Can you ever lose your tolerance to alcohol? Like, say you drink quite a bit for a while to the point that it starts taking, say, 5 beers to start to feel a buzz. Then you stop for a while. Would you lose your tolerance? How long would it take? And if you do lose it, does it take as long to build it back up as it did the first time, or does your body chemistry somehow remember and build it up faster?
yes if you quit drinkin you tolernace wil be reduced, but you can regain it fairly easy. its kind a like takin a 6 month break from goin to gym. your body takes a while get back into it. another wy to lose tolerance is if you drink to much. you can get a point where one or two drinks will make you sick, this is usually well after liver scirosis has kicked in. at his point he body cant metabolize the alcohol verry well, and you will get alchol poising from very small amounts of alcohol. my grandmother drunk hearself to this state and nearly died of it. luckily the human liver is pretty a tough organ, in that its one of the few that can regenerate itslelf when badly damaged. you can literally cut off half a persons liver and other half will grow back. a liver wih sciroses can repar itself if given the chance. but this takes years.
Thanks for your reply. I had heard that about the liver, pretty damn cool. So you're saying that you'll get you tolerance back faster than it took to get it orignially?
one of the first major signs of being a huge alcoholic and having extensive internal damage is when you have a tolerance to alcohol and then you lose it and become drunk easily. just a little tidbit.
A hollow leg... as we call it in the alcoholic business. Where one can drink more than his peers and keep right on a goin'. This only lasts for a few years, depending upon one's constitution and liver detoxifying abilities. Some get pickled sooner, some later. The liver I mean. As for tolerance, alcohol is not like other drugs. When the liver is badly damaged it does not regenerate. Cirrhosis is the End Stage of liver disease. The only thing that can help at this stage of the game is a Portacaval Shunt. This is done by taking the major blood supply that flows into the liver from the intestines and reanastomosing the portacava to the major vein on the outtake side of the liver. If you can drink great amounts of alcohol when you're young, don't count on doing so for the rest of your life... even after long periods of abstinence... the effects of alcohol damage on all body systems is not recupped. Damage is damage, and needs to be addressed before the fact. Cirrhosis cannot be cured or treated. It is the final act before death. So what are you looking for here? A way to fuck your body up, retreat and then come back and continue with selfdamaging behavior? It don't work that way with alcohol. I know. I'm suffering from liver damage from both alcohol and hepatitis C. I opt to keep on going. I find that it's not that much fun to live life sober. So, at 58, I take my life's choices in hand and say to myself; "Self... Can I keep on doin' this til I need glasses?" Ahem... "Well, I need glasses, but I'm going to keep destroying my body even though I know the consequenses... Death." Your choice... your life. I'm still havin' fun... but can you, or do you, wish to take the risks I'm taking now in my dotage? Love, Sam
my grandmothers liver did regenerate from cirosis. though she was never able to drink alcohol without getting sick again. alchol abuse damages a lot more than just the liver. her 2 pack a day smoking habit took her down about 13 years later by meens of lung cancer. her autopsy report at death showed a fully recoverd liver.
Like right now i caught one after 3 buds and it usually takes like 5 or 6 to feel any thing. Its been like to weeks since i drank and i can tell that my tolerance has dropped. Peace brothers and sisters
