Posted by labyrinth1748 on March 26, 2004, at 2:24:22
I am 25 five years old, for the last seven years I have been a very heavy heavy heavy drinker. I have also done a little cocaine and pot but was real heavy into x for a summer.I have given up all drugs but alcohol for over a year and a half now. Last spring I started to get dark thoughts, dizziness and depression after drinking, soon after I had the pleasure of my first anxiety attack. I then stopped drinking for about a month and everything went away also my memeory started to improve ( I lost almost all short term memory due to x). I started drinking again last Aug and everything was fine for about 2 weeks then I noticed that after drinking I would get dizzy spells and would be in a fog for most of the day. These of course got worse as time went on, to the point where i would would get dizzy in the morning and go right into a daze or a fog the rest of the day. this of course progressed to massive anxiety attacks. At first if I drank it would go away but as time went on that became a hit or miss cure.Also it seemed like every time I ate this fog or daze I was in only got worse. By the time I went for help I could no longer think straight at all.I could not concentrate to read, remember anything hardly at all,driving was out of the question as well as following a conversation of any great length I also had the constant feeling like I was looking out some one elses eyes and the thing around me did not look or feel real and once was on my couch in my own home and for a few mins did not know where I was!!!
I had my sugar tested and everything came back fine. I also ended up in the ER with what they believe was a massive panic attack, in turn they ran a bunch of test on me including a cat scan all which turned up nothing.I have now been dry for 19 days other than the shakes and mild depression I did not have any other withdrawal symptoms. My anxiexty in turn has went down and for a few hours each day I feel normal.Has anyone out there had something like this happen to them. Can anxiety do all that? Also I know I should never drink again but is there anyway that I can atleast go out once and awhiel and have a few beers without this starting all over again??Thanks
Steve
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