I’m on 18 days now and overall feel great. Today is the start of a long weekend for me and the weekends have always been challenging for me in the past. This morning I woke up bright and early but felt like I was hungover for some reason. I had an overwhelming feeling of guilt and shame that usually comes with a previous night of drinking but I didn’t have a drop. I rolled out of bed to drag myself to the gym but that didn’t seem to make me feel better.
When I’ve done periods of time without drinking I’ve felt this before but I wasn’t on any kind of community forum and never felt like sharing my thoughts with those around me. I’m really trying to stay sober this go around. Just posting here to see if any one else has gotten this feeling. Thanks for reading
This could possibly be paws- post Acute withdrawal symptoms though I’m sure somebody with more knowledge surrounding alcohol will be along shortly.
Welcome btw
Congrats on 18 days! 35 days at the end of day today myself. After this weekend you’ll have 3 weeks, which means almost a month! What do you have planned to keep yourself on track this weekend?
It’s the unofficial “last hurrah of summer” weekend where I’m at, so usually a huge trigger, but this weekend i start moving into my new place so there’s absolutely no time to “kick back” and thus, no triggers. Plus the recovery tools I’ve been using these last few weeks really have my mind off of my DOC (alcohol), so even if i wasn’t jam-packed busy this weekend, i don’t have a doubt i would be able to deflect all triggers thrown at me.
Oh yeah, and to answer your initial Q – i definitely have phantom ‘hangovers’ from time to time. I assume it’s because the body & brain is healing itself, and sometimes it gets exhausted from all the work it’s doing. Plus i probably didn’t drink enough water or eat enough greens the day before.
Congratulations on your 18 days! sugar makes me feel like I have a hangover if I eat too much before bed. Guilt and shame would pop up every now and then until I learned to forgive myself and make an amends to those I hurt.
