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What Are You Drinking? V2. Frosty Jacks - For The Discerning Pisshead

That's sad but your diet is probably healthier than most especially with rice cakes and yoghurt .I don't eat or spend any money during the day on food ,maybe the occasional energy drink or latte .when I do eat even a small meal my side hurts I suspect my liver and I feel lethargic
 
Mate - it's woth getting checked out as the liver has an amazing capacity to recover. Sometimes it needs some help, but I apparently have a healty liver but it took a long time of no alcohol to get there.
 
4DQSAR said:
Mate - it's woth getting checked out as the liver has an amazing capacity to recover. Sometimes it needs some help, but I apparently have a healty liver but it took a long time of no alcohol to get there.
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I know I did get it checked ,result fatty liver and I'm not particularly overweight ,when I was getting scanned the guy was asking questions about sugar and alcohol which I replied "well ill occasionally have a beer midweek but I do consume alot of sugar" which was a complete lie the only sugar I consume comes from alcohol and the odd fizzy drink .I'm trying to cut down but it's hard my brain is wired for the reward of a drink although I suspect my liver isn't
 
I have blood tests waiting at the health centre from 2 months ago ive never bothered to go down and collect them but if there was an issue with diabetes surely they would contact me .I was under the impression that they would send the results to your house via post but not so apparently
 
They'll usually contact you if there's anything off. I had low phosphorus one time and eventually they found critically low vitamin D. So I wouldn't worry unless you get the call.

Diabetes is one they keep on top of. Last nurse I saw was jealous of the fact I'd abused my body for years yet had better blood stats than her!
 
Perkins : Reborn said:
They'll usually contact you if there's anything off. I had low phosphorus one time and eventually they found critically low vitamin D. So I wouldn't worry unless you get the call.

Diabetes is one they keep on top of. Last nurse I saw was jealous of the fact I'd abused my body for years yet had better blood stats than her!
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Thanks.i think I'll nip down and collect the results because I never answer strange numbers and I'm not sure what number the nhs uses in my local area 🤔 it's def not a local number
 
lost weekend said:
I was more worried if they checked for other things in my blood lol
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These people have seen everything. Everything. Most don't judge. And they don't generally bother with anything in your bloodstream that they're not looking for.

I missed a bloods appointment once, had a GP appointment the next week, and he did the tests himself when I had arms full of tracks. And he never judged me for it.
 
Perkins : Reborn said:
These people have seen everything. Everything. Most don't judge. And they don't generally bother with anything in your bloodstream that they're not looking for.

I missed a bloods appointment once, had a GP appointment the next week, and he did the tests himself when I had arms full of tracks. And he never judged me for it.
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Yeh they should have to tell you if there checking for drugs.it was just a routine blood test because I had a stomach bug which the doctor prescribed 56 15mg codeine tablets because I said immodium didn't work .that was class ,they didn't last long
 
They usually check for so many things that they'd have to draw another barrel if they wanted to check intoxicants!

I'd post one of my bloods results (but won't, obviously). They check so many things, but I've never had them check for any substance (prescribed aside - they check for one, but only for safety), despite them knowing I've had many misadventures and two recorded 'fatal' ODs.
 
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Perkins : Reborn said:
They usually check for so many things that they'd have to draw another barrel if they wanted to check intoxicants!

I'd post one of my bloods results (but won't, obviously). They check so many things, but I've never had them check for any substance (prescribed aside - they check for one, but only for safety), despite them knowing I've had many misadventures and two recorded 'fatal' ODs.
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Glad you came through you ODs that must have been an experience
 
First one I came to in the ambulance. Had to argue my way out of being taken in. Luckily I was pretty lucid after the naloxone.

Second one was bigger. Didn't come to until I was in a ward of old guys on drips. Had naloxone in my arm, which was making me puke all over, but they insisted that I still needed it, hours down the line.

The REAL shitty thing, though; they'd cut into my Czech sniper's jacket in order to revive me. So my jacket's fucked, I'm on a horrible drip and when I talk to the doctors it looks like they're waiting to get me sectioned.

It took getting off the drip, much politeness and a bit of deceit to get back on the street. With my fucked up precious jacket.
 
Perkins : Reborn said:
I missed a bloods appointment once, had a GP appointment the next week, and he did the tests himself when I had arms full of tracks. And he never judged me for it.
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I've had the opposite experience. My veins are just deep and hard to acccess but I thought it a bold opening gambit on the part of the phlebotomist to ask if I was an injecting drug user.

I wasn't offended but it was summer, I was wearing a tee-shirt and there are no tracks there or anywhere else. So I couldn't quite work out how she arrived at that conclusion. I think I had even told her that EVERY blood sample has seen me getting stabbed anywhere from five to twenty times. So I guess that might have yielded some clue unknown to me.
 
4DQSAR said:
I've had the opposite experience. My veins are just deep and hard to acccess but I thought it a bold opening gambit on the part of the phlebotomist to ask if I was an injecting drug user.

I wasn't offended but it was summer, I was wearing a tee-shirt and there are no tracks there or anywhere else. So I couldn't quite work out how she arrived at that conclusion. I think I had even told her that EVERY blood sample has seen me getting stabbed anywhere from five to twenty times. So I guess that might have yielded some clue unknown to me.
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Nothing to do with your experience but a funny part in the film Trainspotting is when Renton who is a heroin addict is getting a blood sample to check for blood diseases and when the nurse pushes the needle in he mutters ouch to which the nurse gives him a glaring look
 
I see a phlebotomist semi-regularly and frequently have to book a second - even third - appointment. That’s with double-length appointments as standard due to my spectacular absence of viable veins. Sucks :!

I am truly screwed if I ever need dialysis :|

In drinking news, I am currently drinking -196 Grapefruit. Like the lemon variety that’s all over TV ads only… well… grapefruit. Having tried both I reckon it’s better than the lemon which is already pretty fire imo.
 
Perkins : Reborn said:
They usually check for so many things that they'd have to draw another barrel if they wanted to check intoxicants!

I'd post one of my bloods results (but won't, obviously). They check so many things, but I've never had them check for any substance (prescribed aside - they check for one, but only for safety), despite them knowing I've had many misadventures and two recorded 'fatal' ODs.
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I'd be interested to know which substance they do check for.
 
It's nothing sinister that they check for; just one particular medication that's got a narrow therapeutic window, so too little is ineffective and too much is potentially harmful or even lethal. Never had a problem, thankfully.
 
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