I drank everyday for about 1.5 years. Usually I would drink a very good amount, sometimes till I blacked out. Other times just a few beers. Since then it's been about 2.5 years, and I've been drinking off and on, but not NEARLY as much as I used to. Sometimes I'll drink a LOT and get blasted drunk, sometimes just a few beers...but I can go a week or two between drinking sessions.
Like last night I had about 5 beers, but hadn't drank anything in a week or so.
Ocassionally, but VERY RARELY I'll get what feels like a sharp muscle cramp on my right side and if I breathe in too deep it hurts real bad, but it goes away after a few minutes and it's happened maybe a total of 3 times in my entire life, so not very often.
I also led/lead an extremely stressful life style with a really stressful job, and I developed what I believe to be hypoglycemia....some have told me that's more likely to be stress related, but I also do know that that can be related to the liver too.
I was just wanting to ask how long it generally takes to really damage your liver from drinking, and if you think I should be worried? I'm only 21, going on 22. I've been drinking since I was 17.