It gets progressively better the more sober time you get. I thought that first month was the hardest (esp the first 2 weeks). After a month, I had days I had to battle my AV out, but there were a lot of days that where things were good too. I found that after a little after 5 months of continuous sobriety that the battle is just background noise versus it having the prominence it once had. Just keep on hanging in there.