It seems sad and strange to me that those who are given a diagnosis that is life threatening and told that there is a way to ensure a better chance of life, continue to debate and wonder about going ahead anyway, not listening to the advice.. I guess that shows the level of addiction .. the level of control that alchol has over you.. dont be fooled with such thoughts as .. its only a few pints, or I only drink at the weekend.. etc.. those are the thoughts of an addiciton steadily seducing you back to the bottle.. back to brink of life and death.. please take stock of what you have in life.. look around at what is important to you.. what really matters to you.. who really matters you.. and make sure that before you take that next drink, knowing you are at risk of death and a painful one at that, you consider what you will lose and the effect that your death would have on those around you.. and if you get such thoughts of.. oh theyd get over it.. or dont be daft Ill be alright.. well your a fool.. life is for living... dont drown it in a substance that alters the clarity of thought, reasoning and sensibility.. and above all else .. that drowns away all those that are closest you you.
Yes getting over any addiction is a tough one.. and really in my opinion it can rarely be acheived with out some kind of support and complete change in life style.. but if you take that path of life you will live with no regrets.. other than the years you lost through alcohol and pain..
And for those people who talked about relatives with such symptoms but were young adults and therefore cannot have a problem with alchol, since they merley go out with the lads.. dont be fooled.. a binge drinker who goes out every weekend without fail and drinks excessivley has a drink problem full stop.. it becomes a way of life.. a pattern in life.. and one that is extremley harmful.
Be Strong and seek support. Dont suffer alone. and dont listen to the voice of addiction in your head!
Yes getting over any addiction is a tough one.. and really in my opinion it can rarely be acheived with out some kind of support and complete change in life style.. but if you take that path of life you will live with no regrets.. other than the years you lost through alcohol and pain..
And for those people who talked about relatives with such symptoms but were young adults and therefore cannot have a problem with alchol, since they merley go out with the lads.. dont be fooled.. a binge drinker who goes out every weekend without fail and drinks excessivley has a drink problem full stop.. it becomes a way of life.. a pattern in life.. and one that is extremley harmful.
Be Strong and seek support. Dont suffer alone. and dont listen to the voice of addiction in your head!
Those having problems with alcohol addiction may want to see if their doctors will be willing to prescribe the anti-seizure medication Topamax. It has been shown to reduce, sometimes, dramatically, the craving for alcohol, even though this is an off-label use of the drug. Normally AA folks prefer to go the non-chemical route, but where your life is at stake when you've had pancreatitis, unconventional measures are called for.
I thought my 2 glasses of wine every evening wouldn't hurt me. Never got high and never considered myself addicted. Well, surprise, surprise!! I just got out of the hospital with my second attack of pancreatitis (the first was never diognosed). This has been a real personal "intervention". It's been 30+ years enjoying the grape, and I will never touch it again. What a godawful pain, I don't wish it on anyone.
I was unaware that wine consumption lead to pancreatitis so thank sfor the information. What kind of wine did you usually drink/ I might consider skipping it so that I don't have to deal with this later on. Thanks!
This sounds like what I have. I notice a pain under my ribs on my left side after heavy drinking, or a binge. It goes away after a day or two, and really isn't that bad, so I never really thought much of it. I've noticed it happen spuratically within the last 5 years. However, a year ago I moved to a place where all my neighbors are heavy drinkers, and I've been joining them every night, after work. I usually drink beer, but sometimes splurge, and drink wine, or southern comfort. This last year, I have felt this pain every day. I found these posts, and freaked out, cuz I'm scared that I'm going to end up in the hospital as well. I stopped drinking, cold turkey. It's only been 10 days though. (I haven't gone this long since I was 14 yrs old, and I am 29 yrs old now) Since I stopped, every day the pain subsided more and more. After 5 days, all pain was gone. But, there was a quarter size spot that I could still feel. It felt like a numb spot, if that makes any sense. After 7 days, the pain, numbness and any uncomfortability have completely disappeared. I'm not sure if it helps, but I've been detoxing my body. I've been drinking detox tea, taking Ginko bioloba, bilberry, and garlic pills as well. I read that these things were good for blood flow, and in turn can promote pancreatic health.
My question is, if I continue to stay sober, would it be OK, to drink beer one day a week? Next week, I have a party to go to, and want to have a couple beers, but I'm scared. Does it sound like I've done permenant damage? Or did I catch it early enough, since I felt fine after a week?
My question is, if I continue to stay sober, would it be OK, to drink beer one day a week? Next week, I have a party to go to, and want to have a couple beers, but I'm scared. Does it sound like I've done permenant damage? Or did I catch it early enough, since I felt fine after a week?
To be honest, lay off alcohol for awhile. I think that if your pain is still gone away, is it really worth tempting things? I think an occasional beer (and by occasional, I mean more weekly than daily!) might be fine. Have you considered that?
I just turned 29....Been a steady beer drinker for years. Went on a 3 week binge and Had to be hospitalized for pacreatitis. Been dry for 3 weeks and just popped a top. If I feel ANY pain at all I'm gonna try my best to stop...but I dunno...I love beer too much.
Hi I am just out of hospital with my 3rd attack of pancratites. My first attack came when i was 19 years old, I had been drinking heavy from about the age of 17 though not every day. It was weekend drinking i done but usually i could polish off a bottle of vodka no problem and use to knock back beer like there was no tomorrow. I will never forget the pain of that first attack, I couldn't walk or nothing and the doctors were going to put me in the ICU of the hosptial. I did lay off drink for a while after this but then about a year later I started drinking again only this time laid of the spirits and stuck to beer, However after going through a pretty bad relationship i then started drinking spirits again and again heavy at that, I ended up back in hosptial again and again the pain was horrible. After this second attack I laid of drink again for a while but again after a year i started to drink. This second attack was near 6 years ago and since then i had nearly always just drank beer and just at an ok level. I rarely binged but again when something bad was happening in my life i started to drink heavy over the past year and a half, It was always in the back of my mind that pancratites would return but at 1 stage i didn't care and just kept drinking, I started to take notes of my drinking and looking back it scared the siht out off me of how much i was actually drinking over a month. Anyway near enough 2 weeks ago i got another attack and ended up in hosptial again, The pain again was horrible and i now want to drink less. I think i can do it as looking back there has always been major things happening thast have led to me drinking heavy, if i can deal with that when things are very bad i think i might be ok. I am only 27 and i think how i manage to always convince doctors my pancratities is due to alcohol is that i have cystic fibrosis which can also cause pancratites but i know rightly it is due to massive alcohol binges. To anyone especially guys reading this when you have this horrible illness you have to get a tube stuck up your penis so they monitior your urine as pancratities can cause multi organ failure. so think of that if you are a heavy drinker, The pain is also the most horrible as many have said on here. I hope this can help anyone who reads it and hopefully myself to and to cut out drinking quite a bit :-)
Everyone seems to think its so easy to preach about life and death.
Im a 25 year old girl and I hid my alcohol abuse for years. I have had two attacks of mild pancreatitis and the second one saw me in hospital for a night.
The doctors told me I had to give up drinking and I have...for a month. I wake up every day in tears that I have to walk through life in this grey misery. I dont feel happy anymore...I cant sleep....I excercise and eat well but nothing is helping me out of this hole I'm in.
I just feel like I have no social life anymore. My friends love going out at weekends and so does my boyfriend but I choose not to go because I can't bring myself to sit in a pub with my drunk mates drinking orange juice.
I know I will die. Im terrified of dying so I dont touch the drink but its killing me. I feel like Im dead already. I used to be so talkative and up for stuff....now I can barely climb out of my bed.
Everyone has parties coming up and my sister is getting married abroad where we have a free bar for the whole week. I cant even imagine how bored Im going to be sitting with a cup of tea by the pool.
Im not strong enough for it.
No doubt a lot of you will preach to me about life being worth living. So far.....I dont see any evidence of that. Life used to be technicolour...now its grey. I hate every moment of it.
What do people do with themselves? Im trying to "live" but i feel nothing. I dont feel better for giving it up.
Im a 25 year old girl and I hid my alcohol abuse for years. I have had two attacks of mild pancreatitis and the second one saw me in hospital for a night.
The doctors told me I had to give up drinking and I have...for a month. I wake up every day in tears that I have to walk through life in this grey misery. I dont feel happy anymore...I cant sleep....I excercise and eat well but nothing is helping me out of this hole I'm in.
I just feel like I have no social life anymore. My friends love going out at weekends and so does my boyfriend but I choose not to go because I can't bring myself to sit in a pub with my drunk mates drinking orange juice.
I know I will die. Im terrified of dying so I dont touch the drink but its killing me. I feel like Im dead already. I used to be so talkative and up for stuff....now I can barely climb out of my bed.
Everyone has parties coming up and my sister is getting married abroad where we have a free bar for the whole week. I cant even imagine how bored Im going to be sitting with a cup of tea by the pool.
Im not strong enough for it.
No doubt a lot of you will preach to me about life being worth living. So far.....I dont see any evidence of that. Life used to be technicolour...now its grey. I hate every moment of it.
What do people do with themselves? Im trying to "live" but i feel nothing. I dont feel better for giving it up.
going through the pancreatic pain as i'm writing this from a cafe, the misery isn't grey right now. It's black, and it hurts. Bad.
i'll give up my social life. it's not as important as ridding my body from the feeling like my stomach is in my throat and i can't stand up straight. f**k the pub, there's no god that's gonna help me right now.
hey, leena1, i know you will die, too. just don't let it happen like this.
smoke pot, try anything else. if you can't get out of bed because of a sh*t mood, just wait.
do not go to the wedding if you can't take it, your sister will understand.
i don't drink to mask, hide, or cope. one glass just turns into 9 or 10 glasses. fun, right?
well, i'm not sure how tonight's gonna go. even if all i drink is a cup of tea.
i've been fantasizing about being held up and shot before one more night of this pain.
YOU DO NOT WANT TO DIE THIS WAY.
i'll give up my social life. it's not as important as ridding my body from the feeling like my stomach is in my throat and i can't stand up straight. f**k the pub, there's no god that's gonna help me right now.
hey, leena1, i know you will die, too. just don't let it happen like this.
smoke pot, try anything else. if you can't get out of bed because of a sh*t mood, just wait.
do not go to the wedding if you can't take it, your sister will understand.
i don't drink to mask, hide, or cope. one glass just turns into 9 or 10 glasses. fun, right?
well, i'm not sure how tonight's gonna go. even if all i drink is a cup of tea.
i've been fantasizing about being held up and shot before one more night of this pain.
YOU DO NOT WANT TO DIE THIS WAY.
Well its nice to see so many people on here with some of the same concerns/problems/questions
I've been a hardcore drinker since I was 19. At first (like anyone I know) it wasn't to bad, I mean your making c**p for money maybe you can spare enough money for a jug of beer out with the guys or a 6 pack or something. But then I turned 25 started a marketing company and became a millionaire that year. I think I have spent over 2 million dollars on alcohol and partying in the last 4 years, destroying my body with shots of yagher jack tequila, drinking Dom Perignon, etc. I had one of these attacks back in October of 2009 for the first time, it felt like my stomach had ripped in half and was spilling into the inside of my body, couldn't eat a damn thing for days just drank water is all. I then got another episode January of this year, again felt horrible but still nothing that would take me to the hospital, just feels like bad gas cramps with a soar back, I had no rapid heart rate, sweating or shock like symptoms. I am getting pretty much the exact same symptoms right now after drinking for about 96 hours straight with a friend that I had not seen in some time, we drank all night then would meet of for brunch and drink champagne orange juice all day until the clubs then go out and drink grey goose and everything else again... we did this 3-4 days in a row... The symptoms are doing there thing now for about the last 38 hours, I'm hoping this last sleep will get rid of the pain....
I am going to quit drinking, maybe not forever but until my doctor investigates all of this and tells me its harmless unless im doing my binge thing.. cause It only does happen when I binge.
I've been a hardcore drinker since I was 19. At first (like anyone I know) it wasn't to bad, I mean your making c**p for money maybe you can spare enough money for a jug of beer out with the guys or a 6 pack or something. But then I turned 25 started a marketing company and became a millionaire that year. I think I have spent over 2 million dollars on alcohol and partying in the last 4 years, destroying my body with shots of yagher jack tequila, drinking Dom Perignon, etc. I had one of these attacks back in October of 2009 for the first time, it felt like my stomach had ripped in half and was spilling into the inside of my body, couldn't eat a damn thing for days just drank water is all. I then got another episode January of this year, again felt horrible but still nothing that would take me to the hospital, just feels like bad gas cramps with a soar back, I had no rapid heart rate, sweating or shock like symptoms. I am getting pretty much the exact same symptoms right now after drinking for about 96 hours straight with a friend that I had not seen in some time, we drank all night then would meet of for brunch and drink champagne orange juice all day until the clubs then go out and drink grey goose and everything else again... we did this 3-4 days in a row... The symptoms are doing there thing now for about the last 38 hours, I'm hoping this last sleep will get rid of the pain....
I am going to quit drinking, maybe not forever but until my doctor investigates all of this and tells me its harmless unless im doing my binge thing.. cause It only does happen when I binge.
I was just diagnosed with pancreatitis a week ago. I do drink an excessive amount of alcohol and I am only 16 the doctor told me this was a very unusual age to be diagnosed with acute pancreatitis. The wierd thing is-is that the last time I drank was 8 days before i was diagnosed with pancreatitis and my MD said thats wierd that the symptoms would come on a week later. They havnt told me if this was alcohol or viral or whatever else causes this shitty disease
Anyone out there know?
Anyone out there know?
It really helps to see people in some what the same situation. I was hospitalized for about 6 months with pancreatitis. over all a year on an off with complications out of this world. Its 2 years later for me now and im still not fully healed.I was in a coma for 1 month and a half, I had lungs collapse. Kidney failure, Problems with liver, super infections from pancreatitis Dre,M.R.S.A this list goes on. Countless surgeries. But i made it with only a 20 percent chance of survival. Im very happy to be alive im now 34 this happen when i was 32. I still crave alcohol is the f..... part about it all. It does seem like a boring life without alcohol. My social life is down the tubes in a way. An it does have me searching for any chance of possibly having a drink one day. Actually thats what brang me to this site. Im at a serious point in my life were im kinda lost without the alcohol social life sense this is all i know. Just like all of you i was told if i drink i die. So i dont know what i will do.
I was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis over a year ago. I was 49 at the time and my doctor said years of drinking had caused this but if I stopped now I should be all right. I stopped drinking for two months and when I went back to the doctor he said things looked good and it would be ok to drink once in a while. Well the once in a while turned into once a week and then twice a week and about three weeks ago a three day party. I am not talking fall down drunk just four or five beers and maybe two or three shots friday saturday and then again on sunday. Monday night I laid in bed with sharp pains in my stomach and never slept......no vomiting or diarrhea. I was sure I had food poisoning and when I went to the doctor on tuesday he asked me if I wanted to kill myself with alcohol. It has been three weeks and no drinks and I feel good. As I read through these posts I am thankful that my addiction was never worth my life. I hope as I write here that I have stopped in time. For the folks who have written how lost they feel without alcohol, sure it is no fun to go to a bar or a wedding and be sober but everytime I wake up without a headache or don't have to go online to see my bar-tabs the next day, I laugh in spite of myself. Over the course of the last year on and off with the booze I have realized who my real friends are and who my drinking buddies were. Next time you need a ride to the airport you will know the difference. When we were kids we laughed and played and functioned quite well without alcohol. Its a stealer of money, time, productivity and most of all your health. If it's not too late and your doctor has told you what you need to do .......STOP DRINKING. There is not one thing you can do better with alcohol then without except get drunk. You can still have fun without drinking it's just that we have been drinking for so long it has become second nature. After work let's get a drink ...after softball let's go drink ....after dinner during dinner before dinner when ever. Find other things that give you enjoyment and maybe it won't be so hard.
Hi, I am a 34 yr old female. I have been to Rehab twice for opiate addiction. I have now been clean with the help of methadone for 2 years. Although I do not take pills anymore, I have been struggling with alcohol now. Last month I was hospitalized with excruciating abd pain. The Docs detected a gallstone and after the "paincreatitis" calmed down, I had a lap chole done. I was back at the beers as soon as I got discharged. Now 6 weeks later, that same epigastric pain that radiates around the flanks to the back... (yeah, you know what I am talkin about!!) impossible to eat or get comfortable etc... I was so ashamed I did not go back to the hospital because now I am not even convinced that having my gallbladder removed was necessary. It was the alcohol! I know it! Well 90% cases are caused by alcohol.
I am trying not to drink by keeping myself focused on other things like learning about my disease, keeping busy with work, and engaging my brain in alternative activities like reading, music, movies, cooking, anything but drinking! That pain is the worst and it is scary to realize the seriousness of the effects alcohol abuse. Best of luck to all you folks who are trying not to drink too. One day @ a time.
I am trying not to drink by keeping myself focused on other things like learning about my disease, keeping busy with work, and engaging my brain in alternative activities like reading, music, movies, cooking, anything but drinking! That pain is the worst and it is scary to realize the seriousness of the effects alcohol abuse. Best of luck to all you folks who are trying not to drink too. One day @ a time.