What negative health effects can weekly binge drinking have on you in the long term?
I am in a cycle of weekly binge drinking. For example on Saturday night, I had 12 shots of Tequila. That is a little excessive for me but every weekend I get drunk usually both Friday and Saturday.
I don't drink at all during the week.
What am I doing to my body / brain?
You wont have enough money to buy beechams when you have a cold.
You wont have enough money to buy beechams when you have a cold.
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Your liver…it will be taking damage, and it will get less good at healing the damage as time goes on. also brain cells take a knock from alcohol, I dont profess to know the exact figures, but check out the NHS Direct website for exact details of what alcohol does. The worst thing about it is that it turns usually pretty ok people into monsters, and idiots…and along with doing that, and being very toxic/deadly in quantity(not "it might lead to harder drugs", it just will kill you in one sitting if you drink enough)…its LEGAL?!?!…cant figure it out…oh yes I can…politicians drink, so it stays legal…thats how that works then!
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You don't say if you're male or female, women experience more alcohol-related diseases than men; they experience greater physical damage after fewer years of heavy drinking; and those diseases progress more rapidly in women than in men.
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http://www.intheknowzone.com/binge/lterm.htm
You are damaging your liver and destroying your brain. In time you will start to feel so bad in the morning that the only way to get better is to have a drink. Alcoholism is a progressive disease, it creeps up on you without you realising it, and there is no cure. Try to break the cycle of drinking every weekend.
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Personal bad experience.
You will permanently damage your liver for a start.
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If you follow the current definition of 'binge drinking' then there will be no ill effect at all. The definition is 3 pints in 3 hours. Throughout the entire planet that is also called normal drinking, casual drinking, taking it easy etc. Your pattern is do different to that of the majority of other people. You should start to be worried when they put Fluoride into drinking water, that will have negative health effects, I promise.
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Brain damage does not show up while you are young but as you age your brain will be ageing faster with the possibility of early onset of dementia. Also the damage to your liver is irreversible. As you binge drink the liver is damaged EVERY time you do so. Eventually you will damage enough of it to have an effect on your health. It reaches a point where even if you stop drinking the liver is past it's best and you will feel the effects again as you prematurely age. Best advice is to stop drinking any alcohol now for at least a year. Then if you still would like a drink then stick to the recommended limits or less and you will probably live a good life. Depends on the amount of damage all ready done.
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There is hardly a body system that this will not affect adversely! Liver, GI tract, brain and even endocrine system will eventually be affected.
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GP for more years than I care to remember