Do you blackout often from drinking?

TeddyTedson · 25-01-2013 12:19AM #1

I only drink during weekends and once I start I tend not to stop unfortunately so I usually black out.
I've woken up so many times not knowing where I am just wishing I had woken up in my own bed.
Most of the pictures I'm tagged in on nights out on facebook I have no recollection of.

Anyway you get the idea, you go for a few drinks after work. A few drinks turn into a session. A session turns into a night out. A night out turns in the another day. You're on a bender.
If I try to think back to just last weekend. There's not an awful lot I can remember. It's not good so let's not focus on the obvious there.
I'd just like to know how often and regularly boardsies would black out from drinking.

Are the last few years a blur to you?

Do you black out every time you drink, or maybe it never happens to you?

frozenfrozen · 25-01-2013 12:21AM

Teddy I think you have a drinking problem

*hic*

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 25-01-2013 12:22AM

Just wait until you stop drinking Bacardi Breezers! You will be rightly fecked then Teddy!

davetherave · 25-01-2013 12:23AM

I suspect you have a drinking problem?

galwayrush · 25-01-2013 12:23AM

Never, can't get a hangover anymore either, thankfully.

Mr Simpson · 25-01-2013 12:24AM

I dont blackout, quite often parts of the night can be a bit hazy though!!

EoghanIRL · 25-01-2013 12:24AM

I drank so much water the other day

Akrasia · 25-01-2013 12:25AM

I'm blacked out right now

Ando's Saggy Bottom · 25-01-2013 12:26AM

If you blackout regularly you almost certainly have a drink problem.

What do you hope to achieve from hearing that it doesn't happen just to you Teddy?

amacca · 25-01-2013 12:26AM

Its happened to me twice in my life so far

I find it scary that I can function (maybe not wonderfully - but walk around, talk, order more drink, get into nightclub etc) ..........and not remember hours of my life

Last time it frightened the life out of me......never getting into that situation again

Chuck Stone · 25-01-2013 12:27AM

I used to when I was younger. It's pretty rare these days that I'd have missing pieces of the night before.

I don't drink spirits.

starlings · 25-01-2013 12:29AM

That's mad Ted.

I still cringe looking back on my (thankfully few) auto-pilot moments. Mind yourself.

Czarcasm · 25-01-2013 12:31AM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Are the last few years a blur to you?

Do you black out every time you drink, or maybe it never happens to you?

That's not normal Ted. See your GP.

Pottler · 25-01-2013 12:31AM

err no. never. And I can drink. You need to lay off the meths teddy. I'm the lad who is still steady and aware while the others slump, I just process alcohol really fast - a bottle of wine is like a glass. I'd be a bit worried tbh if this was happening, never mind happening frequently. Does explain some of your threads though:P

25-01-2013 12:32AM

If its a regular thing, its your body telling you something.

Something bad.

TeddyTedson · 25-01-2013 12:33AM

I'd be a binge drinker, yes. I think the problem is I feel sober at the time so I up the drinks more and more. At the time, I'm aware. It's just the next day I can't remember it after a certain point. It would be extremely rare for me to have a drink during the week. I don't really want to focus solely on my drinking. I'm not arguing the fact that I'm consuming too much.

I'm just interested in hearing others experiences.

I know a lot of people who would be in the same boat.

Grayson · 25-01-2013 12:34AM

I once drank a bottle of jack. Perfect memory and got to work the next day.

I don't think I could manage half that nowadays and that was only a few years ago.

Mr Simpson · 25-01-2013 12:34AM

Don't listen to them Teddy, your drinking is just fine. Sure After Hours would be boring if you didnt drink

tan11ie · 25-01-2013 12:34AM

Yep started happening regularly back in my late twenties, I took as a sign that I was clearly drinking too much so cut back a lot.....fun times though on the bits I do remember :cool:

DoneDL · 25-01-2013 12:34AM

Teddy it`s just your body telling you that it does not like alcohol anymore.

Balmed Out · 25-01-2013 12:35AM

Why bother drinking on a night out if you wont remember it? I can never understand it.

Ive experienced it twice, both occasions being within the space of a month at a time I was under a lot of stress and im in my mid 30s now.

Youre spending money and getting nothing out of it and leaving yourself open to a whole lot of woe.

Ghandee · 25-01-2013 12:36AM

You'll grow out of it Ted (not trying to be condescending here btw)

Between the age of say, 23-29 I too was definitely more than fond of a few socials, the 2/3 pints post-work quickly would turn into not going home for dinner/landing in drunk as a fool around midnight, then getting up for work next morning.

Weekends were a blur, pub on sat at opening times, dreck until five or so, home for a few hours Kipp and freshen up, then back out around 8/9 for am all nighter!

I've seen me missing Mondays due to beer, then missing Tuesdays due to Mondays escapades.

I've been knocked down and almost killed while drunk, split up with two long term gfs while pissed, or as a direct result of being drunk to often.

Thankfully I've never lost a job due to the drink.

Now however, yeah I still drink, maybe even too much still, but now it tens to be a half a dozen cans or so on av Fri or Saturday night, (maybe a couple on a Sunday but that's it.)

I've also stopped the pre-drink ritual we always had, as in getting locked in the house before you actually go to the pub.

Before long it will dawn on you, moderation is definitely better than excess with drink, an evening out is, (well, in my opinion) much more enjoyable having had a 'few' rather than a few too many.

Don't worry to much about blacking out etc for now, try controlling what you're drinking first, the rest should take care of itself.

Chao · 25-01-2013 12:37AM

It happened to me on a weekly basis from the ages of 18-23. I'm late 20s now and don't look back at it to fondly at all.

Ireland has a huge problem with the way alcohol is viewed. It's easy to say nip it in the bud but you know yourself it's not right and you should really start doing whatever you have to do to prevent it, for your own sanity more than anything else IMO.

Ruudi_Mentari · 25-01-2013 12:37AM

No, but I often stumble home alone feeling pretty fcuking bereft for some reason, in sharp contrast n that's kinda like one big blackout... else catch at taxi n cry on the wizards shoulder

admiralofthefleet · 25-01-2013 12:38AM

it has never happened to me but i get temporary memory less when ive been at the black bush

Mr Simpson · 25-01-2013 12:39AM

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

it has never happened to me but i get temporary memory less when ive been at the black bush

A good glass of shirley bassey never did anyone harm, you're just doing it wrong

25-01-2013 12:40AM

I don't blackout when I'm drinking, but that's generally because I'm not an idiot.

murpho999 · 25-01-2013 12:41AM

All these people who are saying the OP has a drink problem or should see a doctor are taking ****e to be honest.

I have a similar problem.

When I was younger I used to go out more often and get plastered at weekends and they were often hazy.

Now older (and a little wiser). Drink doesn't really do it for me any more and I'd only go out maybe once a month or so.

A few pints is grand but if I do get a bit jarred then I find my memory can be very hazy the next day and if it turns into a session I can have major gaps.

Perfect example, is my work Christmas party where I did drink too much and have major gaps in the night.

Really don't like it all and it turns me off drink completely as I don't like the feeling of "did I do anything wrong last night" and how one can be doing things for a prolonged period of time and not remember it at all. Scary.

admiralofthefleet · 25-01-2013 12:42AM

MarkMc wrote: »

A good glass of shirley bassey never did anyone harm, you're just doing it wrong

its grand for the first 5 or 6 but gets hazy after that, especially as i chase it with guinness

Hank Scorpio · 25-01-2013 12:42AM

Deleted User wrote: »

I don't blackout when I'm drinking, but that's generally because I'm not an idiot.

Well la de da

Happens to me pretty regularly, get something to eat in the middle of your drinking

Chao · 25-01-2013 12:44AM

Deleted User wrote: »

I don't blackout when I'm drinking, but that's generally because I'm not an idiot.

So people who drink to much are all idiots??

Do you blackout often from drinking?

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