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Chug, Chug, Chug...Then The Payback!

BLOG: Being Sensitive To Toxins In Many Forms: BOOZE!

I’m allergic, yes, allergic to alcohol, so I’ve been told. I wonder though, since alcohol is also a chemical, if it is more than that, feeding my MCS illness to the point where I just snapped into a million pieces and ended up in crisis after thirty years of drinking.

Alcohol doesn’t just enter the body then exit in the same form it came in, but changes in the liver and the pancreas into sugar and other products which eventually slip into the blood stream and shoot up into the brain.

This is where the fun begins (or not so much fun) People either change into ‘happy campers wearing lampshades on their heads, or miserable, abusive fighters with no control of their anger, or simply lose all their inhibitions and blackout, vomit, end up in dangerous situations, or drink and drive, placing not only their lives but the lives of others in their incapable hands to cause mayhem and even death.

No matter how many times the police, Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD) or other awareness associations or groups try to inform and educate people, drinkers keep on drinking and taking chances.

Alcoholism is a DISEASE! It took me thirty years and a lot of hard-nosed personal education to figure out why I changed personalities, had major headaches no matter how much or how little I drank, spoke on the BIG WHITE TELEPHONE (as in the toilet as I yelled hellooo into it then had a nap curled around it) and even having my young (at the time) children make me drinks because I was too exhausted to get up and make them myself. No wonder one of my kids ended up working as a sober bar tender.

I’m sober now and thrilled about it. I take it one day at a time, sometimes one hour at a time when the urge hits me. I can say no in a crowd full of drinkers, knowing that there’s no way I can just stop at one sip. For the first time in many years I FEEL GOOD. The toxic chemicals in alcohol are no longer being poured like Niagara Falls into my body. I never did illegal drugs but taking prescribed medication to battle illness, I was drinking on top of it. That’s like putting a train engine car on either side of a caboose and playing tug of war. It just doesn’t work!

Slowly, gradually, I’m eliminating all the extra chemicals that enter my body, or I run into if I leave my house, even wearing my trusty filtered mask that still doesn’t catch every chemical. I even had to wear it to the doctor’s office today (the receptionists continue to wear perfume every day, EVEN THOUGH I’VE TOLD THEM REPEATEDLY THAT I REACT TO THEM!!!)

I have another sinus infection that has sent me to my bed for the past few days, hard of hearing due to fluid in my ears, my face feeling like Mohammed Ali had a few rounds on my sinuses, and my head ready to burst from the migraine. I have ZERO energy, zero ability to function as a cave dweller, unable to do chores, unable to write without a ton of Tylenol, allergy pills, corticoid nose spray. (you see, more and more chemicals for my poor body to process…sigh)

My point in sharing this true life tale is that Alcohol is a chemical. It’s a toxin. The more we dump into our bodies to make us ‘feel better’ only makes us feel worse. Try quitting for a month, two months, or permanently and find out for yourself how you feel without making your battered body fight to process even more chemicals. (This article is for those who are still drinking. Many MCSers stopped or never started long ago, seeing the connection, or rather FEELING it)

Not everyone is an alcoholic. Some people can give or take a drink without issue. The difference is when you CAN’T stop once you start. Binge drinking, blackouts, drinking until you end up in the bathroom, your body rejecting what you took in. These are signs of chemical overload, signs of your body’s inability to process the unnecessary, harmful chemicals that our bodies beg us to quit ingesting by becoming ill.

Something more to think about in the quest to get well and stay there! It’s a tough thing to admit, that you can’t handle booze. It’s not so tough to find good health by eliminating the things that harm us and fight MCS with every weapon in our arsenal. Give it a try.

Franny Armstrong