Originally Posted by
StephEgan 
As an aside, all the health problems you listed in an earlier post, those are all symptoms of advanced alcoholism. They won't begin improving til he detoxes and stays clean and sober; some may never resolve. - so insomnia ( he does also have moderate sleep apnea ), passing out randomly in th emiddle of the day, the aggression, the high ferritin, low platlets, low magnesium, low potassium (I've been giving him electrolyte tablets and that has helped his worst illness symptoms), tremor, vertigo, weight loss - all booze? Liver ultrasound is fine though.
OK reading this
https://www.the-alcoholism-guide.org...lcoholism.html and this
https://www.the-alcoholism-guide.org...ithdrawal.html
So likely those really bad "episodes" were to do with either withdrawal or just the fact that he's nearing this end stage where the withdrawal symptoms can happen at any time? He would shake and when it happened, his blood pressure would be VERY high like 190/100 ... then over a period of days it would all fade away thencome back a few weeks later. He regularly has a hand tremor now but in the episodes, his face also has a tremor