TonyUK

hi all


This Friday will mark the the longest time of my 40 years without booze - it will be 12 weeks.

I decided to clean up due to a number of reasons main one being my son. The doc has put me on Prozac which really has helped.

For the last two nights I have have had recurrence of severe night sweats and during the day I am going hot and cold very quickly - I have been to the doctor this morning to report my 'man-o-pause' - and I am very surprised to hear from here that the symptoms are still my body going through withdrawl.

Just how powerful is this devil?

I still have no intention of drinking as again my driver is my little boy ( I want to live to he is at least 40!! That's my goal)

if you are in the same boat stay strong and carry on - besides this recent reoccurrence of withdrawal symptoms I do feel 1000% clearer in the head and heart - and I have really realised that some stuff I have been ignoring needs to get on track


anyone else had symptoms at 70 days + ?

God bless

Tony

Dee74

I haven't experienced a recurrence of those symptoms, no, Tony - congrats on 79 days tho

D

TonyUK

Thanks Dee

I did have some Becks blue which is alcohol free beer - I am wondering if something psycho-symptomatic happened!

2granddaughters

Tony, are you going to AA meetings?

All the best.

Bob R

TonyUK

Hi bob

Nope

Doing this on my own - not for any partic reason - just am

I do feel a little lonley about it - but I am ok - its working in any event....

Thank

too.tall

Great job. Question: Any withdrawal issues in the early stage?

TonyUK

Yep .

Night sweats - three day bouts of them for the first 2 weeks.

Brain fog for about 6-8 weeks but still present in a gentler form (getting better)

First 2 weeks - even though I was immaculately showered clean clothes everyday - I could smell a rotten veg smell around me

Sleep was unusually deep for first 8 weeks - unwakeable - now its the same puntuated with bouts of insomnia that last between 1 -3 hours - though usually an hour

Pains in top right abdomen - that are now nearly gone

CarolD

I'm glad you are keeping in touch with your doctor...

Well done on your progres...

indakut

Congrats on 79 days! Keep up the good work!

MrsKing

Congratulations. That's great news welcome to SR, I have found it's enough for me and haven't needed to have any face-to-face support, but everyone is different! I'm glad to hear you're feeling much better. I haven't experienced anything like that (I'm 3 months so about the same as you) but I'm pretty sure your doctor knows what he/she is talking about. All the best!

DoinThis

Hi Tony, I was on Zoloft for a while and got really bad night sweats. Google prozac and night sweats and u may find a different answer. Awesome on 3 months! Our kids are great motivation

sugarbear1

I smoked weed and drank beer. I had many things going on for the first 6 months. I had long term sweats and hot and cold feelings, night sweats, tiredness with spurts of energy thrown in.

The next 6 months were mostly mental things or things like being off balance or forgetting or different forms of dyslexia--typing, talking, writing, thinking....brain fogginess, forgetfulness. At 13.5 months, I am much better than I had been and getting better each day!

Doug39

Just bumping this thread up because today marks my 79th day sober.

For some reason I don't feel good today - sort of feel like I did in my early days of sobriety. I have brain fog and I am totally on edge.

I did start Zoloft on my 3rd day of sobriety but I hated it. I tapered off the Zoloft over a 12 day period that ended 10 days ago.

Don't know why I am feeling odd today.

FeenixxRising

Tony well done on 79 days. I experienced night sweats periodically for the first month or so after I started taking Paxil (another SSRI very similar to Prozac).

You may want to Google Prozac side effects.