Enjoyed the quick recap of alcohol withdrawal as its not only important in an ED but even in an office/clinic as I work in endocrinology and often alcohol withdrawal is mistaken for "hyperthyroid symptoms or over-replaced symptoms" that my current patients think may be relevant to his/her synthroid dose or if they are newly diagnosed with hyperthyroidism! Thanks !

I developed this 24 hours after a drinking binge that lasted 6 days. The hallucinations started when I was trying to sleep i. e closed eye hallucinations, tactile hallucinations of faces on the walls, voices in my head, my bedside lamp was speaking to me and people were standing around my bed that were telling me to pass away. I will never think of alcohol as an acceptable legal drug ever again.

First day without alcohol. I'm afraid to sleep, I start having hallucinations, sleep paralysis, and numb joints. I literally had to keep my eyes open 😑

Man. Hard as hell laying off of this shit. Been drinking at least 3 bottles a day for the past few months and it's now that I got the motivation to quit. Been so hard. I'd go 2 to 3 days off of it but the pain? Holy moe. Anyone reading also trying to quit, we got this bro, god bless 💜

I was hearing stuff all over, couldn't sleep for days, I was trying to record all the voices coming from the AC vents, because even though a part of you knows you're hallucinating, it feels so real and another part of you just feels like you've tapped into some alternate universe which is clearly right there, radio transmissions from another dimension ... 2 years sober now! A big part of quitting, if you can't do it medically, is to TAPER rather than go cold turkey. Spend a week or two just slowly drinking less and less each day, maintaining withdrawals without them ever getting out of hand. Takes a lot longer but it's worth it over less time of pure (and dangerous) hell!

Alcohol should b illegal

I suffered server DTs walked around the city for most the day had every hallucinations felt stuff heard stuff seen stuff.... Suffered a seizure in the hospital... I was told if I had another one that was it.... Almost a year sober now. 💪

Anyone going through this, stay strong. It will pass. Love and light everyone, sober life is so much better but it does take time. If you think you need to go to hospital then go. No shame in getting better.

My best friend died by taking his own life during alcohol withdrawal following many years of alcoholism. Thanks for this video, it really helped me to process what happened to him and why. If anyone reading this is struggling, please get professional help before you try to quit on your own.

Alcoholism is hell. Nothing more to say.

It's literally hell guys. Cant stress enough how careful you need to be with alcohol. They dont stress that "drink responsibly" at the end of ads nearly enough.

I have been thorough it. My hallucinations were auditory. They felt so real. I could hear whispering of a women coming from my pillow at night. I couldn't sleep because of that. Sometimes I would hear humming noises all day etc etc. At that time I did not know that it was the result of withdrawal. I thought I was losing my mind. It made me even more paranoid. I wanted to talk to my parents but I lacked the courage. So I started jogging, meditation and yoga. And it really helped me. Within a month my mind became calmer. If you are having hallucinations after quitting drinking just know that it will pass. It's not permanent. be brave.

Going through this right now at home, on day 5 trying to quit cold turkey on my own, I could drink a bottle to myself, heavy drinker for years. July 26 was the last day I had a drink the second day I ended up in the hospital having to need IV for being dehydrated. Drink lots of water, electrolytes, victim c helps, and fruits. Because your body needs sugar since alcohol breaks down into sugar, and most importantly try to go outside to help your anxiety and inform your loved ones you're going through this. And try to get as much information as you can.

The thing I hate when I go into withdrawal are the muscle spasms and sudden jerks. It's like a computer instantly and violently booting up from sleep mode. Funny thing is, they happen when I try to fall asleep.

I really didn't think it could be this bad. I never want to go through this shit again. Living alone in a little apartment, cold turkey. I feel sorry for my neighbors.

There's another symptom beyond the DTs that is little understood called auditory alcohol halluncinosis. I know because I had it in Thailand. 100 years ago it was thought to be a form of schizophrenia but schizophrenia causes voices inside your head. This was far more weird. I could plainly hear sounds coming from the sky and voices of people just like in normal conversation sitting next to me. It started 5 days after the DTs finished. I felt completely fine. There were no more shakes, no visual hallucinations and no sickness. I was completely sober. It lasted for 6 days and it was terrifying and amazing/bizarre at the same time.

Every time I would close my eyes I’d see people approaching me

I loved this, great information, accurate and quick to watch. This is the 1st one I'm seeing. Just bought the Chest Xray series and excited to watch it next!

I was in jail for disorderly conduct for arguing with a police officer. I had been drinking but also was NOT taking my bipolar 1 meds as prescribed. When I got to the jail I refused to tell them my medical history out of fear and sheer stupidity. I had never been to jail before and was really really scared. I have taken 4mg of alprazolam (xanax) for my panic disorder for the past 10 years as well. Soooo I was in jail for 5 days with NO meds and withdrawing from alcohol AND the benzodiazepines I have taken everyday for years. The experience was absolutely frightening. I thought the fluorescent lights were the lights of an ambulance and I was being resuscitated but it wasn’t working and I could hear my family’s voices tell me that it’s okay to die and “it’s okay Betsy, go to Heaven, go be with Ma (my dead grandmother), she’s gone, just let her go”… So when I woke up from that delusion I thought I was in purgatory and the only way to get out was by playing a big game of monopoly… Where the other female inmates (if there were any as I didn’t know what was real and what wasn’t) would control your movement around the room like a game board… I know this sounds INSANE. So later on I was hearing different frequencies and thought the government was communicating with me and I was a part of their experiment because I could hear them. I thought it was the CO’s messing with me by flashing memes and photos on the fluorescent lights… I thought they were pinging radio frequencies off the titanium staples in my stomach (from my gastric bypass surgery I had a few years ago…) I heard voices in the walls from EVERYWHERE in the correctional facility. At one point it felt like I was fighting two sides of myself, remember how I mentioned I have bipolar disorder… I was looking in the toilets for clues and crawling around listening to these “voices” tell me what to do… There’s really no other way to explain this experience but I literally thought I was dead for days after that.. I kept asking my family if I was alive and if they were real.. I was hearing and seeing things in the vents in the jail and thought there were faces on the floor that changed with the different shades of fluorescent lights… I have no idea how I fucking survived this but holy shit… I was literally pingponging between different dimensions and different frequencies.. I also kept hearing the same two songs on repeat.. Both Tool songs, my favorite band.. For 5 days along with the voices I would hear “Satan, Satan, Satan” and also hear another set of Tool lyrics, “A tempest must be just that. Control, your delusion” OVER AND OVER. Also at one point the voices were fighting with each other to have me stay in purgatory.. These were ACTUAL people’s voices that I knew hearing them talk clear as day..

Love the videos you guys post! They are so helpful. (short, and to the point)

If you’re going to detox at home drink a lot of water and eat a lot of fruit. I was done withdrawing in 7 days. It was pure hell to say the least but I got through it. It’s the first 4 days that are god awful then it gets slowly better. Vomiting awfully the first 8-30 hours. Then I had awful diarrhea until about the 4th day and had a extreme lower stomach pain. Once you can stomach a full corse meal start taking a multi vitamin. It helped me a lot and this is all coming from someone who was drinking a handle of vodka a day for months

The fever dreams are the worst. I've had some where even my closest loved ones are straight up not into me, like as of they are imposters and they all have it in for you. So dreadful. Quit drinking! It's not worth it.

This happend to me and it's horrible.. halusinations, throwing up blood, severely dehydrated, muscle spasims like you wouldn't believe...but the halusinations were intense. I stopd drinking for three days and I thought I was starting to feel better, but oooo no. I was totally sober, and then the characters from lord of the rings showed up in my room and tryed to get me to go on the adventure with them. The characters were doll versions of them though, and they were walking and jumping all around my room... eve

Drinking 2-3 bottles of 40oz by myself the past year and the withdrawals are ridiculous…for those who don’t know those “hallucinations” are something from the other side trying to abuse your spirit that’s why the psychosis happens especially when you are doing evil things like drinking and doing drugs (besides cannabis) evil spirits get into your homes and your more than likely to have weird delusions and suicidal thoughts get into your head or even someone calling your name when nobody is there that leaves you feeling insane. remember to remain strong ❤️you aren’t the only one who experiences things like this and I hope the best in your life ahead

I’m on day8 detoxing on my own own , besides going to on the 2nd day the E.R all they did was give me fluids and blood test , kept me for a few hour. got my pulse back to normal and I feel not so bad but the anxiety is really kicking my ass. Hopefully I’ll be 100% better on my own . Good luck to all ❤️

I’m 8 days sober from alcohol the first 3 days were the worst I was hearing things sweating my heart was racing and all I could do was sleep I was so lazy when I was drinking that’s all I wanted to do even if I knew I needed to do other things too and now I have so much energy I cook cleaned and got things done and I’m so proud that I was able to let it go..

Thank you for this very informative video. As a new NP I need all the information I can get

Thanks for the video. It would be great to have a caption, at least at the beginning, of who you are / your credentials/specialty.

I only made that particular comment because I have seen it used in several videos relating to alcohol withdrawal/delirium tremens. It isn’t cute. Having said that... this is one of the few videos that I have seen that actually acknowledges tactile disturbance. I’m sure you can see how visual and auditory hallucinations could be terrifying. Now imagine that you can feel what you see.

Thanks for the synopsis! Great refresher.

Excellent information! I'm going to add this to my list for my nursing students to watch!! Thank you!!

My brother is in a care facility from long term drinking withdrawal and he had a stroke. Six weeks later he is still experiencing these same symptoms explained here. My brother is 70. The doctor can’t get out of his own way to help my brother. His ego is larger than a freight train. My brother is detoxing cold turkey. He is in and out of the present moment to a different time and place in the same sentence and conversation. This change happens smoothly and quite often. I am wore out and need a short break. So, I am taking two days to refresh. These videos on here are enlightening and frightening. This stuff is real in the mind of a person going through it. It is very hard to sit back and watch with nothing I can really do to help, but wait it out. Be aware that your person will try every trick in he book to get YOU to bring them a drink. Or, try to find a way to get one. Locking them in a cel with bread and water, with a bucket and toilet paper seems cruel. But, if I could........my own younger brother......if that would help, I would in a New York minute. They are like a fox guarding the hen house.today is June 28, 2021.....Monday

I came here for help and understanding my problem, now i am having anxiety

Thanks for the refresher!!!

I wish I had found these videos before I had gone through my emergency med rotation!

Valium 5MG to 10MG helps every 4-8 hours. Sleep! Gravol for sleep helped a lot. The nightmares are taunting. Just hang in there! You will get through it.

What an excellent video.

Excellent, thank you.

Great ..useful and faster recap

Great info thank you.

I have been in and out of recovery for years. Caregivers NEED to define DTs. It's a misnomer and is so dangerous. I had to KZfaq what DTs really meant. I experienced it a couple days ago, and just terrifying. I'm going back to detox tomorrow. I'm so sorry for anyone who is struggling. It does get better! I've been there, and I'm getting it back.

I wouldn’t wish the upon anyone , im typing this while going on gout 7 and i know it’s gonna get worse before it gets better , I’m just scared of hallucinating and seizures

I felt an evil presence in my bedroom then something gripped my wrists..i cried out! Woke up thankfully😢☺Sleep paralysis..It is very real😢

fast recap .. great

Enjoying these as it helps with the ER (as a medical scribe?

I'm going through about hour 80 of withdrawal after having been drinking for 15 years. It was light beer, but it had gotten up to drinking a 30 pack every 2 days. The first 3 nights I only got about one hour of sleep, couldn't stop sweating, and didn't feel like doing anything. My muscles started to hurt as well and still do. Then on day 4 the hallucinations started(yesterday) that started and I was seeing stuff that just wasn't there like string hanging from my toes, a monster trying to break into my shower, angry wolves trying to eat me, and seeing people stalking me often. That's the hard part so far as it is continuing this morning. I was able to get some sleep finally(2 hours) but I woke up 4 times and each time I thought I had been asleep for hours, I was and still am very paranoid and jumpy. It's not something I would wish on anyone.

Well explained.. Thanks

Im barely going in on day 2 but I was tapering off the agitation sucks, anxiety and tremors as well, hearing my phone ring and seeing no call, hearing someone say hey, or gunshots and bells, seeing lights or shadows, and vomiting for a whole day and all my intestines burn...and the god awful diarrhea.. also nightmares when I do manage to sleep around 4 am... But thankfully I'm able to eat now and I'm taking vitamin b100, eating fruits and drinking water is what is helping me out.... Good luck you guys and remember everything your going through in the future when u do wanna get drunk again.

Good luck to everyone here! Y'all can do this.

If doctors were not so stingy with the benzos they could save so many lives. Drs seem to be more worried about their med license than actually helping people

Im literally dealing with someone that is going thru this but also very bad hallucinations.

All these videos & I've never seen one about weaning off alcohol, which is something I'm interested in learning about

Quit for two years and relapsed yesterday. I swear I was being followed by federal agents in helicopters…I couldn’t find them but they knew where I was. Ended up getting into a fight with a neighbor who I accused of being an agent. So embarrassing yo. Scary as hell bc I can still recall everything clearly. Alcohol is poison. Day 2 sober beings now.

Never playing overwstch again. Sitting at the hospital for a valium cause I got AWD. My damn fault but hallucinating your favorite video game while not sleeping for 2 days

I have had this condition and it floored me completely. The hallucinations came on suddenly and also had auditory voices as well. If I ever drink again i will get this as a long term condition. I cant take that risk

Definitely had spiders all over me, rhinos, snakes, sharks, crazy animals everywhere with devilish appearance and my most haunting and unforgettable… Pennywise the clown chasing me everywhere killing everyone in very graphic detail… to this day after 120 plus days sober I still dream those awful events of the hallucinations very vividly, worse fear or most realistic images of hell

I just want to sleep without tossing and turning ! Day 4 and it’s still not that much better. Also my body is sensitive to damn near every food. It’s like the only thing I can eat is grilled chicken.

I've been thru alcohol psychosis in jail. You don't know where you are but feel like a nightmare and you cNt wake up from it. Ghosts demons bugs just what hell would be likd. Ppl talking thru the walls ghosts coming thru guy with a chainsaw terrifying me

Why do they even sell this crap??? we were much better off with weed!!!

I went thru DT all by myself, hallucinating like an acid head hearing the sounds of a crowded mall no matter where I was at. It took me about a week and a half to get back to somewhat normal. No meds, no external help, I got my stupid ass into that lurch and I had to pull myself out.

Thank you

Going through this right now with my husband. He doesn’t want to go to the ER. He’s been there several times. Tried groups he gets worse. I’m so scared for him I don’t know what else to do.

My dad had this when he was detoxing in hospital years ago and I didn't even know apparently he was hallucinating a giant bat that wanted to eat him or something lol how the hell can alcohol have such an effect on your mind like that it's mad

Ten years sober for 12 years of heavy drinking…Still fighting anxiety and panic attacks lol but still alive enjoying life while it last

The first two nights were audio hallucination he'll, they were more mild last night I'm 5 days in but what I'm understanding is I can still develop dts because I'm lacking the other symptoms??

Thanks

Meridian behavioral health in Gainesville Florida needs to see this video. They give you a couple volume and then tell you that you're okay then my friend had a seizure and had to be resuscitated at the hospital because the ghetto ass nurse staff ignored his vital signs

Do you guys use longer acting benzos cause they are less addicting? for instance you would use Valium or Librium vs Ativan or Xanax... Also man phenobarbital is some nasty stuff to me at least it just feels like I am being poisoned or something and I am not allergic to the stuff neither, much rather detox comfortably with Klonopin, no need for anything else, very effective long acting potent benzodiazepine.... But I have been going through delerium tremons off and on for 20 years, and have literally had ONLY 2 doctors detox with clonazepam, very underutilized benzo...

I got the sensation of being on a roller coaster

MUST WATCH

Withdrawals are hell for me ..seizures, hallucinations ,tremors ,nightmares😩

I only get tremors and I suppose a little bit of anxiety. Didn’t even consider myself a heavy drinker but my tremors have been annoying today

I have Valium! I'm gonna do this! We got this, ya'll! Stay strong and God Bless!

When you go to the ER dehydrated and shaking, the moment they give you that 2mg of Ativan in your IV is the absolute biggest relief. HAH...! Still the following 3 - 7 days is hell.

Im a Chronic alcoholic sober now.chronic Alcohol withdrawal is absolutely disgusting.a person next binge could lead to life in person,death or losing at least 10% of the joy of your life for ever. (Brain damage) Try to be kind to active alcoholics they are in hell.

I haven't had a drink in 3 weeks and I still smell alcohol coming from me. Smdh. I'm having so many symptoms it's not funny. Tremors, anxiety, loss of appetite, what seems like delirium, shaky hand, cognitive problems and insomnia. Also I get some signs of gastroparesis where food is moving thru too slowly

I went through withdrawals in hospital. I was convinced it wasn't a real hospital and the doctors and nurses were all Larping - I was terrified for the first few nights, convinced there was a gang in the corridor plotting to abduct me, but I ended up weirdly enjoying the experience in the end (I had been given loads of Librium and Diazepam at this point). I wanted to help them do the best hospital role play of their lives.

I’ve seen patients in withdrawal with BAC of 1-2. I’ve seen them go through hell. I went through my own benzo withdrawal and it’s very, very similar. Both of these withdrawals are deadly, unlike opioids/opiates.

I drank a 12 pack and than went back and got 2 25 oz beers...I really feel like I'm getting the psychosis

I've had full on conversations thinking I'm drinking with someone even though Im home alone with the place locked from the inside. Snapped out of it to see that I'm sitting on the floor talking to a clown mask tacked to the wall in front of me. He's now my sleep paralysis demon when I try to sleep hungover smh.

OK OK IM NOT THERE NYET!

Think the worst time was when I hallucinated. Started as auditory and progressed to visual. At first I could hear chanting, and really demonic music. Then after an hour or so of that, I had opened my eyes to try to ignore the sounds, and a demonic face on fire flee across my huge mirror I had. Screamed so loud, and raced so fast to my grannys room. She stayed up with me in the kitchen, as I kept hearing things go "psst psst psst" in my ear, or shadows grabbing at my legs

Going through withdrawals right now I wouldn’t wish this on anyone. I quit my job and I’m starting to 2nd guess if I made the right decision even though I have another job lined up. I used to have dreams that were so real about me showing up to work intoxicated and it caused so much anxiety because I wasn’t sure if I really went in or not. Now a days the relapses are so incredibly painful I’m hoping I don’t relapse again I don’t want to lose my family.

A Suboxone Dr once told me to use prenatal vitamins for alcohol Dts.im a dude. Was her advice correct?

I know you want to go cold turkey, but if you are having Tremon's, sip on a beer tonight and go cold turkey tomorrow.

I'm going through the tactile hallucinations now and it's hell.

Everything I’ve heard says that chronic users can start withdrawal symptoms 6 or more hours after the last drink. But when I’ve been drinking 24/7, I begin feeling early withdrawal symptoms as early as 3 hours after my last swig. 4 hours tops. I’ll still feel intoxicated but need more to stop the tachycardia, panic, and sweats. It sucks

Does anyone know how long withdraws last? I have a family member who experienced DTS’s and hallucinations really bad. Dr’s want to prescribe meds for something else. I’m just wondering if the symptoms are still apart of withdraws. Note* was a heavy drinker.. hasn’t had alcohol for almost a month next week. This is so sad to witness.

damn, 10mg of valium every 10 minutes.. thats intense. my withdrawal was pretty bad and I think they were giving me 10mg every 4 hours...

A persons drinking history i would think would be imperative for proper diagnosis if at all possible. Big difference of a 24 yrs old freaking out after 3 years of drinking than a person drinking 20 plus years. The detoxing is night and day. But if we scare the kiddos thats ok too except you guys get to deal with them

the bible pretty much says the same --> Proverbs 23:33 You will see hallucinations, and you will say crazy things.

I see different colored shadows moving across the wall

I went to the hospital after a month long bender of hitting it hard, half gallon of vodka everyday, my alcohol level was. 38 in the ER but I was fully functional, well I ended up getting arrested in the ER cuz I had a warrant out, I spent 2 days in the cardiac unit detoxing, and finally they released me and brought me to the jail, they put me in the medical unit, I was fine for a day, the second night though I started having audio hallucinations which eventually turned into full blown visual and audio hallucinations for 2 days straight, I thought the CO's were conspiring to kill me, I was in a cell with a clear plastic wall so they could monitor me, I tried strangling myself with my jumpsuit and tried drowning my self in the toilet, I was beyond frightend that I was going to die. I thought I was in a video game at one point, thought my cell was a van, thought I got out of jail and was on the run. I thought I was dead and I was a spirit at one point and I clearly remember yelling to the CO's is this how you feel when you die. They sprayed me and 3 point locked me to my bed, they also put me in the tie down chair at one point naked for a few hours. I finally came to like 60-70 hours later and woke up on the floor of my cell and I had no idea where I was or what had happened. The medical staff told me I was in one of the more serious cases of hallucinations they had ever seen and they were about to bring me back to the ER at a few points. Whats crazy is I remember every single hallucination I was having down to minute details. It was fucking weird, im glad I made it thru that alive. I still drink but never to that level ever ever again. Shit was next level scary, ive never been so terrorfied in my life that somebody was trying to kill me so I might as well do it myself. Crazy. I still think it was due to the medications they were giving me, cuz they would come around every 6 hours or so with a handful of pills that I had no idea what they were and they seemed to send me into this hypnotic state. Idk. Crazy.

My family doesn’t know what to do. My twin sister has been an alcoholic for 20+ years and she is hallucinating believing there are bugs (“microscopic mites”) in her hair and body that are crawling on her and biting her. NO ONE else has seen these “bugs.” She won’t get help and I don’t know what to do! This is the second time this has happened.

informative thank you but i dont think this is correct, my hallucinations were mainly auditory w dts. this occured everyttime. it was like music started far away and didnt stop for days until i wanted to scream. i had the tremors shaking and seizures, rlly bad close eye visuals but it was the audio that drove me crazy.

26 hrs since my last drink, Right now I have agitation a sense of impending doom shakes and diarrhea. Also a headache, and sweats. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to do this

The most high,Lord Jesus delivered me from this disease.I was an Alcoholic since I was a teen up untill this yr (I'm 35)on and off)I still have some withdrawal but it's not as intense as it used to be and I'm healed!!!!😄No more cravings no more urges to drink.So when you're sick of battling with Alcohol call out to Jesus (You must repent your sins and accept Jesus into your heart first and believe first.Most of all have faith in all areas of your life through the Lord Jesus Christ 😄Thank you Lord Jesus 💖He can heal you aswell.Amen🙏🏽

clouded sensorium.. like that mix of words

Ahhh fml this is the 5th time I’m going through this... I have been in the er 3 times for it. Rn they have me on a diazepam taper but I’ve also been on clonazepam for the last 2 years.... Sooo probably gonna have a fun withdrawal getting off those too >.>...

Good recap, however anxiety can actually mask withdrawals. Don’t fuck around here, you can actually figure out how dependant you are in aspects by seeing a doctor very quickly. Just go to a doctor please.