Alcohol Induced Blackouts

kfallon · 19-07-2011 01:18PM #1

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 · 19-07-2011 01:19PM

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 · 19-07-2011 01:19PM

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

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CreepingDeath · 19-07-2011 01:31PM

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Sykk · 19-07-2011 01:31PM

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 · 19-07-2011 01:32PM

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

newbee22 · 19-07-2011 01:32PM

I hate these blackouts!:o

charlemont · 19-07-2011 01:35PM

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 · 19-07-2011 01:36PM

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 · 19-07-2011 01:37PM

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 · 19-07-2011 01:37PM

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 · 19-07-2011 01:37PM

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

TheZohanS · 19-07-2011 01:38PM

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 · 19-07-2011 01:39PM

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 · 19-07-2011 01:42PM

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 · 19-07-2011 01:42PM

Ah, sure who needs to remember.

Jess16 · 19-07-2011 01:42PM

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 · 19-07-2011 01:44PM

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

kfallon · 19-07-2011 01:44PM

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 · 19-07-2011 01:45PM

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

biko · 19-07-2011 01:45PM

Does grey-outs count?

tan11ie · 19-07-2011 01:46PM

Time to give it up!

Abi · 19-07-2011 01:48PM

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 · 19-07-2011 01:54PM

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-- · 19-07-2011 01:55PM

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 · 19-07-2011 01:56PM

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 · 19-07-2011 01:59PM

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 · 19-07-2011 02:00PM

Once.

Never again.

CrinkElite · 19-07-2011 02:01PM

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.

19-07-2011 02:03PM

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.

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