I have told my story around here plenty, so I will just say this - I went cold turkey from a handle of vodka every 2 days (or less, and usually a few other drinks around that). That was 297 days ago. I was given a choice to quit, or have a year, 18 mo to live. For whatever reason, the message got through this time.
I decided that an unknown amount and degree of PAWS was better than a certain death by drinking.
I experienced pretty severe PAWS - I was very sick when I quit and the first five or so weeks are a blur pretty much as everything started "rolling" out of my body. I saw a good shift around 100 days, in lots of ways, and continued to get better. All of my tests and levels are completely normal now and my main challenge is fatigue and a propensity for colds; both of those were pre-alcoholic "things".
The only solution to any of the symptoms after quitting is to stay quit.
You can do it- a few months of "bad" was pretty darn short compared to the way I was living and felt, and the way things could have gone the way I was headed.