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re: Anybody else notice this when they quit drinking?
Posted on 7/16/18 at 8:47 am to celltech1981
Posted on 7/16/18 at 8:47 am to celltech1981
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Acute
Withdrawal
Syndrome
Just one of the symptoms of PAWS.
Acute
Withdrawal
Syndrome
Just one of the symptoms of PAWS.
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Posted on 7/16/18 at 8:48 am to celltech1981
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The last week my dreams have been intense. I'll wake up and have to try and figure out if the dream is over or not. How long does this shite last?
Usually a night or two. I usually only drink on the weekends but it happens to me when I go hard for a few days in a row.
Posted on 7/16/18 at 8:51 am to celltech1981
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It's easier than I thought it would be to quit. I just stay busy. I also read before bed instead of watching tv, that seems to have helped. I think drinking was mainly a boredom thing for me. I was never late to work, driving around drunk, or any other destructive shite like that.
I'm exactly like you actually. Drinking was more a boredom thing. I never drank at work, before work, etc. Going out, I'd only have a couple drinks at the most...I have a thing about being drunk or tipsy and public. The only time I would drink would be at home after work. About the same amount as you as well.
The key is to keep yourself busy during that window when you feel like drinking after you get home. Read like you've been doing, pick up another hobby, work out, etc.
Are you OCD at all? Are you used to a very structured life?
Posted on 7/16/18 at 9:00 am to DustyDinkleman
quote:Sulfuric or Hydrochloric?
nothing calms me down right before bedtime like a good book, some decaffinated coffee and a few hits of acid
Posted on 7/16/18 at 9:01 am to celltech1981
sleepytime tea, baw
Posted on 7/16/18 at 9:03 am to starsandstripes
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you're an alcoholic.
maybe so...but that's not why i'm quitting for a while
Posted on 7/16/18 at 9:07 am to Centinel
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I never drank at work, before work, etc. Going out, I'd only have a couple drinks at the most
same here...i would actually drink a lot less when I would go out.
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Are you OCD at all? Are you used to a very structured life?
I used to stay really structured. I noticed the drinking got worse this last year when my commute went from 10 minutes to an hour. I think it was a coping thing for the stress. I had quit lifting for a while and i started drinking more when I didn't have that discipline.
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The key is to keep yourself busy during that window when you feel like drinking after you get home. Read like you've been doing, pick up another hobby, work out, etc.
I've been getting home and going straight to the gym. Then I fish in the pond or invent yardwork until shower/read/bed. Before I was going home and cracking a beer right away and watching tv or some shite like that.
Posted on 7/16/18 at 9:26 am to celltech1981
same thing happens when u quit smoking weed every day
Posted on 7/16/18 at 9:38 am to celltech1981
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just trying to get in better shape before hunting season
You’re so fat you can’t sit in a stand and wait for a deer to walk by?
Posted on 7/16/18 at 9:42 am to biglego
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You’re so fat you can’t sit in a stand and wait for a deer to walk by?
going on an elk hunt next year. I deer hunt public land that isn't always flat. usually do a mile of walking just to get to where I'm hunting and then if I kill i have to drag out. I also turkey/squirrel hunt which is pretty much walking all day.
Posted on 7/16/18 at 9:52 am to celltech1981
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The last week my dreams have been intense.
If you die in your dream, you have died in real life.
Posted on 7/16/18 at 10:26 am to celltech1981
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I used to stay really structured.
Just curious, as my therapist I was seeing seemed to think my OCD nature resulted in a kind of "anxiety" when I got home and didn't have anything to do/plan for, so the way I coped was to quiet my mind by drinking.
Reading and/or exercise during the day has helped this tremendously, along with melatonin on the occasion my mind is still racing.
Posted on 7/16/18 at 10:31 am to celltech1981
I was no alcoholic but had a few drinks every day and many on weekends. A couple years ago I decided I was too old for it, and it wasn't healthy, so I quit drinking all together. I lost weight, slept much better, was no longer tired from short rest or change of schedule, ate less, but I never experienced the dreams you speak of. I have to say that I don't miss it at all and wonder how I did it for so long.
Posted on 7/16/18 at 10:39 am to celltech1981
Whatever you do, don't crossover to Mich Ultra to replace the craft beers for weight loss purposes. You just end up drinking 12 a night instead of 4.
Posted on 7/16/18 at 10:47 am to Centinel
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I got home and didn't have anything to do/plan for, so the way I coped was to quiet my mind by drinking.
yeah, i probably have the same issues. I go crazy just sitting around with nothing to do. I always have some sort of project going. When i wake up I usually am outside tinkering on my boat or something like that within 10 minutes of getting out of bed. My gf gets aggravated because i never stop.
Posted on 7/16/18 at 10:50 am to deeprig9
I've tried that with Budweiser lol
I had gotten a case of Brass Techeticals a while back. I would drink one as my finishing punch before bed. They were 18% ABV and I didn't realize they had 550 calories per beer in them. I'm 5'6" 170 right now. 34 inch waist 4 years ago I was 170 with abs and capped delts and a 28 inch waist. i gotta get back down to that lol
I had gotten a case of Brass Techeticals a while back. I would drink one as my finishing punch before bed. They were 18% ABV and I didn't realize they had 550 calories per beer in them. I'm 5'6" 170 right now. 34 inch waist 4 years ago I was 170 with abs and capped delts and a 28 inch waist. i gotta get back down to that lol
This post was edited on 7/16/18 at 11:09 am
Posted on 7/16/18 at 11:06 am to celltech1981
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The last week my dreams have been intense. I'll wake up...
Actually, I sleep WAY better since I quit drinking (I drank about the same amount you describe). It's one of the reasons I haven't gone back.
Posted on 7/16/18 at 11:08 am to celltech1981
When I stop drinking I don't have the whiskey shits as much.
Posted on 7/16/18 at 11:09 am to chitlinandthadude
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When I stop drinking I don't have the whiskey shits as much.
yup. my shits are solid now. it feels like i'm being raped from the inside #mepoo
Posted on 7/16/18 at 11:15 am to celltech1981
Yes the dreams! I had to stop my nightly drinking recently because antibiotics and I wanted them to work immediately. I've actually been wanting to throttle back for weight loss anyway.
The dreams are crazy, at first I attributed them to the medications I'm taking but I think its my body missing the nightly alcohol.
I'm going on 72 hours and will try to make it a week before I drink again. Hopefully when I start back I can keep it to weekends only.
The dreams are crazy, at first I attributed them to the medications I'm taking but I think its my body missing the nightly alcohol.
I'm going on 72 hours and will try to make it a week before I drink again. Hopefully when I start back I can keep it to weekends only.
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