On Alcohol, Throwing Up & Liver Damage?!
On Alcohol, Throwing Up & Liver Damage?
Recently, I've opened to social drinking. Each time that I have more than one glass' worth of something alcoholic, I throw up a lot after 20-30 minutes (lightweight).
1. Does my body process ANYTHING from the alcohol - say, sugar for example - or am I just completely throwing up a $20 tab?
2. And what does this mean, liver damage wise? Can I assume that if I SEEM to throw up a lot of my alcohol, then there's no liver damage?
I haven't touched hard liquor - don't want to. Just light beer, red wine, dessert wine, cocktails & a couple sips of calvados so far. I think I want to stop drinking though. I just feel awful afterward.
2 days ago
A few things:
1. I am concerned about liver damage, but that concern is not the reason why I have been throwing up my alcohol. Simply put, I feel really really bad in the stomach and need to get it out.
2. The $20 dollar tab is an approximation to what I would end up drinking at the bar/lounge. It was too vague, sorry. It means perhaps, from a couple $10 dollar drinks to maybe three $7-ish drinks. Just an approximation.
3. This vomiting has happened twice, from the said # of drinks. I sincerely believe my puke is a result of my stomach reacting badly to the amount of alcohol recently introduced (I have been clean 21 years).
4. If I feel too sick, I'd rather throw it up while I'm conscious than go to sleep with the assumption my stomach will even out during the night. THAT's a concern that will keep me awake when I'm sick in the stomach. I knew someone who choked on his vomit in his sleep, after a night of drinking.
Answers:
You sound like me right before I decided to stop drinking...
I was able to drink before (for 10 years) but one day, and all days after that, if I drank even a glass of wine, I would feel sick to my stomach, and get a headache, body aches, throw up etc....
I went in for a colonoscopy and they told me I had serious liver damage...They tested my husbands blood and we found out he caught Hep C from a blood transfusion he had in 1984.....We ended up taking the treatment, but the thing I want you to know is your body will tell you before it even shows up on tests...Mine didn't show up for 15 years!
Have you liver enzymes checked please...and your glugose levels...Tell your doctor and INSIST that you get the blood work done! Raised liver enzymes will show something is going on there...God Bless!