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Alcohol Detoxification

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By jackburton


Alcohol detoxification is the process of flushing all the toxins out of your body after you have been abusing alcohol.  Alcohol Detoxification is the withdrawal stage of giving up alcohol.  You must obviously first stop drinking alcohol, then your body will start having side effects from having no more alcohol...this is alcohol detoxification.  The period between stopping drinking and finishing alcohol detoxification will be any where between a couple of days and over a week, and the withdrawal from alcohol symptoms will depend on the level of your alcohol addiction.  The process after alcohol detoxification is called alcohol rehab and will last for the rest of your life.

I wanted to write little bit about myself and alcohol detoxification on this hub. I think I've mentioned in other hubs, that I needed to go on and alcohol detoxification program about two years ago.


One of the first symptoms of not being able to have a drink was that I could not sleep. The first night was okay because I had been drinking so much over Christmas and the New Year that I was just exhausted, I knew I had to start alcohol detoxification.

I remember sat in the pub on 2nd January, with a pint of Guinness in front of me that I was unable to touch. My hands were shaking profusely, and I felt as if I was going to die.

I had been thinking of giving up the drink before that, but that was the push that shoved me over the edge. I felt like my life was falling apart. Here I was, sitting in a pub, with one of my best friends, with the hangover from hell. I was ashamed. I was a single parent and I was trying to take care of a 15-year-old boy who had just lost his mother two years before, and I stank at it.


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As I said, I had no trouble sleeping that night. I curled up in a ball under my blankets knowing that I had taken my last drink. I felt relieved.

Although the alcohol detoxification process lasted nearly two weeks for me, for the next month of I had severe insomnia. I just couldn't sleep. I would drift away and then wake up just as fast.

The sleeplessness eventually went away. My sister gave me some herbal teas. Calming valerian and chamomile. I hadn't wanted to visit the doctor because I knew all he could to was put me on sleeping pills. I hadn't wanted to go to an Alcohol Detox Center. And I did not need any more drugs at that stage in my life.

I felt so much better now that I could sleep. I felt I was really making progress. The Alcohol Detox was working.

I avoided going out for a long time, maybe five weeks or six. I was beginning to feel healthy and I didn't want to put myself in a position where I could have another drink.  I hope you found something that will help you in this hub about alcohol detoxification.


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