Alcohol Poisoning

[JM1064]

This is probably my most embarrassing post, so please please be gentle with me but I’m really looking for people to talk to. In fact I haven’t been on this app in 7 months or so but feel so low and regretful and need to vent/get advice. I turned 21 on Thursday and binge drank the entire week away. It was honestly a really fun and safe week, I drank consistently but in moderation and always had a DD and people with me etc. But Saturday night was different. I wasn’t planning on going out and the night started shaky anyways with me leaving my ID in a friends apt and having to go back and spend 60 bucks on an Uber etc. I made the decision to get really drunk to make up for it. I have been drinking for a while, I know my body, I really do. But I don’t understand how but I blacked out. The weird part is, I have drank more drinks before in an even shorter period of time and have NEVER felt the way I have. I’m wondering if I was drugged but I was watching my drinks the entire time, or so I thought. It was like all of a sudden something hit me and I just couldn’t stand, open my eyes, or stop throwing up profusely. I remember literally calling out to God for help. Looking back I think I definitely had alcohol poisoning but I didn’t want to go to the hospital because I was embarrassed in front of the guys that were in the friend group. So I was drove home and put to sleep in my friend’s (also girls) bed which I don’t remember. All I can think about is how I could’ve died. I’m 100 pounds. I could’ve killed myself. What hurts the most is that I made the promise to stop self harming and I’ve been in such a good place but this felt like un-planned self harm! I feel so guilty and sad for my body. I have a completely different outlook on drinking in general now but I am still reminded of how embarrassing, scary, and sad the night is because it has been 2 days and I still feel exhausted, dizzy and have trouble sleeping and even hallucinated last night. Sorry for the long post. I just don’t know who else to talk to.

[Pugglesworth]

Hi JM.

Be thankful you're alive and didn't asphyxiate in your own vomit like I almost did when I was your age. My mother and father cleaned me and my bed up and were about to call an ambulance when I finally woke up. In hindsight they should've called an ambulance, but it was the 80's and they didn't know about alcohol poisoning. They stayed up with me, made sure I was awake, took me to the bathroom repeatedly and didn't leave me until I could keep water down. My friends dropped me off at my house in that condition. They had no idea of the condition I was actually in. They thought I would sleep it off.

It took me two more times of blacking out to learn my lesson. The last time was when I woke up at my duplex in my car with no idea how I got home. The car was in the yard. I stopped binge drinking after that. I could've killed myself and someone else. I think I was 22 or 23. I can't remember, but it was before I got married and had a son.

Learn this lesson now if you can.

Don't tempt fate.

And you'll be fine in a couple of days.

Drink LOTS of water.

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So glad you’re okay this could have went horribly wrong

[Coralrose5]

I had alcohol poisoning at 16 or 17. I started drinking hard young but stopped that around 24 after something traumatic happened to me while drunk

[Amz1987]

Could have had something put in your drink if you say you didn’t drink a huge amount. But also because you had been drinking all week your body might have been run down and liver having a hard time processing the alcohol.

Take it as a lesson, I hope you feel better soon. Your body is probably withdrawing which might be why you still feel unwell.

[hypercat54]

Hi I remember on a big birthday going on the lash for 4 evenings on the trot. I was supposed to be going out a 5th evening but had to cancel it due to alcohol poisoning. I felt shaky and weak and slurred my words and it took a few days to recover.

You will be fine, just learn your lessons and don't do this again. x

[JM1064]

Thank you all so much for your kind words and advice. I have promised myself to stop abusing substances. My life is worth so much more than what might seem like just a “fun night”. I also feel a lot better, the rest and water helped me. I just started my first semester of nursing school and I know with my new mindset I am going to be in a much healthier place. Thank you all so much

[kenster1]

had a few episodes like myself over the years just blacked out always to much drink was the case glad your ok let it be a reminder if you do decide to drink again.