Drinking everyday. Don't know what to do anymore

Okay, you haven't been drinking long enough to do any permanent damage.

Obviously you would need a GP to do tests or see you to confirm any problems.

But at a guess, you feel run down because you are not eating well and the reason you are not eating well is because you have no appetite because your body is getting all the calories it needs from alcohol.

The pains in your stomach maybe from mild gastritis where the alcohol has stripped your stomach lining away.

Brain fog will be trhough lack of vitamins, caused by not eating properly, not being able to absorb them through the stomach because of the gastritis and the alcohol washing them out of the system - vitamin B is water soluble.

All of this will be rectified when you either stop or bring your drinking down to normal levels.

The reason you can't stop drinking is, that you may have become physically dependent on it and you have probably become neurologically depedent on it.

There is a medication used on The Sinclair Method (TSM). I have a link somewhere, but by the time I find it, someone else will have posted it.

Right, that will give you some pointers to start with.

Hiya

As RHGB has said you have the classic symptoms of physical addiction to  alcohol.

They are also the symptoms of chronic anxiety which I suffered very badly from. Alcohol was my way of relieving my anxiety. It took a long time for me to realise that alcohol was making my anxiety worse. At its worst, it affected my speech so badly that I actually sounded drunk as my speech was so slurred. Even my gp, whose also a friend was convinced I was wasted when I couldn't speak properly.

I got sent home from work twice, got two written warnings for turning up drunk, when in fact it was chronic anxiety. My husband solved the problem for me, with the help of his mate who was a traffic cop at the time. Yes a breathalyser!!! Looking back now, I can almost manage a smile. However at the time I just drank more and more. No one believed me, I nearly lost two jobs, so why not prove them all right and just drink and drink.

However that was over 20 years ago, but I can still remember the shear horror of sounding totally wasted, the stigma attached to it, and knowing full well, I'd not had a drink.

So going back to you tom, yes you have signs of physical addiction to alcohol, but also the symptoms of chronic anxiety.

You need to tackle both your drinking and your anxiety. Start with a visit to your gp, see if he'll prescribe diazepam, you might be lucky, the odd dr here and there are sometimes prepared to prescribe benzos.