Good for you OP. Maybe it's related to stopping drinking, or maybe it's related to the weather, or one of the 5 billion viruses circulating right now, or something weirder (my mom had Hepatitis A once and, before she turned yellow, crushing fatigue was her biggest symptom). If you don't feel better if a few weeks, or it gets worse, go to your doctor. |
Thanks, Dr. DCUM, for your magical diagnosis of a stranger over the internet via an anon board. We all trust your judgment, based in facts as it obviously is. OP - Those of us who have detoxed have also experienced similar fatigue. If it's not something you can work through, please see an actual doctor. Just know that there's a pervasive alcohol culture in our country, and what may be simple detox/withdrawal might be misdiagnosed. Especially by idiots on the internet. |
https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/ss/slideshow-quit-alcohol-effects
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Ending daily consumption of a couple of units of alcohol (I suspect OP's daily wine pour was the typical American restaurant size, which is 2.5 units of alcohol, not just one) removes a substantial trigger of elevated blood glucose, substantially changing the body's overall experience of metabolism. The people scoffing at the notion that OP is experiencing withdrawal symptoms just a couple of weeks after going cold turkey off alcohol are clearly really very ignorant of nutritional biochemistry. No shame there, most doctors are too! But yeah, OP's body is absolutely still experiencing a rebalancing after physiological dependency on alcohol. |
So you have diagnosed that OP is mistaken about her alcohol intake (perhaps lying, perhaps not). And based on a WebMD article that says withdrawal from sugar may last for weeks, and with minimal other information about other ways her diet may have changed, you think the correct diagnosis here is that fatigue that began several weeks in is alcohol (/sugar) withdrawal. I think a virus is a lot more likely. |
Speaking to the fatigue issue, it’s very possible that it’s being caused by the elimination of alcohol. It seems to have irritated some posters that this is being referred to as withdrawal. Regardless of what you call it, this is extremely common and just your metabolism adjusting. That doesn’t mean you’re an alcoholic. Go to any dry january message board and you’ll see that changes in sleep patterns and fatigue are big themes. |
That some of these posters are irritated by the word "withdrawal" suggests they have their own dependencies to address. You don't have to be An Alcoholic to have a problematic relationship with alcohol use. And if the mere thought bothers you, there's probably some resonance you should investigate. |
This. Can almost guantee that everyone having a big reaction to that word has an alcohol dependency issue. It's almost like it's the addiction reacting. |