A Young Woman Tries With Everything in Her to Refrain From Drinking, Suffers Through Alcohol Withdrawal Symptoms, Learns That She is an Alcohol Addicted Person, and Comes to a Decision to Get Alcohol Rehabilitation

Monday, November 9th, 2009 at 3:56 am

Jennifer is a thirty-three-year-old accounting clerk who has been consuming alcohol quite extensively since she and her boyfriend decided to discontinue their relationship. In point of fact, for the past ten months she has been drinking almost one-and-a-half bottles of wine every night, and on the weekends she also has been drinking several cans of beer during the day. In a word, Jennifer has been drinking so excessively and abusively that it’s a miracle that she hasn’t suffered from alcohol poisoning.

After feeling down in the dumps because she was beginning to disregard her health, Jennifer at last told herself that she’s had enough, that it’s time to quit the self pity routine, that it’s time to quit the hazardous drinking, and time to make a new start with her life. So the following Saturday morning at 10:00 AM, she determined that she would stop drinking cold turkey.

When She Stopped Drinking She Felt Ill, She Had Utterly No Appetite, She Was Extremely Restless and Moody, She Started to Perspire Profusely, She Vomited Numerous Times, and Her Head Was Pounding

When Jennifer stopped drinking, she assumed that she would quite possibly be tempted to take a couple of drinks, but she never thought that she would feel so horrific. More specifically, approximately four hours after she stopped drinking, she started to sweat extensively, her head was aching, she was extremely moody and tense, she had utterly no appetite, and she vomited a number of times.

When she called her best pal and told her that she had quit drinking and that after a couple of hours she without any warning began experiencing flu-like symptoms, Lorraine, her best buddy, told Jennifer to call her medical doctor and discuss what was transpiring.

She Admits to Her Doctor That She Has Been Drinking Excessively, That She Just Tried to Quit Drinking, and That She is Suffering Through Terrible Flu-Like Symptoms

So Jennifer called her medical practitioner, told him that she has been drinking in an irresponsible and hazardous manner for a number of months and that when she honestly tried to completely stop drinking earlier in the day, within a few hours she felt as if she had the most dreadful flu-like symptoms that she had ever experienced.

Her physician told her that she may be experiencing symptoms of alcohol withdrawal and that she should have a relative or friend drive her to the emergency room ASAP.

As soon as Jennifer got off the phone, she got a neighbor to drive her to the hospital. Interestingly, as sick as Jennifer was, all she could think about all the way to the hospital was whether or not she might be alcohol dependent.

Obviously her healthcare professional had called ahead and told the emergency room medical team to expect Jennifer because when she got to the hospital, she was met by a nurse and a paramedic who promptly asked her to lie down on the portable bed they had with them. After getting taken to the emergency room and undergoing a few important tests, it was substantiated that Jennifer was in actual fact going through alcohol withdrawal symptoms and was in need of alcohol detoxification.

A healthcare professional administered some medications to reduce the intensity of her flu-like symptoms and also administered some medications to help eliminate the alcohol that was still in her circulation system.

An Alcohol Addiction Healthcare Professional Discusses That She is Dependent on Alcohol and Then Clearly Explains What Alcohol Withdrawal Symptoms and Alcohol Addiction Stages Are

After two or three hours, Jennifer was transferred from the ER and wheeled to the recovery room. After she was in recovery for about two hours, Doctor Bornhorst, a chemical dependency and substance abuse specialist, came to talk to her. He took his time and explained that Jennifer had suffered through alcohol withdrawal symptoms when she quit drinking because she had become addicted to alcohol.

He then elucidated the fact that with heavy drinking on a daily basis, the person’s brain over time gets acclimated to the alcohol in order to work in a “semi-normal” way. When the individual then all of a sudden stops ingesting alcohol, however, the brain responds by giving rise to alcohol withdrawal symptoms. In addition, her healthcare practitioner also clearly explained the various alcoholism stages that an alcohol addicted person regularly suffers through as the disease gradually gets worse.

It is Determined that Jennifer is in the Earliest Stage of Alcohol Dependency and She Receives a Good Projection For a Full Recovery if She Gets the Alcoholism Rehabilitation She Requires

Fortunately for Jennifer, it was confirmed that she was in the earliest stage of alcoholism and, consequently, she received a good forecast for a complete recovery if she receives the alcohol dependency therapy she needs.

Jennifer told the physician that she will do whatever it takes to get sober and to re-establish her life. She also stated that she has a very comprehensive hospitalization insurance policy that will almost certainly pay for most, if not all, of the costs needed for treatment. It was obvious that Jennifer was very grateful about her optimistic medical forecast and felt free from worry knowing that she will be able to get the alcoholism therapy she requires so that she can start on the path to recovery.

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