Originally Posted by
KatarinaDoll 
Hi everyone. I'm 33 days in and started feeling really terrible headaches yesterday, to the point that it's hard to do my job (I work in an office). Does anyone know if this is normal at day 33? I can't tell if it's physical or psychosomatic. I've never had migraines before.
thanks
This must be quite common actually, because I see it often on the boards. If you run a search here, you'll see a lot of posts on it.
It happened to me, the first time I tried to quit. I quit for about 60 days, and headaches came about 30 days in. I really just quit cold turkey, had no support, no plan. I didn't know anything about alcoholism and I pretty much white knuckled it until I couldn't stand it any longer and then drank.
This time around, it stuck. I joined AA right away, and began building a new life. It's pretty tough, but well worth the effort, as after awhile it doesn't seem like effort, just seems like living.
I think that by doing all kinds of different things, including replacing drink with other things, I avoided the headaches this time. It's been about 18 months now, and I still get them from time to time, but I recognize what it is, stress, tiredness, etc. and I do something about it to relieve the pain and go on.
You'll get over it. I think it's your body adjusting to the major changes you've made. See a doc, I did and it's what helped me learn about what my body was going thru.