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My brain does the substance dance too. I alternate between alcohol, pain killers, coffee, and sugar as my drugs of choice. I haven't touched pain killers in years and don't plan to ever go back, I've had maybe five drinks and ten cups of coffee in the past year. I can't totally cut out sugar but I h...

Yep, if you go back to my own story post, I wrote about how I was having another bad wave at month 13. Same thing as you. Was feeling relatively normal for a couple months then BAM. I always try to attribute it to outside factors when it happens, like drinking coffee or trying keto, but I think I ju...

@iHatePaws94 - Thank you for your experience. Yes! It's crazy. For about two months I was feeling relatively normal, then BAM it's been 3-4 weeks of a killer wave. There were even a couple days I felt I was on the verge of a panic attack again and I haven't had one since my acute withdrawal phase. I...

Yep, can relate to everything you are going to to a T. How far along are you? In my first two weeks I went to the ER four times, fully convinced I was dying. Only thing they found was that I had a fast heart rate, some swollen lymph nodes, and I was somehow in ketosis, which would explain why I was ...

@gregor7782 - The beginning of your third year sober? What happened, if you don't mind sharing. I thought PAWS usually goes away around year two.

Hey guys. Thanks so much for the support. Sorry for some of my spelling errors and run on paragraphs. I'm not the best communicator lol. Just an update. As I said when I first posted, I thought I was on the tail end of another wave. I made the bright idea of trying keto to see if it would ease sympt...

Hi guys. I've been lurking here since the day I quit. I thought it would finally be time to post my story since the internet seems to be sorely lacking in long term PAWS experiences. I also feel my situation is a little more out of the ordinary from an already out of the ordinary experience, that it...