29th August 2004
I am not a doctor but in another life I worked in a halfway ward for substance abuse in a hospital. It sounds like your husband is having DTs. That is not good. He can have a seizure.
Patients were never properly detoxed before they were sent over to us and I saw lots of the alcohol addicts having seizures.
They were usually then put on a combination of dilantin and valium.
I'm not trying to scare you but IMO a wd syndrome that severe requires medical intervention. You don't know what else is going on. Has he been eating properly? If not, brain damage can occur due to thiamine deficiency. Is his liver involved? He may be risking cirrhosis.
He needs to be evaluated.
And even more importantly, he doesn't have to go through this. You don't win points by suffering. At least, unlike a lot of drugs, alcohol wd has a standard treatment protocol.
Brenda
Patients were never properly detoxed before they were sent over to us and I saw lots of the alcohol addicts having seizures.
They were usually then put on a combination of dilantin and valium.
I'm not trying to scare you but IMO a wd syndrome that severe requires medical intervention. You don't know what else is going on. Has he been eating properly? If not, brain damage can occur due to thiamine deficiency. Is his liver involved? He may be risking cirrhosis.
He needs to be evaluated.
And even more importantly, he doesn't have to go through this. You don't win points by suffering. At least, unlike a lot of drugs, alcohol wd has a standard treatment protocol.
Brenda