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From AFP (it wasn't me before anybody says!!!)

It may be the longest hangover in the history of binge beer drinking. When a 37-year old man walked into a hospital emergency room in Glasgow, Scotland last October complaining of "wavy" vision and a non-stop headache that had lasted four weeks, doctors were at first stumped, the British journal The Lancet reported Friday.

The unnamed patient "had no history of head injury or loss of consciousness; his past medical record was unremarkable, and he was taking no medications," Zia Carrim and two other physicians from Southern General Hospital said in a case report.

Body temperature and blood pressure were both normal, and a neurological exam scanned negative.

But when an eye specialist was called in, the fog began to clear, at least for the doctors.

The patient, said the ophthalmologist, had swollen optical discs, greatly enlarged blind spots and what eye doctors call "flame haemorrhages," or bleeding nerve fibres.

"We sought a more detailed history" from the patient, noted Zia drly.

That is when the man revealed he had consumed some 60 pints -- roughly 35 litres -- of beer over a four day period, following a domestic crisis.

Severe dehydration caused the alcohol, the doctors guessed, had led to a rare condition called cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST). A scan of the brain's blood vessels confirmed the diagnosis.

CVST -- which can cause seizures, impaired consciousness, loss of vision and neurological damage -- strikes three or four people per million, mainly children, every year in Britain. The cause is generally unknown.

It took more than six months of long-term blood-thinning treatment to restore the man's normal vision -- and to get rid of the headache, the doctors reported.
 
Best I've done is about 45 pints in three days when visiting a mate at uni way back.
I was very ill the day I got back home :(

Sadly I can't drink more than six or seven pints of cider these days without getting a bit tipsy...
 
I drunk to much whilst i was away travelling the world. Pain in the A trying to work off the beer belly.
 
60 pints in 4 days....I reckon I could take him! :p

Bloody amateur.

Some years ago I went to the doctor as I had a general feeling of dyspepsia. He asked me if I drank (do bears sh*t in the woods?:D ) and how much. To which I replied about 10 pints.

"10 pints a week is ok" he said

He was quite amazed when I informed him that was my daily intake.:p

30 years later I'm still here to tell the tale, and he kicked the bucket years ago.
 
I drunk to much whilst i was away travelling the world. Pain in the A trying to work off the beer belly.

Me too, including sharing a bottle of tequila whilst watching the sun come up over Uluru :minger:

Now I'm wiser, older and more boring :(
 
Bloody amateur.

Some years ago I went to the doctor as I had a general feeling of dyspepsia. He asked me if I drank (do bears sh*t in the woods?:D ) and how much. To which I replied about 10 pints.

"10 pints a week is ok" he said

He was quite amazed when I informed him that was my daily intake.:p

30 years later I'm still here to tell the tale, and he kicked the bucket years ago.

ah but don't you have about 60 years on me though sir? :p
 
I dread to thin how much I drank over the weekend of my 30th a few months back, must have been in that ballpark!
 
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