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How To Treat Alcohol Withdrawal Symptoms?

do you have experience with patients who have experienced racing heart rate, light-deaded, pressure on neck and throat, sewathy hands and feet, feeling of passing out and doom, as if having a heart attack after a night of heavy drinking? Is this from withdrawal? Or due to years of alcohol abuse? How can one slow down the heart and feel better when this happens? It s very scary. Is it worth having another drink just to make it go away? Or is medical treatment required, such as IV fluids and valuim?
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Certainly panic attacks will feel this way. I cannot say in your particular case without a direct examination. Alcohol can trigger panic attacks in several ways. The withdrawal from it, certainly feels like a panic attack. People who've had alcohol for many years have increased panic attacks.
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How To Treat Alcohol Withdrawal Symptoms?

Certainly panic attacks will feel this way. I cannot say in your particular case without a direct examination. Alcohol can trigger panic attacks in several ways. The withdrawal from it, certainly feels like a panic attack. People who ve had alcohol for many years have increased panic attacks.