Alcoholism Support Group

There is no set time frame for this, just keep these facts in mind--that alcoholism exponentially increases your chances of complications from HCV. People under 50 with significant issues from HCV almost without exception can count alcohol as a contributing factor, And if you're female, the outlook is even more bleak.
Unfortunately for the alcoholic all the data in the world will generally not change our disease course until we are ready for emotional surrender. I can tell you this because I am a recovering alcoholic with a doctoral degree in pharmacy, yet I drank for almost twenty years, and have friends in recovery who are MDs who did exactly the same thing. Any one of us could have rotely recited for you the pathophysiological damage that occurs to any and all of your organs with alcohol abuse, yet we went home every night and buried ourselves in the bottle.
That's why they call it a DISEASE. If scare tactics worked, none of us would have gotten to this point!!!!!!!!

Thanks for your response. I work in the medical field, too, and hear daily all of the complications that alcohol abuse causes, not to mention psychosocial problems, etc. It scares me, but it hadn't stopped me. You are so right about the emotional surrender, because that is what finally made me start to take action. Thanks again for the response.

Well, you've heard from a professional; that was a well informed response. I'm not a professional but I could tell you that my mother passed recently from excessive alcohol abuse over the years. In the end one of her diagnoses was alcohol induced hepatitis, it ain't pretty. Like BethK said it's a disease, our minds don't think like normal people. I say that because a normal person could see their own mother on a ventilator, yellow as spicy mustard (no exaggeration at all), covered with bruises and tied down so she doesn't pull on her tubes and never want to smell or taste alcohol again. I'm not a normal person though, seeing that made me want a drink. I didn't and I still haven't.

I'm always scared of getting some kind of illness from drinking too much. I binge drink and then go a couple of days without drinking. I'm very tiny and don't have a strong immune system. I know what I'm doing to my body...but.... I'm working on the getting help part. So back to my question...What kind of illness's can come from too much alcohol???????????

To name a few, high blood pressure, high cholestrol, diabetes, peptic ulcer disease, gastroesophageal reflux disease, gallbladder disease, liver disease (cirrhosis), hepatitis C, malnutrition, dehydration, permanent changes to your brain, permanent neurological deficits, personality changes, change in sleep habits that sometimes never go back to normal...alcohol affects every system in your body.