Well, I've used my AlkaSeltzer 3 times this week. That is more than usual for me. The weather changes, the LOWs that swoop in with storms, really affect my pain levels.

There are weather triggers for pain for many people.

Everyone is different... the AlkaSeltzer does work for some posters on the PN forum. It is always worth a try.
Try it once more just to see if you needed a loading dose.
Then you can discard it.

638 days sober today. Did not go bowling this month, but I did move to a 4br house on 2 acres with a garage. That means yard work, grass cutting, tree trimming, snow shoveling (the one day a year it snows) and raking leaves.

Excited I am to be ABLE to do that crap!!!

See, I am getting life back. I am getting MY life back. It is a bit of a slow process, but as my sobriety counter climbs, so does my health and in my case I am being blessed.

I am booked for a trip to the Turks & Caicos Islands next month and I fully plan on scuba diving, snorkeling and finding my future ex-wife

Now, I have decreased my vitamin regime in half in the past 2 months, just for giggles, and I have NOT noticed a decline at all. I am going to stay with that for a couple months and then dive down to just a multivitamin.

This is the first time in 38 years I have taken any sort of medication\vitamins for any length of time and if I don't "need" them I would rather not take them.

I am taking a Centrum Silver daily and a Benfotiamine (150 mg) every other day.

Will see how that pans out.

Congrats, Icehouse!

I'm 4 months without a drink and I've been drinking for about a decade heavily. I've just been diagnosed with PN due to drinking excessively over the years. I've been losing feeling in my hands and been stumbling with picking things up. My hands and feet are often dead cold.

Did you suffer from cold hands and feet? and if so, did the Benfotiamine and B12 fix that?

Welcome! Myself, I did not suffer from cold hands or feet. My troubles were with the 'pinky' fingers going numb and then having trouble grasping like you mentioned. In my feet it was mostly the pins and needles feeling.

Fix is a strong word at this point as I am not 'fixed' quite yet. I am well on the way I believe but it will a while yet before I am 100%. Although I do attribute a part of my success to the above vitamins. I don't think they can hurt in any way so its worth taking what is needed for you.

Like I have said before, in my case, complete abstinence from alcohol and moderate exercise are what worked for me so far.

I am at 650 days sober today...creeping up on my 40th bday and 2 years sober...what a great gift to me

Keep it up, it IS worth it in the long run.....

Don't laugh... I only managed to do this again after 3 years this week. I was happy as a child when it worked.

Mind you, if all is good I'll never be able to catch you, as I'm only on day 340 today. But I know there is no going back, and I'm amazed at how relatively easy it gets.

This thread was one of the motivators for me, so I looked it up today, and join you in saying it can be done. Oh, I do have pain today, but it's muscle cramps from working in the garden, and, true to form, overdoing it.

Why didn't you tell me earlier!?

Oh wait, you did.

I'm still improving daily, so much so I can hardly believe it. And, like Icehouse, I do hope people find this thread and get some inspiration out of it. It definitely worked for me.

If I was the emotional type I would probably cry right now, but I will find a sappy emoticon instead....wait for it.....

Ok, I am good now.

Very proud of you (despite that fact you are just words on my screen) and I am beyond ecstatic that I have may have helped and inspired just one person. That makes the posting more than worth it.

Keep up the great work and follow me on the sobriety ladder....you will never catch up with me, you may surpass me, but it will be an absolute journey.

Heheh, I know what you mean. I'm an IT grunt myself, have been online for 23 years now, and learned that not everyone is who they say they are.

Still, I suppose you'll have to take a leap of faith in this case: I do exist, and my words (and thanks) are true.

Icehouse. I picked up on your thread this morning, over here in Blighty. I, like you, have been a heavy drinker for twenty years, (though you are now 4 years sober I presume, and for that I doff my cap to you sir). I have suffered with all the symptoms you have described in your thread, aswell as excruciating night cramps. Another, more disturbing effect of alcohol withdrawal I have suffered from are full blown epileptic type fits. I am told that these have occurred because I have stopped drinking with immediate effect one day, from drinking over a litre of vodka, plus red wine for long periods on previous days, sometimes for periods of up to a month. I have been hospitalized several times, and locked up countless times. The strange thing for me is that I can go weeks without a drop, and then for some unknown reason, BANG! I'm on a three week binge. Alcohol has taken everything from me, job, girlfriend, home, friends.