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WWAW your skin and eyeballs turning yellow?

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It's most associated with liver disease really. Also pancreatic cancer and/or pancreatitis. I knew someone who went as yellow as a Simpson's character and they were dead 10 months later of pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Funnily enough jaundice is extremely common in newborn babies and is rarely anything to worry about.
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I had it as a newborn too
 
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In hindsight there's a bunch of crap that would have gone a long way towards making things less shitty:

1) Statistically, you're way more likely to succeed at "cutting back" than going cold turkey. The failure rate of going cold turkey is something like 99%. A huge part of the reason my intake levels were off the charts is that you build up a tolerance. When I was 22, two pints were enough to get the room spinning, if I drank too fast. By the time I was 40, I could drink from sunup to sundown and if I paced myself, I was 100% functional. Like, I barely even noticed that I was drinking. If you start drinking at 7am and stop at midnight, you can knock back 34 drinks without ever having more than two per hour. That's 1.7 liters of vodka. For instance, one afternoon I was at a work event at noon on a Thursday, and one of my coworkers was going on and on about what a drunk our coworker was, and that "he was drunk at noon" and that he was just embarassing himself. My coworker was completely unaware that I'd started drinking at 8am and I already had six shots under my belt and it wasn't even lunchtime.

2) As alluded to in my Lou Reed / David Bowie comment, there's some things that will fuck up your liver in a hurry. One dicey prostitute or one week of mixing painkillers and booze can shave a ton of time off your liver.

3) If you look at the mortality stats, the thing that kills alcoholics is often heart disease and GI issues. In my case it was GI issues. Basically I had internal bleeding. The thing that's so embarassing about this, is that I could have avoided the bleeding with plain ol' prilosec. I'd read some studies that people on Prilosec are prone to cancer, so I'd avoided it my entire life. Now I take it every day. But I had 25 YEARS of evidence that I had GI issues, and I just chalked them up to "this will blow over." Like, even in my 20s, I had heartburn constantly. By the time I was in my 30s, I had to go to Urgent Care every few years because I'd get heartburn so bad, I would be unable to move off the couch. WHEN YOU HAVE HEARTBURN SO BAD YOU CAN'T SEE STRAIGHT YOU MIGHT HAVE GI ISSUES. A lot of people who die near-instantly from boozing, are people who have something burst in their GI tract. They just bleed out like a stuck pig and even if they get to the hospital and in front of a surgeon in 20 minutes (very unlikely) they STILL might not make it. That's who I wound up with the whopper of a medical bill, I took a dump that indicated internal bleeding and got to the hospital before anything exploded. (If your shit looks like coffee grounds, go to the hospital NOW.)

4) Get to know what killed your relatives. In my case, I had a relative die of this, so I have a genetic predisposition to GI issues. I know someone who's adopted, that died suddenly. Chances are good that they could have avoided death if they'd dug up their family's medical history.

5) I know that it's scary as fuck to get bloodwork done when you're a raging alcoholic, but you should really do that. In my case, my liver was astonishingly resilient to booze, but it showed stuff that I didn't even know was wrong with me. That can save your life. You're going to feel pretty dumb if you kick booze entirely, thinking that's the only thing that's wrong with you, and then it turns out there's something booze related that's a bigger problem. In my case, GI issues were a bigger problem than my liver (but my GI issues were caused by a failing liver.)
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"I took a dump that indicated internal bleeding and got to the hospital before anything exploded."

was that when you were first diagnossed? how were you feeling leading up to that point?
 
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God be with you, no BS brotherman. Keep us posted. I've had a lot of signs to quit and stopped a few days ago. Have had yellowish skin around the eyes but luckily not in my actual eyes or the rest of my body. This place making fun of Patso for having those circles is what made me actually notice it. Think I have a chance to reverse it if I clean up my act, although your situation sounds a lot more serious. Hope it works out ok.
 
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"I took a dump that indicated internal bleeding and got to the hospital before anything exploded."

was that when you were first diagnossed? how were you feeling leading up to that point?
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yeah when the bowl looked like I'd filled it with coffee grounds, I knew it was time to go to the emergency room

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Okay, here is the question. I am a nursing student, I graduate in May but I havent really had to deal with this. My own husband, who is 29, has been having some...
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As for "how I was feeling", the main medical issues that I personally had were:

1) anything that raised the acid levels in my stomach could fuck me up for hours or even days. For instance, there's a Mexican restaurant I like, and every time I ate there I'd wind up doubled over in pain

2) I think one of the things that got my alcohol intake levels off the charts was that I got in the habit of having a drink in the morning to avoid hangovers, and then one shot turned into two and eventually I just found myself drinking day to night. But this was a looooooooong process. I got in the habit of having some "hair of the dog" about 17 years ago and things just escalated. If I'd just suffered through hangovers like a Big Boy I'd probably cut my booze intake in half. Another thing that sucks (or is great) about drinking in the AM is that it hits you way harder, because you've given your liver a break for eight hours.

3) One of the scarier things was that I started to get Anthony Cumia type problems. For instance, I'd notice that if I DIDN'T drink I would feel really nervous and uneasy. I'm willing to bet than Cumia pops xanax because the alternative is that he must drink 24x7. This is a REALLY freaky feeling, when you realize that if you go twelve hours without booze you'll start to suffer withdrawal symptoms.

I know that some people get so bad with the booze, that they just stop eating entirely.
 
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yeah when the bowl looked like I'd filled it with coffee grounds, I knew it was time to go to the emergency room

Coffee Ground Looking Stool

Okay, here is the question. I am a nursing student, I graduate in May but I havent really had to deal with this. My own husband, who is 29, has been having some...
allnurses.com allnurses.com

As for "how I was feeling", the main medical issues that I personally had were:

1) anything that raised the acid levels in my stomach could fuck me up for hours or even days. For instance, there's a Mexican restaurant I like, and every time I ate there I'd wind up doubled over in pain

2) I think one of the things that got my alcohol intake levels off the charts was that I got in the habit of having a drink in the morning to avoid hangovers, and then one shot turned into two and eventually I just found myself drinking day to night. But this was a looooooooong process. I got in the habit of having some "hair of the dog" about 17 years ago and things just escalated. If I'd just suffered through hangovers like a Big Boy I'd probably cut my booze intake in half. Another thing that sucks (or is great) about drinking in the AM is that it hits you way harder, because you've given your liver a break for eight hours.

3) One of the scarier things was that I started to get Anthony Cumia type problems. For instance, I'd notice that if I DIDN'T drink I would feel really nervous and uneasy. I'm willing to bet than Cumia pops xanax because the alternative is that he must drink 24x7. This is a REALLY freaky feeling, when you realize that if you go twelve hours without booze you'll start to suffer withdrawal symptoms.

I know that some people get so bad with the booze, that they just stop eating entirely.
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Have you ever heard of Diana?
 
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God be with you, no BS brotherman. Keep us posted. I've had a lot of signs to quit and stopped a few days ago. Have had yellowish skin around the eyes but luckily not in my actual eyes or the rest of my body. This place making fun of Patso for having those circles is what made me actually notice it. Think I have a chance to reverse it if I clean up my act, although your situation sounds a lot more serious. Hope it works out ok.
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The retarded thing about all this is that I don't even miss it, it's so dumb. I'm not one of those preachy Jim Norton types. If you ate skittles every day for 30 years and then you stopped eating them, it's not like you'd be jonesing for them, you'd just be like "well that was a bunch of empty calories that just made me feel like shit."

For literally ten years minimum, all that booze would do is making me feel the faintest of buzzes. My tolerance just got to be really really high. And on the occasional night when I'd GO HARD, my tolerance was so high, I'd mostly feel like taking a nap or throwing up. It's not as if you can ever get back to that point in your twenties when you're all giggly and euphoric.

Marc Maron is annoying, but he did an interview with Marilyn Manson which reminded me a lot of me. Basically Manson shows up to the interview, and he's lethargic and irritable and gets the interview done. And then Marc Maron calls him out for bringing an entire thermos full of vodka.

It's not like Manson was zany or funny or exciting or anything, he'd just reached that point of alcoholism where he needed vodka to deal with the anxiety of doing an interview, but all the calories were making him tired all the time, just hauling around his Fat Manson Body and generally looking like a bloated middle aged dude.

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