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Alcohol i drank rubbing alcohol by accident?

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Justsomekid97

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i'm 16 4 months ago, i drank rubbing alcohol at a friends house (he left to run some errands) and me another friend dared each other to drink out of a vodka bottle next to the wines in their house (my friend added rubbing alcohol to it so it didn't smell 'watered down', we didn't know it was anything apart from vodka). I now understand that was honestly such a stupid mistake and i regret it so much, we just thought we were drinking some vodka, in our heads we were thinking 'whats the worst that could happen.' I never drink alcohol and have only been drunk once. I didnt go to the doctors because my friends persuaded me out of it, but i later told my parents about what had happened, they didn't seem to think anything was wrong. I eventually went to the doctors after weeks of feeling ill and paranoid that i had damaged myself. The blood tests came back fine including kidney and liver, but i heard that kidney tests are unreliable. I drank around three shots of the mixture. After i found out what had happened i drank a ton of water and have been doing so ever since. I understand that this post probably comes across as ridiculous and paranoid but i wouldn't post it if i didn't genuinely think that i had damaged my kidney or liver. Im having pains in my back and urinating a lot but the doctor doesn't think anything is wrong. Could i still have negative side effects from what happened this far after it? Could damage get progressively worse? i am sorry if you think i am wasting your time but i feed so bad about this and after reading about it on the internet i can't imagine that the rubbing alcohol didn't damage me. Thank you for reading any of this.
 
Dont worry man I did too at 16 once , methanol can make you blind , but I got away with drinking Isopropyl just fine. I did turn out to become a junky and a total fuck-up so you might be risking that if you do too much stupid shit.
 
Any genuine concern isn't a waste of our time.

However, it's quite clear you're just paranoid. You're absolutely fine, as the tests show.
 
Consuming small amounts of isopropanol won't kill you, it is metabolised to acetone which is also product of the breakdown of fats in the body.

If you were drinking 500ml a day it would be different, but you should not expect to see massive liver and kidney damage from small exposures... it is after all, rubbed on the skin....
 
Honestly I think you should be fine. It is hardly a good thing for you, but you';d have to drink an awful lot more to do any permanent damage.

I also want to know why you think you were stupid for drinking what you presumed was vodka out of a "vodka" bottle. Did your friend put this into a bottle of vodka that was his parent's after he stole some of it? That is incredibly stupid on your friends behalf, I hope after this happened the bottle was not left for your friend's parents to drink. That can be construed as attempted murder.
 
thank you everyone who replied, RTrain i just feel so stupid. I drank when he wasn't in the house, but yes that is why he added it.
 
Your so called friend deserves to be in jail (or be dealt with harshly by other people) as far as i am concerned. If he had added a high dose of Isopropyl alcohol to that he could have easily have fried your liver or killed you if there was enough in it. It's not as dangerous as methanol but it is by no means something you want to ingest and putting it in someones drink is poisoning them as far as i am concerned.

If your liver and kidney tests came back normal you will be okay. Consider yourself lucky on this one and in the future perhaps choose your "friends" more carefully. There are usually a few people around where i live that sometimes end up frying their liver due to buying bootleg alcohol cut with isopropyl or something else to try and hide the fact that it's been watered down. Greedy bastards who care for nothing but profit will sometimes cut bottles of grain alcohol down to 50% or less using a trick like that and i know a few people that have ended up dead or perma fucked because of it. So i would say cut him off your friends list :\
 
Mr.Scagnattie said:
Hah this. Jesus Christ. What a facepalm. Fucking kid is slowly poisoning his parents.

Get some new friends, man.
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Oh fuck i missed that part! Please tel anyone who might be in contact with that shit that the idiot basically poisoned them. If someone got really drunk on that Vodka they could easily end up dead.
 
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4l-NJEknx6s

This dumbass drank an entire bottle of rubbing alcohol and went blind for a couple days after but his kidneys and liver are fine so if you didn't lose any vision and all tests come back fine I'd say your good. That dude also eats tampons, socks, lit ciggarettes, and bottles of lotion lol.
 
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sekio said:
Consuming small amounts of isopropanol won't kill you, it is metabolised to acetone which is also product of the breakdown of fats in the body.

If you were drinking 500ml a day it would be different, but you should not expect to see massive liver and kidney damage from small exposures... it is after all, rubbed on the skin....
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That's really interesting, I guess I was always under the assumption that small amounts can cause blindness, but I believe you.
 
CaptainKratom said:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4l-NJEknx6s

This dumbass drank an entire bottle of rubbing alcohol and went blind for a couple days after but his kidneys and liver are fine so if you didn't lose any vision and all tests come back fine I'd say your good. That dude also eats tampons, socks, lit ciggarettes, and bottles of lotion lol.
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What a fucking moron.
 
That's really interesting, I guess I was always under the assumption that small amounts can cause blindness, but I believe you.
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Methyl alcohol (wood alcohol, methanol) is the one you should avoid consuming because of the risk of blindness. It isn't used as rubbing alcohol due to its toxicity - only as a fuel.
 
sekio said:
Methyl alcohol (wood alcohol, methanol) is the one you should avoid consuming because of the risk of blindness. It isn't used as rubbing alcohol due to its toxicity - only as a fuel.
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Are you saying that high amounts of iso won't cause blindness?
 
Im just curious OP, did your friend not worry at all about what might happen to his parents when they eventually drank that shit? I mean, did he maybe not realize that it was harmful or was he just so worried about getting himself in trouble that he didnt care that he might make his parents extremely ill (or someone else for that matter, as in your case)...

I just cant imagine..I would be so sick with worry that I might harm someone that I would have just had to take the ass beating that would have been coming to me...I wouldnt want to get into trouble but I cant imagine not feeling so guilty and worrying to death about what might happen.
 
Captain Kratom
I don't think so.

Mehanol is added specifically because of this property to cheap untaxed alcohol where I live so I guess it's a different league toxicity-wise.
 
CaptainKratom said:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4l-NJEknx6s

This dumbass drank an entire bottle of rubbing alcohol and went blind for a couple days after but his kidneys and liver are fine so if you didn't lose any vision and all tests come back fine I'd say your good. That dude also eats tampons, socks, lit ciggarettes, and bottles of lotion lol.
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How did I know it was going to be that guy before even clicking the link or reading the second half of your post about what else he has drank? I saw a video in which he chugged a bottle of Bacardi 151 and was gagging just thinking about it.
 
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