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It sounds like it's possible your liver is in bad shape. Have you seen the doctor to check your liver function yet? Usually they check the enzymes with AST and ALT screenings. You can Google those 2 liver function tests.

What happens is the liver can only process at a certain rate and is especially compromised if there is significant damage. Depending on what prescription drugs you are taking that even slows down the metabolism of everything that much more.

Let me ask you something. When you drink do you get a ringing in your ears? That mimics a condition called tinnitus which is unrelated to what is called ototoxicity. Any MD like Tigrdog could probably give you better info.

I mean, how would I know anything about drinking? :wink:

If you don't mind, can you tell me what prescription drugs you are taking and the dosage (mg) of each?

More and more, your friends are sounding like total morons. Buncha redneck cliches. You should probably fire them and get back to scamming on college coeds.

Sounds like you are old.

Sudden Sam wrote: As far as meds, I take Neurontin (Gabapentin) 2-3 times a day. Only recently upped it (only took one in the morning for years and years). Supposed to have been taking 3 a day all this time. I think it's 500 mg.

Lotrel - 5-10 mg (?)

Simvastatin (no idea dosage)

Simvastin - is an anti cholesterol drug and you're taking between 5 to 80 mg/dose. No big deal there. Very common drug. Just don't drink grape fruit juice with it and I'm sure you know that.

Lotrel - is a combination drug to treat high blood pressure and that's a very low dosage. No problems there.

Neurotin (gabapentin): This one stumps me. You are supposed to take that 3 x's/day. The max you can take is 1800 mg/day. You are now taking 1500mg/day. You have any idea why you've been prescribed this med? It's commonly for controlling seizures and for neuropathic pain.

I'm guessing you don't have seizures since you still have a drivers license... interesting.

You aren't a doctor and you aren't Sam's doctor. You should probably STFU about his medical care.

trev wrote:You aren't a doctor and you aren't Sam's doctor. You should probably STFU about his medical care.

Are you kidding? Dr. Atomic Panties is an Expert of Everything and has done Everything. Why, fighter pilot, wet nurse (yes his tits leak, but what they leak is the dangerous gambit), bed pan emptier, hardware expert (where are the fucking 2x2 pine boards?), F-150 driver, outgoing call center technician, forger of russian whore IDs, alleged college graduate, corn hole receiver, thunderbird wine tester, paint mixer extraordinaire (he can follow instructions on the Lowe's mixing machine), janitor, cum slurper, and drunk.

Of course he is qualified to diagnose Sam's condition, remotly, via a smack board, even from behind a drunken haze and with a damaged frontal lobe, and gray matter degenerating due to various venereal disease.

trev wrote:You aren't a doctor and you aren't Sam's doctor. You should probably STFU about his medical care.

Really why? It's in my scope of practice to know what these drugs do. Doctors prescribe medicine, explain what they do and nurses are required to know them. If you read the above post, I told Sam to ask a doctor then explained what the drugs are for.

Sudden Sam wrote:No more sweatin' all day, head pounding, eyes aching misery.

Turn off the Bama game.

Hit 50 this year and about 5 years ago I noticed that the 1/2 day hang over lasts about 3 1/2 days. Liver is not compromised according to the quack, but his prescription was "moderation". :doh:

Yeah, looks as though you are suffering from a case of being an old fukk. Ain't it fun?

Regarding drinking, I can still get hammered just like in the good ole days. The difference is that I can not get hammered the next day....and the next day....etc. Which ever part of the body it is that handles recuperation kinda throttles back to about 4% of what it was when we were 23. For me, I first noticed this in my early to mid thirties. It sucks until you simply realize this fact and manage to space at least a month or two between bouts of getting trashed.

For those hard core alkies out there that do continue to get smashed every day, I chalk it up to gemetics or sheer willpower. Anyway, they generally keel over dead before they get their keys to the SS lock box, which is mighty white of them, IMO.

Sudden Sam wrote:
I'll have a few now and then and enjoy them even more.

Doesn't sound like you're enjoying them at all.

Years ago I would pound down a 12-pack of Lite. Now, my beer consumption is generally one or two microbrews. I may have some red wine later in the evening (which has apparently jacked up my good cholesterol, typically between 75 and 80). Occasionally I'll get carried away and drink the entire bottle of wine, but I can't remember the last time I felt hungover.

Bunch of tired, old fuckers up in this joint.

Goober McTuber wrote:Bunch of tired, old fuckers up in this joint.

Pot, kettle.

smackaholic wrote:

Goober McTuber wrote:Bunch of tired, old fuckers up in this joint.

Pot, kettle.

I am not tired, and I don't feel that old. And I'm still able to enjoy my alcohol. Haven't found it necessary to get trashed in years. Appears that that some of the tired, old fuckers here are also dumbfucks, eh?

I haven't had a drop of alcohol in 5 years. Someone please shoot me.

Jsc, the thought of you ending up in Tiger Stadium's drunk tank by the middle of the third quarter makes me laugh.

I can't drink straight liquor or take shots like I used to, so I usually have to mix the hard stuff with a little bit of water or soda. I normally just stick to beer or wine nowadays, but I can still manage to kill a 12-pack during Sunday football games.

If I do drink liquor, its usually Crown Reserve or JD mixed with a little 7up. I do love me some spicy Bloody Mary's from time to time.