--- In wernicke-korsakoff_syndrome@yahoogroups.com, kelli flynt <kelliflynt@...>
wrote:
>
> I totally agree with Sherry, the same thing happened with my husband, the
doctor's explained it to me along the line of when my husband's body processed
alcohol it did not process thiamin as it normally would do, so over the coarse
of many years of drinking his level got so low that he got sick. 

I actually think I had a low thiamine level before any alcohol entered the
picture. I suffered from gastroparesis. I may have already said this, so
forgive me if I did. Anyway, gastroparesis is slow stomach emptying. Now that
I keep the thiamine pumped in, it is gone. I have a friend who also had
gastroparesis, and when she got pregnant they pumped the thiamine in, and now
she is well. I think some people just have a natural problem with thiamine, and
need to take higher levels of it. One of the problems we both had also was
alcohol helped the gastroparesis. So we both drank too much.

Sherry