Re:Auto-brewery syndrome in a 50-year-old woman
by wing-_-nuts on Monday June 03, 2024 @11:09AM
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If 200 people presented with alcohol intoxication and no history of use, 199 would be secret alcoholics sneaking booze, and maybe 1 would be someone with this condition. The previous case I read about, they forced the poor guy to inpatient for weeks to rule out alcohol use. It's not just 'doctors don't believe women' it's 'doctors don't believe (probable) addicts'.
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Re:Auto-brewery syndrome in a 50-year-old woman
by roxya on Monday June 03, 2024 @11:33AM
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Yeah, as a man nobody would believe me either. I was in hospital with acute pancreatitis and they found at the same time I had a fatty liver. Both are often explained by heavy alcohol intake. The truth is I hardly drank at all (I had perhaps had a single bottle of beer in the whole previous 12 months) but nobody would believe me. I ended up being told to never drink alcohol again.
Re:Auto-brewery syndrome in a 50-year-old woman
by rvnx on Monday June 03, 2024 @12:33PM
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Did you find a solution eventually ?
Re:Auto-brewery syndrome in a 50-year-old woman
by roxya on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @06:02AM
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Not really. Since then I've been unable to eat bananas due to a severe bloated feeling (even a tiny bite causes it), and I found a Japanese research paper about a banana allergy inducing acute pancreatitis. But I don't know for sure if it's linked.
I've continued to drink alcohol in moderation for another 15 years+ without issue.