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Q: Flu-like symptoms after drinking ?
asked by: Kiva on August 17th, 2008
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This has happened to me twice and frankly I am scared of what might be the cause of it. Basically, I woke up the morning after a night of heavy drinking, and it feels as though I have a sever body flu. This most recent time I vomited and I thought I saw some blood in there, then I was bed ridden for the entire day with chills, sweating, extreme fatigue, headache, fever, extreme body aches, and this strange feeling like I had liquid in my lungs that I kept having to cough up and swallow. I could barely drink or eat anything, I slept most of the day, and now even in the second day after that night I am feeling very sore throughout my body, I have extreme shortness of breath, my head still feels like it is in the clouds, and I still have a fever.

Motrin and/or Tylenol help but something is obviously wrong here and I really hope I can get some sort of advice from this forum about it. I plan to contact my doctor about it but I wanted to prepare myself or at least try to by posting in some forums to see if anyone had an idea of what this could be.

Thank you in advance for any help or advice you can give me.
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integritywins
replied on August 23rd, 2008
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Stop Drinking
This is just a thought. Maybe you should stop drinking before you kill yourself.
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mjf333
replied on August 24th, 2008
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possibly liver problem
I am no doctor by any means but it sounds like it may be related to your liver. Because the symptoms are similiar to liver issues and the liver processs the alcohol there may be a connection. I would go see a doctor and certainly cut back the excessive drinking. Good luck and I hope everything works out.
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gabip
replied on August 24th, 2008
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Alcohol Poisoning
What you have described sounds like alcohol poisoning, you are 26? This is a warning to you, your "heavy drinking" is just that, you are poisoning your liver by drinking too much, did you eat or drink any water during the session? Your liver is your body's filter system and when you over load it with alcohol it is severly weakend, it is already hard at work detoxifying everything you normally put into your body but it cannot cope with excessive drinking so the result is you are totally exhausted and feel horrendous. Look up some sites on the effects of alcohol you will see how your symtoms relate to alcohol poisoning. Take care of yourself and your body, you can still have fun but you have had the greatest warning and hangover of your life, you missed a whole day because of it. If you continue a lot worse can happen with prolonged binge drinking.
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