Florida man spent years wondering why colleagues and coworkers questioned his alcohol consumption. He said he hadn't been drinking — especially with him working as a teacher and basketball coach — but was called into the principal's office on and off for several years.
Mark Mongiardo, 40, told TODAY he worked more than 12 hours a day and credited his exhaustion and behavior changes to that. "I thought that there was something wrong with me.
I wasn’t exactly sure what," Mongiardo, 40, of Florida, told TODAY.com. "I just thought I was tired all the time. My wife has on numerous occasions said I wasn’t acting right."Mongiardo told TODAY he'd been arrested twice within six months for DWI even though he hadn't picked up a single drink.
His wife began to worry that he was drinking in secret. MORE NEWS:After a couple of Google searches, Mongiardo and his wife believed they found a diagnosis — auto-brewery syndrome. "I had all the signs and symptoms of drinking even before she smelled me.