bags under eyes...
 

I have been sober now for over a month and since I quit drinking I have had these ugly blackish bags under my eyes. They never seem to go away or look better. Has anyone else experienced this?

It could be from lack of sleep or just the sallow look alcoholics acquire.

Keep doing what you're doing. The rewards will begin to pay off soon.

After 90 days I almost looked like a new person.

I thought they'd never go away but they must have cos they're not there anymore :)

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I have them, too! 96 days in. I'm sick of em. I never do sleep well.. and I need to drink more water, eat less salt (as I sit here with lightly salted almonds and diet pop).

Look up the buzzfeed article 19 ways to deal with dark circles and under eye bags. I won't presume, but it has makeup tips as well. I'll be needing those!

I always looked bloated and my skin looked bad.

Even after just 31 days sober I look better. I also lost 20 pounds which also helps.

It takes awhile to get back in shape..but aging also can be a factor of course.

I still have them at over 11 months but they improve somewhat with sleep.

The body can take a while to recover, especially after years of abuse.

Personally, when I first got off drugs 6 years ago, it took me ages to look better. Months and months. My skin was in a bad state and lack of sleep in recovery didn't help. But then I started drinking and now I'm 40-odd days sober and I definitely look better. The one thing that is taking a while to sort itself out are my under eye dark circles.

I've been using pure coconut oil on my face at night as apparently that helps. Could try vitamin E oil too!

Water helps, too.

Sleep is crucial.

I get so little but when I do sleep at all, my bags are much better.

6 1/2 months and I also still battle this. I think it's aggravated though by my sleep patterns and the fact that I don't drink enough water and I do drink tons of coffee. I can't remember the last time I went to bed and slept through an entire night without waking up somewhere in the duration. What we did with our bodies can take a long time to resolve. For now, feeling lucky I'm a woman so lots of cover up helps.

After a year of drinking to self-medicate anxiety so I could sleep at night, I needed one month completely dry before my sleep patterns went back to normal. I had those ugly eye-bags you mentioned the entire time I was drinking too much because even though I was sleeping a lot I wasn't getting good quality sleep. It took a month into sobriety to learn how to relax and empty my mind enough to fall asleep at a normal bedtime. I highly recommend taking multivitamins, drinking a lot of chamomile tea before bedtime, and if that doesn't work try melatonin supplements.

.....Of course, two months ago I was diagnosed with a thyroid problem and once I got on thyroid meds my sleep went from "adequate" to "GREAT". I rarely have eye bags any more. I recommend that people who stopped drinking don't just get a physical to check out things the alcohol might've been affecting, but get the whole shebang. I know that while I was drinking too much I wasn't taking care of myself and had no idea I had a thyroid problem. I'm willing to bet a lot of newly sober people out there could use a good thorough physical, to make up for lost time taking care of themselves.

I appreciate my glasses now more than I ever have.

For this I like to dab a little black coffee under my eyes in the morning I have them, it actually works though kinda weird

^^^caffeine in an applied form is supposed to constrict skin and help with things like bags.

I get dark circles not bags, always have, when related to lck of sleep. Everything about my skin and face has drastically improved and I am not sallow, blotchy, easily reddened, any of the stuff I was and I started really notice the diff and hearing it from people after a couple of months. At nine months I hear that all the time.

Keep going. Alcohol will only reverse the process (I blame my laugh lines on ,ugh greater laughing that I do now and being 40!).

So trying the coffee under the eyes!

Yup, black circles under my eyes still, and I'm about a month in. Still a long way to go, I know. But my skin looks healthier in general, and the whites of my eyes are....whiter. Eyes look brighter, and less heavy-lidded.