i drink ALOT. I usaully get drunk and pass out. But recently i noticed, i drink and drink and drink and nothing happens. Yesterday i drank 13 beers to see if i could get drunk. Nothing happened. Is there a medical reason? Is my liver shot?
2006-09-02 03:46:57 · 32 answers · asked by cooleystylezr 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
for example. i drink friday night, takes 6-8 beers to be good. Sunday same deal. But last night i drank 13 or more bbers and never got a buzz, drunk, or even slow with my speech. Not a tolerance related issue sinc ei doubt the tolerance spikes that high, and only for that day.
2006-09-02 03:55:03 · update #1
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2006-09-02 04:01:56 · answer #1 · answered by gangadharan nair 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alcohol deghydrogenase is the first enzyme which helps to digest alcohol. As alcohol and some of its breakdown products are toxic, the body will produce more enzyme to deal with the toxins more rapidly. Eventually the toxic effect (i.e. being drunk) will occur less frequently as the body will be processing the alcohol more efficiently.
Just stop drinking for a while and your tolerance will fall. If there's not the alcohol for the enzymes to deal with, your body won't bother to expend the energy making so much of them.
2006-09-02 03:58:48 · answer #2 · answered by Weeble316 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this happen when u drink to much. because u drink so much your body get use to it so it takes more and more to get you drunk like if you were to work out regularly it would take more and more to make u get tired. the thing is even thought your body get use to the feeling of being drunk you will still have your reaction slowed down, you wouldn't be able to walk in a straight line but you still won't will drunk.
2006-09-02 04:00:14 · answer #3 · answered by qwerty 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is called building up your tolerance. It makes you drink even more than usual until your liver decides to give up on you. Do you have a red nose? Are your eyes yellow? Get yourself into rehab sweetie and start taking a milk thistle supplement for your liver.
2006-09-02 03:48:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Like pretty much everyone else said, it could be tolerance.
There's a disease called cirrhoses. It's a disease of the liver where just your normal tissue within gets replaced with fiborous tissue. (Basically inflammation). This generally results from alcohol abuse and a couple other things.
That's not something you want to get as it could be and is life threatening.
2006-09-02 04:14:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's not really a medical condition that causes that your body just gets used to a certain amount of alcohol and it will start to need more to get the feeling of being drunk. your liver is probably not shot yet but if you keep up the pace it will be eventually.
2006-09-02 03:50:38 · answer #6 · answered by bnannners 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah, i used to drink like 6 -7 bottles a night just to get to sleep. but when there's an occasion for merrymaking like birthdays or what i could drink much more and not feel drunk. maybe it's because of the food you eat before you drink and the activity of the occasion esp. if you're videokeing.
2006-09-02 05:28:41 · answer #7 · answered by pearlbeta 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, but f*ck.. enjoy it!! From what I've heard (and I also drink a LOT) if you are an alcoholic and drink way too much then slowly but surely you need to drink more and more to feel the same. But if you just suddenly feel like this maybe its something else. I think you should go to a doctor seriously and find out. 'Cause whatever, we don't want you dying on us ok!!??
2006-09-02 03:51:17 · answer #8 · answered by Mountaineer 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You liver may be shot but that's not why you didn't get drunk. I think the medical term is called tolerance.
2006-09-02 03:48:37 · answer #9 · answered by FaerieWhings 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ok well first of all please stop drinking so much, it'll destroy your liver. If you're worried, go to the doctor or search the internet, but maybe your body is just becoming more tolerant of alcohol as you get more used to consuming large amounts of alcohol.
2006-09-02 03:49:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋