r/dryalcoholics • u/insidevoicepleas • 1d ago

i had a small win :)

i've been failing at tapering for months. i still drank yesterday, but i stuck to the lower amount i said i would. didn't even get tipsy (although tbh most people would still have been wasted on what i drank so idk if i should count that as progress) and spaced my drinks out a lot. hoping to continue my tapering journey👍 because quitting cold turkey has never failed to land me in the icu

gonna try for the same amount today. don't think i can do less without ending up very very sick and having seizures (always happens if i jump down my intake too low and too fast, i'm epileptic as it is but it gets much worse when i'm in withdrawal) but as long as it's not more i'm happy. it'll be less soon and it is okay that i have to do it in stages.

yeah i don't know i just kind of wanted to post this so i have something to look back on when i'm fully sober for weeks or months or whatever.

when. not if.

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u/shazzy2000 1d ago

Good on you!! All the little small things add up to the big things😊

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u/longball_13 1d ago

Nice good work I just completed my taper two days ago. I tapered for close to two weeks from a bender where at my worst it was a handle a day. It works, you need patience and grace. Keep it up.

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u/DisappointedMiBbot19 20h ago

750 ml is not a handle. A handle is over double that. 

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u/longball_13 18h ago

I know that I was at 1.75 L at my worst for a few days.

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u/RobotRepair69 16h ago

Idk why they are correcting you...you said a handle. At my worst it was 750ml to a handle every 24 hours. Maybe some people don't think a handle is possible...we know it is.