028. Diagnosis

[vicodincrutch]

Doctors who give advice to people going through withdrawals are obvious idiots.

February is a stupid month. I don't mean that based on artificial flavoring and blatant marketing strategy day. Leap year and all that. Screws with the calender and gets in the way of Saint Patrick's Day.

Speaking of which: "Drinking kills braincells."

News flash. Alcohol abuse, we're talking drinking like a fish, full on inebriation regularly, can cause serious neurological damage, like Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. Cells injured are dendrites on neurons in the cerebellum, a part of the brain involved in learning and physical coordination. But even in such extreme cases, there’s a lack of evidence that alcohol kills brain cells.

Anyone else have a ridiculous old wives tale? Wait. Don't answer that.

Comments

[tinyvampiregod.livejournal.com]

What is Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome? And what of the high alcoholic content of patent medicine?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

What Mommy or Daddy will get if they have too many of their grown up drinks to help them calm down at the end of the day, everyday.

If medicine has a high degree of alcohol in it, and you're not having fun, switch your medicine.

[tinyvampiregod.livejournal.com]

Being a man of medicine, you should know better than to assume what meets the eye is always the truth.

What does the syndrome entail? I am curious as, for a time, I studied medicine myself.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Looking like a child, you should expect unwarranted patronizing.

If you literally substitute alcohol for water, a thiamine deficiency and decrease in cerebral glucose utilization. Usually, good ol WK impairs the learning and vision. Other cases it causes lots of fun things, ataxia, severely screwed up motor skills, loss of sense of smell. Perpetual drunkness without the happy, really.

[glock30.livejournal.com]

Really?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Yes. Is that a turn off?

What do you have to worry about? If people can smell alcohol on you when you are sober than you're at risk, that's my policy.

[glock30.livejournal.com]

No, actually I don't even give a damn.

And I always try to smell like mango, not gin or bourbon.

[flash-minato.livejournal.com]

...I think it's a good thing I avoid alcohol then...

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

More for the rest of us.

[flash-minato.livejournal.com]

Aa... Have fun enjoying it, I suppose?

[not-avampire.livejournal.com]

Actually, the calendar's more screwed up without leap year. Without the extra day, February would eventually slide into summer, and all that shit.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

You say that like it's a bad thing. Think of the bikinis.

[not-avampire.livejournal.com]

I'd rather not, it's a medical hazard.

You have fun with that, though, I'll live vicariously through you.

[lovesduet.livejournal.com]

Oh no! Should I warn the fish?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Only the alcoholic ones.

[lovesduet.livejournal.com]

I... am not certain what type those are, but it sounds very exotic.

[lyra-of-dust.livejournal.com]

Oh... I didn't know that!

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

And knowing is half the battle.

Just lay off the booze when you go out with your boyfriend.

[lyra-of-dust.livejournal.com]

Neither of us are into that. But at least Ingram finally gave up on trying to stop us!

[holymadonna.livejournal.com]

Old wives tale survive the test of times, Doctor.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

No one questions a mother. That's why they've survived so long.

[holymadonna.livejournal.com]

They aren't without accomplishments. Their children are long-lived as well.

[browning-baby.livejournal.com]

Heaven forbid something get in the way of green beer.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Beer in general.

[browning-baby.livejournal.com]

Beer is overrated.