90 days sober "Help"
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Join Date: Apr 2012
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90 days sober "Help"
I have hit the 90 days sober mark, I feel like my brain has become worst I really have to focus to keep my mind together. I am feeling out of it... brain burning extreme brain fog/tingling and feeling jumpy not sure why but its off and on through out the day. I am trying to stay calm and focused not sure why I feel this way after 90 days sober. Please Help! I feel like I'm loosing my mind at times I am scheduling a neurologist appointment to rule out anything with my brain/nerves then phycologist I wish I had never drank alcohol!!
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: In the middle of the woods, NJ
Posts: 567
Congratulations on your ninety days of sobriety. Sounds like anxiety to me and you can get through it. Speak to a Dr. tell him/her your concerns and symptoms. The mind can play awful tricks on us.
Belgian Sheepdog Adictee
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: In Today
Posts: 6,101
Congrats on your 90 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Are you doing anything besides just not drinking?
I have to share that at 90 days, I was attending AA, however, I felt like I was in 20,000 pieces and I was trying to pull pieces of me out of the air and put them back on my frame. I would go to meetings and say:
"Hi, my name is Scattered, and I am an alcoholic."
That is how bad it was. I was not being funny, I was dead serious.
It is a good idea to see your neurologist and your primary care physician to get everything checked out.
It is only years and years later, with many brain scans over the years, that my neurologist can show me how I have built new 'pathways' in my brain to replace the ones that I totally burned up with the alcohol.
For your own piece of mind, it is best to see your doctors. Not everybody has had my experience, but some I know have had worse.
So, in the meantime, please keep posting and let us know how you are doing as we do care very much.
Love and hugs,
Are you doing anything besides just not drinking?
I have to share that at 90 days, I was attending AA, however, I felt like I was in 20,000 pieces and I was trying to pull pieces of me out of the air and put them back on my frame. I would go to meetings and say:
"Hi, my name is Scattered, and I am an alcoholic."
That is how bad it was. I was not being funny, I was dead serious.
It is a good idea to see your neurologist and your primary care physician to get everything checked out.
It is only years and years later, with many brain scans over the years, that my neurologist can show me how I have built new 'pathways' in my brain to replace the ones that I totally burned up with the alcohol.
For your own piece of mind, it is best to see your doctors. Not everybody has had my experience, but some I know have had worse.
So, in the meantime, please keep posting and let us know how you are doing as we do care very much.
Love and hugs,
~sb
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: MD
Posts: 15,967
I had that a lot. Also "brain fog" and many different dyslexic moments. I gets different then better. I believe it's the brain healing and the neurons creating new pathways.
See a doctor if you are really worried.
The steps of AA helped to relieve my anxiety, phobias, and irrational fears.
See a doctor if you are really worried.
The steps of AA helped to relieve my anxiety, phobias, and irrational fears.
Crazy Cat Lady
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 2,661
Congrats on your 90 Days. Seeing the doc is the right move. Alcohol can have all kinds of negative effects on our brains. Post Accute Withdrawl Syndrome can last for several months. Your symptoms could be related to that but yours sound pretty extreme. Getting with the doctor ASAP is the best course of action. Good luck!
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