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Question by SHELTIELUVER: Am I an alcoholic? What are the physical symptoms of alcoholism?
I drink 3-4 times a week but lately more frequently. I don’t wake up craving alcohol though. It’s always later in the day, usually after work. I drink about a 6-pack and a pint of Rum over several hours. I do often don’t remember what I’ve done and I’ve done some embarassing things. I’ve also become very agressive lately when drinking when I always was a happy drinker. LUCKILY, I always have a sober driver. Lately, I’ve been very edgy and nervous. I get angry at the drop of a pin. I’m scared that I need help. Are there meds. that help if I quit with your nerves? I don’t want to go to a rehab because I don’t have insurance and I don’t want to lose my job. I also have an anxiety problem to begin with and take Xanax for my nerves. I know the combo. of Xanax and alcohol is bad and makes the alcohol much stronger. Oh, I’m a woman in my early 30′s. I’m 5’7 and 125 lbs. so I’m not a big person who has a huge tolerance although it seems like it sometimes.

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Answer by Jessica
red eyes, puffy face, liver problems, such as swelling, ulcers, shaking, delirium tremens ,nausea, Pain in the side or back from kidney problems, stomach and intestinal problems
poor diet and weight loss,Unexplained mood swings
…just to name a few

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My mum has been an alcoholic for over two decades, my dad’s been to hell and back trying to get her off it but there’s nothing any doctor can do without her consent, and she won’t even go to see him. She did work 16 hours a week, but her performance has been so poor (obviously) that they’ve reduced her hours down and down and now she’s just been made redundant. She’s unemployable, the only reason they kept her so long was because they couldn’t legally fire her for some reason. Her income alone wasn’t even enough to buy the amount she drinks a year, and the money is literally not there any more, so my dad and all of us are having another huge attempt at getting her off the alcohol. I know it isn’t going to work, this has been done countless times in the past and it never has and she’s worse now that she ever was, but we’re hoping for the best anyway. Her health is very poor this last year two, we know she doesn’t have cirrhosis (sp?) but she has a swollen liver, but she has gone from chubby to emaciated and her skin is blue/grey and she is in constant pain.

My dad at first said no more, cold turkey, but after a few hours she was screaming and begging so he agreed to let her finish off the two bottles of alcohol she has in the house, but he’s monitoring it and she’s only having a glass a day, and when they’re gone then he’s saying that’s it, and if she goes and buys any (which she will) then he’s taking her cards off her.

The only difference in this situation to the ones in the past is now my dad has the right to keep her from having any money as she doesn’t earn any, and if she doesn’t physically have the money to buy it then I don’t know what she’ll do.

She’s on her first day of the one drink a day rule, it’s evening now and she’s shaking, sweating, and going between crying and begging and screaming abuse.

Has anyone been through this (either themselves or a loved one)? What can we expect? Is doing it like this dangerous to her health to cut it out so suddenly? It’s so hard to not give into her when she’s begging. How did anybody else get through this? And do you think this will realistically have a chance of working? I know it’s something we should be doing with medical guidance but she flat out refuses anything, my dad went to the doctors about her only the other week and there was nothing he could do, the only thing he did tell him was that she didn’t have cirrhosis but just a swollen liver, which alone was breaking his confidentiality oath, but she hadn’t told us and he ‘felt we deserved to know that much’. Is what we’re doing dangerous? I’m worried she’s at risk of heart attack if it stops too suddenly? She used to drink between 30 and 40 units of alcohol a day (mostly whiskey, some sherry) and it’s now suddenly dropped to 1 or 2 units and then will be nothing.
The people saying you can have her legally hospitalised – is that in the USA? Because we’re in the UK and the doctor has said on more than one occasion that there is no way of having her committed against her will as she doesn’t come under the mental health act, so I don’t really know what else can be done?
Poppy – you’ve literally taken the words out of my mouth. The situation here is virtually identical. The extended family have just, after all this time, also decided to involve themselves, and are throwing their weight around telling us we aren’t doing enough and that it’s our fault etc, so this is also partly due to that. I’m going to talk to my dad about the dangers of cold turkey, I’ve emailed him with that wikipedia link about delirium tremens, by the looks of it she’s at high risk of that as she also is addicted to lorazepam, doesn’t eat, etc. It sounds sick to people who don’t understand, to say that we just have to accept she’s going to die, people I’ve said that to have always gone mad at the idea that we ‘dont care’ which isn’t the case at all, just like with your uncle. The problem is, now she’s lost her job they won’t be able to afford the bills and mortgage as well as her alcohol (main cause for this latest attempt), so if she doesn’t stop drinking they’ll have to sell the
house we grew up in, but in the current economic climate it’s going to be near on impossible to sell it for even a fraction of what it’s worth, so I really don’t know what’s going to happen.
I’m very sorry to hear about your uncle and that you’re in the same situation, you’re right it is horrible

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