WWAW your skin and eyeballs turning yellow?

[gassers]

stay strong brotherman. fingers crossed it is not something serious.

(I read earlier that liver issues came up in your reports but i am still hopeful and optimistic)

The forrems are praying for you.

 

[chocolatehellhole]

lol I had four jobs and that played a big part in me winding up in the hospital

Oopsie doodles!



note: DONT DO THIS IT MIGHT KILL YOU

I meant it as a nod of mutual admiration. Your holier than thou take says more about your karma than anything else and is probably why you were a serial boozer. Love ya (will) miss ya.

 

[Uncle J’s Sink Emporium]

It’s not looking good. 8cm mass on the liver and some smaller ones too. Possible colon mass too, get to do a colonoscopy Thursday, yay.

Don’t be like me and ignore shit and don’t listen to the shitheads here saying all doctors are liars and all that. Get your physicals, make them test everything.

 

[Uncle J’s Sink Emporium]

Oh and my wife got the call that her dad dropped dead literally 15 minutes before I got those scan results.

Not good.

 

[BonnieMcFarlaneMe2]

It’s not looking good. 8cm mass on the liver and some smaller ones too. Possible colon mass too, get to do a colonoscopy Thursday, yay.

Don’t be like me and ignore shit and don’t listen to the shitheads here saying all doctors are liars and all that. Get your physicals, make them test everything.

Godspeed, brotherman. I hope it works out for you. Maybe we could get Ant to do a cameo for you as Tony Danza since you’re both a little under the weather.

 

[Lucky Buddha Beer]

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.)

Whelp you doing a good job at scaring the shit outta me. I am already in the process of cutting down/quitting my previously non stop drinking.

I can 100% attest to the GI issues. I have up and down terrible gallbladder pain. Puked blood once I am pretty certain last year, but it doesn't help that the meal I ate was red. Took me a while of doctor googling and noticing the timing and triggers of symptoms to realize no it's not my liver hurting (although my liver is definitely fatty and enlarged as well as likely damaged) it is my gallbladder that probably has gall stones in it and is in maximum retard overdrive trying to counter act the 10 pints or the 20 shots of gin over the up and down span of 4 years. My liver has expanded to the point where if I push on my rib cage on the lower right side I can make it click in a gross way, like cracking your knuckles. Doesn't really hurt or anything, but I can assure you my left side cannot do that.

Thankfully the GF has a prescription for a PPI which I just took over and take daily currently. If I weren't taking that I have heartburn that feels near heart attack levels. Clearly an indicator to my GI acidity... I'm starting a new job soon with a heavy schedule so I just need to keep myself busy and remind myself of the times where I was laying on the bathroom floor so bloated and in so much throbbing pain. I also have to power through quitting coffee and caffeine. A single large coffee, I can start feeling a slight dull ache. A second large coffee? It's like my gallbladder is a testicle and the iron sheikh is crushing it for like 1.5 hours.

The body is resilient, apparently, so I am hoping I just need a good solid month for my gallbladder, liver, and stomach will slowly start to repair themselves. Not that I'm going to just immediately go back to heavy drinking after that, it'd just be nice to not have the on and off chronic pain I've had for about the past year.

Time really does fly. And if you are heavy drinking, daily, it really only takes 3-5 years to start feeling like dogshit and then 6-10 years to flat out die.

Don't drink bros. It's not pfg. And if you do drink, at least get it a lot more under control.

 

[Jack_Horner]

Whelp you doing a good job at scaring the shit outta me. I am already in the process of cutting down/quitting my previously non stop drinking.

I can 100% attest to the GI issues. I have up and down terrible gallbladder pain. Took me a while of doctor googling and noticing the timing and triggers of symptoms to realize no it's not my liver hurting (although my liver is definitely fatty and enlarged as well as likely damaged) it is my gallbladder that probably has gall stones in it and is in maximum retard overdrive trying to counter act the 10 pints or the 20 shots of gin over the up and down span of 4 years. My liver has expanded to the point where if I push on my rib cage on the lower right side I can make it click in a gross way, like cracking your knuckles. Doesn't really hurt or anything, but I can assure you my left side cannot do that.

Thankfully the GF has a prescription for a PPI which I just took over and take daily currently. If I weren't taking that I have heartburn that feels near heart attack levels. Clearly an indicator to my GI acidity... I'm starting a new job soon with a heavy schedule so I just need to keep myself busy and remind myself of the times where I was laying on the bathroom floor so bloated and in so much throbbing pain. I also have to power through quitting coffee and caffeine. A single large coffee, I can start feeling a slight dull ache. A second large coffee? It's like my gallbladder is a testicle and the iron sheikh is crushing it for like 1.5 hours.

Time really does fly. And if you are heavy drinking, daily, it really only takes 3-5 years to start feeling like dogshit and then 6-10 years to flat out die.

Don't drink bros. It's not pfg. And if you do drink, at least get it a lot more under control.

Yeah it's no fun. One time I was on a road trip with my GF and I had to pull over to throw up. Wasn't even drunk; was just in a ton of pain.

Nothing came up and just sat there next to the side of the road for about 5-10 minutes trying to power through the GI pain. Not PFG.

 

[Lucky Buddha Beer]

Yeah it's no fun. One time I was on a road trip with my GF and I had to pull over to throw up. Wasn't even drunk; was just in a ton of pain.

Nothing came up and just sat there next to the side of the road for about 5-10 minutes trying to power through the GI pain. Not PFG.

It's brutal. Attempting to throw up nothing, eating a pittance of a meal any normal person could eat and throwing it up, etc. I'm amazed you even survived that long with zero PPIs I would've probably blown my brains out.

PPIs are a absolute lifesaver. Entirely 100% deletes the symptoms of heartburn. The problem then becomes though do not use that 'life hack' to then drink more, cause now you can. I did that for a bit... retarded.


You said your period of super heavy drinking was a period of about 4.5 years? Was there was ramp up to that or?

Nevermind you kind of answered this already. Seemingly you drank a lot longer than me. I'm just shy of the 4 years of terrible heavy drinking mark, then like 2 years of medium-light drinking prior to that.

 

[guest]

This is a real downer.

 

[Lucky Buddha Beer]

It’s not looking good. 8cm mass on the liver and some smaller ones too. Possible colon mass too, get to do a colonoscopy Thursday, yay.

Don’t be like me and ignore shit and don’t listen to the shitheads here saying all doctors are liars and all that. Get your physicals, make them test everything.

It sounds like cancer. So nothing to do with boozing really you just got fucked by nature's lottery. But, that surely potentially can get operated on and fixed. Grandma had colon cancer with a mass in middle age, got it dealt with and lived to 93.

 

[guest]

Is that from the mom boozing during pregnancy?

Don't think so. I had it and Mother hardly touched the stuff

 

[NigelCumia]

Patrick wins again

Enjoy Dialysis, stlaker

 

[Opesterino]

I am so sorry to hear the updates.. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers.

 

[guest]

It’s not looking good. 8cm mass on the liver and some smaller ones too. Possible colon mass too, get to do a colonoscopy Thursday, yay.

Don’t be like me and ignore shit and don’t listen to the shitheads here saying all doctors are liars and all that. Get your physicals, make them test everything.

Jesus, I'm sorry to hear that.

 

[BonnieMcFarlaneMe2]

Don't think so. I had it and Mother hardly touched the stuff

That was just a joke *sniff*

 

[guest]

That was just a joke *sniff*

I'm not autistic

 

[victor_sanchez]

Oh and my wife got the call that her dad dropped dead literally 15 minutes before I got those scan results.

Not good.

Maybe the casket store will have a 2-for-1 sale on Black Friday. Thought and prayers.

 

[BonnieMcFarlaneMe2]

I'm not autistic

Speak for yourself haha.

 

[BonnieMcFarlaneMe2]

Maybe the casket store will have a 2-for-1 sale on Black Friday. Thought and prayers.

That’s fawkin brutal. ME:

 

[SoloJoeAcousticShow]

Best of luck, brotherman.

I'm just shocked how some of you could still go on with the heartburn that already requires PPIs.
I once had that briefly in my early 20s due to a sugary shit diet and sodas and I would have quit alcohol immediately for ever if that was the cause.

Heartburn SUCKS! Cancer SUCKS! I hope you kick their fucking ass and become what Jim Norton always wanted to be.