Crumbs. I hadn't considered that those were withdrawal symptoms.
I remember the day after my last slip up, or was it the second day? I forget. Yes, it was the second day, thinking about it. I was cutting up lard and butter to make pastry for a second batch of apple pies - the first one I'd made while in the middle of a blackout, and while my hands weren't actually shaking, they felt as if they were. Over the next few days, my moods were all over the place. On day 4, I woke up feeling like I'd been drinking, not buzzed, just groggy. And, as it turned out extremely irritable. Oh yes, and there was a pain in my chest that, and at one point my left arm.
I came very close to picking up a drink. If I'd been on my own, I probably would, but realised that it wasn't going to solve anything, so went for fish and chips instead.