Once again it has reared its ugly head and I hate it. It has been going on for at least five days. I have anxiety, cognitive dissonance, and I’m getting just a few hours of sleep at night. As in the past, it will go away. I just want it to go away now.
FYI for those not familiar, here is a link:
Newbies be aware. Be prepared.
Opened this expecting something silly like having to do with animals (paws) 
and quickly realized that it had nothing to do with animals but rather something I have never even heard of before that explains soo much and makes soo much sense !!! Thanks for sharing !!
I messed up and let my triggers get to me again this past weekend. Binge drinking alone,chain smoking cigs, drunk texting my wife, whom I’m separated from. Anxiety Monday and Tuesday was u unrelenting. Using melatonin seems to help with my sleep, but night sweats are unreal fo me. I’m so happy to desire to quit. Just scary facing reality what I’ve done to my body. Today is day 2 for now.looking forward to withdrawal to be over with.
Your post made me giggle sorry couldnt resist…
Although PAWS can be debilitating and frustrating so it’s not fun… I remember having it for a week, 4 months into sobriety, i couldn’t sleep, i was anxious and had terrible dreams… I restarted my supplements and it went away, mainly calcium, magnesium, zink, b complex and taurine with l-glutamine… Good luck!
Sorry you’re going through though times! Change is scary, well it was for me, facing the facts and feelings. But you know you can’t go on like this so listen to your gut
I haven’t had any crazy dreams so far. Been irritable and not sleeping through the night. Still getting night sweats even though I keep the room at a constant 66 degrees. This is still better than waking up hung over all the time.
Been there, done that even got the T-shirt. In fact, I have a closet full of the same T-shirts. Just keep fighting and believing.
Don’t worry about the past. There literally is nothing you can do about it, but accept it! Try to wrap your head around that! But you do have today.
Thanks for sharing I was thinking the same thing as @Dee18 , lol.
This defiantly makes since to me, I have been having a rough few weeks and this sounds like me, I couldn’t figure out why I was so depressed and feeling like I was withdrawing again.
10 months in and I’m thinking my fatigue I’m feeling is down to PAWS, it’s been tough this week and looking forward to it passing. Just raising awareness for anyone else who might have PAWS symptoms.
Apparently it can take 2 years to fully pass. All I want to do is sleep.
Well PAWS made a visit last night at 12:30 a.m. I felt like I was experiencing a really bad hangover. Took some aspirin and drank a bottle of water. I finally fell back to sleep. I feel much better this morning but tired. I will take a nap before my home group AA meeting tonight.
I’ve been getting the total hours of sleep but according to my fitbit I’ve been getting very little deep sleep as compared to just a week or so ago. I’m sure fitbit sleep analysis isn’t super accurate but I’m sure it is accurate in day to day fluctuations. As a result I know I’m getting 8 hours of sleep but I’m still so tired because very little is deep sleep OR REM sleep. A lot of light sleep.
