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I can't handle alcohol, why?

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lailalisaa
lailalisaa

im 18, I've always liked a drink, or 2, or 3. I've had a few bad experiences with Alcohol before I was legal to drink it. Since turning 18 I go out 2-3 times a week, not long before Christmas I collapsed in a club and was hospitalised through alcohol excess, I had alchol poisoning quite badly. A few days later I was drinking again, just over a month prior to this I collapsed in a different club and agan was rushed to hospital via ambulance. The next day I was drinking.

Now, I can't seem to drink as much as I use to, last night I was carried out of a club by 4 security gaurds after not being able to walk and passing out, thing is, I only remember drinking about 4 drinks, the first time I was hospitalised my readings were greater than the point I should have died, I was very very lucky, so I didnt drink as much last night, yet last night I passed out, again. It's effecting my Social life, in loosing friends and respect, also I have been barred from 2 clubs, I'm getting a bad name. Am I just 18 and young? Or can my body not handle alcohol anymore? I really need answers, people are worried and I want to know why my body just gives up after the consumption of alcohol. Thank you!

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  • Richardt
    Richardt lailalisaa

    Posted

    Its your genes some people can drink alcohol more than others, u are born that way so do not blame yourself, dear
  • deirdre._03652
    deirdre._03652 lailalisaa

    Posted

    Hi young lady....well done on the honesty of your posts.....I feel for you and anyone with a drink problem. ....I was a very, very, VERY BAD ALCOHOLIC for ten years. ..I drank nearly 24 hrs a day. I never ate for weeks on end...I weighed 5st 10 lbs and was only two weeks away from death....that was the fourth! !!! And final!!!!

    Time that I was sectioned forcibly. ....but it saved.....and changed my life....

    It sounds to me that you may have lost your tolerance to alcohol. ...it is good in the way that it cuts your alcohol intake....but not so good in the way that you are blacking out.....ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN TO YOU....

    YOU COULD INHALE YOUR VOMIT.....BE ROBBED....BE ATTACKED....GET KNOCKED OVER..., AND MANY OTHER SCENARIO 'S....

    PAUL is amazing with his advice,,he is a specialist alcohol worker.....please try your very best lovely lady.....you can and will do it....big hugs to always....dee xxxx

    • deirdre._03652
      deirdre._03652 PaulJTurner1964

      Posted

      Hi Paul. You are more than Welcome my friend.....blackouts are serious...she may be well advised to visit her GP...and ask for help and guidance...also her local drop in clinic ( ALCOHOL ADVICE AND HELP ...NHS...CLINIC....I HAD A AMAZING NURSE THERE WHO BECAME A VERY GOOD FRIEND. )...she certainly needs help...not least FOR HER OWN SAFETY...keep up your brilliant advice Paul xx .

      To the lovely young lady....please contact your local service ...they are amazing and can help you in so. So many ways.....big...warm hugs lovey...xxxxxx

    • RHGB
      RHGB deirdre._03652

      Posted

      Hi Deirdre,

      I've read about this alcohol advice and help clinics NHS before. I am curious as to what they are. Because everything I read about the NHS, apartment from arriving in an ambulance at A&E, basically points you to NHS choices, which then points you to the local alcohol recovery partnership. Which is in my case Addaction and in others by what has been written here.

      Who/what did you actually see?

    • PaulJTurner1964
      PaulJTurner1964 RHGB

      Posted

      I think Deirdre got the appropriate help a while back when the resources available to those with alcohol problems were far more adequate. Unfortunately, cut backs have meant that many of these services operate on a shoestring budget now and have staff who have very little knowledge and experience. I see people all the time who were simply told to keep a drink diary and offered no other help, certainly no detox or any other form of medical intervention. It has got far worse and it is also a postcode lottery with only very few areas of the country having a service that actually helps anybody. Scandalous really, considering the large number of people suffering this awful illness.
    • RHGB
      RHGB PaulJTurner1964

      Posted

      You mean there was a time when, you could just go to a walk in clinic/hospital, say I have an alcohol problem, I want to stop - help me.

      And they didn't shoe you away to the local alcohol recovery service? Sounds bliss. I wish I could have just gone and seen someone, said, I've had a relapse, I shouldn't be drinking at all, here are my meds. Please give me something to come off the alcohol and then something to stop me going right back on the alcohol.

      Just out of interest, when I saw the prescribing doctor at Addaction, he had reviewed my current medication list and made a couple of comments, I said I realise that, why do you think I got so annoyed when people wouldn't listen - i.e. the seriousness of it.

      He asked how I came off, to which I said diazepam (it works well for me, I could do it in two days, but four is more comfortable) and he tut tutted, that that wasn't the right drug, He did go on to explain which drug should be given for a week and then followed up by another one - this was just for the detox, not long term like the three meds that we discuss here (I don't count Antabuse). I said to him, so i should have carried on drinking for three months until my detox was given to me, he somewhat sheepishly said no (I think he realised that was an own goal).

      I am going to ask him when I see him in three weeks time, any idea what drugs he may have been talking about?

    • PaulJTurner1964
      PaulJTurner1964 RHGB

      Posted

      Yes. Between 1997 and 2003, While working in the NHS, I set up and ran an alcohol home detox service in South Staffordshire working in partnership with GPs. Patients didn't have to go to any specialist, they simply told their GP that they had a problem and, if the GP considered a detox was required, they called me and I would visit the patient at their home within a couple of days, then do a home detox, supporting them daily. GPs were happy to take my advice as to dosage and happy knowing that their patient was being clinically supervised.

      When I walked out of the job, because management were interfering and wouldn't let me do things the way I knew they worked best, they never replaced me.

      I am not aware of such a service now (so easily accessible and responsive) anywhere in the country.

      I DO understand why GPs can't just prescribe the medication for a detox as, used incorrectly, with no supervision, all sorts of disasters could occur, but the resources for medical alcohol interventions are no longer available.

    • ADEfree
      ADEfree PaulJTurner1964

      Posted

      As always, follow the money trail to see who's getting rich off of cutting back good services in the name of so called "Fiscal Responsibility". Balance the economy instead and the UK Budget will take care of itself.
    • Robin2015
      Robin2015 ADEfree

      Posted

      very funny and true. Always follow the money.. Robin
  • Paper_fairy
    Paper_fairy lailalisaa

    Posted

    All these cut backs and people dying. Now the gov saying £3000 for new mums, maternity. I do get a little angry as most of us worked and managed to pay for child nursery fees etc. No help. What the hell is going on?
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