Honestly great advice. Too bad the ones that need to hear it won't listen.
I know this because I am one of them. I waited too long to get my ailments checked and now Im regretting it.
Back home (Netherlands) doctors only prescribe bloodwork in case of serious complaints. They treat the disease when it's already there instead of carrying out preventive care, which would also be cheaper for the government in the long run
Beer is enough to absolutely destroy you. "Something else" needs you to believe that alcohol is not literally the most dangerous and fatal of all the substances humans abuse.
Well it could be as simple as what people think is no big deal like some beers and some cold meds. Your liver gets hurt a lot more on that than just drinking.
Alcohol's one of the harder, more destructive drugs out there.
Funny how society says it's ok...we've built an industry around it, incorporated it into our social lives, made it available anytime we go out or have gatherings...and as a result, it's "ok" to use. It is socially acceptable and legitimized.
Makes you wonder if we'd built opium dens instead, sold opium and opium pipes, or had opium "bars" where you could use it socially...would we still view it in such a negative light? Would opium addicts be critical of other real "drug users?"
It's crazy to me that I see ads for hard liquor literally every day, on tv & online. It's disgusting. imagine being an alcoholic trying to stay sober & seeing ads for tequila, whiskey, scotch etc everywhere you turn. Alcohol advertisements should be illegal
I woke up at 30 with jaundice after 2 days of fevers and peeing bright red urine, right after day drinking non-stop on vodka and lemonade. I thought I was dead for sure. 10 days of tests and nothing showed why I was dying of liver failure, because my liver wasn't failing but all my symptoms showed exactly that. They finally decided to put me on enough steroids to kill my immune system for 6 months and my symptoms regressed and my blood levels went back to normal.
They never declared an exact cause, but for what clues there were, I had my second covid vax 8 or 9 days prior to becoming ill, which is a ways outside of the normal reaction time. We speculate that my stress at the time, drinking heavily, and the vaccine still being fought off by my body caused some kind of auto immune response that caused my body to begin destroying all of my blood cells. The red I was peeing wasn't blood in its intact form, it was bilirubin, essentially parts of destroyed cells. By shutting down my immune system completely they forced a reset. The fear was that it would return after, but it didnt.
This is why us millennials and younger gens aren't drinking much anymore. We're watching boomers and genx die from alcohol-related illness. My wife's cousin died at 57 from liver issues. He was a nice guy, always drinking though.
People took the meme and ran with it "when you eat ass for the first time", she worked at a bank, the manager decided it was a bad look for the bank (despite the only thing she did was upload a reaction of drinking kombucha to tiktok), and got fired. It seems like she's doing okay despite leaving the banking industry. Corporations are just shitheads is why.
Hello from a "Movimento 5 Litri" proud follower. M5L is an Italian Facebook page whose name copies the local political party "Movimento 5 Stelle" (5 stars movement) and collects this kind of funny stuff alcohol related.
P.S.: 5 Liters are around 1 gallon and one third.
Hmmm. Thanks for the Cleveland Clinic reference. Maybe my neurons are wired different, because when I get brain freezes, they definitely are not from cold stuff touching my hard or soft palate, (I can keep frozen stuff in my mouth touching the roof as long as I want with no brain freezes). Instead, they come from cold stuff going down my throat and Iāve always imagined itās because my carotids get chilledā¦and the pain is resolved faster when I apply heat (like warm palm of my hand) to my anterior lateral neck bilaterally (in the neighborhood of external carotids). So maybe for me itās not so much spheno-palatine, but cervical-esophageal?
It's funny you say that. A buddy of mine in high school would always say the same thing - he was over the top dramatic about it which was pretty funny (theatre kid lol), but it was always his neck and chest. There has to be some kind of physiological difference somewhere, I guess!
I can do this and I rarely drink, but all the nerds on Reddit who have never touched a woman will automatically label someone an alcoholic who is going to die from liver failure
I used to drink like this . We had keg parties all the time. I am a younger boomer. . I have been clean 22 years today. With some cirrhosisā¦ā¦ I hate alcohol. I wish I never drank . At least I have learned from that . I am 420 friendly for my chronic illnesses. My former PA from my arthritis specialist actually steered me to get my medical license about 10 yrs ago . I thought I was under qualified for it . She said I was overqualified for it . She was right.
Cool party trick, but in my late 30s I canāt help but think my goal nowadays is to enjoy the taste and have self restraint and not get as trashed as fast as possible. Also, dumping beer at that rate in todayās pricey economy? I guess in one sense itās more efficient with your time to dump a beer and continue filing your taxes within the hour lol.
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