Today is Day 37 of being completely sober but it’s been one of my worst and I am pretty down to say the least. My skin has been on fire, itching, legs, hips and glutes all cramped and aching (I did stand for 8 hours on Wednesday at work) and tons of anxiety. Google doesn’t help as those symptoms all point towards MS.

A bit of history I’m 44 and drank beers all the time since I was a teen. Always had a lot of anxiety and decided to give up booze as the anxiety finally got too much.

Mid July I did blood work and all was good apart from GGT levels 104 (which as off of August 20th are 38) so that was progress from a few weeks of tapering and no booze at all 2 weeks leading up to that. ALT/ALS ratio was 2:1 and indicated possible liver disease so doc said keep sober and come back in a couple months to check again.

Last Thursday I had food poisoning and on Monday went to hospital to get blood work done and the My gave me an IV for hydration. They said blood work is “pristine” pretty sure they didn’t check my liver enzyme etc though.....again I’m sure they improved being 39 days sober.

I was beginning to feel good 2/3 weeks in then things got tougher from Day 30. Sleep is amazing, but can’t shake the anxiety and this damn itchy/burning/cramping.....it’s making me anxious and that itself could be causing the sensations.

Appetite is down A) because of food poisoning) B) because of the nervousness.

This is first time reaching out as I don’t have any family or outlet to really turn too. Google helped me through the initial stages of withdrawal in week one and I had the hold/cold sweats, panic, palpitations, shakes etc but this is worrying me that I don’t feel a lot better.

I’m basically scared.

I’m going to keep a journal from today onwards and then see how I feel as I’ve battled anxiety since 1997 and always booze makes it worse. No booze/hangover pretty much means no anxiety. But apart from first week sober I’ve had no real anxiety until this week....it’s horrible