What health ailments have disappeared or diminished in Sobriety?
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Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Island of the Misfit Toys
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I brought on Type 2 diabetes because of my drinking.
Now, getting my sugars under control.
High BP. 180/ something too. Now doing better
Losing weight, not sure how much yet. Doing daily walks in the morning for exercise & prayer/meditation. Really helps set the day.
Now, getting my sugars under control.
High BP. 180/ something too. Now doing better
Losing weight, not sure how much yet. Doing daily walks in the morning for exercise & prayer/meditation. Really helps set the day.
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Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: PA
Posts: 12,000
I'll add...
GERD and IBS are things of the past. And it was bad. No medication - just quit drinking.
Also, on my last physical, my cholesterol is the lowest it has been in over 25 years when I first started getting it checked. Could be that I am conscious of what I eat now combined with losing the recklessness I had endured over that time... Either way, I am much healthier than I've been for a couple decades and my aches and pains are less overall.
GERD and IBS are things of the past. And it was bad. No medication - just quit drinking.
Also, on my last physical, my cholesterol is the lowest it has been in over 25 years when I first started getting it checked. Could be that I am conscious of what I eat now combined with losing the recklessness I had endured over that time... Either way, I am much healthier than I've been for a couple decades and my aches and pains are less overall.
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Grand Rapids MI
Posts: 6,435
I always find it tragic when people in active addiction have all sorts of ailments and ask advice on what should be done.
It is not politically correct but the answer is, "Duh, quit drinking."
It is not politically correct but the answer is, "Duh, quit drinking."
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Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: London
Posts: 2,040
Originally Posted by gobletoffire19 
I had heartburn so bad that it felt like my insides were on fire. Even drinking water felt like swallowing knives.
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Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Hill Country, Texas
Posts: 228
Blood pressure before 146/96 now 117/76
Gout symptoms gone.
And many listed already.
I sure miss being hypertensive, living life in a cycle of work, drink, hungover(repeat cycle x 20 years) and in excruciating pain for two weeks during a gout attack.
I don't get it. Someone please remind me why i shouldn't drink anymore?
Sorry gang. Feeling sarcastic.....
Jimmy
Gout symptoms gone.
And many listed already.
I sure miss being hypertensive, living life in a cycle of work, drink, hungover(repeat cycle x 20 years) and in excruciating pain for two weeks during a gout attack.
I don't get it. Someone please remind me why i shouldn't drink anymore?
Sorry gang. Feeling sarcastic.....
Jimmy
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: California
Posts: 2,693
Originally Posted by soberwolf
The first thing I got looked at was my busted ankle turns out as I didn't go hospital when I should have I now have arthritis in that ankle I did do physiotherapy sessions and I still exercise it today
Serious ear infection that went on for 9+ months - I can't tell you how happy I am since that cleared up
Alopecia - I had a ever increasing patch on my head it got quite big and it took 2 rounds of injections months apart as the alopecia returned as soon as my hair did
today most 98% of the patch has cleared up and I have a tiny patch of white hair on the back of my head
If I was drinking none of these things would ever have got sorted out
Serious ear infection that went on for 9+ months - I can't tell you how happy I am since that cleared up
Alopecia - I had a ever increasing patch on my head it got quite big and it took 2 rounds of injections months apart as the alopecia returned as soon as my hair did
today most 98% of the patch has cleared up and I have a tiny patch of white hair on the back of my head
If I was drinking none of these things would ever have got sorted out
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Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: UK
Posts: 467
I'm only 14 days in and I still feel exhausted out of my mind but my anxiety has almost disappeared!
I'm amazed that the panic I felt on a daily basis for years was just a hangover!
I don't want to get too ahead of myself just in case it comes back - but a few things have happened recently that 2 weeks ago would have sent me into a melt down - but I actually feel OK about it!
Unless I'm just too exhausted to care.....
I need this tiredness to go away - I can't function properly
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I'm amazed that the panic I felt on a daily basis for years was just a hangover!
I don't want to get too ahead of myself just in case it comes back - but a few things have happened recently that 2 weeks ago would have sent me into a melt down - but I actually feel OK about it!
Unless I'm just too exhausted to care.....
I need this tiredness to go away - I can't function properly
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Join Date: Jul 2014
Posts: 2,978
No longer have debilitating heatburn. Depression has gotten much much less severe. I'm not nauseous all the time. Shakes have gone. I don't dry heave the whole way home from work. Complexion is way better. And on and on and on.
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Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: CA, USA
Posts: 206
Originally Posted by MIRecovery
I always find it tragic when people in active addiction have all sorts of ailments and ask advice on what should be done. It is not politically correct but the answer is, "Duh, quit drinking."
I only just crossed over 60 days and I still have health problems but I'm no longer a walking zombie, exhausted nauseated and generally ill. No more red puffy face and retained water. Skin and eyes clearer and brighter.
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Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: CA, USA
Posts: 206
I never had my liver tested but at one point my body wasn't even healthy enough to do any yoga whatsoever anymore. I would immediately get torturous nausea and feel intensely sick and would have to stop so as not to puke. I can do yoga now though 
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