Originally Posted by Wide-O

You know... maybe you need to think this through again. It's never exactly been a secret that alcohol abuse is horrible to the body. It is neurotoxic in larger doses, it destroys quite a few internal organs, and it leads to dramas at home and on the roads. It's not like we didn't know drinking in excess was bad for us.

Oddly enough, the last place you'd feel any pain is in your liver. That's because there are no nerve endings in the liver - so it's not exactly a good idea to drink until you feel pain there.

This thread is mainly uplifting, it's about people who have seen the error of their ways, and in many cases see improvement in their neuropathy. Which in a way is unfair to the vast amount of users here that have neuropathy because of 99 other reasons. People who did nothing wrong, but received the wrong medication, are forced on statins, have to undergo chemotherapy, or are simply born with the disease. They can do very little about it but hope, and learn to live with the pain. We on the other hand can take the decision to stop drinking, and are very very lucky that the disease can be reversed (or at least not get any worse) for many of us.

I'm sorry to pick on you, but your post screams of "it's so unfair to me, why did nobody warn me" and it rubs me the wrong way.

Let's focus on getting better, and on doing everything we can to avoid falling in the alcohol trap again, and give hope to others who consider taking that step. Let's not blame others, society, the world, for what went wrong: let's find joy and support in reading other people here who managed to turn their life around, and share their story with us.