functioning alcoholics

[nidnoyham 30]

Spoke to my mate yesterday, just back last week from Rayong. His friend there an Englishman died on Saturday of liver failure, related to drinking.

 

Everyone had told him for months to stop, but he just couldn't do it. Due to the volcanic situation his sister was still with him.

 

She couldn't get a booking until Thursday this week.

 

Once the grog gets you, it takes a supreme effort to shake it off. If there is little else to do, it is even harder.

[LocalYokul 214]

I've seen guys here in Banchang drink until they had to have their leg amputated, soon after they were dead

[LocalYokul 214]

I've not been in a bar in one week now, mostly due to Songkran, but I did get pissed up on a bottle of Vodka Saturday night, the whole damn bottle, then slept late

[capdagde 1,954]

I drink moderately but I think it's the "every day" that could end up being my problem! Hardly ever get drunk.

 

I didn't come to live in France to be tee-total that's for sure.

 

Keep taking the Allopurinol for the uric acid and the Crestor for the cholesterol. Red wine lowers the cholesterol (and blood sugar apparently diabetics) but increases the uric acid - bugger eh?

 

Andy Cap

[LocalYokul 214]

I used to have some Allopurinol laying around for the odd foot pain after a bender weekend, but haven't needed that for a long time since San Mig came onto the market in LOS

 

tried wines, that tore me up with the uric build-up

 

vodka seems to be the drug of choice for me these days, cheap & easy, goes down smooth & almost never comes up, LOL

[gerry53 1]

Using Allopurinal after you are suffering from uric acid buildup is a waste of time. It is supposed to be used on an ongoing basis to prevent the crystals building up in the joints. There are other drugs (Colchicine .6 mg) to use to eliminate the already formed crystals but still takes a few days of extreme pain. Allopurinol is cheap and effective. You don't have to overindulge in alcohol to get gout, a can of salmon or sardines can do it for me.

Edited April 20, 2010 by gerry53

[LocalYokul 214]

I know that actually, but Colchicine is what I used for after an attack, threw out all the Allopurinal & Colchicine long ago

 

with a LOT of water & a few tabs of Colchicine right at the first pains I could get it cleared up

 

I just it just depends on how much uric acid is built up in your system. Thought I was bad, but it sounds like you're far worse

[gerry53 1]

You are right LocalYokul that the drinking water helps alot. I take half a 300 mg of Allipurinol daily as a preventative measure and don't have any problems. I ran out of Allipurinol in Jomtien last year for a few weeks and got gout again so it was on to the Colchicine for 3 days to flush the crystals out, will never do that again, bloody painful. I'm a Canuck also and liked the Ban Chang area.

[LocalYokul 214]

seen at least one expat get gout to the point of losing his leg right here in B'Chang

 

I saw him dragging his foot around & still drinking beer, told him it was the WORST thing he could do, drink beer

 

but he continued, then went home to get an operation to remove his leg up to the knee, next step was he died, after he wouldn't put down the glass

 

gout is as far as I need to be warned, when that shit flares up i stop drinking immediately & water myself up real good

[gerry53 1]

I would suspect he had diabetes which can result in poor circulation and amputation. He may have had gout also but I have never heard of an amputation from gout, the crystals generally dissolve but are extremely painful.

[LocalYokul 214]

yes, diabetes for sure, the limping he originally encountered was from gout, everything just progressed after that, when he wouldn't stop lifting the yellow liquid to his lips

[phomsanuk 1]

Had on older man tell me "The booze givith and the booze taketh away"

 

I consumed the equivelent of a liter of vodka per day while owning and operating 3 upscale restaurants in different towns for almost 20 years until the burnout and booze got me.

Still managed to salvage enough to live here.

[wacmedia 277]

Hi,

 

My savings grace is that I don't have an addictive personality. I've lived hard but am still here. Most of my friends are not...

Edited July 27, 2010 by wacmedia

[thumper63 1]

You could say that I'm a functioning alcoholic.

That's mainly due to the fact that I crawled into a 12 step program 18 years ago and haven't had a drink since.

My drinking had cost me everything that was dear to me, and all I wonted to do was to die.

But it's a very different life today.

I have just as much fun as everyone else but I wake up with out a hang over.

 

Not a bad deal.