i have the same problem as you and im not an alchohic either. i just drank yesterday and i got pretty buzzed and now after waking up i feel verrry terrified wondering if i did something wrong. i feel depressed and anxious. and this has always happened to me after i drink a good amount. doesnt seem to effect my friends thou. usually when i feel like this i search the internet for something similar. but i remembed the last time i drank and felt like this and it seems after a day or 2 i start to feel normal again.
Like most of u I found this forum cos I'm suffering right now!im a 31 yo mother of 3 and happily married. My anxiety after drinking started after I had my first child.and like a lot of u has got worse wit age and more responsibilities. This morning I had my worst panic attack ever. If I black out the anxiety is much worse but get it after I drink any amount. My attack this morning started around 6am and lasted 3 hours!it was out of control and my husband was ready to committ me! Mine stems from fear and guilt that I must have done something truly awful like having sex wit someone other than my husband even though I have no evidence to prove it but because I can't remember I conjure up the worst possible scenario based on snippets of the evening! I am not a cheater, disloyal unhappy in my marriage or ever been promiscuous and yet I convince myself I have done something like this! I feel sick and anxious for days, not always about the same scenario but just guilt that I am a bad person for drinking excessive amounts occasionally and I must have said or done something dreadful! I do get mild anxiety anyway as we have A very full on life so i stress that I can't cope with everything that's going on and I'm not going to get everything done on time! I have found a friend who suffers from anxiety but not after drinking and found it really helps to talk things over with someone who knows and understands what your going through!! Needless to say though I am off to the doc tomorrow to get myself sorted! It is not normal to live this way and while alcohol brings it out for us it is not the alcohol that causes it! It's chemical and in your brain, like a lot of mental illnesses it can be managed and I intend to start managing mine by going and seeing my dr about it!
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Yo! Let me just say that I got drunk on Sunday and now it's Friday... And I'm still paranoid as f**k... I have a history of drug and alcohol abuse and over time I developed OCD. However now for the past 6 yrs I don't do drugs but sometimes drink to excessive amount... "I REALLY MEAN EXCESSIVE" and the last time I really done gone did it... I got so screwed up that when I was trying to pour a glass of cola for everybody I ended up spilling all around the table... better yet I don't remember sh*t. Since I take a 20mg of Prozac I'm now afraid that I did some damage to my heart and that even after five days I will croak... Can somebody share some ideas with me to calm me the f**k down!!!
Oh my gosh...I thought I was going crazy...I have that same thing and could never articulate it as well as you...The whole "waking up and feeling like you robbed a bank" is EXACTLY how I feel the day after drinking, especially when I drink too much...I've tried different ways to explain this to my wife who cannot fathom why I get that terrible wave of anxiety the day after drinking instead of the usual symptoms of a traditional "hangover"...
I've suffered with anxiety for my entire life and before I was diagnosed, couldn't understand why I worried so much...Alcohol excaserbated this problem exponentially and my entire day after became a nightmare...Oddly enough, and as simple as this sounds, I knew the alcohol made the anxiety worse but didn't want to give it up for the several hours I didn't have anxiety while I was drinking...It really is a terrible circle of behavior but makes me feel a lot better knowing there are others like myself...Thanks for posting!!!
So I too am expieriencing the paranoia, anxiety, twitches, insomnia, night swets and hallucinations. I have dealt with this for a few months now , and actually ended up in the hospitol from it because i thought i was litterally going to die after i was in this state and then smoked weed which i think intensified my paranoia and everythign else. I did research online and i feel that we may be expeiriencing minor to sever alcohol withdrawls because every single sympom that is listed i had, and have right now. This will usually happen to me after i binge drink and blackout several days in a row. the insomnia i get is from the fear that if i fall asleep i wont wake up..
It is very reassuring that so many others feel like this also.
I am currently experiencing day two of these horrible symptoms (generally the worst day), hence why I have been searching the web for similar cases.
The idea of 'running away from my body' is exactly how I feel. I feel exhausted physically and mentally, depressed, anxious, shaky, I am hot one moment and cold the next. I feel an overwhelming sense of guilt which is unexplained, I am sitting constantly checking social media websites to see if there was any mention of me whilst I was drunk, I'm in a constant state of fear.
Like most on this thread I understand that it is the alcohol which ultimately makes me feel like this, and the logical thing to do would be to quit altogether. Considering the way I have felt the past two days, I am now ready to commit myself to giving up drinking. I am a social drinker, once a week at most, but it is a drinking binge rather than a few to relax after work.
I would never wish this on anyone, and hope if you are reading and are feeling the same as me, it passes by as quick as possible. Xx
Serotonin - when you drink alchohol, it disrupts the brains ability to regulate serotonin. Once this system gets out of whack, you start to feel the negative anxiety effects. If you are like me, and stopping drinking doesn't appeal to you, the best and quickest way to get your serotonin system back in order is to perform vigorous exercise. Key word here is "vigorous". Not walking on the treadmill for 10 minutes, but something that will make you sweat buckets. It doesn't have to be long, but it does have to be hard. It will do wonders for your anxiety. At least it does for me.
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i've noticed i feel i a whole lot less when i stick or cava/brut/champange type drinks. But will get it with everything thing else. i think what people say here about it being a route to addiction maybe be right cause to cure myself of the feeling i drink one can of beer and seem to relax. I never drink more then one can thou during that hang over period.never.
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I was a longtime Vodka drinker, in the end even Vodka brought the same results. Even if it was 3-4 drinks the whole next few weeks were ruined. Not so much feeling paranoid but depression and feeling like I would NEVER feel normal agian. I did notice that while I was drinking I got stuffed up really bad, so I may have a slight allergy. However I think that their really is something psychological and physical happening to cause us to feel this way. Seriously 3 drinks and 2 weeks of total irritation and depression? It just doesn't make any sense.
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hi, well glad to know im not alone with this. i hate people complaining about hangovers, let them suffer like all of us on this page do, then they would know a normal hangover is a walk in the park compared to what we suffer.
well i have read a lot about anxiety and alcohol, what i found was people with anxiety are over twice as likely to have a drink as a person without it. it relieves the symptoms while we drink, but when you stop drinking the symptoms worsen plus you have to make up for all your anxiety free time, so you get a double does the next day. from what i have read this is why we suffer so much the next day.
one thing i didnt see anywhere i looked, is if all alcoholic drinks cause this. i only drink beer, i love it but have gave it up cause it was not worth it the way i felt the days after it. would like to know if other people out there that drink wine, whiskey, or other types of drinks suffer this too or if anyone has a cure for this maybe something that helped them apart from giving up drink completely
I too use to get all the above until I switched to Vodka. The reason for most of the stated symptoms is due to preservatives that are used for wines and most beers call sulfites. Vodka and Gin...though I've never tried Gin, are very pure needing no preservatives and thus not inducing hangovers and the other stuff. Most people with adverse affects after drinking believe it's due to an alcohol allergy, when indeed it is due to a preservative (sulfite) allergy. It goes without saying that alcohol is poison no matter what, so if you over do it you still may get somewhat sick, however in my experience I've never gotten a hangover from vodka even after much drinking, where as three glasses of wine and I'm hugging the porcelain goddess all night.
Good Luck.....let me know if this works. -John
I was a longtime Vodka drinker, in the end even Vodka brought the same results. Even if it was 3-4 drinks the whole next few weeks were ruined. Not so much feeling paranoid but depression and feeling like I would NEVER feel normal agian. I did notice that while I was drinking I got stuffed up really bad, so I may have a slight allergy. However I think that their really is something psychological and physical happening to cause us to feel this way. Seriously 3 drinks and 2 weeks of total irritation and depression? It just doesn't make any sense.
I've suffered from chronic anxiety for 22years. I know what it is and I can handle an attack when it comes. It's horrible but I know it will go eventually, though all the feelings of imminent death are still there.
I've smoked weed and drank for the whole time. I know this is the cause of the problem but I can't stop. My wife loves a joint and a glass of wine once our 3 kids are asleep and I do to. However, my wife doesn't normally smoke( like I do, smoking regular cigarettes) so she can't give up her joint smoking habit because she's really addicted to the nicotine (she denies this) so because she's doing it regularly I can't seem to stop. She moans about my smoking habit but when I give up she continues to smoke tobacco based joints in front of me, which kills me and eventually leads me back to smoking again. It's not her fault and she can do what she wants, but she doesn't suffer like I do the next day. When I'm sober it seems all that I do is think, think , think - scaring myself ill. And I won't feel normal until a couple of puffs on a joint and two glasses of red wine. I just want to stop all of this vicious circle and be normal and energetic for the kids. I love them so much and I just want to enjoy being a father rather than being constantly preoccupied with alcohol and drug induced anxiety.
I want to seek help but I know my wife thinks theres nothing wrong, yet I know it's the two of us who are the problem. My wife is quite a domineering personality who thinks she is never wrong, and she's quite critical of me and very aloof and distant when sober, like she just hasn't got time to even respond to me when I ask her a question. But when she's had her joint and a few wines she's lovely. And I don't want to stop those moments.
By the way, I have a very successful career and so does my wife, our children are very stable, polite and loving and top of their respective grades. It's the anxiety I can't stand but I want to just be normal. I don't want to rely on unhealthy stuff (ie cigarettes, alcohol and weed)just to feel normal but I feel like I have no choice.
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I have all the symptons as you lot, it only started about 2 years ago and i put it down to a relationship break up but it isn't. it stems from drinking, but i don't have to drink very much maybe 3 pints of lager and a couple of glasses of wine with my meal. I usually fall asleep easily, but at 4am or thereabouts i awake all sweaty and have pangs of total disaster, I had some money worries and thought it was that, but I now run my own small business and my bank balance is brilliant, so it wasn't that. It is simply the drink playing tricks. I have asked my friends who also drink much more than me, and they don't suffer from this..so why me ????
I have all the symptons as you lot, it only started about 2 years ago and i put it down to a relationship break up but it isn't. it stems from drinking, but i don't have to drink very much maybe 3 pints of lager and a couple of glasses of wine with my meal. I usually fall asleep easily, but at 4am or thereabouts i awake all sweaty and have pangs of total disaster, I had some money worries and thought it was that, but I now run my own small business and my bank balance is brilliant, so it wasn't that. It is simply the drink playing tricks. I have asked my friends who also drink much more than me, and they don't suffer from this..so why me ????
People like us are playing Russian roulette ever time we drink again.
We lull ourselves into thinking it won't happen this time. And maybe it won't. And if not it will sooner or later. The feelings of anxiety for me,
have worsened with time. Any anxiety medications or magical ritual never appeared to work only work for me temporarily. I'm 45 with a 5 year old 12 year old and have nearly left them fatherless intentionally twice. God saved me. Gods my only hope
surely if you could beat anxiety we could beat feeling like this after drinking or would it still come ?
Iam 30 and have had these same problems for about 8 years now. I do love to drink, and when I do, which is usually once a week, I tend to drink alot. The day after boozing, Iam worth nothing. Iam constantly dizzy, anxiety, moody, shortness of breath. The second day after Iam still crappy but usually just fight through whatever Iam feeling and I make it out ok. None of my friends understand, and I usually get the "take your panties off dude, and be a man" when I tell them that iam not moving from the couch the next day. What seems to help, not work completely but help me is to actually do something the next day, for example play golf. Sitting around seems to make all the symptoms worse for me, tho I gotta say I do go through a period of time, even when lets say iam playing golf the next day, where I gotta just hunker down and tell myself that Iam not gonna have a heart attack or just fall over and collapse. Eventually I start feeling better and can make it through. If iam planning on drinking alot, this is my regime. 1 bottle of water 1 mulit vitamin and 2 painkiller (asprin or whatever) before drinking. Then I try to drink as much water throughout the night (which while iam drunk and feel good, I rarely do) then I pop another 2 asprin and multi Vitamin before I go to sleep. I do wake up feeling better but it really just depends. Either way, what really gets me through the next day is telling myself to suck it up, and that Iam not gonna die and to just fight through it. I wished I only got an upset stomach and a headache, but Ive come the realization that, that isnt the case. Good luck to you all, and remember that on the next saturday your hungover, someone here on this forum is going through the exact same thing as you.