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Q: alcohol withdrawal side effects

asked by: reece77 on February 27th, 2008

New User

Hi
i drink every night. Most of the time 2 glasses of wine, sometimes 1 beer and 2 glasses of wine, and on weekends, usually 3 or maybe 4. I've been doing this for over a year.

I want to be able to just NOT have a drink if i don't want to. Which I can do, i just haven't wanted to! Now, i want to but, I scared myself silly by googling withdrawal symptoms.

Now I am scared that if i don't have a drink I will have a seizure or DT's.

Is my drinking enough to cause that type of withdrawal if I stop?

Reece

Replies(2)

reece77

replied on March 6th, 2008

New User

can anyone answer this question for me?
reece

CarolDiane

replied on March 7th, 2008

Extremely eHealthy

From what I have read, it seems you are not a real heavy drinker and could possibily stop on your own. It will be hard. AA is alway a good support group to start off with and a sponser you can have as a mentor. Try going to a couple meetngs and see how it goes. I truly think you can do it my friend.

Carrie

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