hi all, i've been lurking around alcoholic neuropathy threads for some time now. i would like to share my story with you.

i am 27 now and started to think i have alcohol induced neuropathy last December 2013. i couldn't gather the courage to go to the doctor because of shame. i am not alcoholic, i drink on occasion but i think my body is just too weak to handle the alcohol. i have alcoholic friends but i don't go with them every time they have their "drinking sessions". their bodies can handle it, i can tell. they can drink as much as they want without having some sort of condition like what i have. i started drinking when i was 17, in college, there were years that i would drink on occasion and there were years that i would drink maximum 4 times a month. i stopped drinking again the moment i knew i was pregnant 3 years ago. up until 2 years after because i was breastfeeding. it was only last year that I started drinking again.

one night, me and my friends drank too much beer. we finished at around 2am. came 4am, i got this really bad pain on my right leg only i couldn't move my leg. i couldn't explain the pain. i couldn't forget that night, i was crying in pain. my right leg was numb. i couldn't sleep again, i asked husband to get hot and cold compress but it didn't help, i didn't know what medicine to take because i get allergies on certain pain relievers. the pain traveled to my right arm, but the pain on my right arm was not as much painful as it is on my right leg. i cried for 2 hours until i realized it was morning already.

the next day i searched and started googling and reading threads. thanks to that night and to google and neurotalk, i discovered i have alcoholic neuropathy. i immediately bought over the counter supplements available in our country. B-Complex (with 1000mg b12, took it twice a day) and multivitamins. and then i started ordering supplements on amazon, yes, without even consulting a doctor (haha, my bad) right now i am on these supplements, they just arrived last week:

Nature's Plus Iron 1x a day first thing in the morning
B-Right 1x a day after breakfast
Doctor's Best Benfothiamine 300mg, Jarrow Methyl B12 1000mg, Potassium 99mg, Folate 800mg - all after lunch
Ascenta NutraSea Balanced EPA & DHA Omega 3 Supplement with Vitamin D - 2x after dinner

my question is, should i be worried that I didn't even see a doctor before taking these supplements? i think i am experiencing some side effects - nausea / dizziness / light headedness (but i can handle it). where could these possibly come from? is there something wrong with the timing of the medicines that i am taking?

to add also, it is only after researching that i realized i have also been experiencing usual short term memory loss. for example i remember i have to search for something, after a couple of seconds, i would forget what it is, and then after a couple of minutes, i would try hard to remember what it is. i don't know if this is because of neuropathy or simple momnesia, haha i was induced with anesthesia when i gave birth. i remember also experiencing very slight tingling / numbness on one leg way back when i used to drink often. there were nights when i will drink too much and then the numbness/tingling will occur, i used to think it would be rheumatism or gout, or just because it was too cold. i didn't take anything because the pain didn't bother me.

also, i have been on birth control pills for two months already when "that" night happened. i've read somewhere that pills plus alcohol can weaken the immune system? maybe that is why the pain happened? to add up also my nutritional deficiency, i am very thin and not very often take vitamins until that night happened, everyone says i'm thin and that i should start taking vitamins to get chubbier. i am also starting to think that i might have a disease that won't let my body absorb the vitamins i am taking (haha)

any inputs are really appreciated. even my husband thinks i am crazy for not seeing a doctor. also, i have been sober and stopped taking the pills since that night.