Headaches after stopping alcohol for Dry January

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So I decided to do dry January and haven't had a drink for 13 days.
I wasn't a heavy heavy drinker before I was probably having 2/3 glasses of wine 4 or 5 out of seven days a week.
I've had headaches for a couple of days now so day 10ish after stopping alcohol.
DH jokingly said it was withdrawal. Could I really be getting headaches because of not drinking?! I assumed the side affects of 'withdrawal' was only if you were an alcoholic or something 🤷🏻‍♀️

What you've described is actually quite heavy drinking. And you are probably experience some withdrawal. Time to accept that you need to quit drinking, or limit yourself to a bottle of wine a week or something.

Have you been drinking enough water? Time away from a screen? I get headaches lately due to working on a small laptop screen and i am terrible at drinking enough water

If you were drinking 2/3 glasses of wine most days you were probably drinking 4/6 units a day, which is ‘about 20/30 units a week when the recommended units are only about 14. I too used to think that one drink equals one unit, but it can be one, two or three units according to size of glass. So yes it could be withdrawal symptoms, I would definitely cut down on the amount of alcohol you drink most days.

Thanks for the replies :)
So do you really think from what I was drinking this could be a side effect of stopping alcohol?
I naively thought you would have to be drinking all day every day to get this type of withdrawal symptom.

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I'm on this thread, all different levels of drinking and most have had some headaches and grogginess for weeks.

That’s a lot of alcohol. 3 decent sized glasses is best part of 9 units with today’s high alcohol wines.

When I was little 10% was strong but with Australian/Chilean/South African wines its often 13%.

My parents ran an off licence so I remember when Mateus rose was posh and not ironic.