What does dying from alcoholism look like?
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Anonymous
| My girlfriend died 4 months ago from liver failure at the age of 43. Was drinking vodka all day long - 15-18 shots a day. She was with me for 3 years and my understanding is that the drinking had been going on for about 6 years. Skin and eyes turned yellow and had constant vomiting. Nobody could stop it. We all tried. She would not listen and would become violent if her vodka was taken away. I tried everything but it was futile. I had to sit here and watch the deterioration day after day. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. A forced intervention is the only possibility in cases like this. Florida has a law where the relatives and friends can get the person help against their will (Marchman Act). The relapse rate is off the charts so even if they go in and get cleaned up they go right back in most cases. Alcohol is 100 times worse than marijuana. Nobody dies from a puffing on weed. |
Anonymous
| Don't give Alcoholics liver transplants or even put them on the list.I was given blood transfusions to save my life and it was in 1980.I got type one Hepatitis C.I have the start of Cirrhosis.I didn't ask for this garbage.If I need a transplant.I would like to get one and please put me in front of the Alcoholics that destroy their livers by choice and don't get help. |
Anonymous
| If someone dies of Alcoholism.It's sad but at least their in a better place at peace and at rest.Also there not destroying anyone else's life from stress,caring,and sorrow. |
Anonymous
| If you can stop smoking cold turkey.You can stop almost anything.Smoking is extremely addicting.I quit cold turkey 4/01/1991.Also alcohol is out of your system after 3 days.It's the psychological part that is hard for people I guess.Stop for 3 days and grow a pair and stay sober.I know it's a disease but there is a cure.Don't drink ever again!!! Just like I can't smoke ever again or I'm hooked again.Is it worth it to be the scourge of society. |
Anonymous
Please self educate before you make sweeping statements. Withdrawing from alcohol is the only kind of withdrawal that can actually kill someone. Most people understand the awful process that someone withdrawing fromopiates goes through- but in general, they just wish they would die. An alcoholic going "cold turkey" can actually send their nervous system into such disarray that it actually can kill them. And the peak time is around 3 days after their last drink. Alcohol use actually rewires certain chemical receptors in the brain, and the chemical storm and resulting recovery after quitting can still manifest years later as a post withdrawal syndrome. It's A PHYSICAL addiction, not purely psychological. So, for a true alcoholic, putting down a drink is not as easy as you seem to think it is. The real scourge of society is ignorance. |
Anonymous
I signed my organ donation card hoping to change someone's life for the better. Just because someone has had an alcohol problem in the past does not disclude them from going on to live a better life, helping others, and making the world a better place. I'd rather someone who cleaned their life up get my liver than someone who is judge mental and self righteous, and only spews hate through the land. But, to make you feel better, most centers don't allow alcoholics on their transplant list until they've been clean for a set period of time. |
Anonymous
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Dying from alcoholism looks like dying from any chronic disease. It's almost always awful.
It can look like liver failure, jaundiced, and bloated. It can look like heart failure, blue and collapsed. It can look like bleeding from esophageal varicies, vomiting copious amounts of blood and being found lying in it. It can look like malnourishment and frailty, too weak to feed ones self. It can look like kidney failure. It can look like a stroke. It can look like one final binge, causing the respiratory system to shut down, or causing the person to die aspirating their own vomit. It can look like a car accident, when they get behind the wheel of a car, drunk, one final time. It can look like suicideing pills, guns, hanging after not being able to escape the draw of the drink and being too ashamed to seek help. There isn't one death for alcoholics. Mostly, they'll already feel dead inside. |
Anonymous
You are lying to yourself. If you were concerned about liver failure at 2glassesmof wine a day, you wouldn't ask. Your two glasses are likely ten. At least be honest in this untraceable forum. |
Anonymous
| I was married young right out of high school I had three children my husband began binge drinking for years then decided to stop for many years I really don't remember how he got started again but I know we both decided to go our own ways our children were all grown up by then and he continued to drink I decided to go to school in which I completed my MBA and continued to work and keep busy. It took him a short seven years of daily drinking to kill himself I would frequently talk to him about his out of control drinking but to no avail he continued to drink. I prepared my grown children that one day we will get a call saying that he is dying from alcoholism, sure enough three years ago I got the call so I told my kids we would go visit, but he was in stage of being disoriented he kept telling me that our two youngest were killed in a car accident I told him no they were fine but he just insisted that they died. At this point it was hard to watch him suffer so much he was put in a local hospital then transferred to another hospital and only lived for one week. My children and I watched him pass away this was very hard but I think this was an eye opener for my children because all three followed in his footstep all through there adult lives so now I see sobriety for them now most likely for the rest of there lives. |
Anonymous
| My step dad is a heartless alcoholic. He has about 35 drinks per week and I can't wait for him to die |
Anonymous
Was this a while ago? It used to always be that quick but I've seen people survive 5+ years. Sometimes people wear a device that pumps the chemo drugs in while they go about their lives and that seems to help. Pancreatic cancer still seems to be brutally unforgiving though. |
Anonymous
| Fyi people with active drug or alcohol use are not considered for liver transplant. |
Anonymous
. I don't think they even put active alcoholics on the list. |
Anonymous
| I have been around alcoholism my entire life. My grandmother was an alcoholic. My brother is an alcoholic. The man I thought I was going to marry when I was younger was a functioning alcoholic, but an alcoholic nonetheless. My best friend of 30 years was an alcoholic and just passed away a week ago. I need to state my position is that alcoholism is not a disease but an addiction. It is not medically tested nor treated like cancer or diabetes. But rather like every other addiction such as cocaine or gambling. That being said, it is a very disabling addiction for the addict as well as the family and friends. It is all consuming, destructive and painful, both physically and emotionally, for all involved. I have noticed one common thread in the alcoholics in my life. Pain. They have all suffered some event or feeling that has triggered their drinking. They drink to feel better and when they sober up, they feel worse, so they drink again to not feel. Vicious circle. They don't worry about the physical repercussions because the alcohol numbs the emotional pain and eventually the physical symptoms they begin to feel. Alcohol does change a person's personality, not only when they're intoxicated, but it begins to change their sober mind as well. An alcoholic doesn't physically die from alcoholism, barring alcohol poisoning, they emotionally die from it. The toll alcohol has on the body happens in many, many ways. Some ways are shorter, some are longer. I have read the stories from all who have posted here, and my heart goes out to each and every one of you that has had to learn about alcoholism firsthand having an alcoholic in your life and for those of you that have lost a loved one to this cruel addiction. |
Anonymous
| wow oh wow steven jobs as he died |