Reply #33: This happened to a friend of mine..and alcohol SAVED his life [View All]

[patdem]

My friend was manic depressive and claimed he had quit drinking. He quit taking his meds and took tylenol as a 'suicide gesture' and when he finally went to the hospital they told him if he had come immediately they could have helped him, but basically because of the number of tylenol he had taken and how much time had passed he was going to die...it was just a matter of days. We spent 5 days in intensive care with him and the doctors explained that if only he had drank some alcohol at the same time he took the tylenol that the liver 'prefers' alcohol and that the kidneys would have been forced to excrete the toxins from the tylenol...well after 5 days sleeping in the waiting room of the intensive care and telling one doc..that I did not like they way she delivered the news at every meeting and that all we had was hope..and that the other doc offered us some hope and we wished he would give us the news...turned out my friend LIVED..HE DID drink alcohol, but was ashamed to tell his mom...can you imagine that...OK to attempt suicide..MOT okay to drink beer?

But I do know that it is only if you take them simultaneusly...and not at different times.