Is drinking 12 hours every day a problem....

Nope.
Often manage 13 to 15.
And then there's the weekend.

I just can't stop - impossible , its getting longer and longer,
worse & worse

I could always stop before - i just cant stop now, ever

i wish i was joking Gnarley

Only if you drink less than 12 hours Ron

You will get withdrawal symptoms

Hush up chaps, you're ruining my power hour. Going for gold here and trying for 16.

My only downside to the drinking is that I'm getting a chubby fecker and that combined with my laziness makes it a real chore to wipe me arse.
Soon I'll have to going at it from the front and I have no clue as to how my balls are going to take to the idea

It could be construed as a problem, yes.


It also explains a lot.

Need to keep yourself hydrated Ron.

I drink over 5 pints of water a day.

the drinking is not the problem it's why you need to do it

Your hero Donald doesn't drink so don't think he'd have much time for you.

only wimps stop half way through the weekend !


drain the bottle

It is a problem for me these days. I am not the man I used to be.

Only a problem if you can't afford to do it.

Have a couple of days a week off and don't drink.

If you can't do that, seek proper advice.

Huge daily and weekly intake of alcohol for last fifty years or so. Managed to excel myself in last 18 months or so since I retired. I drink all day every day. I've always been quite slim but now have a pronounced, in fact a relatively huge beer belly, which everyone I meet comments on. Last day without alcohol was probably over ten years ago.

Yesterday about two in the afternoon suddenly got this intense pain in the kidney/liver area and about half-an-hour later started vomiting. Vomiting just made pain worse. Tried a couple of paracetamol but these came straight back up, couldn't drink anything not even water. Tried going to bed but pain was just as bad, tried standing, sitting but nothing helped. About 8 in the evening decided to go to A&E then thought better of it as being Saturday night I thought it would be full of drunks(!). Half-an-hour later pain miraculously disappeared and was able to eat and drink without vomiting.

Went to bed about 10 and slept well until about 3:30 when woke up with same bloody pain and immediately started vomiting again. Stuck it out until about seven and decided to go to A&E which luckily is only about a 10 minute walk.

Place was deserted. Checked in, saw a nurse within two minutes who took blood pressure (177/78), temperature, etc and then straight into one of the nursing rooms. Another nurse came straight away, took blood pressure (144/78) blood for testing, urine for testing and put me on a saline drip. Saw a doctor after about half-an-hour and had x-rays almost immediately.

Trollied back to room and nodded off for about an hour. Nurse again took blood pressure (126/77). Soon got results from doctor. Blood tests ok but some blood in urine, nothing untoward on x-rays. Doctor put everything down to dehydration and advised drinking 8 pints of water a day. She did also add that if it happened again to phone for an ambulance (which I found odd). Prescription for co-codomol and that was it.

Absolutely brilliant service and shows the NHS isn't finished by a long way.

How old are you Ron?

An interesting piece Charlie, glad to read you was given a near clean bill of health

Thanks Ron, must admit was a tad concerned. Two things I do do is eat well (home cooking) and sleep well.

sounds like acute pancreatitis charlie, but if the bloodwork was ok, then maybe not.

we are all free to live your life as we choose, and it's none of my business but the drink will eventually catch up with you.

we are all free to live our life as we choose.

"we are all free to live your life as we choose" I quite liked this had visions of becoming the next Dice Man.

Earlier this year the max recommended units for a man was reduced from 21 to 14.

So I went from being Ok to drinking an unhealthy amount overnight.

David Hanmore drinks 525 units of alcohol a week which exceeds the Government's recommended allowance of between 21 and 28 units 


Dave is more commonly known as Disco - puts things in perspective!

"safe and dangerous" and "healthy and unhealthy" are weak and ineffective descriptions spewed out by lazy journalists in lieu of presenting the proper data.

it's all here on page 21.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/545739/GDG_report-Jan2016.pdf

play whichever odds you choose.

About 8 in the evening decided to go to A&E then thought better of it as being Saturday night I thought it would be full of drunks(!) 

Glad you're OK Charlie. The pain plus blood in urine made me think that you could have passed a kidney stone.
Perhaps you should ask your GP for further checks.

Foinavon could well be right!

Dec 18, 2016 -- 7:03PM, Foinavon wrote:

Glad you're OK Charlie. The pain plus blood in urine made me think that you could have passed a kidney stone.Perhaps you should ask your GP for further checks.

Thanks Foinavon.
One of the reasons for the xrays was to determine that. No sign of stone.

DStyle
Started reading that report but it's heavy going. Most of it doesn't seem to relate to really heavy drinking but I'll continue reading it. I'm under no illusion that drinking isn't bad for me. As an ex 40 a day man (went electronic three years ago) I always thought it would be one or the other (or a combination) that got me.

I've heard the wisdom often repeated that you need some days off a week to allow some healing.

sure you didnt swallow a can in your haste

Dec 18, 2016 -- 7:19PM, chavman wrote:

sure you didnt swallow a can in your haste

Don't drink from the can and not really a fast drinker. More of a Boycott all day plodder.

You need a month off to let your liver recover if it hasn't gone too far.

Heavy drinkers are more susceptible to gout and diabetes amongst other things.

Andrew Marr was reported to take a month off from drinking occasionally.
It didn't stop him from having a stroke.
I bet he feels like a drink these days after he looks at himself in the mirror.

The treatment involved having the drug injected into the spinal fluid while hanging upside down

Wouldn't fancy that. I imagine it would be hard to drink while hanging upside down.

If you are drinking 12 hours a day, every day,then that will catch up with you sooner rather than later

You've obviously got issues, you need to ask yourself why you are drinking so much

The "every day" was an exaggeration bigH,

But can see it getting progressively worse lately - probably give it a miss all
together after xmas, that's the plan anyway.

bigH
That's a very fair point which I haven't got an honest answer to. One thing that heavy drinking does (or at least I find it does) is that you can make promises to yourself about what you will do tomorrow or whenever but you never keep them.

hence my last post Charlie!

My "every day" is every day.

Sorry Charlie, i don't think it right that you have the last word on this thread that
i started, i'm looking to address my situation in the near future, as you say though
all you/we seem to do is move the goal posts, ie tomorrow / in the new year ect.

Anyway good luck, hope you don't have any recurrence of the pain

Yes, it is a problem - you will eventually die horribly and slowly.  But, if you have no particular reason to live, why not?

This is a bad time of year. Decreasing daylight, the manic horror of Xmas, dampness and decay. But fix your gaze on the not-so-distant glory of the Cheltenham Festival - that's something to live for every year.

I'll drink to that

I LOVE CHRISTMAS,I wish it could happen every month.

There's a fella somewhere up North who has christmas dinner every day

Xmas dinner every day?  That's got to be one of the torments of an inner circle of Hell.

[:ex

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There's a fella somewhere up North who has christmas dinner every day Laugh

was a fella somewhere up North................

He died a couple of years ago, heart attack caused by blocked arteries

who could have predicted that??

Ron, I think the big question here is do you actually want to go teetotal? If the answer is yes I would advise to cut down gradually.

I can sometimes drink far too much when betting largish. I'ts like a crutch when the stalls open or the tapes go up.

I know that's a pitiful excuse but since giving up smoking fifteen years ago I needed something to take the edge off of things.

If you are in any doubt you always have your GP to fall back on.

Do they still do Christmas in London?

I have thought Khan might have banned it by now.

** I forgot to add that your GP is duty bound to help you whether succsessful or not.