I keep falling out with my Liver and making up again over a drink what can I do?

Question

ok so I think I might be getting a bit of a drink problem and it is detrimental to my health. I tend to binge drink at the weekends. I would like some serious advice on how I could say plan to go to the pub an dhave 3 or 4 drinks and then leave. I usually drink myself into oblivion and I am just fed up of doing it. What can I do? Perhaps I should pre-arrange for someone to collect me? Does anyone have any remedies that they use?

Hope you can help. This is serious even though I joked in the question. Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I saw some good advise so I'm gonna leave that to them. What I got to say is make sure you get a handle on it before you end up a full-on alcoholic. I can tell you that's no fun. U end up @ a place where u can't drink @ all. I don't get to toast New Years, I didn't get to toast my own wedding. Not that I want that life style back. However once in a while I wish I could have one.

Answer 2

Life is much more than drinks, it doesn't matter how many. We have to grow other directions, finding values in small things. Your question suggests a kind of how to drink less poison? The point here is how don't drink any poison? Try to find what gives you pleasure, in sports, music, arts, etc. I can tell you by myself, I don't go to pubs and also don't drink or smoke. On the other side, I'm a marathoner for more than 20 years, I run, lift weights and stretch every single day, before starting work. Find your own ways but others than pubs and drinks, I can assure you'll be happier and healthy, even your sexual life will be better. I suggest a good doctor's help at the beginning, he can give you a good hand, don't hesitate and do it as soon as possible.
Good luck I'm sure you can do it.

Answer 3

Been there, for 3 years. I needed to find other priorities. The pub is for people who don't have much else to do. Chances are you would not get pissed if you stayed home, so try going to movies, go dating, find other social outlets. I still have it happen to me, but now that I'm married and have a busy job, it's more like once or twice a year instead of 4 days a week.

If you can't, it's time to get help. Binge drinking is very unhealthy, and is a sign of serious alcoholism. Try to cut down on your own and if you can't, see your Doc.

I also like the first suggestion, one I did as well. If I went to go watch a game or something, I brought just enough to have a few and go. Kept me out of trouble.

Answer 4

If you are truly looking for advice on this...than think of this:
A liver transplant costs anywhere from $250,000 to
$750,000 and you have to have very good insurance to
pay for this, otherwise you have to come up with the funds
yourself. If you get liver disease, you will have to go through
a long process of evaluation to be placed on the transplant
list, this means lots of testing and seeing different doctors.
Then, if you are on the list, you only have hope that an
organ will become available when you need the surgery...
there is a definite shortage.
If you are not addicted right now and can stop, it would
be the best. Overloading the liver with alcohol when it
cannot handle this amount can cause the alcohol to
change to a substance in the liver that can cause damage.
It may start out as inflammation, but it will progress to
death of the liver cells and once this happens, there
is no turning back. The cells that die, form scar tissue
inside of the liver which will block the healthy cells
from getting the oxygen and nourishment they need and
they die also...it will progress.
Stopping alcohol can help the liver heal...once the cells
die, you cannot bring dead cells back to life.
This disease is then known as cirrhosis of the liver:
http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/cirrhosis/

What happens in this disease is that the fluid will build
up in the abdominal area, you may look like you are carrying
twins, your muscles will disappear and you will end up looking
like a pregnant skeleton walking around. Your mind will
become unclear and others will have to step in to help you.
If you want to see what someone looks like with this
disease, look at this:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://depts.washington.edu/physdx/images/ascites_pt1sm.jpg&imgrefurl=http://depts.washington.edu/physdx/liver/index.html&h=200&w=144&sz=13&hl=en&start=4&tbnid=ATkQMOYDSvq-8M:&tbnh=104&tbnw=75&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dascites%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

Most people who are addicted to alcohol have two hurdles
to cross...one is the addiction and the other may be
transplantation. A patient who drinks alcohol has to be
free from drinking it for six months before they can be
placed on the transplant list. The doctors know if you
drink by your blood work. The liver is a very quiet organ
and when inflammation starts, there may be no symptoms
at all, not until the functions the liver does to keep the
body healthy declines. This makes it quite alot more
serious in someone who drinks, cause of the wait of being
clear of alcohol and becoming so sick, they might not
make it to the transplant list.

Coming off of alcohol addition is very hard to do.
Alot of people feel extremely sick with the shakes,
hallucinations, and many other side effects. I know of
some who have gone through it will great success though
and are waiting to be placed on the transplant list.
One did it entirely on his own and a couple others went
through detox at the hospital. The doctors have drugs that will lesson the symptoms and help the patient to cope
better with the symptoms of coming off of it.

I hope you will truly consider this information. You are
the only one who can make the decision on this.
I know this info can be scary...but it is the truth.

Answer 5

Last time I tried curbing my thirst by bringing less money, tap beer was free. Chances are, drunks always want more drunks and are always willing to pay for it. Someone will buy you drinks no doubt.

If you don't want to be an alcoholic than quit drinking. If you can't stop, you are an alcoholic. Go to AA or even better, get hypnotised. I did it, and haven't had a drink or ciggarette in over 2 months. I feel really good though I have to admit it is not easy to NOTdrink in this country, unless you surround yourself with non-drinkers. Then you won't even think about it and life is so much easier. My boyfriend and I are about over thanks to this situation. He is still drinking and I am tired of babysitting a drunk.

Also, I like to plan lots of stuff to do that you can't do as well when you are drinking such as going to movies, taking walks, or adventurous road trips.

Good luck to you. Hope you can make it work for your happiness.

Answer 6

I have had the same problem and believe me If you carry on It will just keep getting worse. I used to use alcohol as a crutch to help me get to sleep at night and to relax when out socialising. My solution was to go cold turkey for a couple of weeks. Try not drinking alcohol for a minimum of two weeks. Then see how better you feel mentally and physically especially on the weekends. Then try going back to the pub. You will find that you will not want to drink as much as it will interfere with your new found sense of well being. Try also organising enjoyable activities in your weekends (during the day) Then you have something to look forward to so you will be more inclined to drink less and go home earlier in preparation for the exciting things you have planned the next day.

Answer 7

Try drinking straight orange juice; let the barman know you're trying to clean up your act and only take enough money for 1 or 2 drinks. I warn you; there will be side effects like your friends will knock you for going soft, you will ask yourself if you are old enough to worry about your liver (my cousin died at 34 from cirrhosis, so anyone is old enough) you may even develop tremors in your hands from not getting your alcohol. Maybe it would do you more good to avoid pubs for a few weeks until you think you can handle it, and then with a mate who doesn't drink?

Answer 8

This is not a joke. You can't go to the pub and have three or four drinks and then leave. If you could, you would already be doing it and not have to ask how. You are an alcoholic. You need to admit that to yourself and seek some help to overcome your addiction. You are young and you think you have the will power to control this on your own, but you do not. Eventually, it will kill you. We just buried my brother-in-law who died from liver failure after years of alcohol abuse. Before he died, his skin turned orange because his liver ceased to function. This 140 lb man gained over 60 lbs in fluid weight. Fluid was seeping out of his skin. He looked like a parade balloon. His kidney failed. He slowly drowned in his own body fluids. Gross enough for you? It's the truth, and it is what you can expect if you continue. You're right in your conclusion that this is serious. It is. But nobody can help you; you have to help yourself.

Answer 9

You have to love yourself better than that! It's called self-respect! You don't want to end up a boozer. If your bf (or gf) really cares about you, they'll keep you away from such places. And it is up to you to make the effort!

You might think only on wknds is fine, but that's what every alcoholic says in the beginning. Get some help now before you fall into a place you don't want to be! Talk to your friends and family. Those who love you will do all they can for you and NOT keep dragging you back to temptation!

Good luck!

Answer 10

If you try and stop the liver quivers and the sickness with having more alcohol , guess what? You will build up a very , very high tolerance for alcohol and be exactly like a guy I know who is alot like any ol drunk off of the street with the smell of urine on them. The guy I know has to have and will not be with out a certain amount of alcohol in a day . He needs it to function and not shake , he needs it to sleep etc