Sounds good IH!

We just had the most surreal week of temps hovering around 18° to 19°C and sun from dawn to dusk. Usually this is the coldest time of year over here, but I could do some gardening in a T-shirt.

That sky was BLUE.

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Several records of warmest Feb. days ever were smashed.
(sadly, back to a dark dank shade of gray, rain, and wind now)

Hi everyone, havent checked in and a while and I should have.

All is well I gotta say. I am by no means cured but I have been improving. I've spent the winter pretty dedicated to getting in better health. That means exercise and diet.

I am sticking to a low carb very low sugar diet and have lost more weight. And gym 4 times a week has resulted in muscle.

I am no gym freak, just a 41 year old looking to feel better and happy to be alive after the kind of life I had been living. I started off slow, just your basic routine that you find online, and I am seeing results. I could have pushed myself harder no doubt, but I've been consistent and it's working. Someone told me early on dont go out and try and get an A + every day. Just stay consistent and things will change over time. I applied the same logic to my diet and exercise and it's working.

So much so that i bought a pair of roller hockey skates last week and am on my 3rd day of doing drills. I used to play a lot of hockey up until I was 18 and it's awesome going back to my roots. I have 15 more pounds I'm interesting in losing and this will help tremendously. I just cant push myself in a gym like I do on a rink.

Also, after a chilly winter in NYC, I went down to Miami last week and let me tell you the difference in my pain was out of control. It was cut in half. Crazy.

Not much has changed on my med / DR feedback. I had some more tests done and there was slight improvement. I am comfortable with taking two doses of gabapentin a day, one in the morning and one at night, 600 MGs. I hope to lose my remaining weight and see how I feel come summer and maybe lower it down to 300 mgs 2 x a day.

Overall my spirits are up and I have gotten used to living with this condition. Would be amazing if it improved even more, but I am at peace with it. I hope all is well with everyone else. Will try to post more.

2800 days!

All is well here in the South

Congrats Icehouse!

Good one Icehouse .

hi i just been reading alllll these forum boards for the past few hours today and yesterday it is all i can focus on,
just coming off two weeks sober

off a weird sad depresing three months of drinking beer and had no idea that anything was happening/ tolerance, and my anxiety went through the roof

and the mornings i would get jolted awake and would just chug beer and try to get back to bed and i started noticing the tingling but only in my left arm and left leg and my brain but the beer calmed me down so i wasn't sure what was happening but i fell into sucha deep end chuggin at 5 in the morning when i couldnt get back to sleep because i was having withdrawals which i wasnt even aware were withdrawals

three day after quitting my left arm and left leg went numb and still are numb and it has been so scary and my hand pain and i have been panicking so much and unable to focus

its been wonderful reading all your threads

sorry my word jamble is such a mess

hello everyone

i havent even felt social lately all i have been craving is the beer fix it just became a beer fix > anything in life

things turned sour fast and lots of domino effect things and i couldnt cope at all

even as i type this i feel my left arm numb

it's jsut a weird and odd scary sensation

i have slight head aches too is this common?

i am going to get some more tests soon too, too scared to talk about until i see results

my attention span has been soo awful since stopped drinking

i never was one to drink everyday until january where i just went into a spiral because i had free time and was looking for work and it just all went down hill from there

it's been terrifying waking up and feeling numb and remembering oh wait this bad dream is real now

had the weridest sensations even at night just waves of electric shock running through body always at around three am,

they sort of passed

ah sorry for continuing to blab

i haven't been in any support/social circles in so sooo sooo long

it feels even weird to be typing and trying to be social right now


thank you for sharing all your knowledge i have been reading everthing for hours already and it is beautiful seeing everyone's support and stories and accountability,

i still have this fog of gloom over my eyes my brain, dizzy dizzy foggy foggy and the whole world still feels strange

thank you all and everytim ei see this emoji i feel better

sending to all

and i wonder how soon someone replies to this

Welcome qzqzqz .

I think that you should be really proud of yourself for not drinking for two weeks.

Please keep on posting here; nobody will judge you but we will all do our best to support you and offer you suggestions.

Dear Members!

I had more or less a 10 years long relationship with alcohol up and down with some pauses and some binge drinking periods in the end. The past 3 years being the worst, especially since COVID started. I had a tough life and looked for some relief in drinking, which I learned was the worst choice of my life. I spent almost half a year of a hellish nightmare as a result in what seems to be alcoholic neuropathy.

I had the following symptoms:
- Weakness in the feet (I had difficulties walking sometimes)
- Pain in the hands
- Numbness in my hands and feet
- Small electric shocks in random parts of my body, especially fingers, toes
- Failing motor functions in my right hand
- Tingling in my fingers and toes
- Spasms, cramps, especially in the night or in the morning
- Insomnia (I slept less than 1 hour a day for almost a month)
- Numbness in the nights which woke me up once finally asleep
- Complete sexual disfunction
- Shaking hands (I could not even write or had difficulties typing on the phone or computer)
- False sensation of temperature in the hands and feet, legs and arm. (that was for me the worst of all, cold legs and feet.)
- Pain in my back
- A false feeling of being bitten by stinging nettle on my extremities or my back (I still have this ocassionally, if I eat too much sugar or stress out)
- short term memory loss
- concentration problems
- depression and anxiety
- cold needles on ramdom part of my body, especially extremities
- false feeling of waterdrops anywhere (really crazy)

I did not have all the symptoms together, but usually 2-3 of them. I stopped drinking in December 2021 and since then every week was a little better than the previous one. I have now 5-6 good days in a week. In January my best day was like my worst now. I have days now without any symptoms or very mild ones. The doctor said after the ENG/EMG measurement that in 6 months I could be completely cured.

I started taking vitamins, doing daily excercise and eating a balanced diet right after quitting alcohol. That means from one day to another without any help. I was so afraid of this sickness, that there was no question that I have to quit drinking right away.

Now I take Benfotiamine (I am doing my first month on this. I live in Hungary, healthcare is for free, but it is very slow) in the mornings and complete it with B1, B6, B9, B12, Folat. I take some Vitamin which is called Milgamma N, but already cut down on the Vitamin intake, only go back to the old dosage on my bad days, which are less common nowadays, thanks God.

If you are interested in more details. Please ask. I would gladly answer.

I lived in Hungary some time ago. My friend (real name Peter), spoke to me in English (my only language), a mutual friend in Russian, all the time while talking to Hungarians in their language.


Please contact me if you think I can help you.


Best wishes.