Posted on 11/25/2024 5:20:19 AM PST by RandFan
I eventually received a new liver and am doing quite well, and Trump’s next inauguration will be much happier, on a personal level.
My point is everyone is different, due to genes and other factors.
I have a brother in law in his 60s who has drank like a fish and smoked like a chimney since he was a teenager and he still walks among us. His life is a shambles, he looks like hell and his voice is so raspy he’s hard to understand. BUT, in spite of his long-term drug use, smoking, and drinking he still walks among us. I don’t know how he isn’t dead.
We’re all different.
I suggest getting a different social circle.
“Binge drinking in the UK is very ugly—and common.“
That’s my impression though from afar. Young woman seem to be expected to get smashed regularly.
Tylenol is what kills your liver. True.
Probably hastening Sharia’s acceptance.
Bad genes... That’s the problem... Especially if you’re liver is shot at such a young age. My brother got type 1 diabetes... It was curious, because he didn’t get it until he was 26 and everybody else in the family was fine... After a little genealogical research done later on we discovered relatives who had children who died from a ‘wasting disease’ and ‘starvation’... And it wasn’t starvation from lack of food, everybody in our past was either a fisherman or farmer and while they had hard times, they always had something to eat.
Some people can drink a lot, and they can drink a lot until they’re into their 80s and 90s... No problem at all. Others are not so lucky.
They certainly might handle it worse.
I was a Tito’s vodka alcoholic for about ten years. Lucky to be alive after some of the things I did. It was easier for me to cease consumption of alcohol than it was tobacco. My liver enzymes are fine and my lungs sure feel better.
I remember hearing of ‘Weekend Alcoholics’ in college. Those who only bing drank on the weekends were having huge issues and damage.
The American version of social drinking is holding a drink while you chat with someone.
The British accept binge drinking from a very early age. It’s the thing that shocked me the most when I spent time in England. Teenagers would be passed out drunk on the streets. The paper reported that one drowned falling out of a ferry full of other drunk teenagers. I’m guessing a scene like that is what this women thinks was “social drinking”.
I’m a social drinker living in Ohio and every evening at 5PM I have a gin and tonic. I have done this almost every evening for more than 50 years. For my age, I felt good and am without liver problems to the best of my knowledge. A side benefit: In all those years I’ve never had malaria once.
Someone asked him how he started his day-he replied “7:00 AM I had a BM. 8:00 I got out of bed”.
It’s the acetaminophen. It’s in every over the counter med in the UK. It’s insidious. So if you take cold medicine, and some panadol you are destroying your liver. Add a couple of drknks on top and your liver is getting hammered.
Boy after us boomers the population really is on a downward spiral mentally, physically and spiritually.
Me too. Of course, the only one who will hang out with me is my dear Old Grand-dad.
A sibling of mine combined alcohol with prescription drugs and almost died, saved only by liver and kidney transplants.
For that reason, as I like to drink, I completely stay away from all those pills and keep myself healthy enough where I don't even have prescription drugs.
Some years back, I had a root canal and the doctor prescribed me some pretty heavy duty painkillers with warnings not to combine with alcohol. I did not even bother filling that prescription. I dulled any pain I had with a strong liqueur over the next couple nights.
Now I don't mean to brag about my ability to hold liquor. As another poster here said, it's more of a curse than a blessing. But if you are going to drink, do not combine it with medications. Also, never drink on an empty stomach as well.
acetaminophen. You are correct. And they stick in almost every over the counter med. It should be illegal.
She was very social!
You’re aptly scratching the surface.
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen an article critical of OTC analgesics.
People self-medicate for a variety of reasons with one common theme: Rationale.
This woman rationalized drinking to excess as ‘social’ and you’re likely correct: She probably had a gross of tylenol in the house for the hangovers. But it probably wasn’t her only rationalization for self-medication.
People are often their own worst enemy and the last to concede that point.
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