting.
And then again, even liver failure and hepatitis don't happen THAT fast. They can kill you , sure, but not in the span of a few weeks.
Anyone else been through something similar? Feel free to chime in
EDIT: the funny part...I didn't really have much of a financial problem due to alcohol. You see, there's this bar in town which has something they call warm-up, where you pay something like 2$ and they let you chug all the beer you want for about 2 hours. Since most people stay below, say, 4 beers at most, me and my friends started calling ourselver the bankrupcy crew, since if everyone drank like us, there's no way that bar would stay in business :rofl:
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Thanks y'all. :thumbup:
