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26/02/2023, 12:23 WCGW necking a whole liquor bottle : Whatcouldgowrong

One of my best friends since childhood died from


liver failure due to the cirrhosis he got from his years
of alcoholism. We begged him to stop drinking for
years and no matter what we did or how hard we
pleaded, he wouldn’t. He died at 38. It was hard
watching his decline.

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blackdahlialady · 5 hr. ago

Reading this was heartbreaking. My ex is an alcoholic


and as much as I hate him for the abuse he put me
through, I wouldn't wish that even on him. I'm sorry.
Hugs.

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Derpaderpplerp · 3 hr. ago

Thanks.

Honestly, i thought my dad had died 5 years before


because he just... disappeared.

By the time i got a call in hospice, i had already


accepted that he was dead years before. Turns out
he just crawled d9wn a dark hole and did it slower
than i expected.

Sure he was a bastard who effectively tortured


everyone he knew, but he was also my dad.

Lots of complicated stuff there and it wont be getting


fixed.

What it has really done for me is serve as an


example of how not to be a dad. My kids get that out
of it all, and when i go, the last of the baggage goes
with me.

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Own_Target8801 · 5 hr. ago

I was doing the same thing. I had no idea my blood


pressure was well over 2xx/1xx. One day I felt a pop in my
chest and started feeling stabbing pain in my kidneys
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followed by my left leg going completely numb. I was


rushed to the ER and turns out I had an aortic dissection. A
lot of people don’t survive this and I am one of the lucky
ones. I hope you can figure out a way to stop the binge
drinking. It absolutely will kill you if you continue

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Bobiversemoot · 3 hr. ago

You are lucky you lived! A close friend of mine just died
of aortic dissection a few months ago at age 33. He
was a former heavy drinker but had been sober for over
5 years and seemingly turned his life around was very
athletic. He went to the er with similar symptoms but
had gotten over covid a month prior so they just told
him it was probably long covid making him feel bad and
sent him on his way and he died at home 3 days later.
They found it on the autopsy.

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Own_Target8801 · 3 hr. ago

Yeah, I am very lucky. Aortic dissection is very


commonly misdiagnosed. The ambulance took an
EKG and they said it was perfect. I am 40's and
have a very athletic history, including CrossFit and
weight lifting. I just don't look like a sick person.
Once I got to the ER, they thought I was just
passing a kidney stone because the pain was in my
kidney area. Thankfully they eventually did a CT
scan and found the aortic dissection. I still
remember the look on the ER doc's face when he
told me. He was in shock and looking at me like I
was a dead man. I asked him how I was still alive
and he told me that I was really lucky.

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AkioDAccolade · 3 hr. ago

200/100?! Jesus Christ

Isn't a hypertensive crisis like you need medical


intervention immediately at like 170/90?

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Straight_Cry_1260 · 2 hr. ago

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No. A hypertensive crisis is rapidly reaching like


180/120 when you're normally much lower. 170/90
is generally nowhere near emergency correction
territory unless your normal pressure is way
lower and you have specific symptoms or risks of a
resulting complication.

A lot depends on your normal blood pressures.


Aggressively correcting someone who stays that
high isn't good for them. Their body is adapted to
perfusion at those pressures and you need to tune it
down more gradually.

My workplace will regularly let people run up to


180/100 for at least a short time. I'm not even
expected to notify a doctor until they pass that level.

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