What were you drinking? Liquor?
Beers but i go through a fuckton of them. I dont know how ti check blood pressure lol
Alcohol withdrawal causes a catecholamine surge which will increase your heart rate. Increased heart rate means higher oxygen demand in your cardiac tissue. If it's not getting enough oxygen it starts dying and you get chest pain.
Usually very bored, and I absolutely know that's a contribution to my alcoholism. I always think well, I'm not going to do anything else today...
I haven't really been bored in years. I have been frustrated though and sometimes the infinite media world we live in can be a bit boring but I even disengaged a lot from that.
Do you work a very physically/mentally demanding job or can you afford to be extra tired for a bit? I was slamming a pint of liquor every evening for the past 8 years or so and now I've tapered off for safety reasons. Now I'm going cold turkey and I've been getting into fasting to detox and shed the fatty fat. Can't have alcohol during a fast. I'm 2 weeks into only green tea and water and I feel the opposite of hungover apart from some on and off fatigue. If you're already spending lots of time sitting on your ass being bored then letting your body eat itself and heal could be an option, just don't kill yourself with it. At about 3 days in my desire for alcohol and other vices disappeared and it's been thoughts about cheeseburgers. I know that if I drink alcohol right now my stomach will hurl it all up. It's been good discipline training and great on saving money though if I worked in construction or something I probably wouldn't be able to do it too much. I am not a health professional and I pulled this advice out of my ass.
It could be anxiety for all you know, but talk to your doctor. They deal with this shit all the time and can help determine if you need detox. There's literally a medical assessment test they administer in the office to determine how banged up you are and it's based on presenting symptoms, so it's non-invasive.
Nigger, go to the doctor. As someone that drank like a pig and was both afraid and ashamed of going to the doctor with this, it's the safest and easiest way to deal with the physical effects of alcoholism and withdrawals.
I was anhedonic my first few months sober while my brain reset. I still get bored but replace it with something. Play vidya, play bass, watch a video, write something, read something. It doesn't help that I have ADD and fried my dopamine circuits with alcohol for years.
I'm finding it hard to actually push myself even though I'm not bored. Whenever I get back to my list of shit to do I am just not achieving much. I have ADD so trying to balance that with no alcohol is definitely hard.
This is normal. You're going to suffer from anhedonia for a while.
Nah, I'm at the computer most of the time. I've been thinking about fasting for a while, one of my friends recommended it to me for non-alcoholic related reasons already so it's been on my mind.
Some people are happy drunks and some people are sad drunks. It definitely fucks with your state, even after finishing drinking and the hangover is gone.
quitting drinking is like losing an old friend. it's a massive change. but just take it one day at a time. don't swear it off forever---just swear it off for a day, every day. then the days add up.
when i first stopped drinking about 4 days sober i almost got in a car accident because i couldn't breathe and had chest pains and a full-on panic attack while driving on the highway. it was completely bonkers. tony soprano style panic attack behind the wheel. insane. but nothing was wrong. alcohol just fucks with anxiety, and quitting it for a stretch of time can have a huge impact on your body. (and i DID get checked out after that, and came back everything was fine).
seldom. overworked and underpaid and constantly doing shit. i can't even keep up with myself. but i like to keep tabs on this thread in case people need help.
alcoholic cynicism is real. watching a sunset just doesn't stand a chance compared to downing a bottle of booze. but the reality is there is nothing on Earth that is better with a buzz. alcoholics think the opposite, i know, i've been there, but it's a delusion. many hobbies seem boring because alcohol trips your reward system in your brain to crave instant gratification. the effort -> euphoria connection is sapped. it recovers, but it takes time. definitely second what @Froggy Fresh Sextape said about 90 and 90. AA gives structure---like scaffolding---in early recovery while you figure shit out. you're not gonna start painting or fishing after 3 days sober and suddenly be immersed and have your life be saved. that's not how it works.
replacing one form of alcohol with another form of alcohol usually doesn't work.
That's actually good to know. I've had multiple people tell me that switching to weed will totally cure me and I won't need alcohol anymore, but I always thought it was more trouble than it was worth switching from one addiction to another and wouldn't help anything. I'm glad I wasn't going insane thinking that weed is just another addiction.