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    #32
    How Strange
    Registered Users Posts: 6,339 ✭✭✭How Strange


    I'd say that the major risks with blacking out is falling over and injuring yourself, getting into what you think is a taxi but isn't, getting raped or attacked. And I say all this with a tone of 'there but for the grace of god go I' not as someone moralising.

    I did some woeful damage to myself one night after I blacked out. I was like a raggedy anne doll falling all over the place. Of course I didn't learn my lesson by a long shot but I do count myself very fortunate that on those nights stumbling home that nothing worse happened.


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    #33
    lily lou
    Registered Users Posts: 153 ✭✭lily lou


    Well I find that when my period is due in the next few days alcohol has much worse affect on me than at other times, could be hormonal!!


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    #34
    Captain Slow IRL
    Registered Users Posts: 3,651 ✭✭✭Captain Slow IRL


    I suffer from blackouts as well, but I only get it when I hit the shots - can't stand wine hangover, so can't comment on that.

    I was out with the gf the last few times and at the end of each night, great idea, let's get whisky/vodka/tequila - always end up doing something stupid (but harmless!) and she always laughs at my reactions!

    Having said that, I was a bit crazy before I met her (she's teetotal, so a good influence) and I used to end up doing some crazy, stupid siht.

    Stay away from the top-shelf - and slow down with the drinking. If you can stomach it, guinness is a great drink - very hard to get drunk on it!


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    #35
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,215 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    davyjose wrote: »
    Ah, no offense Dudess but that's one weekend. Besides a lot of peoples alcohol dependancy (for want of a better term right now) is actually a social dependancy (ie, they drink because that's the only way they can socialise), and they are unable to control their drinking when they go out.

    I know people who, when dry, can go weeks without wanting a drink, and when they finally have one, they go on a 3 day bender. In other words, there are different forms of alcohol problems, and drinking to oblivion, IMO, definitely falls into this category.
    The point I'm making is that blackouts are often merely caused by getting hammered - drinking too much/too quickly/on an empty stomach/mixing drinks... or a combination of all of the above. It can happen to those who have only started drinking - e.g. teenagers. I'm just saying I don't know whether it's appropriate to talk of alcohol dependency.

    Memory loss episodes are certainly not something to be taken lightly though: I really went to town on the drinking in the run-up to Christmas. Probably cos I had just started a proper job after a year of freelancing and being broke, and what better way to celebrate having money again than to piss it all away...? :rolleyes: ;) That, plus the festive spirit. Anyway, I had a few blackout episodes and it bloody well scared me so I slowed down instead of "hoovering" back each drink, drank less as a result, and stopped once I started to feel pissed. And I didn't have any difficulty doing that and I've been doing it since.

    I went out last Saturday night but took the car. I did that for no reason other than not being in the mood for drinking, waiting for a cab etc.


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    #36
    prod_igy
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    land9 wrote: »
    If you can stomach it, guinness is a great drink - very hard to get drunk on it!

    Dude, guinness is a lovely drink, i switched from budwieser there around november and after my 3rd drink i was hooked! (1st drink was gorgeus, 2nd was disgusting, thought i was wrong about the 1st drink, but then 3rd time lucky and ive never gone back!)

    In response to the OP, i have gotten blackouts a hell of alot of times, and many of them i woke up the next day scared sh**less of what i did the night before. For instance i have no recollection of how i got home, with my last memory being that of leaving the pub for the nightclub. Another time i had no recollection of the whole night, with the only memory being me walking the 2miles home on a country road, and taking a lift off a complete stranger (luckily he dropped me home:o), and probably the worst was me waking up in a ditch on that same road, having presumibly tried to walk home the night before and failing miserably!!

    Many of these i can attribute to an excessive intake of alcohol however and the mixing of drinks!


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