Jennifer is a twenty-seven-year-old accounts payable manager who has been consuming alcohol in an excessive and irresponsible manner since her live-in boyfriend and she discontinued their relationship. In truth, for the past six months she has been drinking nearly two bottles of wine every night, and on the weekends she also has been drinking more than a few cans of beer during the day. In short, Jennifer has been drinking so abusively that it's a miracle that she hasn't suffered from alcohol poisoning.
After feeling dejected because she was beginning to neglect her health, Jennifer at long last told herself that she’s had enough, that it’s time to stop the self pity act, that it’s time to stop the excessive and irresponsible drinking, and time to get on with her life. So the following Saturday morning at 10:30 AM, she made up her mind to stop drinking cold turkey.
When She Quit Drinking She Felt Terrible, Her Head Was Pounding, She Started to Perspire Profusely, She Had Absolutely No Appetite, She Vomited Numerous Times, and She Was Extremely Moody and Stressed Out
When Jennifer stopped drinking, she thought that she would quite possibly be tempted to have a drink or two, but she never imagined that she would feel so sick. More correctly, just about an hour after she stopped drinking, she vomited numerous times, her head was throbbing, she started to sweat profusely, she had absolutely no appetite, and she was extremely restless and moody.
When she called her best buddy and informed her that she had stopped drinking and that after a couple of hours she suddenly started to have flu-like symptoms, Betty, her best buddy, told Jennifer to call her medical practitioner and tell him what she was feeling.
She Admits to Her Healthcare Professional That She Has Been Drinking In a Hazardous Manner, That She Just Tried to Quit Drinking, and That She is Suffering Through Ghastly Flu-Like Symptoms
So Jennifer called her physician, told him that she has been drinking in a hazardous and irresponsible manner for several months and that when she attempted to totally quit drinking earlier in the day, within a few hours she felt as if she had the most horrible flu-like symptoms that she had ever gone through.
Her family doctor told her that she may be suffering from symptoms of alcohol withdrawal and that she should have someone take her to the emergency room as soon as humanly possible.
As soon as Jennifer got off the phone, she got a family member to drive her to the emergency room. Interestingly, as sick as Jennifer was, all she could think about all the way to the hospital was whether or not she was dependent on alcohol.
Obviously her healthcare professional had called ahead and informed the emergency room staff to expect Jennifer because when she got to the hospital, she was met by two ER workers who promptly told her to lie down on the portable bed they had with them. After getting wheeled to the emergency room and undergoing two or three important tests, it was confirmed that Jennifer was in actual fact going through alcohol withdrawal symptoms and was in need of alcohol detoxification.
An emergency room healthcare practitioner gave her some medications to address her flu-like symptoms and also gave her some drugs to help eliminate the alcohol that was still in her bloodstream.
A Drug and Alcohol Abuse Medical Practitioner Goes Over the Fact That She is Alcohol Dependent and Then Goes Over What Alcohol Withdrawal Symptoms and Alcoholism Stages Are
After two or three hours, Jennifer was transferred from the emergency room and wheeled to the recovery room. After she was in recovery for roughly two-and-a-half hours, Doctor Dubas, an alcoholism and alcohol abuse specialist, came to talk to her. He took his time and clearly explained that Jennifer had gone through alcohol withdrawal symptoms when she quit drinking due to the fact that she had become dependent on alcohol.
He then mentioned the fact that with continuous and heavy drinking, the individual’s brain slowly gets acclimated to the alcohol so that it can work in a "semi-normal" way. When the drinker then suddenly abstains from ingesting alcohol, however, the brain responds by creating alcohol withdrawal symptoms. Moreover, her doctor also went over the different alcoholism stages that an alcohol addicted individual almost always suffers through as the disease gets progressively worse.
It is Determined that Jennifer is in the First Stage of Alcohol Addiction and She Obtains a Good Prognosis For a Total Recovery if She Gets the Alcohol Rehab She Needs
Fortunately for Jennifer, it was confirmed that she was in the first stage of alcohol dependency and, as a consequence, she was given a good forecast for a total recovery if she gets the alcoholism rehab she requires.
Jennifer told the doctor that she will do whatever it takes to get sober and to regain her life and her health. She also mentioned that she has an outstanding hospitalization plan that will quite possibly pay for most of the treatment costs. It was obvious that Jennifer was very pleased with her optimistic medical forecast and felt reassured knowing that she will be able to get the alcohol dependency therapy she needs so that she can begin the road to recovery.
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