The horrors

[mungbeanz]

Is there any way to avoid getting the horrors after drinking? Usually if i get on it on Friday and Saturday, but don't have a drink on Sunday, I can guarantee I will wake up in the middle of the night sweating and really depressed. Then I go back to sleep and feel fine the next day. If I enjoy a bottle of wine on Sunday, then it seems to help, but I'm trying to find an alternative that doesn't involve booze. Any one else have this and knows what to do? I think I'm getting old, cause this only started happening about 2 years ago.

[ummmm]

Don't drink on a Friday and Saturday. Or, at least don't binge drink.

[ummmm]

I'm not being sarcastic either. I used to get the horrors when I went out at weekends.

[237SJ]

If you`ve been knocking it back on friday and saturday then you get the problem on sunday, then it`s obviously some kind of withdrawal which means you drink/have been drinking to much.

[fadeout73]

Not being funny here, but have you tried cutting down on the alcohol ie either on a friday or saturday, not both!!

[mungbeanz]

Well i have tried. I have an idea that I am a high functioning alcoholic from doing questionnaires and stuff. If I go out, it is impossible to have one or two, and if I don't have a drink I get really agitated with the whole thing. If I don't have work the next day, I will usually drink until I can't any more, or I pass out. If I do have work then a bottle of wine or a few beers will be enough. I just thought there was a way of avoiding the withdrawal horrors.

[237SJ]

I guess there`s no way of avoiding it. People who go into rehab go through withdrawal symptoms so if there was a way of avoiding them, that wouldn`t be the case.

[chrissa1]

I'm sorry mate but if you realised what "the horrors" are doing to your internal organs, you really have to do something about it. Of course "the hair of the dog" on Sunday helps you but that's not the point.
You don't say how old you are. Binge drinking is a killer and I should know, I became a widow in February.

[hc4361]

You're on a dangerous path - get help. Speak to your GP

[ummmm]

You can get the horrors when you don't have an alcohol problem as well.

[hc4361]

Regularly drinking until you pass out means you do have a drink problem.

[chrissa1]

What is the point in drinking like that? Do you enjoy it? You may enjoy the first two, maybe three drinks but then won't have any recollection about the evening, other than you've probably made a fool of yourself.
Sorry to sound so harsh.

[ummmm]

Very true....

I was just pointing out that it can happen even if you don't have a problem with drink. I've occasionally had them. I used to go out on a Sat night...on the rare occasions I went out on Fri and Sat I risked getting the horrors.

[ummmm]

To hc...

[mungbeanz]

It's not harsh. There is no point to it, but i do enjoy it. I realise that I drink a bit more than others, but I don't really want to stop just yet. With making a fool of myself and black outs, I don't really forget things that I do on the drink. And I can drink quite a lot before my behaviour changes. 12-15 pints is a nice night down the pub, then a bottle of wine or some gin and tonics as a nightcap afterwards. I think it is more tiredness that makes me pass out than the booze, because sometimes I can drink til the next day. I don't see it as a drink problem, wikipedia does.

[chrissa1]

It IS a problem mung, you just don't see or want to see it that way.

[albaqwerty]

oh mung, that IS a problem. But until you get to your rock-bottom, you won't see it.

[rsvp]

your alcohol comsumption on these binges is very high - you are putting yourself at risk and making the potential for something awful happening to you very, very real - if not for yourself then cut down for those who love you. Honestly, open your eyes before you become just another statistic.

[fadeout73]

Mungbeanz, can i ask what age you are? You say you have blackouts while drinking, you say a bottle of wine or some gin and tonics as a nightcap, how much is some g&t. Somehow I don't think its the tiredness that makes you pass out rather than the alcohol, its probably to do with dehydration.

I used to be a binge drinker (friday & saturday night bottle of rum, yes thats each night), but realised about 2 and a half years ago I had to do something about. All it took was determination and now not drinking at all. Yes I still go out in the company of people who drink but it doesn't bother me and its great waking up the following morning feeling ready for the day and not the shi**y way you feel when you have been drinking.

[chrissa1]

I agree with you wholeheartedly fadeout73. The thought of having a massive hangover again....... yuck!!

[atalanta]

Before you start drinking, take 2 tablets/capsules ( whatever you find at the pharmacy or health-food shop) of N-acetyl cysteine.