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I think I drink too much

JennyBRONX
edited November 2007 in General
i'm not sure though, so someone tell me. i'm a second year at SFU and i binge drink (7-10 drinks - i'm a 5'5 female, btw) pretty often - usually twice a weekend. i drank a little in high school but not often. i rarely, rarely drink to the point of getting sick, as i have a pretty good feel for when i'm over-drinking and i hold my alcohol okay, but i still am really worried that i'm doing permanent damage to my brain/liver. i know i'm not an "alcoholic" but i do worry that my drinking is going to become an issue if i continue at my current rate.

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  • randomuser
    edited November 2007
    if you're afraid its going to become an issue then maybe you should just stop

    put plainly alcohol is a poison, if you think about it in straight terms, it does everything that toxic chemicals can, make you dizy, make you sick, make you totally wacked out or crazy, can make you -black out- and when that happens you know you just killed some brain cells.

    as fun as getting drunk is, its not your bodies normal state, youre pretty much drinking legalized poison
  • siuying
    edited November 2007
    randomuser;17886 said:
    as fun as getting drunk is, its not your bodies normal state, youre pretty much drinking legalized poison
    hahaha.. legalized poison.. way to put it... =D
  • baby e
    edited November 2007
    Pfft, i wouldnt worry about it.

    From what you're saying, you're not drinking that much. Every weekend I drink for one or two days and i highly doubt that its affected me. Although, when I drink i dont drink 7-10 drinks like you do, i drink about 3-4 and that gets me pretty drunk. Id be so far gone if I had anywhere near 7 drinks!

    There are a lot of people out there who drink a lot more than you, so i really dont think you're doing any major damage to your liver since you're not drinking every day and what not.
  • Morro
    edited November 2007
    If you think it's an issue, slow it down. There's no set point past which "you have a problem," the problem comes when you notice negative effects from drinking, know you should stop, and can't. So, just stop for a bit. If you can, then you know it's not a problem.

    All in all, you do your liver no favors by drinking to the point of extreme drunkenness, but at this age it shouldn't be too big a problem as long as you don't let it go on too long.
  • kt_uvic
    edited November 2007
    It's probably not doing anything to your liver. To damage it to any real degree you have to drink like that almost every day for YEARS, not just the 4 or so you'll be in college. That being said, if it's having an effect on your social relationships or school, then I would cut down. You don't have to stop, but don't get tore up every weekend. For a while, I was drinking like you and I felt it having an effect on my schoolwork and I felt like I couldn't remember as well as I used to, too (plus, I knew the only reason I was doing it was because I was depressed). So I cut down. Not stopped completely, because I definitely got DEE-RUNK on my birthday in September, and have done so a couple times since then also, but definitely NOT every weekend. I feel better about everything now that I don't drink quite as much.

    Simply put, if you think it's having an effect, it probably is. Follow your instincts on it.
  • NukeChem
    edited November 2007
    JennyBRONX;17883 said:
    i'm not sure though, so someone tell me. i'm a second year at SFU and i binge drink (7-10 drinks - i'm a 5'5 female, btw) pretty often - usually twice a weekend. i drank a little in high school but not often. i rarely, rarely drink to the point of getting sick, as i have a pretty good feel for when i'm over-drinking and i hold my alcohol okay, but i still am really worried that i'm doing permanent damage to my brain/liver. i know i'm not an "alcoholic" but i do worry that my drinking is going to become an issue if i continue at my current rate.
    Wow. Yeah, for your height and rough body mass that level of alcohol would likely seriously impair you. :omg: I would cut back.

    It's not so much the liver thing in the short term - it's the effect of making a bad decision while under the influence, and making a mistake it can take a long time to recover from.
  • vonnie
    edited November 2007
    Wow, that more drinks I have in a year ^_^
  • illicit
    edited November 2007
    vonnie;18122 said:
    Wow, that more drinks I have in a year ^_^
    different tolerance levels my friend. i drink heavily on the social occasion and all but 5'5 with all that alcohol, how long did it take you to get that tolerance level jeeez.
  • vonnie
    edited November 2007
    I just don't drink, period. HAHAH...
  • illicit
    edited November 2007
    vonnie;18156 said:
    I just don't drink, period. HAHAH...

    bad experiences?
  • vonnie
    edited November 2007
    Not necessarily, it's just not very appealing to me.
    That and nobody in my family drinks, it's sorta like an unwritten rule or something. It's that nobody likes to, and nobody wants to either, so they don't.

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