re alcohol

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Hi everyone,

Been reading alot of posts regarding doctors responses and alcohol,

When I was admitted to hospital earlier this year with an acute attack,

I was set upon by two doctors and a consultant who imediately assumed

I was an alcoholic who must have consumed at least two bottles of

vodka a day to have pancreatitis, As the majority of cases do involve

alcohol consumption/misuse, They become conditioned in this thought

path unfortunate so it may be. What is harder, is to get any informed

information from them apart from the usual platitudes and a reasuring?

smile, When they let me free, I visited my GP who again confronted me

about alcohol consumption, By then i'd spent a few days surfing the

net getting any information I could about the condition, And

thankfully found you guys, So I was pretty much clued up by then And a

few snappy well informed answers soon had things on an even keel with

my doctor, Think what im saying is knowledge is power and you have to

take control of the situation, After all its your body and mind there

dealing with,

What I know now worries me, His parting words were " Have a few beers,

But don't go mad!!! " Not you may have a predisposition to develop CP

so I'd avoid it on all counts would have perhaps been more sensible, I

read Jim's post earlier, After seven years abstention, Then getting CP

,Illustrates that you just never know what's gonna happen with the

silent organ, Wonderful thing!

Basically doctors don't know everything, And the quicker they can get

you out of the door the better, if you read this, All the

stress of worrying what the quack says will make you even more ill,

Hope surgery goes well by the way. So we all know what we have to do

as far as lifestyle is concerned,(Even though i'm paying the price

heavily for stupidly eating curry earlier this evening, Grumble!)

So my advice would be, Take all the waffle with a pinch of salt, Thats

if you can tolerate it?

And if its any consolation, Ive read, By profession Doctors are the

worst drinkers of them all, Outrageous slur, How dare I?

As for stopping smoking, Anyone got a system, Ive tried, Oh ive tried!

Hope everyone is as well as can be,

Pete.