Let me tell you my story, and maybe it will give you some hope. I was a binge drinker from age 15-26. Then, I drank to excess every night of the week from age 27-41. My body finally rebelled and I started having all kinds of symptoms- rapid heartbeats, high blood pressure, pain in my right side, and dizziness. I ended up having an "incident" that felt like a heart attack - I don't know what it was, but it left my brain in a fog for 6 weeks.