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Re: 4weeks in need help
« Reply #11 on: April 29, 2014, 03:01:00 PM »
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I will do just that, thanks again
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Re: 4weeks in need help
« Reply #10 on: April 29, 2014, 02:49:00 PM »
I will do just that, thanks again

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Re: 4weeks in need help
« Reply #9 on: April 29, 2014, 02:47:00 PM »
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I have always been a big water drinker. Lately it has been hard because I get sick to my stomach and have a hard time eating and drinking when the anxiety and vertigo come on. I will try to keep ponding water. Thanks for the tip. Some days I do pound water and some days I just drink a fair amount. I guess the best way to qualify it is I have not seen yellow pee in years haha. Thanks a bunch for the support guys this site really is amazing. When I started googling these symptoms in the beginning, I turned a paper cut I to a tripe bypass. You start reading and by th time I was done I was convinced I was in heart failure, hypoglycemia, vertigo, and ear infection and a host of other things haha. So I stopped reading. The. I came here to lurk a bit and stopped because it was causing anxiety when I read a speech that said at 100 days you realize it isn't the finish line and I just about shit my pants. I have here. Telling myself one day at a time for about 2 weeks. This is absolutely brutal. Can't wait to be on the other side. Never wanted something so bad in my life. Thanks again!
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Re: 4weeks in need help
« Reply #8 on: April 29, 2014, 02:37:00 PM »
I have always been a big water drinker. Lately it has been hard because I get sick to my stomach and have a hard time eating and drinking when the anxiety and vertigo come on. I will try to keep ponding water. Thanks for the tip. Some days I do pound water and some days I just drink a fair amount. I guess the best way to qualify it is I have not seen yellow pee in years haha. Thanks a bunch for the support guys this site really is amazing. When I started googling these symptoms in the beginning, I turned a paper cut I to a tripe bypass. You start reading and by th time I was done I was convinced I was in heart failure, hypoglycemia, vertigo, and ear infection and a host of other things haha. So I stopped reading. The. I came here to lurk a bit and stopped because it was causing anxiety when I read a speech that said at 100 days you realize it isn't the finish line and I just about shit my pants. I have here. Telling myself one day at a time for about 2 weeks. This is absolutely brutal. Can't wait to be on the other side. Never wanted something so bad in my life. Thanks again!

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Re: 4weeks in need help
« Reply #7 on: April 29, 2014, 02:27:00 PM »
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BigBob, how much water are you drinking? I felt dizzy and anxious too, but the days I drank water by the gallon ( gallon and a half a few times) I felt better............or at least had to piss so much I forgot I was dizzy. Don't worry about what tomorrow brings, quit today and stay quit. Tomorrow will come and you can quit again then.
These fucking doctors that push NRT just piss me off to no end. BigBob I did not suffer from anxiety but I went through the vertigo thing for quite awhile. I cant tell you when but I can tell you that it WILL get better. Life on the other side of this addiction is awesome. You just have to tough it out long enough to find out for yourself. You can do this. Don't overthink it. Just know that you are healing and it might take awhile to undo all the damage. Be Strong for your new baby that is on its way. Heres to your child never knowing a Dad with shit in his lip.

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Re: 4weeks in need help
« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2014, 02:15:00 PM »
BigBob, how much water are you drinking? I felt dizzy and anxious too, but the days I drank water by the gallon ( gallon and a half a few times) I felt better............or at least had to piss so much I forgot I was dizzy. Don't worry about what tomorrow brings, quit today and stay quit. Tomorrow will come and you can quit again then.
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Re: 4weeks in need help
« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2014, 02:04:00 PM »
Thanks fellas. I'm starting to calm down a bit now. I defiantly have anxiety over the too little too late point. The biggest source of my anxiety is two fold. I feeling it's never gunna end, and my wife is due in a week with my first baby. I'm terrified that I'm gunna freak out and have a panic attack in the delivery room. I'll admit this will sound ridiculous coming from a tobacco user but I'm one of the. No gmo food, no pills type of guys so I'm also anxiou about having no choice but to take anxiety mess. I did see the doctor on day 8. I was so dizzy I thought I would fall over. I went to him to rule out vertigo or something else. He didn't run any test or anything and didn't seem surprised at all. He told me to try the patch. Reluctantly I tried it, had to do something it was unbearable. It took away the dizziness but it sent my anxiety through the roof. My heart pounded heard and fast, thought I was having a heart attack. I tried for three days, dropping g to th lower strength patches, the. Trying to put one on and take it off every once in a while. Finally I went back to cold turkey and the dizzy news came back. I was also greeted with the anxiety over weather or not I reset the clock by using the patch and had to start over. This is by far been the hardest thing iv ever delt with. Reading is site is definitely making me feel more at ease. Thank you all. And I'm sorry for the horrible grammar and spelling my fingers don't agree with an IPhone.

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Re: 4weeks in need help
« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2014, 01:36:00 PM »
Bob I'm not a medical professional and so this is just my opinion. I've been quit a little over 2 years now with the help if KTC and I've seen a lot of people quit and suffer from anxiety or other issues relating to our mental health. After 40+ years of addiction and depression, when I quit 2 things happened for me I needed to change my meds for anxiety and depression and after about 3 months I got to a point I was better than I had ever been in my life. In the wildcard section there is a thread on anxiety and depression. The thing to remember is that you have disrupted a main part of your life and reprogramming doesn't happen over night. Another point that I've noticed is that most of us have suffered from fear that our dipping was going to kill us and very often we feel we've waited too long. Then when we quit every mouth sore, sore throat, digestive problem that we get, we fear that our quit is to late. Don't be afraid to see a doctor and be completely open about everything. Especially the anxiety. Mental health which anxiety is a disorder of is nothing to hide or be ashamed of, you may just need a medication for a short time to level out your moods. Depending on your quit date I think your probably in the July 2014 quit group and posting your promise there daily and meeting others going through similar stages of quit and talking with them helps immensely. Pm me if you want my #.
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Re: 4weeks in need help
« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2014, 01:25:00 PM »
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Hey everyone I just joined this board. I'm a bit confused on how to use it tho and find a quit group. My immediate problem is that I am having extreme anxiety and get very dizzy. The world just looks so strange to me. Like my eyes are not processesing thing right. I don't know if my anxiety is causing the symptoms or the symptoms are causing the anxiety. The other kicker is I started to slow down my tobacco intake and the symptoms started. That was before I actually quit. Is this the " fog" I read about? Is it normal to have it his far along? I will be 5 weeks cold turkey on Thursday. Chewed a tin a day and all day long for about 5 years. Chewed for about 10 years total but I have only been real bad for. 5. Also smoked. It seems to be getting better. I had 3 days in a row I started to feel almost normal and now I'm on the second day of feeling aweful and dizzy again. This has me very scared. I do t know if it's withdrawal or a nother medical problem. My appetite has disappeared too. When I am going through a period of feeling decnt I can eat just fine. But when it gets bad, I can't make myself eat. Worth mentioning I quit drinking too on the same day. Didn't drink very heavy but I did drink frequently. A beer or two a night / every other. Ight. Can anyone give me some peace of mind and calm me down or point me in the right direction? Thanks
Hey BB. Welcome and congrats on a great decision. 4 weeks on your own is bad ass. Every quitter seems to experience withdrawal differently with varying symptoms.
First off I would suggest you drink lots of water and exercise if you can. If the dizziness doesn't improve, do get it checked out. It could be blood pressure, withdrawal or something totally unrelated to quitting. Be honest with your doctor. If all checks out okay and it turns out to be nic withdrawal...all I can say is it will get better. Just grit your teeth, breath deep and camp out on this site. Once your through the fog, remember these early days as it will reinforce that you never want to go through that again.
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Re: 4weeks in need help
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2014, 12:29:00 PM »
BigBob,

I am 20 days into my quit and have experienced some of what you describe. First, I would recommend reading this site. Very good information here!!! I find this information on what to expect when you quit very helpful: What to expect when you quit

You quit one day at a time!! There have been moments where I was watching my watch and counting minutes.
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4weeks in need help
« on: April 29, 2014, 12:14:00 PM »
Hey everyone I just joined this board. I'm a bit confused on how to use it tho and find a quit group. My immediate problem is that I am having extreme anxiety and get very dizzy. The world just looks so strange to me. Like my eyes are not processesing thing right. I don't know if my anxiety is causing the symptoms or the symptoms are causing the anxiety. The other kicker is I started to slow down my tobacco intake and the symptoms started. That was before I actually quit. Is this the " fog" I read about? Is it normal to have it his far along? I will be 5 weeks cold turkey on Thursday. Chewed a tin a day and all day long for about 5 years. Chewed for about 10 years total but I have only been real bad for. 5. Also smoked. It seems to be getting better. I had 3 days in a row I started to feel almost normal and now I'm on the second day of feeling aweful and dizzy again. This has me very scared. I do t know if it's withdrawal or a nother medical problem. My appetite has disappeared too. When I am going through a period of feeling decnt I can eat just fine. But when it gets bad, I can't make myself eat. Worth mentioning I quit drinking too on the same day. Didn't drink very heavy but I did drink frequently. A beer or two a night / every other. Ight. Can anyone give me some peace of mind and calm me down or point me in the right direction? Thanks