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Misc Alcohol Withdrawals..

chinky

chinky

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i feel bad for my uncle...he literally can drink a unlimited amount of alcohol..ive seen him down a fifth and 3/4 of another by himself in one night within the last week but he steady drinks a fifth of bourbon a day..well he went one day without drinking (tuesday) and has beensicker then any dopefiend ive ever seen...ive read up a little about alcohol wd and went threw the symptoms with him and hes like "i got all those" i asked are you hallucinating or having any seizures he said no(and i know ive been sittin next to him)

has anyone else gone threw alcohol wd..any advice i can tell him? i told him to tak some sleepingpills and try to sleep it off but he says he doesnt like the way they make him feel (go figure) i tell him to eat something but he refuses cause he says "if i cant keep water or juice down you think i can keep food down" i told him its like hangover you gotta force youself to eat even though you dont want to..

he refuses to see hi doctor or go to the ER cause hes afraid they are gonna tell him that he has scerosis and all that..

any suggestions on what might help?

i feel like alcohol Wds is like a forgotton topic that shouldnt be overlooked
 
The first time I quit drinking, I got sick as fuck for 3 days. I couldn't even hold down sips of water, couldn't really sleep. It was a nightmare, easily the worst days of my life. I literally thought I was going to die. Finally, someone talked me into taking some benadryl. I seemed to calm the vommiting a little so I could keep some water down.

The next day I tried to eat a little, wasn't hungry even though I hadn't eaten in a day or two. The benadryl allowed me to keep some food in, which made me feel a lil better, and I even slept (although fitfully) for a few hours.

Once I could finally get up and move a lil bit (not that I reccomend it), I was able to smoke some chronic, which allowed me to eat a lil more. After about 5 days of hell I started to feel normal again.

I feel for your uncle and hope he will recover soon. I still drink, but I took a month off after that, and will never drink as hardcore. Not sure if that helps, but I feel ya, I really do.
 
For fuck sakes get some alcohol into him or benzos before he starts seizuring and or take him to the E.R!!

Alcohol W/D from that amount of booze is pretty fucking serious man..

Seriously he is going to need to have a drink or get some benzos in him man, if he wont go to the E.R atleast try to cop him some valium or get him some drink.

Better yet talk sense into him and get him to go get treatment for this addiction, possibly one of the most physically damaging addictions out there.
 
Seriously, you are allowing him to torture himself for what reason? Because he's afraid he might FIND OUT he has cirrhosis of the liver? So if I understand the logic, he is torturing himself because if HE IS SICK, he would rather let it get worse and torture himself more by delaying treatment?

This amount of cold turkey alcohol is potentially dangerous and certainly pain that he does not and should not have to endure. At VERY, VERY least, if you're with him, you could give him a minimal amount of alcohol at regular intervals so he can get food and water down. You really don't want to risk the serious complications of electrolyte imbalance if he is vomiting shit out and not taking anything in.

Really though, if he's gotten to the point of drinking 750mL+ of hard liquor daily do you think a few days of misery are going to cure him? He's going to go back to the bottle at some point unless he makes serious life changes and chances are he's not going to be able to do that on his own so most likely, all this misery and risk will be for nothing if this is all he is doing to address this problem.
 
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yes i agree with above....

also i experienced alcohol WD several times, fucking sucks balls, and valium can help......
 
i didnt come here to get flamed yall im not new to this..this is a legit concern..iv never seen or had to deal with alcohol WDs and becaus alcohol is legal no one talks about it but from what iseen the last 3 days i havent seen a dope fiend go threw

you say let him drink thats the thing he doesnt even want a drink cause..i told him already im like go get yourself a pint instead of a fifth and h says theres no point cause "ill feel like this tomorrow then anyway"

the not going to the doctor/sirocisis thing is difficult man..he says he knows his liver is shit and he doesnt want a doctor to tell him his dieing or anythinglike that, he just wants to go..ive told him if you stop drinkin your liver can get better and he says he knows, its just he has nothing else...ive been livin here for 3 weeks now and i didnt know his drinkin was to this extent and while drunk and a couple times sober he says it all the time thugh that hes ready to die, i yell at him and freak out when he says shit like that but he always says it.. hes 50, his father has alzheimers and is losing it and his mom has beat caancer twice but they cant care for themselves so he has to here..hes been on social security cause he hurt his back and cant work for the past 20 years..he just says hes tired of everything and its scary..my father killed himself but i never saw the signs cause you dont think that will ever happen but you become conscience of little things like the phrase "im just tired"

i give all the support i can i mean im only 25 i cant force my 50 year old uncle to do anythng he doesnt want to do..his sister and brother both live out in colorado and no one else seems to care about him..i mean we all love him but hes had 11dui's in 5 dffernt states so they just are tired of the alcohol with him but for him thats all he has besides his dog...

again i begged him to eat something and and to take a sleepin pill and he just wont..he says what if i take that pill and it puts me out for 10 hours and something happens to my mom like she falls(which she did last week and has some stiches on her upper lip right now)...i tell him im here relax man and sleep..i guess igotta pressure him more and get at him for it...this is the 3rd day of not drinkin for him but the only thing positive i have to say is he said when he went to the store today he said "i didnt even look at the liquor store when idrove by it"

i mean hes doing this on his own, its not like money is a problem cause even if e was broke hes got a his parents credit card...i even snapped on him for that cause i waslike that card wont always be there and yes ive talked to him heavely about the alcohol so maybe thats why hes doingthis, i dont know really..but i can hear him dry heaving right now..

i really feel bad
 
and he doesnt have valium hes got little .25 xanax and elavil is what he has to sleep i think but he wont take them..he just wants to suffer
 
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If you felt like I was flaming you, I apologize. I was trying to convey importance and urgency regarding the situation, not at all attack you. I can certainly empathize with the position you're in and I'm sure you're doing your best.
 
ok well if he goes to the doc he can get treated (believe it or not, worse problems get solved)

and he can get valium which is better than alpraz
 
^^^^if a 50 year old man doesnt want to go to the doctor regardless then thers nothing you can do...ive told him its better to go to the doc and let them treat you then going cold turkey but hes just too afriad of what they will tell him...i mean he already has a will and i get everything he has which basically is the house not so much money but im in no rush to possess these things...i gess his thought is hes so far past the point that he knows alcohol is gonna kill him sowhy stop..its like person with lung cancer or bronchitits who coninues to smoke..all they have to do is stop and things will get better but they have no desire to stop even wth the medical problems

edit: i finally got him to eat a piece of pizza and talked him to fnall taking a 150mg elavil so hopefully he can get a good 6-8hours of sleep if not more..i just took the computer to him and made him read what yall said and what google health said and he said ok ill take the pill
 
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I don't know if this will help, or if it is feasible for your situation, but a friend of mine stopped a severe alcohol addiction (3+ years of a fifth a day + a 12-pack of beer) by using small amounts of Nyquil throughout the day; it had just enough alcohol in it to stop the worst of the withdrawal symptoms, and some of the other ingredients seemed to help a little as well.
 
If you're uncle thinks he's beyond help and doesn't care about getting better, when why is he putting himself through the pain of CT withdrawal?
 
o i know u were, i was just thinking that you sounded right.....

just playing around, trying to bring some lightness to the topic.....
 
C2tL, because he's punishing himself. He hates himself right now (witness the CT and the refusal to go to the doc) and he's already been committing slow suicide for a long time.

Chinky, you're a very good man for being there for him and supporting him. I'm close to his age (sorta) and I know what it's like to feel tired like that… for years. I happen to be fighting my way out of it but I can see where he's coming from. I also have a cousin who's exactly his age who's been drinking himself to death for years and everyone but me has given up on him.

The best you can do right now is what you're doing: get him to eat and sleep and just be there for him.

He could overcome this challenge but it'll take a lot of work and some outside help. A deep depression and other psychological issues are the underlying cause of his problem and his current attitude. And those are things that you can't fix. He's got to want to change. You're right: he's a grown man and you can't force him to confront this if he doesn't want to.

Again, I think you're doing the best possible thing in this situation by just being there, listening to him, and making sure that he eats and sleeps. With the support you're giving him, he may decide that he's open to going to the hospital and getting some help.

Mad respect to you. You're a good person.
 
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