Is this normal? I woke up in a pool of sweat shaking then wretching,
just like day 1 and 2.
Looking forward to to tonights meeting, and just trying to keep busy,
An hour at a time now, rather than a day at a time..... If I can stay
sober till 6pm when I get my lift to the meeting I should be OK......

"Tomas" <tvoncarlshausen@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Is this normal? I woke up in a pool of sweat shaking then wretching,
> just like day 1 and 2.
> Looking forward to to tonights meeting, and just trying to keep busy,
> An hour at a time now, rather than a day at a time..... If I can stay
> sober till 6pm when I get my lift to the meeting I should be OK......

Tomas,
It's not just playing word games to say that it's not a question of if
you can stay sober till 6pm -- it's a question of if you will. You can if
you will. Also, forget 6pm, or even an hour at a time. The important issue
is that you are not drinking *now*. Keep that moving with you during the
day. Just don't drink now.
I swear that you will fell better, so don't become discouraged and let
that be the trap to pull you back down. Just keep doing the things that you
know that you need to do and don't over-think everything.
Stay with it.
Dan

"dan mcgown" <dmcgown@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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>
> "Tomas" <tvoncarlshausen@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1132312108.717141.256610@g43g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
>> Is this normal? I woke up in a pool of sweat shaking then wretching,
>> just like day 1 and 2.
>> Looking forward to to tonights meeting, and just trying to keep busy,
>> An hour at a time now, rather than a day at a time..... If I can stay
>> sober till 6pm when I get my lift to the meeting I should be OK......
>
> Tomas,
> It's not just playing word games to say that it's not a question of if
> you can stay sober till 6pm -- it's a question of if you will. You can if
> you will. Also, forget 6pm, or even an hour at a time. The important
> issue is that you are not drinking *now*. Keep that moving with you
> during the day. Just don't drink now.
> I swear that you will fell better, so don't become discouraged and let
> that be the trap to pull you back down. Just keep doing the things that
> you know that you need to do and don't over-think everything.
> Stay with it.
> Dan

"will feel better" -- Heck, Tomas, being sober doesn't mean that I can
type.

Tomas <tvoncarlshausen@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1132312108.717141.256610@g43g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> Is this normal? I woke up in a pool of sweat shaking then wretching,
> just like day 1 and 2.
> Looking forward to to tonights meeting, and just trying to keep busy,
> An hour at a time now, rather than a day at a time..... If I can stay
> sober till 6pm when I get my lift to the meeting I should be OK......

It's just probably your nervous system slowly repairing. Now that you are
sober you will feel better. You will feel anger better, anxiety better, etc.
Your nerves will feel a bit raw for awhile if you had been drinking
regularly before. Try some B-vitamins, get some exercise when you feel up to
it, Eat good nutritious food, Avoid too much coffee, and keep a little
candy handy.
It goes away in time Tomas. The hardest part sometimes is just hanging in
there till it does. Go to meetings and hang out afterwards. Talk about how
you are feeling about this.

if you can, try to eat something....................NO COFFEE.
banana? crackers? peanut butter?

--

PRISONER ABUSE
http://img240.imageshack.us/my.php?i...erabuse6bo.jpg




"Tomas" <tvoncarlshausen@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1132312108.717141.256610@g43g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> Is this normal? I woke up in a pool of sweat shaking then wretching,
> just like day 1 and 2.
> Looking forward to to tonights meeting, and just trying to keep busy,
> An hour at a time now, rather than a day at a time..... If I can stay
> sober till 6pm when I get my lift to the meeting I should be OK......
>

Keep it up Tomas - you are right now in the thick of the worst part. And
you're doing great!!

I'll have 6 months at the end of the month (hold the applause until 11/29!)
and I wasn't sleeping through the night or soaking the sheets with sweat
until after my 2nd or 3rd full week. A couple folks have posted similar
thoughts to this and I'm going to in a slightly different way in case you
didn't hear the prior messages. The "not drinking" part of not drinking, is
the easiest piece. It's the "living" part that is what we recovering drunks
don't know how to do well. And what we need help with. This is why I keep
going to meetings. You're going to start having feelings. And feelings,
suck. Okay... sometimes they're good actually, quite often they're good.
But the bad feelings, suck because we can't crawl back into our bottles to
make them go away. We have to learn to deal with them. Two months sober, I
verbally hauled off on this 55 year old woman because she said something I
took offense to. I didn't handle any of my dealings with her well that
night and had to make amends to her (actually, I made amends to her voice
mail, but it worked) the very next day. But I was confused beyond belief.
I thought that not drinking was synonymous with life being good. Uhn, uh.
Not drinking only enables life to be good. Life can still have it's sucky
moments but it's real. Before it was fake.

Took me a while to fully realize that. I still have trouble with it but now
I know what I have trouble with.

Congratulations - you are exactly where you need to be!

steve

"Tomas" <tvoncarlshausen@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1132312108.717141.256610@g43g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> Is this normal? I woke up in a pool of sweat shaking then wretching,
> just like day 1 and 2.
> Looking forward to to tonights meeting, and just trying to keep busy,
> An hour at a time now, rather than a day at a time..... If I can stay
> sober till 6pm when I get my lift to the meeting I should be OK......
>

"Tomas" <tvoncarlshausen@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1132312108.717141.256610@g43g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> Is this normal? I woke up in a pool of sweat shaking then wretching,
> just like day 1 and 2.
> Looking forward to to tonights meeting, and just trying to keep busy,
> An hour at a time now, rather than a day at a time..... If I can stay
> sober till 6pm when I get my lift to the meeting I should be OK......
>

Yeah symptoms come go and sometimes return, no biggy. Follow Dan's advice
and stay sober just for now and ride with it. Keeping yourself busy helps.

Darren

"rosie read n' post" <readandpost@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> if you can, try to eat something....................NO COFFEE.
> banana? crackers? peanut butter?
>

Banana and chocolate smoothie.



> --
>
> PRISONER ABUSE
> http://img240.imageshack.us/my.php?i...erabuse6bo.jpg
>
>
>
>
> "Tomas" <tvoncarlshausen@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1132312108.717141.256610@g43g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> > Is this normal? I woke up in a pool of sweat shaking then wretching,
> > just like day 1 and 2.
> > Looking forward to to tonights meeting, and just trying to keep busy,
> > An hour at a time now, rather than a day at a time..... If I can stay
> > sober till 6pm when I get my lift to the meeting I should be OK......
> >
>
>

B12, multivitamins, folate are whats given in the IV to help
alcoholics. PO most likely would not hurt.


On 18 Nov 2005 03:08:28 -0800, "Tomas" <tvoncarlshausen@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Is this normal? I woke up in a pool of sweat shaking then wretching,
>just like day 1 and 2.
>Looking forward to to tonights meeting, and just trying to keep busy,
>An hour at a time now, rather than a day at a time..... If I can stay
>sober till 6pm when I get my lift to the meeting I should be OK......

"rosie read n' post" <readandpost@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:eMnff.1822$js5.224@tornado.rdc-kc.rr.com...
> if you can, try to eat something....................NO COFFEE.
> banana? crackers? peanut butter?
>
NO COFFEE? Do you mean until Tomas' next meeting? ;-)