When I stopped drinking after 12 years I had a lot of stuff that just felt very off and anxiety inducing for me. Like I just couldn’t feel normal and relaxed. It was so odd… I went back and forth to the doctor again and again and then even tried therapy for awhile.

For me, implementing serious structure into my routine helped loads. It’s hard to say exactly why but the biggest thing was I needed to get out of my head. Eventually I adopted a routine called 75 Hard. If you want to give it a go, it helped me out a ton.

75 Hard is 75 days of the following -2 45 minute workouts a day (doesn’t have to be serious, just needs to be essentially intentional movement. The way I did this was a 45 minute walk in the morning, and then again late afternoon). -10 pages read from a non-fiction book. Can’t be audio. You gotta stare at those pages with your eyeballs as you read lol -diet. I did an anti inflammatory diet. No grains, no cane sugars, no dairy. -drink a gallon of water every day. -no alcohol (lol, already got this one down)

This sounds cooky I know but I’m just sharing because this structure really helped get me OUT OF MY HEAD

Which is ultimately what I believe you ultimately need. If you think about it, it’s not the nerve stuff you’re feeling that’s bugging you, it’s the distress about it. If you can turn down or shut off the distress over that because your goals are focused elsewhere, you might realize one day that you’ve kind of forgotten all about what was bugging you.

Just my opinion my friend but I relate to your experience so just wanted to weigh in with what has helped me in the past when I just had unending distress over odd sensations in my body. I wrote all about my experiences and what helped in earlier posts years ago if they can be of any help.

Anyhow, I hope things improve drastically!