Jennifer is a thirty-two-year-old junior sales consultant who has been ingesting alcohol in a hazardous and abusive manner since she and her boyfriend decided to break up. Indeed, for the past nine months she has been drinking very nearly one-and-a-half bottles of wine every night, and on the weekends she also has been drinking more than a few wine coolers during the day. In a word, Jennifer has been drinking so excessively that it’s amazing that she hasn’t suffered from alcohol poisoning.

After feeling unhappy because she was starting to close her eyes to her health, Jennifer finally told herself that enough is enough, that it’s time to quit the self pity routine, that it’s time to stop the abusive drinking, and time to get on with her life. So the following Saturday morning at 9:30 AM, she made up her mind to stop drinking suddenly and completely without planning or preparation.

When She Stopped Drinking She Felt Horrific, Her Head Was Throbbing, She Vomited Several Times, She Started to Sweat Profusely, She Was Extremely Anxious and Moody, and She Had Absolutely No Appetite

When Jennifer quit drinking, she reasoned that she would probably be tempted to take a drink or two, but she never inferred that she would feel so sick. More specifically, around three hours after she stopped drinking, she was extremely moody and anxious, she had utterly no appetite, she started to perspire extensively, her head was pounding, and she vomited several times.

When she called her best friend and informed her that she had quit drinking and that after a couple of hours she abruptly began having flu-like symptoms, Gail, her best pal, told Jennifer to call her physician and clearly explain what she was going through.

She Admits to Her Family Doctor That She Has Been Drinking Excessively, That She Just Tried to Quit Drinking, and That She is Experiencing Horrible Flu-Like Symptoms

So Jennifer called her family doctor, told him that she has been drinking in a hazardous and abusive manner for many months and that when she tried to completely stop drinking earlier in the day, within a few hours she felt as if she had the nastiest flu-like symptoms that she had ever gone through.

Her healthcare practitioner informed her that she may be going through symptoms of alcohol withdrawal and that she should have a family member or friend drive her to the emergency room as soon as possible.

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

It seems that her healthcare professional had phoned ahead and told the emergency room medical team to expect Jennifer because when she got to the hospital, she was met by two emergency room workers who without hesitation asked her to lie down on the portable bed they had with them. After getting wheeled to the emergency room and undergoing a few essential tests, it was established that Jennifer was indeed experiencing alcohol withdrawal symptoms and was in need of alcohol detoxification.

A doctor gave her some drugs to address her flu-like symptoms and also gave her some medications to help eliminate the alcohol that was still in her blood.

A Drug and Alcohol Addiction Physician Discusses That She is Addicted to Alcohol and Then Discusses What Alcohol Withdrawal Symptoms and Alcohol Dependency Stages Are

After an hour or two, Jennifer was transferred from the emergency room and transported to the recovery room. After she was in recovery for nearly three-and-a-half hours, Doctor Rosenberg, an alcohol and drug addiction specialist, came to visit her. He took plenty of time and clearly explained that Jennifer had gone through alcohol withdrawal symptoms when she quit drinking due to the fact that she had become an alcoholic.

He then stated that with heavy drinking on an everyday basis, the individual’s brain in a step-by-step fashion adjusts to the alcohol so that it can carry out tasks and operations in a “routine” fashion. When the individual then all of a sudden abstains from drinking alcohol, understandably, the brain responds by eliciting alcohol withdrawal symptoms. What is more, her healthcare professional also went over the different alcoholism stages that an alcoholic regularly goes through as the disease gets progressively worse over time.

It is Established that Jennifer is in the Earliest Stage of Alcohol Addiction and She Gets a Good Prognosis For a Complete Recovery if She Gets the Alcohol Addiction Rehabilitation She Requires

Fortunately for Jennifer, it was discovered that she was in the first stage of alcoholism and, as a consequence, she received a favorable prognosis for a complete recovery if she receives the alcohol rehabilitation she requires.

Jennifer told the healthcare practitioner that she will do whatever it takes to get sober and to get back her life. She also mentioned that she has a first class hospitalization policy that will probably pay for most, if not all, of the costs required for treatment. It was clear to see that Jennifer was quite thankful about her encouraging prognosis and felt at peace knowing that she will be able to get the alcohol addiction treatment she requires so that she can begin the road to recovery.