Help I've been poisoned!

Well I have...in more than one way.  Firstly, my wife poisoned me with mono/Epstein Barr and it has hung on desperately.  I have been pretty sick and on a regular basis for the last 9 months and I can't seem to kick it.  After reading some research I conferred with my PCP and decided to try long term antiviral therapy to reduce the viral load and allow my body time to develop effective immunity against the virus.  For Lent I had been also giving up -OH consumption but I knew that it would be very hard on my liver to consume alcohol and take the antiviral consummately for the next 6 months or more so I decided to have two beers last-night before I start my therapy.  I haven't drank anything for a few weeks now.  This morning I woke up and I felt horrid.  I felt as if I'd been poisoned.  I suppose essentially I had been.  My hemoglobin was filled with -OH molecules rather than O2 molecules but it's always intriguing to me how bad alcohol will make you feel when you're not accustomed to drinking it.  If you drink it regularly you become used to it and don't even know the torture your body is going thru.