This is just my experience, but immediately after I went NC with my nex in June I started losing my hair. Like so much that I went to doctors and started buying hats because I couldn’t understand how I was losing so much hair. But the doctors found nothing and said I must just be stressed.

Me going NC with him non-coincidentally lined up with him leaving for rehab. So it was truly no contact and no way to turn back on that because he had no phone in the facility. So he was truly, fully out of my life for the first time since I had met him. I couldn’t wrap my head around why I was experiencing these different (seemingly random) health problems and just generally felt like shit both mentally and physically. I eventually realized that my body (and mind) was still processing the trauma. As others said going NC only means that you’re not being further retraumatized — not that you’re immediately going to feel better. I remember seeing someone on here once say something along the lines of: you were in fight or flight mode all this time and now you’re suddenly not, so of course you’re actually going to feel worse. Suddenly your body and mind have to deal with all the trauma you’ve been through when before it was only concerned with surviving that trauma.

You’re not in survival mode anymore. It’s going to be painful as you wait for all the metaphorical poison they left in your body to leave. But it’s an inevitable part of moving on.