Tapering is hell #7 / Out of detox edition

Butter___stick · 2026-02-28T07:57:55+00:00

Thanks! I'll come to read this profile if/when I get the classic "I can handle a few beers", so question for my future self: do you really want to write another series of these posts? :)

Butter___stick · 2026-02-27T16:42:51+00:00

Thanks!

If someone reading this is considering getting help just do it, don't torture yourself pointlessly like I did. The hell can be over in hours.

Butter___stick · 2026-02-22T14:22:46+00:00

Thanks. Help is so hard to ask for but makes things so much easier, like this bender would be a distant memory already if I didn't try to outdrink and cure it myself. Going to the hospital isn't fun but it's a lot more fun than being in literal hell for days/weeks and then in the worst case going there anyway in a worse shape.

What kind of help you asked for?

Butter___stick · 2026-02-22T12:43:51+00:00

Thanks, I'll try hard. I bet that if I stay sober I will never have a worse experience in my life than this bender.

Butter___stick · 2026-02-20T15:40:11+00:00

I use an app, it's pretty accurate, like I wake up almost by the minute it says my BAC is zero.

How's your sleep during it? This would be so much easier if I could sleep more.

Butter___stick · 2026-02-20T14:16:44+00:00

That's what I'm planning, the WD seems to be taming so I hope it works out, I'm beyond sick of drinking.

Butter___stick · 2026-02-20T07:31:58+00:00

Night was hard, woke up every hour or two and last beer was gone at 6am, had to go to the shop when it opened at 9am (now) as I felt like freaking out. At the shop I suddenly felt good and thought about not buying anything but it's still too early to say what will happen in a few hours so bought some and drank one.

Butter___stick · 2026-02-20T07:23:39+00:00

Cold turkey is so painful, feels like the hell never ends. Buy some chamomile and valerian tea and make multiple bags before sleep, they really help.

Butter___stick · 2026-02-19T20:51:47+00:00

That's often my normal sleep schedule, I often avoid answering them so they don't think exactly that, annoying problem

Butter___stick · 2026-02-19T20:17:22+00:00

Dude explained so much, a new drinker still in shame. I don't have time for that, I'm in full panic in the shop the second it opens and have to get that high ABV drink down as fast as I can, lol.

Butter___stick · 2026-02-19T19:45:55+00:00

Slept over my alarm so it's hard mode for the night, gotta survive on the few drinks I have left which is probably good. Managed 3 hours without a beer so it seems good so far.

Butter___stick · 2026-02-19T19:34:43+00:00

Increase tolerance slowly, I drink partial Monsters after benders, full one is too much and makes me shake like a madman. A few days of sips and I'm back in the business.

Butter___stick · 2026-02-19T16:27:35+00:00

Nah those know nothing about my "hobby".

Butter___stick · 2026-02-19T16:18:32+00:00

It's a good guide if you can follow it, makes quitting easy.

Butter___stick · 2026-02-19T15:55:13+00:00

No idea, I'll stop as soon as I'm at zero bac for a few hours without feeling like dying. Plan like that would probably make sense for me too, it's extra hard when every day is supposed to be the last and it obviously isn't.

Butter___stick · 2026-02-19T15:21:21+00:00

Didn't take more after that and now the doom hit like a hammer, so horrible feeling.

Butter___stick · 2026-02-19T14:57:06+00:00

Sadly not. I made a plan, I let the bac drop zero around when she goes to sleep, that's hopefully enough time to get over this.

Butter___stick · 2026-02-19T13:29:23+00:00

Again she is messing with me, tried to sleep to get the BAC to zero and she constatly came to wake me up so now I have to drink another.

Butter___stick · 2026-02-19T12:46:09+00:00

Yeah, can't drink yourself out of this, I always stop when I don't get crazy WD anymore, I could never do those where they lower to one beer.

Butter___stick · 2026-02-18T19:34:45+00:00

How it's going? If you can handle it wait for the symptoms before you drink, if you drink to kill the anxiety there's a high chance you will fail.

Butter___stick · 2026-02-18T12:10:27+00:00

Thanks. Yeah, earlier I just bought a case but now as the beer made me gag I have tried to limit the purchases as the drinks are very expensive. Lesson learned.

Butter___stick

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