I'm a heavy drinker. What effects can I expect? I have been drinking nearly every day since I was 14, I'm t25 now and still I continue. I go to work I don't crave alcohol or drink during the day but most nights I get drunk. In a typical night I drink 5 pints of beer then 3 or 4 or 5 very large whyisks. Or maybe three bottles of wine what ever really that will do the job till I'm knocked out. I don't feel bad the next day. I smoke 20 cigarettes at least a day but I'm still well above average fitness.
Am I just being lucky with getting away with it or am I going to just keel over one day.

You probably are doing a lot of damage to your liver with all of the alcohol, almost definitely. And then the smoking is damaging your lungs. These things are happening even if you don't feel them now. Have you tried going without drinking? It sounds like you either are an alcoholic, or well on your way to becoming one.

Some people can fly right through drinking to excess and get away with it, but others cant, perryjim. You may not recognize the symptoms of liver disease until it is too late to correct it. These are only a few of the symptoms of liver disease from drinking as much alcohol s you do, and over a long period.

Yellowing of the skin, which we call jaundice, whites of your eyes may turn yellow. Appetite loss. Your stool may be lighter in colour due to your bile ducts clogging up (because the liver can't function properly). The one though that is last and very uncomfortable is bloating of the body, especially around the middle, which we call ascitis in final stage liver damage, and then there is absolutely no hope. The liver is the largest organ in our body, about as big as a football (yes, hard to believe when you look down at your middle, but true).

So no, you won't keel over one day, you will be a walking corpse most likely. You will notice changes in your bodily functions but probably not do anything about it. What is one ache or pain in a day, eh.

I hope I have put you off drink for the rest of your life. If I have, it will have been one good thing I have done today.

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1 oz. alcohol kills 7,000 brain cells.

At the rate you're going, you'll "keel over one day." Along the way you'll lose your good looks, you'll have trouble with balance, your hands and feet will go numb, your hands will tremble, you will often be confused, your liver will begin to fail as will your digestive system that will be inflamed with infection, your body will crave alcohol instead of food and thus perpetuate all the problems, memory will be fuzzy, interest in sex will disappear and performance will be impossible, your heart will become diseased and will eventually fail (if something else doesn't kill you first), and no one will want to associate with you.

Have you visited an alcohol detox center and watched/talked with any of the patients who are life-long alcoholics?

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That is a lot of alcohol. Particularly since you drink this much frequently. You must have a very robust physical constitution.

Most of the physical problems that develop from excessive drinking are slow and gradual and likely to go undetected. Liver problems, begin as fatty liver progresses to fibrosis then to cirrhosis; gastrointestinal problems develop because alcohol destroys the mucous lining constantly irritates your gastrointestinal tract and destroys digestive enzymes. Can lead to ulceration, digestive problems. Vitamin deficiencies lead or contribute to various problems. Myocarditis (inflammation of the heart) is another problem associated with excessive drinking, as are circulatory problems (excess alcohol impedes blood flow to the small capillaries), also peripheral neuropathy leading to a lack of sensation in feet, hands (usually first noted as tingling, numbness). Of course alcohol crosses the blood brain barrier and impairs neurons, short term this defines intoxication but ultimately, with repeated exposure, can have a lasting toxic effect and lead to the death of neurons and in advanced stages even noticeable shrinkage in some parts of the brain.

Of course there are conditions that would seem to be of sudden onset. High blood pressure, stroke, heart attack.

At 11 years you are about mid-range in the various problems that can develop from chronic intoxication. But you drink a whole lot of alcohol. So it would be advisable to have a very thorough physical examination. Most of the problems noted are reversible when detected early.

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