Alcohol is a drug. My body was depending on getting my fix because it was what I did every day.

Keep hydrated. Water, Gatorade. The brain is bouncing around on your skull it needs water. The disease is one that is centered in my mind. My disease would tell me, just take a drink it will make life better again, and many times I did, but this last time I went to a group meeting of others and found help I found that by asking for help for the first time in my life I was able to tell my disease no. Just when I wanted a drink I would call another person and by talking I could get through it. I couldn't get sober on my own.

Alcohol is a drug. It's very addictive and takes time to get over. It does get better, and fast. After a few more days the physical withdrawal will be over and it then comes down to the mental dependency. That will last my lifetime but it does lessen and become manageable.

You can do this. Cmon
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Honestly it sounds like withdrawals. the first week can be very very hard. You can get online and find some remedies that will help ease your symptoms. Also if you can try to sleep that would help. You're welcome to message me I have some links if you would like them, helped me get through. the first few day i got sober, every time I would feel like drinking I tried to get online and do research on dealing with addiction. Or I called the crisis line. it helped a lot.

I went to lots of meetings, read lots of literature, talked to a sponsor daily, and kept the mantra "this too shall pass" in the first year. It is important you take baby steps and not do anything too stressful or energy draining the first year, I suggest. Becoming spiritual takes time, and the pain that comes along with the process is very real, but all very necessary.

Just think, if you keep on a straight and recovery based path, in a few years while your peers are boasting of how hammered they were or making others people's lives miserable from their unspiritual characters, you'll be thanking God you're much more well off than they, and will be having much better opportunites and experiences than them.

You're only in your first week of sobriety and your body is reacting and I can understand it is hard to fight migraine and withdrawal symptoms but keep at it. Slowly but surely your headache will disappear and you will feel better. There will be good days and bad days but like the other guys say, the good days will vastly outweigh the bad. Just take it one hour at a time then one day at a time and before you know it you will be months down the line completely sober and with a clear head :-)

I used to have some bad headaches when i stopped. They went away and i never looked back.

I just quit a little over a month ago. I also had the headaches but ibuprofen really helped at least temporarily. Laying quietly and drinking lots of water helped too.