Coming up on 8 months
 

To be honest I am starting to get really discouraged around 8 months sober because I am still experiencing full on PAWS.
I am in no way looking for medical advice at all, I have been to doctors and gotten and MRI etc.

The constant brain fog and not fully feeling there on top of the muscle spasms are really starting to hurt my high hopes these days.

They never tell you how much worse you feel in recovery than you do before. Wouldn't change my sobriety for the world, and sure as hell would never pick up the bottle again. Just having a rough time seeing the end game because "THEY" say you're supposed to start to improve after 6 months.

8 months sober is fantastic. :) Be patient. It will get better. It takes time for the brain to heal. :hug: You'll get there.

Congratulations on eight months of sobriety, Frana.

Please try not to be too discouraged; everyone recovers at a different rate. My brain-fog and lethargy only began to gradually lift at the six month mark; it was almost another six months before it was totally gone.

Hang in; it's going to get better, much better.

Congrats on 8 months, Frana! I think I started feeling really good right around 9 months.......so hang in there, you are in the home stretch now! :dance3:

It took me a year to finally see the "magic" everyone kept referring to by saying "wait for the magic to happen." Little did I know, the magic was actually that I have contented sobriety. I thought I had would have to live the rest of my life white knuckling it and feeling left out that I could no longer drink. At that year mark, any desire to ever drink again just disappeared. Poof. Gone. I have no desire to ever drink again. That is what the magic is to me.

Frana I know it feels like poop but 8 months is truly impressive.

I screwed myself by drinking for years as well as taking benzodiazepems, so I am on a long road as well.

Let's keep going huh?

Dong get discouraged your doing amazing reaching 8 months

Hi Frana

If you read right through this link you'll find some common sense suggestions on how to deal with the effects of ongoing PAWs :)_

PAWS | Digital Dharma

Hope things take an upward swing soon :)

D