# Is a bottle of wine per night gonna destroy my liver? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 21, 2009, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-bottle-of-wine-per-night-gonna-destroy-my-liver/493881 "2009-04-21T19:32:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-bottle-of-wine-per-night-gonna-destroy-my-liver/493881/161 "2017-11-17T16:56:33Z")
> [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](#): > > I am in awe over how many times this has come back to life. Maybe wine does have a pickling property … this thread was seriously pre-zombified … ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-bottle-of-wine-per-night-gonna-destroy-my-liver/493881/162 "2017-11-17T17:46:10Z")
> [@edwardcoast](#): > > Every time you fill out a form in a doctor’s office they ask if the patient drinks alcohol, how much and how often. Doctor’s are asking that question because consuming alcohol isn’t a good thing. I know that socially it seems to be acceptable to do so, but that doesn’t make it a healthy choice. > > Switch to grape juice for a month. If you still can’t do without it, then you need professional help. Not what you wanted to hear, but I’m more concerned about your health than trying to help you find a way to sugar coat it that your consumption of alcohol is a good thing. I lie to my doctors about how much I drink. I tell them that I consume 14 units per week. Truth be told, I don’t even consume 14 units per month. I’ll go weeks at a time without drinking any alcohol at all. I don’t want my physicians to prescribe medications containing acetaminophen so I think of that as being a way to forestall that. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-bottle-of-wine-per-night-gonna-destroy-my-liver/493881/163 "2017-11-17T18:07:23Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > I don’t want my physicians to prescribe medications containing acetaminophen so I think of that as being a way to forestall that. Why don’t you just tell your doctor that you don’t want acetaminophen? I don’t want it either, but why lie? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-bottle-of-wine-per-night-gonna-destroy-my-liver/493881/164 "2017-11-17T18:08:43Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > I lie to my doctors about how much I drink. I tell them that I consume 14 units per week. Truth be told, I don’t even consume 14 units per month. I’ll go weeks at a time without drinking any alcohol at all. I don’t want my physicians to prescribe medications containing acetaminophen so I think of that as being a way to forestall that. I tell my doctor the truth, but he smirks and suggests that I’m exaggerating, because he is in a group practice and if he enters my number honestly, the software wants him to be aggressive in the way he handles me. Rather than explaining to his partners that I won’t cooperate, he enters a number that falls below the cutoff for this. ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-bottle-of-wine-per-night-gonna-destroy-my-liver/493881/165 "2017-11-17T19:14:38Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > I lie to my doctors about how much I drink. I tell them that I consume 14 units per week. Truth be told, I don’t even consume 14 units per month. I’ll go weeks at a time without drinking any alcohol at all. I don’t want my physicians to prescribe medications containing acetaminophen so I think of that as being a way to forestall that. That makes no sense. The only medications that your doctor is likely to prescribe for you that contain acetaminophen, are combination opioid / acetaminophen pain medications. Do you need those? If not, why lie? Why lie anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-bottle-of-wine-per-night-gonna-destroy-my-liver/493881/166 "2017-11-17T19:36:42Z")
> [@steatopygia](#): > > That makes no sense. The only medications that your doctor is likely to prescribe for you that contain acetaminophen, are combination opioid / acetaminophen pain medications. > > Do you need those? If not, why lie? Why lie anyway? Because if you say you don’t want the acetaminophen containing combinations they act like they think you’re drug seeking and going to run home and swallow all your opioids at once. If I tell them I’m a daily drinker they prescribe something without acetaminophen and think it’s their idea. I do occasionally need pain medication. I’ve got osteoarthritis. I started on ibuprofen, but it was bad for my blood pressure. I tried acetaminophen, which was both bad for my liver and marginally more effective than Tic-Tacs, so now I’m on the occasional dose of Tramadol, which is useless for inflammation but an adequate, if not stellar, analgesic. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-bottle-of-wine-per-night-gonna-destroy-my-liver/493881/167 "2017-11-17T20:17:14Z")
> [@joey301](#): > > This is the only place I have seen this exact question addressed. Let’s say you start drinking at 6PM, go to bed a 9, that is a bottle in 3 hours, you will be quite buzzed, probably pass out each night. I think it’s too much, and it will cost you about $300 per month This sounds like a homework question. A word problem homework question. A terrible, terrible word problem homework question. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-bottle-of-wine-per-night-gonna-destroy-my-liver/493881/168 "2017-11-17T20:46:01Z")
Medical advice is best suited to IMHO. Note that this thread was started in 2009. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Quintas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/48db29/32.png) [@Quintas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quintas)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2017, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-bottle-of-wine-per-night-gonna-destroy-my-liver/493881/169 "2017-11-18T08:56:06Z")
Awww. This message board has been an important part of my internet world for 16 years now, although I am a bit of a hit and run poster. I feel honored that I composed an eternal zombie thread. I’m still alive. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2017, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-bottle-of-wine-per-night-gonna-destroy-my-liver/493881/170 "2017-11-18T11:51:48Z")
Cheers, dude! ---
**Author:** ![Quintas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/48db29/32.png) [@Quintas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quintas)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-bottle-of-wine-per-night-gonna-destroy-my-liver/493881/171 "2019-12-30T17:41:45Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Cheers, dude! Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-bottle-of-wine-per-night-gonna-destroy-my-liver/493881/172 "2019-12-30T19:02:19Z")
BTW, looking at my calendar here, I see today makes 27 days of sobriety. It was a good decade. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-bottle-of-wine-per-night-gonna-destroy-my-liver/493881/173 "2019-12-30T19:42:45Z")
> [@Quintas](#): > > I’m still alive. So, how 'bout posting your latest liver function test results? 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-bottle-of-wine-per-night-gonna-destroy-my-liver/493881.md?page=8)