Alcohol Induced Blackouts

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.

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

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.

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

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:

It has happened me a few times in my life, generally when I'm mixing my own drinks at parties-copious amounts of gin with a dash of tonic

But the feeling the next day is simply not worth it, total panic. Happened about two years ago I had apparently left the pub at midnight and walked home, woke up at 4 the next morning fully dressed and music blaring in my bedroom. The the next day couldn't get in contact with my friends to find out what had happened. I got the FEAR...paranoid and confused I was convinced that I'd insulted someone, or done something really horrible.

Turns out I was in flying form and had be holding highly "intellectual" conversations before simply putting on my coat and leaving without telling anyone. But I never wanna go back there!!!

Unfortunately it is a myth that eating for "soakage" will prevent hangovers etc, however it's good practice to eat something at some stage if on a bender (usually you're brain will trick you into scoffing a kebab or curry cheesey chips or anything that you wouldn't touch with a barge pole when sober but it's the best in the world when drunk).

However, if you're deteremined not to reduce the intake of alcohol, then increase the intake of water (one pint of water after every 2 - 3 pints/short). Alcohol dehydrates and therein lies all the problems. I ain't no Doctor but it works for me and my previous memory lapses about getting home are no more.

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!)

KFallon, would i be right in saying ...... You get in from work, skip the food maybe a light snack (SURE YOU WANNA GET THAT BUZZ ON RIGHT)
Few pints........Clocks ticking no buzz change to a few shorts that will warm the cockles.......
10.30pm getting nicely toasted, last thing you remember was being on a good buzz?

Last 2 hours are a complete haze with only snap shots of what went on.,,
Strange thing is everyone tells you, you seemed a little drunk but you werent all over the place?

Ruby T wrote: »

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:

Ruby this soakage you talk of, does this cause the soakee to not get dwunks? :eek: