Thepatman

I am totally sober for 3 days now. No empty bottles in the house, cleaned my bed 2 times and my clothes, took showers, went to work today etc.

Anyone else smell booze in their houses after sober? Is it in the walls for heaven sakes? It's not a trigger or anything. Just wondering if it's imaginary or something

Dee74

I don't want to freak you out, but I know it took me well over a week to lose that smell - multiple showers nonwithstanding, I suspect I was sweating it out from the pores....

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Thepatman

Now I feel like a marinated pickle. LOL!

It's nice to know that 20 years drinking not equals 20 years smelling it

Elisabeth888

Maybe a nice hare workout?

paul99

For the first two weeks or so I thought that most things had a faint whiff of alcohol to them...didn't know if it was wishful thinking (ha ha) or not.

Funny thing is that even now I can smell it a mile away!

DoubleBarrel

This is so weird. I swear I could smell booze/alcohol in my car today. No idea why. and I've been sober for months.

DoubleBarrel

Hand cleaner freaks me out. Especially the lemony stuff, smells just like absolut citron.

Threshold

Yup! had it, still happens from time to time. A over ripe banana smells just like the morning after to me.

I walked into the hall of my apt building this evening and got a feeling of dread because it smelled like booze breath, at least that was my initial reaction, then I realized that beyond the alcohol smell was the flowery scent of someones perfume or hairspray.

other times I am pretty sure I just imagine it, my heart always stops a little.

hypochondriac

I get that too Patman, even now after 8 months sober. I hope it's not me! It might just be my sense of smell coming back... I always smell stale beer, which is what I drank. The smell of actual alcohol doesn't freak me out any more. I work with it to make varnish and I don't even associate it with something you drink, but that acrid smell is always a bit too reminiscent.

sugarbear1

3 days and you are still detoxing. You are just smelling what everyone else smelled when you were actively drinking.

Keep staying stopped!

instant

I think these types of hallucinations were common for me. Sometimes I taste whiskey and coke. Over times it seems to be situation dependant. I occasionally get them now.

Nineteen67

Took me a week to sweat out the repulsive smell. Think it's your body getting rid of the last acetaldehyde, google it, evil stuff.

Windancer

I never have smelled alcohol when I quit drinking, but I would avoid the general public and anyone due to the AWFUL body odour that occured whenever I stopped after a long binge. No shower could cut it...it was terrible. I felt DISGUSTING.....I thought something was wrong with me but now I know it was just my body getting rid of all the toxins from drinking so much.