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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/ss/slideshow-quit-alcohol-effects

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[quote]Sugar withdrawal symptoms may last anywhere from a few days to several weeks and can vary significantly among people. Withdrawal symptoms may depend on how quickly you reduce your intake and how quickly your body's tolerance adapts to eating less sugar.4

Common symptoms of reducing or eliminating sugar can include:

Mood changes: Many people feel down or depressed when they stop eating sugar. This is likely because a lack of sugar corresponds to a decrease in the release of dopamine, a neurotransmitter that plays a key role in the brain's reward system.

Difficulty concentrating: Trouble focusing and paying attention can make it hard to concentrate on tasks at school, work, or in everyday life.

Irritability: Sugar withdrawal may lead to a low tolerance for people or situations you find annoying (i.e., someone singing loudly or traffic on your way home from work).

Intense cravings: Removing sweets or carbohydrate-rich foods all at once can trigger cravings for these specific foods.

Feeling anxious: Cutting out sugar too quickly may lead to restlessness and increased anxiety.

Nausea: Some people experience digestive symptoms such as nausea when reducing their sugar intake.

Headaches: A sudden reduction in sugar intake makes your blood sugar levels drop and headaches to occur.

Dizziness or fatigue: If you're used to eating sugar regularly, you may feel dizzy or weak without a steady stream of it.

Changes in your sleep pattern: Some people find it difficult to fall asleep as fast or stay asleep when they're experiencing a withdrawal from sugar.[/quote]

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. 
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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 [b]last[/b] 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 [b]began[/b] several weeks in is alcohol (/sugar) withdrawal.

I think a virus is a lot more likely.[/quote]

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