re: Anyone here have to quit drinking due to health reasons?

Takling a six month hiatus due to a minor heart condition. Not a problem at all. Trending towards legal designer cannabis when I retire.

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Nah frick that. I actually want to enjoy what little life I have left

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It becomes more enjoyable to be sober after some time.

I switched to energy crystals personally.

I quit way before it became a health problem. Depending on your view of addiction.

And the early posters are right. Cirrhosis is a brutal, ugly, and miserable way to die. Imagine someone draining 4 or 5 liters of fluid out of your abdomen multiple times a week.

Had to, but after 5 years I threw in the towel. That has been 5 years ago. Doctors tell me what ever I am doing, keep doing.

If it seems impossible then two things...1. You really need to get help. 2. That means you don’t love anyone or anything more then you love drinking. You are saying you would rather drink and die early then be there with your loved ones or things. You can say that’s not true but it is really.

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I have no reason to really drink much anymore since the joy is completely outweighed by being miserable a few hours later and often the next day.

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This is why I no longer do it. And life is just as fun without it.

Watching someone die from alcoholism is horrible. Had a friend who had to get up several times a night to drink so he didn't get the DT's. Ended up in a wheelchair from falling. He would drink then get diarrhea and it would flow out of his wheelchair with him sitting in it. Then he'd roll from the living room to the kitchen to get more booze and track shite all over his house.
He became delusional and thought what was on TV was his life. So he'd tell people how he could fly and could stop a ship from sinking, etc. He blew up as big as a toad and finally died.

The end.

Yes. I was diagnosed with cirrhosis this Sept. at age 39. Stopped that habit dead in its tracks. If you need to stop, do it well before you get to the point I'm at. I should be on the transplant list come January. Then, I wait. Drinking is no more.

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I was diagnosed with cirrhosis this Sept. at age 39

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Do you mind if I ask how much you drank and for how long? That’s so young. What signs do you remember ignoring along the way before you reached the point of having cirrhosis? That usually takes a long time of heavy drinking from what I have read but maybe not for everyone?

Sure, no problem BigB0882. I was pretty much a daily vodka drinker from age 25-34. At 34, my ex-wife filed for divorce. Lost my kid for about a year and a half, lost her, lost pretty much all assets, etc. During age 34, I was drinking anywhere from a fifth, to two fifths of vodka a day. I got sick of it, quit my job, then went to rehab for about four months about this time five years ago. Since then, I have had the occasional beer or three, but NOTHING like I was. And that was few and far between when I actually did that. About May 2019, I started having horrible stomach aches and reflux. I thought it was an ulcer or something because they kept going away. Well, around August, they stopped going away. I began getting this rash around my neck and filling up with fluid. I ignored it because it wasn't that bad. The day after Labor Day, I came to work and everyone noticed that my skin and eyes were yellow. I couldn't tell. So, I went to urgent care, which got me directly in with a GI/Hepatologist, which admitted me to the hospital for a ton of tests. There's also a couple of genetic factors in mine. It's not 100% alcohol related, or at least, they can't pinpoint it as that. I also have a fatty liver and something called Gilbert's Syndrome, which causes your bilirubin to fluctuate. Don't ignore your gut. I almost waited too long. I'm no longer yellow, but have had to have my stomach drained three times. I'm just about ready for number four right now, but am trying to put it off for another week or so in order to feel OK during Christmas.