Out of interest (and not fear, honestly), how would you describe your drinking up til now?

(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 8 Jul 2013, 11:18, 1 reply)

^ Scientific curiosity seconded.
I know not everyone is the same, but I will admit to being curious as to how much alcohol it takes to make a man's liver cark it before he reaches forty.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Mon 8 Jul 2013, 12:21, closed)

there are guidelines widely available
about what the safe amount of alcohol intake is. You know those pesky unit things**


**the ones you halve when the doctor asks you how many you drink in a week ;)
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Mon 8 Jul 2013, 16:57, closed)

I don't drink my alcohol in units
just pints
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 11:51, closed)

Yes,
but I am after a first-hand account of whether these guidelines correlate with reality, and to what extent you have to exceed them before this kind of situation occurs. I mean, I know the average man is supposed to drink no more than 21 units a week, but without any personal experience of the matter I wouldn't think that drinking 30 units a week (for example) would cause catastrophic liver failure. However, since I have no personal experience, I could be completely wrong.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 13:46, closed)