Alcohol Induced Blackouts

kfallon

Anyone suffer from these? I'm finding over the past 6-9 months they are becoming more common for me. Usually happens after I have about 10 or more pints or spirits. Seems like I can remember being in the pub etc but the minute I hit the fresh air I seem to get one, rarely remember getting home, the taxi journey, what I did when I came in!

They are starting to do my head in and I have been on the dry for the past 3 weeks because I am fed up of them.

Anyone have the same problem? Or is there something that can prevent this happening (besides drinking less!)

Misticles

kfallon wrote: »

Anyone suffer from these? I'm finding over the past 6-9 months they are becoming more common for me. Usually happens after I have about 10 or more pints or spirits. Seems like I can remember being in the pub etc but the minute I hit the fresh air I seem to get one, rarely remember getting home, the taxi journey, what I did when I came in!

They are starting to do my head in and I have been on the dry for the past 3 weeks because I am fed up of them.

Anyone have the same problem? Or is there something that can prevent this happening (besides drinking less!)

:rolleyes:

neil_hosey

yeah have a "scene missing" moment every few weeks depending on how much of a mad one it is.

paulosham

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CreepingDeath

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Sykk

You're actually having drink related blackouts? What are you, 16? Showing your friends how much you can drink is no longer cool past that age.

Kfallon, I am disappoint..

problemchimp

I know you don't want to hear this but "drink less ". It's not difficult to work out.

newbee22

I hate these blackouts!:o

charlemont

Thankfully its been a long time but I used to heaps of them, And hear the next day about the mad stuff id gotten up to. And a few weeks later id get a summons or two..

emeraldstar

I've never had a drink-related blackout. I can't imagine what insane amounts you'd have to drink to put yourself in that state. Stupidity really.

mickydoomsux

Happened to me once in my entire life when i drank most of a bottle of Yager in half an hour at one of my friends 18th birthday party. Was hungover for 2 days afterwards.

That was enough for me. I'm not much of a drinker anyway. A night out is 2 or 3 bottles of Bud and that's it for me. Any more and i just want to go to sleep.

FatherLen

its been a long time but i used to get them everytime i drank. the worst thing about them is waking up in the morning and thinking oh fuck what did i do

Richard Hillman

I always get them. Its quite scary when you have no idea what mode of transport it took to get home.

TheZohanS

Eat a few hours before you head out drinking, potato's are great for breaking down the alcohol... apparently it's the starches in the spuds that are your friend.

kfallon

Sykk wrote: »

You're actually having drink related blackouts? What are you, 16? Showing your friends how much you can drink is no longer cool past that age.

Kfallon, I am disappoint..

Eh no, I'm double that age! I like to go to the pub aroud lunchtime on Saturday and drink a steady stream of pints until I think it's time to go home! It's only the journey home that I can never remember!

And I forgot it's only 16 year olds who wake up the next day and can't remember something about the night before :rolleyes:

kfallon

emeraldstar wrote: »

I've never had a drink-related blackout. I can't imagine what insane amounts you'd have to drink to put yourself in that state. Stupidity really.

It's actually not as much as you think, I'm not talking 20 pints and a few vodkas etc. Like I said it seems to be hitting fresh air that does for me!

Kevin Duffy

Ah, sure who needs to remember.

Jess16

I'm sorry but what kind of moron continues to willfully do something that actually makes them physically pass out? Because I really don't think that's the repeated action of any adult with an ounce of cop on

CardBordWindow

Copious amounts of Jager normally cause them for me.:D

kfallon

Jess16 wrote: »

I'm sorry but what kind of moron continues to willfully do something that actually makes them physically pass out? Because I really don't think that's the repeated action of any adult with an ounce of cop on

Eh who mentioned passing out? I am still concious and acting normally (maybe talking more bullshit ) as I explained already, it's the going home bit I don't remember!

sollar

Ask any hardcore alcoholic and they will tell you about blackouts lasting days.

biko

Does grey-outs count?

tan11ie

Time to give it up!

Abi

Richard Hillman wrote: »

I always get them. Its quite scary when you have no idea what mode of transport it took to get home.

I prefer to use an 80 year old priest myself.

man.about.town

kfallon, alot of the cause of the blackout could to be to do with lack of sleep or tiredness, i get up at 5am most days and im not a very deep sleeper, i regulary get 4 hours or less, if i go for a few pints after a 12 hour shift, i can be very fuzzy about conversations etc even after only 6. if i go on a binge, id definitely have black outs.

try having a couple of espressos at the start of the night and dont mix spirits and beer, you shouldnt get them then

--Kaiser--

emeraldstar wrote: »

I've never had a drink-related blackout. I can't imagine what insane amounts you'd have to drink to put yourself in that state. Stupidity really.

It's down to the individual. I know people who drink a lot more than me and never get blackouts

blaze1

Only one really bad one.

Was about 18-19 at a house party which was dying down and apparently I insulted my mates younger brothers dog, a ratty jack russell, i was locked he threw a punch, and I woke up in my front garden huddled in a bush wearing only a t shirt and boxers...

(my house was about 4 miles away from the party)

Korvanica

Had one a few weeks ago at a mates beach party...

Apparently I was up on the cliff with a friend chatting for over an hour, took 1/2 an hour to climb down, then wrestled another mate of mine for 20 minutes... He doesn't remember it either though...

Good times.... :pac:

The_Minister

Once.

Never again.

CrinkElite

biko wrote: »

Does grey-outs count?

they're called brown-outs in the computer overclocking scene.

wouldn't like to have one of those in a pub though.

Usually have a few scenes missing from almost every night out. Usually its just bits here and there and you can piece together what you forget but there can be the dreaded long memory gap once it a while followed by spending the next day trying to figure out what you forget.

Abi

man.about.town wrote: »

kfallon, alot of the cause of the blackout could to be to do with lack of sleep or tiredness

I'd say this has a lot to do with it alright. My sleep pattern is all over the kip tbh, and if you add the sauce to the mix things get a little hazy alright. I wouldn't have black-outs per se, but would to stop and think about conversations etc.

Logical Fallacy

CrinkElite wrote: »

they're called brown-outs in the computer overclocking scene.

wouldn't like to have one of those in a pub though.

There are called brown outs in the "****ting yourself from drinking too much" scene.

kfallon

I think the non-eating rather than lack of sleep is more of a cause. My sleep patterns are pretty consistent all week but I have noticed that if I go to the pub at midday on a Saturday and then have something to eat around 5ish it sorts me out.

Think I'll just have to concentrate on going to get a sandwich or something in the evening to set me up for the night.

Kanoe

I started doing this recently but find it only happens when I go to one particular pub/club. I try to stay in my regulars, with my regulars. More familiar surroundings and I have no problem recognising where I am or who I'm with, I can relax and it's just less effort. The moment I go through the doors in the other place it's gone, everything.
I try not to go out too early and if I do I will have a couple of coffee's to bide my time but generally I'm thinking it's time to quit drinking.

The King of Moo

Only happened twice to me when in college and I was drinking a lot regularly.

The first time wasn't too bad, just couldn't remember the cab trip from the club to a house. The blackout wasn't the problem then but where I ended up .

The second time was at a party. I remembered drinking away, whiskey bottle in hand, and the next thing I knew it was morning. I wasn't drunk enough to pass out at the point I last remembered, so there was definitely a missing hour or a few before I passed out/fell asleep.
The scary part came when I was back in college on Monday talking to some of my classmates. The first thing one of them asked was if I remembered what happened to the hamster with a grin. I knew the people living in the house had a hamster, and my eyes widened in horror as I tried to think what I might have done to the hamster during my missing time.
Then they told me it was dead.
I felt a complete terror at the thought that I had been somehow drunkenly messing with the hamster and accidentally killed it. AT BEST.
Luckily they then told me that some others there had decided to give the little fella some hash and see how it reacted. Obviously it didn't go well. Apparently the whole time I was sitting merrily at the kitchen table talking nonsense. I was relieved, but it was still horrible to know that I was missing such a long period of time. And wasn't sober enough to try to save the little guy .

I'd never let it happen to me again. First of all, you usually have to get so drunk that it stops being fun and you have a horrible hangover the next day.
Second, not being able to remember a period of time when you were incredibly vulnerable is not a nice feeling.

jimthemental

Haven't had this problem for a while but it used to be too regular for comfort.

pragmatic1

Get them after I've had too much. Only started getting them about a year ago. Not good.

Misticles

pragmatic1 wrote: »

Get them after I've had too much. Only started getting them about a year ago. Not good.

Note to kfallon

mackg

I had the exact same problem for a while, I started to black out every night at the end without actually starting to drink any more than I did before. There were nights that I couldn't remember the end of where my friends said I didn't even seem that drunk. I put it down to drinking really fast from about the 4th or 5th pint on.Now even if I hit the shots later on I seem to ok as long as I keep it in check in the early part of the night. How drunk you get is apparently not how much you drink but at what rate the concentration of alcohol in your blood changes. Only guaranteed blackouts these days are those magical weekends where you decide to immediately go drinking again on Sunday morning the minute you wake up stilled pissed.

Ruby T

Key is eating before or during a session - soakage!!

They're basically the result of packing away too much booze. Best keep away from the spirits!

Had loads of them in my partying days and got up to all sorts of cringeworthy antics and scary situations - usually the embarassment is enough to eventually make you cop on!:cool:

SEPT 23 1989

The best bit is checking your text messages next morning:)

theboss80

I only get them if I drink Sambucca.

mikom

This thread is about Pamela Izevbekhai, right?
Oopps, different blackout.

*Backs out slowly"

seanbmc

I never really get full night blackouts, sometimes it will usually just be one or two scenes missing, like not remembering what I was talking about with someone or doing something stupid.

I've been incredibly drunk and was still able to remember most things from the night before. Don't understand how some people can say they can't remember a thing.

harvester of sorrow

I used to never get these,untill i was at a stag party in Killarney about 2 months ago i remember most of the night except for about 2 hours in the middle where i ended up going to a night club on my own....i dont know how i got there or how i got seperated from the rest of the lads,scary ****........then to top it off the wedding was only a few weeks ago and im still being reminded of the stuff i was getting up to and i have no recolection of anything...none.
Yep i now think me and booze will have to part ways....too scary for my likeing.
bye bye booze...:pac:

petes

I chatted up a mates coatstand at a party before and have no recollection of it. Ever since any time I'm back at another party there I get a fair bit of abuse along the lines of "Look at your woman over there, are ya not going over to talk to her?".:pac:

kfallon

Misticles wrote: »

:rolleyes:

Misticles wrote: »

Note to kfallon

Are you my Ma or my conscience??

Pandora2

Wine is lethal for this!! Firstly after couple it goes down far to fast and it is normally served in 1/4 btls (more than regular measure of alcohol units).

I think what we all suffer from is reduced tolerance over time...any substance you ingest has less effect over time...hence the changing drinks scenario most of us go through;). Mine's a G & T these days.....5 gins/loads of ice/5 slimline tonics = fab memorble night out, pint of water when I get home = pain free morning!!:D:D:D:D

Chris P. Bacon

It happens me most nights i go out,i put it down to not eating and tiredness.It has nothing to do with the 15 or so pints i drink!

--Kaiser--

mackg wrote: »

I had the exact same problem for a while, I started to black out every night at the end without actually starting to drink any more than I did before. There were nights that I couldn't remember the end of where my friends said I didn't even seem that drunk. I put it down to drinking really fast from about the 4th or 5th pint on.Now even if I hit the shots later on I seem to ok as long as I keep it in check in the early part of the night. How drunk you get is apparently not how much you drink but at what rate the concentration of alcohol in your blood changes. Only guaranteed blackouts these days are those magical weekends where you decide to immediately go drinking again on Sunday morning the minute you wake up stilled pissed.

I think it could be down to the speed with which you down liquor. I've had nights where my friends say I've been completely compos mentis and yet I'll wake up the next day missing chunks of the evening. I tend to get this effect from vodka, I'm thinking because it's close to pure alcohol so my body breaks it down quicker