I think it's different for each person, how much damage you did with alcohol, and what your overall health was like before.. Everything may not go back to normal, but how old were you before versus now? After people quit, they blame any physical or mental symptom on alcoholism and PAWS.. we wanted everything to improve and stay improved after quitting alcohol, but we still have to work hard to maintain our health.. we just notice it more now because when we were drinking, we always felt like crap and we knew darn well why.