30 days and under
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30 days and under
Hello folks!
Today is day 15. I have been tired / irritable / sad / spacy /unmotivated and frequent headaches. It's frustrating but I have read it's quit common during early recovery. I've actually been waking up each morning feeling dazed like I am hungover, but wondering how that's possible with out having a drop of alcohol the night before.
I am trying to stay focused in eating well, and exercising but that also has been challenging. I know eventually it gets better... I've been through it before, and it's proving to be an emotional rollercoaster like the last time! But thankfully I know it's all worth the early struggles. I feel lifted in many other ways by staying sober... the good comes with the bad for the time being.
How is everyone else feeling the first 30 days of sobriety?
Today is day 15. I have been tired / irritable / sad / spacy /unmotivated and frequent headaches. It's frustrating but I have read it's quit common during early recovery. I've actually been waking up each morning feeling dazed like I am hungover, but wondering how that's possible with out having a drop of alcohol the night before.
I am trying to stay focused in eating well, and exercising but that also has been challenging. I know eventually it gets better... I've been through it before, and it's proving to be an emotional rollercoaster like the last time! But thankfully I know it's all worth the early struggles. I feel lifted in many other ways by staying sober... the good comes with the bad for the time being.
How is everyone else feeling the first 30 days of sobriety?
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: MD
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The same! I didn't get there overnight! A woman I've gotten to know gave me a gift at a meeting, a pretty clock. She said, "Deb, Remember to give time time."
Time to heal, time to change old habits, etc. It's a beautiful reminder!
Time to heal, time to change old habits, etc. It's a beautiful reminder!
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: New Orleans
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Hi Shan! I am on Day 6, and even though it doesn't sound like much, I am so proud to say it. The nights are restless and the mornings are groggy and I wouldn't trade it for anything, given the alternative. Knowing it gets better is just icing on the cake. I am so grateful today.
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gracie - congrats on 6 days! it may not 'sound' like much, but everyone on here knows that even 1 day counts as something! So be proud!! I haven't been 'diagnosed' but I think I may have Seasonal disorder, so that certainly isn't helping. I am SO grateful to be sober today, and at this very moment is most important!
So i'm gonna SHAKE it off... put a smile on my face and head over for my afternoon cup of coffee!
So i'm gonna SHAKE it off... put a smile on my face and head over for my afternoon cup of coffee!
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Baton Rouge, La.
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Sometimes I feel helpless when it comes to
a newcomer, however I have to remind myself
that I was right where many of you are at now.
Helping a newcomer for me is merely sharing
what it was like before, during and after my own
drinking. And that is exactly what many newcomers
will begin doing as well to help those who are still
suffering from addiction by sharing ur own experiences
strengths and hopes of ur own drinking.
I didnt think I had much to share at the beginning
of my recovery, but I actually did. Each time I showed
up to a meeting and sat in those chairs, timid, shy,
scared, i allowed everyone there see that I am
doing something in my life to stay sober. Merely
by taking that extra step to listen to others that
have stayed sober for a number of yrs. before me.
In listening and learning I began to add sober days
together myself and watched the newcomers follow
feeling the same way I did when I first entered recovery.
Recovery is a journey in life. Living life without putting
poison in my system. Incorperating the tools and knowledge
of my alcoholism in my everyday life and helping the
newcomer.
Alcohol was destroying me and i almost died, twice.
However It wasnt my time to go yet as I was given
a retrieve from alcohol and replaced it with something
better. A purpose. A purpose in life. That purpose
is to to be of service to others suffering from addiction.
In doing so, the rewards of the promises in the Big
Book of AA have come true and continue to do so.
Life today has meaning. Life is a joy. Life is freedom
from my addiction of alcohol.
It can be for you too.
a newcomer, however I have to remind myself
that I was right where many of you are at now.
Helping a newcomer for me is merely sharing
what it was like before, during and after my own
drinking. And that is exactly what many newcomers
will begin doing as well to help those who are still
suffering from addiction by sharing ur own experiences
strengths and hopes of ur own drinking.
I didnt think I had much to share at the beginning
of my recovery, but I actually did. Each time I showed
up to a meeting and sat in those chairs, timid, shy,
scared, i allowed everyone there see that I am
doing something in my life to stay sober. Merely
by taking that extra step to listen to others that
have stayed sober for a number of yrs. before me.
In listening and learning I began to add sober days
together myself and watched the newcomers follow
feeling the same way I did when I first entered recovery.
Recovery is a journey in life. Living life without putting
poison in my system. Incorperating the tools and knowledge
of my alcoholism in my everyday life and helping the
newcomer.
Alcohol was destroying me and i almost died, twice.
However It wasnt my time to go yet as I was given
a retrieve from alcohol and replaced it with something
better. A purpose. A purpose in life. That purpose
is to to be of service to others suffering from addiction.
In doing so, the rewards of the promises in the Big
Book of AA have come true and continue to do so.
Life today has meaning. Life is a joy. Life is freedom
from my addiction of alcohol.
It can be for you too.
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: springfield, va
Posts: 1,385
Shanman,
I am on day 15 and I feel exactly the way you do. Exhausted, dazed, dizzy, irritable, depressed. It is hard for me to even function. Every day I say I wan to go to an AA meeting, but I feel so bad. Coming to this website has saved me.
I am on day 15 and I feel exactly the way you do. Exhausted, dazed, dizzy, irritable, depressed. It is hard for me to even function. Every day I say I wan to go to an AA meeting, but I feel so bad. Coming to this website has saved me.
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: St. Peters MO
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I had all the same symptoms as well. I am at day 70 and I am experiencing none of them. Each day will get better just do not have a drink to make yourself feel better. When I was at my 30 day mark it was the best that I had felt in years. Make sure to invest in yourself. Eat well. Exercise. Try to stay stress free. Find something you love to do and get involved. You can make it. Keep-on-keepin-on.
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It's remarkable the difference a day can make. Yesterday it was my goal to change the UGHness I felt. I had to put the work into feeling better, I wasn't going to allow myself to crawl into a hole! So I ate healthy, I exercised, I sang to music loudly in my car, and enjoyed time with my kids!
I know I'm a work in progress... I expected that. I'll have up and down days... that's life in general. But in time, it's a certainty I will deal with those "off" days better sober than I ever did while drinking!! Like I said before the bad comes with the good, and to me it's all worth it in the end!
Happy Tuesday!
I know I'm a work in progress... I expected that. I'll have up and down days... that's life in general. But in time, it's a certainty I will deal with those "off" days better sober than I ever did while drinking!! Like I said before the bad comes with the good, and to me it's all worth it in the end!
Happy Tuesday!
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