Hey blasterboy. I agree, I cheated. I haven't had any alcohol since.

My anxiety is still improving, I take metoprolol to prevent migraines and I find it helps out w/ the anxiety too. I took neurontin but found it stopped working after a while. I take a low dose of nortriptyline (tricyclic antidepressant) and that helps wonders w/ the nerve pain. It doesn't get rid of it completely though. I'm going to get through the benzo/ambien w/d and then maybe think about going up on the nortriptyline a little. We'll see what the pdoc says. :D

I haven't been back to NA. There aren't that many meetings here and the ones during the week are so early, it's hard for me to get there from work. I'm going out of town tomorrow for a week, I'm going to try again when I get back.

Oh, P.S., I did try accupuncture a year ago and it didn't help. I used to go to the chiropractor and my lower back was in great shape and then I got into a car accident, after that, the chiro didn't help at all, so I eventually stopped going. Massage. Oh how I would love that! What is TENS? My orthopedist said surgery. I said, I'm not there yet.