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Binge drinking Friday, now I feel odd, why?

I normally drink about 1-2 beers or glasses of wine a day at home with my family over dinner and afterwards. I took a week off of drinking or so. Then last week I had 2 martinis on Thursday and on Friday I had 5 beers (microbrew) after dinner in addition to 2 weak choladas before dinner (half beer, half Margarita mix).

Well I didn't even feel that tipsy on Friday after my first 4 beers so I had a fifth beer, but as I chugged that one down, all of the sudden I went from feeling very lightly tipsy to just plain sick. I am confused. I never felt drunk, just went from a tiny bit tipsy to sick on that last beer. To make it worse it was a dark beer so it just sat there on my stomach like a ton of bricks and I got sick because of it.

I slept for 5 hours, then had sips of water the next day but I was worried, even though I was probably dehydrated, that I would upset my stomach with too much water.

Later on, I felt I had abdominal pain just below my belly button on my left hand side. I felt my left abdomen was throbbing! The odd thing was, I think it WAS throbbing because I set the remote on it, and it would lift up and down, showing me that I was indeed correct about throbbing in that region.

My past medical history includes dehydration due to stress which has led to chronic UTI. These have been treated and dealt with. I also am on an IUD and have had a prior condition with ovulation cysts on the ovaries (benign but they swell very large when I ovulate). I also am on medication for mood disorder (divalproic acid, and lorazepam).

Anyway, my question is why does my lower left abdomen feel so odd? It is throbbing, and I have also had some shooting pains also in my abdomen when I twist around in bed. I am naturally concerned it's fatty liver but I wonder if those shooting pains sound like something associated with that. Or maybe it was just indigestion from all those dark ales I drank.

Update:

It is my impression that 1-2 drinks a night isn't alcoholism. The sensation I am describing came after the 5 beer Friday I mentioned.

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  • 10 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    With all those prior medical issues (especially mood disorders) you might want to cut back on the alcohol a bit. Just because you don't feel drunk doesn't mean you aren't an drinking I excess is a bad idea. Te liver takes a ridiculous time to process alcohol and overwhelming it with so much in a single day is not good. Suffering these symptoms my first point of call, especially if my stomach was visably throbbing, wouldn't be yahoo answers, go see a doctor or a&e.

    Source(s): Common Sense
  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    1-2 drinks a night isn't alcoholism. Everyone needs to relax!! Just be careful! .. I updated my question u answered and I was hoping u could give me some advice. U seem very knowledgeable .. sorry to intrude on ur question, I wasn't quite sure how to ask u to look at what I updated

  • rob d
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Kidney problems from diabetes? Avoid all sugar. Get tested

  • Deb
    Lv 6
    10 years ago

    You are killing your liver. Once your liver is shot from drinking like a loon, you're toast.

    I don't understand why people want to drink like you describe. Where is the fun in it? Is there really nothing else to live for?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    liver is going out from your alcoholism

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