Should I Quit Drinking "Cold Turkey" If I'm A Heavy Drinker?

Hear from Ria Health nurse practitioner on the risks of quitting drinking cold turkey if you're a heavy drinker.
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[@codediporpal]

I don't understand how I can drink 50-60 drinks a week, but I'm fine if I just stop for a few days. Maybe a little tense the first day, and have craving, but by the second day I feel fine and sleep like a baby. Not drinking tonight, just went to they gym and had a large healthy meal, about to sleep. Starting Naltrexone soon. I have to stop poisoning myself. I am so nervous about it not working, but also nervous that it might work.

[@teokastelan2930]

Ask your doctor for benzodiazepine like Valium. That should help you. And you have plenty of herbal medicine on the market that should help you.

[@90sHouseBoy]

Haaaaaaaa are you serious. I was raped as a male by another male while his five friends held me down I stood up and blood was dripping down my inner legs they then beat me to a pulp and then they they threw paint striper on me and tried setting me on fire and for all the strength I had in me and by Gods help I managed to to run and escape thru my second floor flat that had a balcony. Suffering nightmares the same repeating over and over every single night having PTSD and anxiety attacks so bad I was afraid to leave my parents house I then became agoraphobic and the doctors did nothing all they did was give me any anti-depressant tablet no benzodiazepine to help combat PTSD, Anxiety Attacks, Agoraphobia and everything else they left me to suffer and still to this day I suffer yet they will gladly hand them out to heroin addicts and alcoholics. Makes me sick. I for many years have been ashamed of what that dirty pervert took away from me he took my manhood my dignity my everything and the doctors the NHS have failed me. If it wasn’t for my children I don’t think I would be here right now and that’s the Gods honest truth. My kids are the ones keeping me alive. The NHS and doctors have failed me.

[@teokastelan2930]

@@90sHouseBoy Yes I’m serious. I don’t know where you live, but where I live is a common practice to give benzodiazepine to alcoholic in withdraw. Keep fighting ! God bless you and your children

[@90sHouseBoy]

@@teokastelan2930 thank You friend and I fight a daily battle and it’s the biggest fight any man could ever imagine. But with God the Father with me I will overcome it and will be back to myself even though I count the years and still it’s the same, nightmares PTSD, anxiety attacks and everything in between but I keep on and I try and hopefully one day God will take this struggle from me. Thank you for your kind words brother.

[@SkylerHappy]

Exactly, it's a fact that quitting booze not only makes your world a better place to be in, good things start to “magically” happen and the energy is insane! Steffon Barkload's Quit Drinking Forever, that’s the best shortcut I go’ogled that took less than a week to work without suffering withdrawal.

[@BeStill-zy5ye]

Yes quit

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What is heavy? I drink beer

[@dshcfh]

5 drinks daily or 15 drinks in a week is heavy drinking. A beer (can) is 1 drink.