[AppyPappy]

I know a doctor who told me if it is almost impossible to drink yourself to death over time. But if you tie one on and wake up with a hangover, pop 2 Tylenol every day and your liver will eventually go. Tylenol and alcohol will do kill you.

Show me a drunk who has stopped eating and I can accurately predict when they will die. If your pet stops eating, many times it is liver failure.

[Ikeon]

Tylenol is what kills your liver. True.

[SamAdams76]

You hit on quite an underappreciated point. Tylenol (and many other medications) are toxic to the liver by themselves. Combine them with alcohol and you are much more likely to do fatal damage to your liver.

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.

[logi_cal869]

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.

[struggle]

>Show me a drunk who has stopped eating and I can accurately predict when they will die. If your pet stops eating, many times it is liver failure.

Yeah, I translated a Japanese novel about alcoholism and it discusses these effects in detail. The protagonist is hospitalized from passing out after, you guessed it, not eating and consuming a bottle of whisky daily.

[packrat35]

My step brother died from liver failure at 45. He had Hep 2 & 3, cirrhosis of the liver, gastritis and a couple of others all at the same time.

He did some drugs too, but mostly pot and pills. He looked like he was 70 when he died.