White wine - makes me crazy

millyj

Im looking for advice on this. Last night I had a bottle of wine over say 3 hours. I had not eaten and subsequently it hit me very quickly. My bf of 3 months bore the brunt of this when I turned on him for absolutely no reason. Maybe things just seem worse today as I have a raging hangover . All is cool with my bf as he just says to forget about it and move on that its in the past but i really feel that I have hurt him. Any advice on how to make this up to him and also, have any of you guys experienced turning psychotic from drinking wine?

petes

Stop drinking white wine tbh.

LadyE

Were you particularly nasty to him? Just apologise again and as he says, move on. Not much else you can do really if he wants to forget it.

Would defo stay off the wine tho, some drinks dont suit some people, bulmers/cider doesnt suit me, maybe wne doesnt suit you. And drink on a full stomach the next time, even if you drink a glass of milk beforehand, to line your stomach!

Nevyn

Drink more sensibly and deal with your issues with your bf and your realtionship when you are sober and can communicate hopefully as a mature adult.

Oryx

Stop drinking anything alcoholic on an empty stomach. And do as your bf said and move on. Dont forget it though... so you wont allow it to happen again. Anyone can mess up like this once, to do it twice would be bad.

InReality

I turn a bit psycho with different drinks , I think a lot of people do. Could be getting a bit older too , I noticed drink was giving me way worse hangovers as I got older , although it took me a while to realize that was the cause.

tinkerbell

There's a simple solution to this - stop drinking the wine. Ugh I hate wine, I'm not gonna go on a rant about it here but I think it's one of the worst drinks that there is.

lala stone

millyj wrote: »

Im looking for advice on this. Last night I had a bottle of wine over say 3 hours. I had not eaten and subsequently it hit me very quickly. My bf of 3 months bore the brunt of this when I turned on him for absolutely no reason. Maybe things just seem worse today as I have a raging hangover . All is cool with my bf as he just says to forget about it and move on that its in the past but i really feel that I have hurt him. Any advice on how to make this up to him and also, have any of you guys experienced turning psychotic from drinking wine?

Try not to think about it! Your prob in the horrors.. it really isnt that bad and your bf is obviously pretty nice to put you at ease!
My ex once tipped the last contents of a bottle of wine on my head bcuz I was talking so much rubbish!

Redpunto

probably has happened to most people - its not like you set out to get hammered. Take him out for a meal, and just try and forget about it.

Ehm. The easiest solution to this is maybe not to drink white wine?

rediguana

Ease off on the booze and start doing yoga or something. I don't think any particular drink can be responsible for causing a person to attack somebody else; it's a question of quantity and that person's prior mental-emotional state.

See www.drinkaware.ie

3DataModem

My wife is exactly the same. Nutso on white wine. Self-banned from drinking it while I'm in the country or phoning me when I'm not. :pac:

Sinall

I have heard of a number of people who go a little "crazy" on white wine! I stopped drinking it on nights out. A glass with dinner is fine, but otherwise it just doesn't suit me at all and I'm just not myself. I haven't drunk more than a glass in over a year now.

I know it seems like a nice "social" drink and you can share a bottle etc etc but anything that makes you act/feel like that is not social! Just remember this the next time you are tempted to have a bottle of white wine.

JMCD

InReality wrote: »

I turn a bit psycho with different drinks .

millyj wrote: »

Any advice on how to make this up to him and also, have any of you guys experienced turning psychotic from drinking wine?

Hate to tell you guys that that "different drink" crap dosent wash. Your body dosent know the difference between the different alcohol drinks it just knows that your drinking alcohol, be it white wine, vodka or whatever!

What you are doing is telling yourself before you even had a sup "uh oh, here comes the white wine, im going to go on a mad one" so therefore you will go on a mad one! I see it with my own friends who think that they go mad on vodka and once at a party we were at they were drinking vodka (although they didnt know it, thought it was something else) and guess what...no crazy rage from them!!

I would just put what happened behind you and forget about it, and the next time yo have white wine dont expect bad things to happen because If you do THEY will happen. Also maybe dig a little deeper, maybe something happened between you and your boyfriend (might of been the slightest little thing but really got in on your wick) and thats why you went a little crazy.Or some other issue that needs to be addressed!

Taltos

My bro goes same way with whiskey but I do have some friends who are like that with wine too.
They never learnt to stay away from the wine - so now I rarely join them out.
My bro on the other hand learnt early.

Fine another tipple or drink in more moderation - but you never know - my bro loses it after even 1 whiskey - obv worse if he has mixed it...

Disease Ridden

Yeah you should really lay off the white wine. If I was you I'd drink SWEET BERRA WINE!!.... for your health...

cafecolour

You make it up to him by never doing it again. And by apologizing, but you've already done that. I think most people have at least one or two friends that have lost their **** on drink/drugs and gotten over it - it's just if it persists that it becomes a major problem.

And yes, it's happened to me once. I think it was just that the quantity of alcohol totally exceeded my norms at the time - I had been off it for a few months, and was matching drink for drink with heavy drinking mates. I turned into a raving lunatic. Very scary. I've never tried to keep pace with anyone but myself since.

Bottle_of_Smoke

White wines quite easy to drink and it can be strong. You hadn't eaten - that's the problem, not the wine alone

Borneo Fnctn

You drank more than you could handle. Simple as. White wine is not to blame. Whether it's white whine or whiskey and a mixer, the units of alcohol consumed and the dilution factor are what matters.

Nervous Wreck

JMCD wrote: »

Hate to tell you guys that that "different drink" crap dosent wash. Your body dosent know the difference between the different alcohol drinks it just knows that your drinking alcohol, be it white wine, vodka or whatever!

What you are doing is telling yourself before you even had a sup "uh oh, here comes the white wine, im going to go on a mad one" so therefore you will go on a mad one!

Fairly sure yer body can 'tell' when it has varying levels of alcohol floating around. Vodka is stronger than cider (for instance) and as such, will hit harder and faster, causing the drinker to maybe go a little wilder. This is also the case as drinks that are drunk with mixers (spritsers, shorts etc) go down easier than heavy drinks (beers, ciders etc), allowing the naive drinker to believe that they "haven't drunk that much" and therefore, are less conscious of the high level of toxicity in their body, possibly prompting them to drink more.

Saying "Yer body can't distinguish one alcohol from another" is a true, but the volume is the important factor.


Tequila doesn't agree with me cos I can drink it like water. Beer agrees with me moreso because it takes me ages to drink it.

upmeath

Insurgent wrote: »

Stop drinking white wine tbh.

Agreed. Everybody has different responses to different drinks. When I began drinking in my late teens, vodka set me off on two occasions (angry, emotional, depressed) and JD & Aftershock turned me into a small-time Casanova :cool:

You need to find a drink that doesn't set you off, everyone's different and everyone responds differently.

PS. Drinking on an empty stomach is never a good idea!

estar

is a large amount of alcohol in a 3 hour period. thats about 9 -11 units at least. you are only recommended to drink 14 a week
thats about 5 pints, I think for that bottle of wine. white wine made you mental because you arent used to drinking so much and shouldnt.

if you were a man your behaviour would have been treated far less sympathetically, girls get away with far more when drunk and going off on one.

you have learned your limit, respect it. dont drink any alcohol to excess if you cannot reasonably say that you will behave safely. other wise you are just a liability.

you can learn this the easy way or the hard way its your choice.

aare

Many years ago...in a REALLY bad relationship...

We used kill a liter bottle of wine between us every night (not something I had ever done before)...

One night I opened a second bottle...

Well...I lost it...and I threw stuff...next morning was hell to face...

For one thing, Seimens cookers were NOT the designated target...and the, irreplaceable, glass door was in tiny, weeny pieces in the bin...

But somehow, civilisation, as we know it, survived...

Trust me, within 72 hours you will feel almost ready to forgive yourself...

Just try not to do it again?

thebiggestjim

JMCD wrote: »

Hate to tell you guys that that "different drink" crap dosent wash. Your body dosent know the difference between the different alcohol drinks it just knows that your drinking alcohol, be it white wine, vodka or whatever!

What you are doing is telling yourself before you even had a sup "uh oh, here comes the white wine, im going to go on a mad one" so therefore you will go on a mad one! I see it with my own friends who think that they go mad on vodka and once at a party we were at they were drinking vodka (although they didnt know it, thought it was something else) and guess what...no crazy rage from them!!

I would just put what happened behind you and forget about it, and the next time yo have white wine dont expect bad things to happen because If you do THEY will happen. Also maybe dig a little deeper, maybe something happened between you and your boyfriend (might of been the slightest little thing but really got in on your wick) and thats why you went a little crazy.Or some other issue that needs to be addressed!

I dunno about this theory, have you every drank buckfast? Thats my looney juice.

jimmycrackcorm

millyj wrote: »

My bf of 3 months bore the brunt of this when I turned on him for absolutely no reason.

I experience the result of this behaviour quite often and I can only conclude that the wine is simply a catalyst added to being a woman.

muboop1

millyj wrote: »

have any of you guys experienced turning psychotic from drinking wine?

YES...
right, so here goes, i know people might say that all alcohol will affect you the same ( i havent actually read the thread... poor show i know but im lazy).
it doesnt

iv drank nearly every major drink type possible, and there are two drinks that i do not drink ever.

they are white wine and absinthe.

when i drink them i tend to lose touch with reality, i cannot explain why or anything else. i initially thought it was in my head or whatever but every time i drink this stuff i go insane.

cure: dont drink it any more!
nothing else will work! least it wont for me!

anyway stay off whats making you bad.
general bit of advice. :pac:

JMCD

Nervous Wreck wrote: »

Fairly sure yer body can 'tell' when it has varying levels of alcohol floating around. Vodka is stronger than cider (for instance) and as such, will hit harder and faster, causing the drinker to maybe go a little wilder. This is also the case as drinks that are drunk with mixers (spritsers, shorts etc) go down easier than heavy drinks (beers, ciders etc), allowing the naive drinker to believe that they "haven't drunk that much" and therefore, are less conscious of the high level of toxicity in their body, possibly prompting them to drink more.

Saying "Yer body can't distinguish one alcohol from another" is a true, but the volume is the important factor.


Tequila doesn't agree with me cos I can drink it like water. Beer agrees with me moreso because it takes me ages to drink it.

Agreed about the volume point. But what im saying is that there is no such thing as a drink that makes you go wild.

Chocoholic84

One of my friends goes CRAZY on any sort of alcohol, and her poor b/f (and anyone around her) seriously bears the brunt of it.

The worst case was when she was drinking wine at an all day event, and she got completely out of control - accused the b/f of eyeing up other women, gave him silent treatment etc. She then turned on me for no reason whatsoever, and started spouting all kinds of ****, some of it really hurtful...

The next day, she was so apologetic and knew she had been way out of line, even though she couldn't remember most of what she'd done.
I told her she seriously needed to stop drinking full-stop and she agreed.

She hasn't, AFAIK. Tbh, I reckon the b/f is an even bigger fool for putting up with it, as it's not a one-off, happens eveery time she has alcoho, which is at least once a week. Their relationship is pretty toxic now because of it, but yet they stay together..

Moral of this story? OP, nip this in the bud NOW - if it's just white wine that give it up!! Alcohol is not worth jeopardising your relationship for.

davmol

Alcohol affect everyone depending on teh amount youve had to eat ,your weight etc etc.

I dont thinkthe OP was looking for a lecture but more advise on how to make it up to him ,heres my advice-steak and blowjob, he'll get over this minor indiscretion fairly quick and may even buy you wine in future

Borneo Fnctn

thebiggestjim wrote: »

I dunno about this theory, have you every drank buckfast? Thats my looney juice.

Bucky is loaded up with caffeine and all sorts of other chemicals.

Dundrummer

Sorry to give the same obvious answer, but now you know to leave the white wine alone.

From a similar experience I avoid red wine because it makes me go emotionally loopy...

petethebrick

JMCD wrote: »

Hate to tell you guys that that "different drink" crap dosent wash. Your body dosent know the difference between the different alcohol drinks it just knows that your drinking alcohol, be it white wine, vodka or whatever!

What you are doing is telling yourself before you even had a sup "uh oh, here comes the white wine, im going to go on a mad one" so therefore you will go on a mad one! I see it with my own friends who think that they go mad on vodka and once at a party we were at they were drinking vodka (although they didnt know it, thought it was something else) and guess what...no crazy rage from them!!

I would just put what happened behind you and forget about it, and the next time yo have white wine dont expect bad things to happen because If you do THEY will happen. Also maybe dig a little deeper, maybe something happened between you and your boyfriend (might of been the slightest little thing but really got in on your wick) and thats why you went a little crazy.Or some other issue that needs to be addressed!

Hate to tell you that this crap you're talking doesn't wash. Of course different drinks affect certain people differently. You're obviously not much of a drinker yourself or else you would know this. Vodka does it to me - I can drink whiskey, gin etc all night and be fine but if I drink any considerable amount of vodka a drunken mess generally ensues^^

OP- what exactly is the point of this thread? It's more just a moan than an issue to be honest. What do u think the answer to your problem is- might it be that you shouldnt drink white wine perhaps??

Dave!

Drink red wine instead...

Borneo Fnctn

petethebrick wrote: »

Hate to tell you that this crap you're talking doesn't wash. Of course different drinks affect certain people differently. You're obviously not much of a drinker yourself or else you would know this. Vodka does it to me - I can drink whiskey, gin etc all night and be fine but if I drink any considerable amount of vodka a drunken mess generally ensues^^

OP- what exactly is the point of this thread? It's more just a moan than an issue to be honest. What do u think the answer to your problem is- might it be that you shouldnt drink white wine perhaps??

You're completely wrong. You're obviously not much of a drinker yourself if you buy into that juvenile nonsense. Vodka effects you more because of some, or all of the following reasons.

You believe it to do so and you act accordingly. People often drink non alcoholic beer without realizing it and think their drunk. Placebo effect.
You drink more of it.
You drink it faster.
You drink it with less mixer.

If you think can explain the chemistry behind the myths you're perpetuating, please do so.

lmtduffy

This is slightly going of topic but anyways, alot of people here need to educate them selves on alcohol and stop with this mythical nonsense that certain drinks "set them off" or "make you crazy" they don’t they make you drunk, if its a drink you don’t drink often then maybe your not used to its abv, and may drink too much, you might use a mixer that hides the strength of the drink and drink too much.

She drank a bottle of wine in 3 hours, this is alot. So she got really drunk.

Thats it, if you believe certain drinks make you crazier than others offer a biological explanation no more of these wives tales bout your friend that goes mad on the vodkas or the bucky.

Dont scape goat a drink fort your own failings,

(and op I commend you for trying to correct things but don’t blame the wine and eat more, drink less and switch to non-alcoholic drinks every few drinks)

bushy...

jackpalance wrote: »

You're completely wrong. You're obviously not much of a drinker yourself if you buy into that juvenile nonsense. Vodka effects you more because of some, or all of the following reasons.

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The "impurities" outside of the alcohol in each drink might cause different effects.

(Compared to other drinks ) "Wine was specifically associated with lower CRP, plasma viscosity, factor VIII and triglycerides"

gtg will edit later

kitty_dillon1@h

Hi OP
i get very cross on white wine,it gets me really drunk and i make no sense and i argued with my porr ex over anything!!so i had to stop drinking it,it's not worth it.your boyf says it's fine and it probably is but you don't want it to keep happening or he will get sick of it.all drink affects people differently,don't beat yourself up about it though

LegacyUser

JMCD wrote: »

Agreed about the volume point. But what im saying is that there is no such thing as a drink that makes you go wild.

One word : Absinthe
Thats that theory out the window!


OP just moderate the drinking,
also being fully hydrated the day before and a pint of water before bed will lessen effect of hangover

eddie.fandango

OP, you're blaming your childish behavior on white wine. That's ridiculous. And as for this theory that a certain drink will turn someone "wild" or "crazy", that's BS. It's entirely psychological, and it's just people trying to absolve themselves of their own behaviour. It really is not an excuse, ever.

upmeath

eddie.fandango wrote: »

as for this theory that a certain drink will turn someone "wild" or "crazy", that's BS

I haven't taken the time to google it, but I'd bet highly there's research evidence to the contrary. Different drinks are like different drugs. It's not just percentages and flavours that distinguish drinks, there are different chemicals in the mix too, with associated behavioural patterns. Of that I'm certain.
I'm not going to list off what certain drinks do to friends A, B or C, but people have wildly diverse psychological and emotional responses to different drinks. There are a whole wealth of chemicals in whiskey or vodka that aren't there in beer or wine.
It's ignorant to think that your response to alcohol is purely down to your intake and the percentage of your chosen drink. Even the physiological responses are different - lagers lead to beer bellies, not wine; hard liquors increase the risk of cancer of the tongue, not alcopops. They're physiological responses, subsequent to prolonged exposure. Do you not think that different chemicals whirring around your brain in the minutes and hours after drinking might have varied effects on your mental state?

eddie.fandango

upmeath wrote: »

I haven't taken the time to google it, but I'd bet highly there's research evidence to the contrary. Different drinks are like different drugs. It's not just percentages and flavours that distinguish drinks, there are different chemicals in the mix too, with associated behavioural patterns. Of that I'm certain.
I'm not going to list off what certain drinks do to friends A, B or C, but people have wildly diverse psychological and emotional responses to different drinks. There are a whole wealth of chemicals in whiskey or vodka that aren't there in beer or wine.
It's ignorant to think that your response to alcohol is purely down to your intake and the percentage of your chosen drink. Even the physiological responses are different - lagers lead to beer bellies, not wine; hard liquors increase the risk of cancer of the tongue, not alcopops. They're physiological responses, subsequent to prolonged exposure. Do you not think that different chemicals whirring around your brain in the minutes and hours after drinking might have varied effects on your mental state?

The point that I was trying to make is that people are far too quick to blame their behaviour on what they put into their bodies that their own choices. There are many different chemicals in all kinds of drinks; the same could be said of a packet of Skittles but that doesn't send me into an anti-social rage either.

Does the loud, obnoxious girl at a party act like that because of alcohol (or the chemicals contained within)? Or is it because she's a socially inept melon. Does the coked-up scumbag bottle someone minding their own business because of the snow? Or is it because they choose to get their kicks from harming others.

I can speak from my own experience: I have been excessively, excessively drunk on many occasions. Oliver Reed drunk. But there has not been one time, no matter how drunk I was, that I did not have complete free will, and made my own decisions. If someone becomes a twat when they are drunk, that's not because "the vodka" makes them like that, it's because it reveals their true self, and their sober state is a facade.

Ok, rant over, who's going for a pint?

Pro-Nutrition

millyj wrote: »

Im looking for advice on this. Last night I had a bottle of wine over say 3 hours. I had not eaten and subsequently it hit me very quickly. My bf of 3 months bore the brunt of this when I turned on him for absolutely no reason. Maybe things just seem worse today as I have a raging hangover . All is cool with my bf as he just says to forget about it and move on that its in the past but i really feel that I have hurt him. Any advice on how to make this up to him and also, have any of you guys experienced turning psychotic from drinking wine?

Hey there, I normally post on the fitness fourm but today I decided to have a look at other post and sections. Listen I use to go crazy when I drank Whiskey, I would shout etc etc but you know what it never had anything to do with the drink, it was all in the head.

How I realised this was one day I found myself sitting watching a DVD with my wife and I was having a Whiskey. I was totally relaxed and I taught to myself, Keith you f****** idiot. My point is that its not the drink to blame its the person (not saying that your a bad person) but I think anyone should run and hide saying that its the drinks fault.

JMCD

petethebrick wrote: »

Hate to tell you that this crap you're talking doesn't wash. Of course different drinks affect certain people differently. You're obviously not much of a drinker yourself or else you would know this. Vodka does it to me - I can drink whiskey, gin etc all night and be fine but if I drink any considerable amount of vodka a drunken mess generally ensues^^

OP- what exactly is the point of this thread? It's more just a moan than an issue to be honest. What do u think the answer to your problem is- might it be that you shouldnt drink white wine perhaps??

Well thats your opinion and your entitled to it.

I am a drinker, would be classed as a "binge drinker" although thats nothing to brag about!

Yea but do you see the mental approach your taking to drinking vodka! If someone gets you, lets say a vodka and red bull your telling yourself even before you drink it "uh oh, im on the vodkas now, im gonna go mad!"

I can drink whiskey, gin etc all night and be fine but if I drink any considerable amount of vodka a drunken mess generally ensues^^

So what your saying dosent wash.! If vodka was such a "crazy" drink then friday and saturday nights in town would be like a war zone!!

zootroid

Have to agree that certain drinks alter your behaviour. Buckfast, and vodka and red bull have meant I've done things I wouldn't do if drinking something else. I think in those two its the cafeine or the sugar, or whatever other chemicals are in them. I can drink beer no problem, get as drunk as I like, but I won't be a loudmouth on it.

White wine also has that effect, but not as bad. So I don't drink any of them anymore.

Procasinator

JMCD wrote: »

Well thats your opinion and your entitled to it.

I am a drinker, would be classed as a "binge drinker" although thats nothing to brag about!

Yea but do you see the mental approach your taking to drinking vodka! If someone gets you, lets say a vodka and red bull your telling yourself even before you drink it "uh oh, im on the vodkas now, im gonna go mad!"

Nope, it's I'm on vodkas and redbull. Redbull being an energy drink does effect how I act after it.

Mixers can play a role in absorption of drink - diet mixers have been shown to cause a higher blood-alchohol level the "normal" mixers.

http://www.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news/Diet-mixers-predisposes-people-to-habitual-drunker-10547-1/.

There can be different effects from alcohol, such as the unexplained red wine headache.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_wine_headache

I would agree that, for the most part, there is no difference in nature of a drunk persons behaviour between drinks, I do think things such as sugar levels can play a role. Most of the time though, it is imagination.

Caoimhín

Red wine makes me crazy.

Ergo; i do not drink red wine.

Sorry if that is a bit glib, but it seems fairly straightforward to me.