squad i can describe that feeling but need a word

[mollykins]

hhmmmm. . . . thats it, i''ve had a eureka moment, an epiphany. But its not going to look very good at all.

I don't know if everyone gets this feeling (it may be after more than one) but if i have a glass of wine, without food for some reason, which i can only think o do at new year, i feel different but not the light headed part of the feeling, because lightheadedness makes me feel like i'm going to fall over or feint or soemthing similar. The feeling that sometimes makes you want to stare at stuff and a minute later your eyes ae darting round. But not a drunken feeling, because i've never had enough to make me drunken just that lightheaded eyes staring one moment, darting the next, but still being able to do the alphabet back wards and stand on one leg and touch my nose.

does that make sense? can you think of a medical word to describe that feeling?

[Sqad]

molly....I must confess that I cannot think of a medical term to fit the symptoms that you have described.

[mollykins]

but do you know the feeling that i mean?

I found it so difficult to describe because i rarely feel it as i don't often have alcohol and when i do its almost always with food so i don't get it.

[NoMercy]

Alcohol can cause varying degrees of paranoia, which may manifest itself with the darting eyes. Plus it wouldn't compromise your physical coordination, hence your ability to still perform dextrous tasks.

[mollykins]

But its like it all the time, at first i didn't realise and just thought it was mild light headedness but then thought that it was different then tried to describe it, failed to think of a way then someone said to try and think of another similar feeling and i racked my brains and had an epiphany and now i want a proper word to describe it without sounding like i feel drunk.

[mollykins]

I don't feel like i'm being watched or followed or anything, its like a sugar rush and i suddenly feel like looking for no reason, but i don't look behind me and round corners just stuff thats infront or a few degrees either side of me. then its like i get bored and just stare at something.

[Sqad]

Molly, I have been thinking.

Alcohol is a stimulant and can have a stimulating action on the brain.
It is also a peripheral vasodilator, opening up all the blood vessels to the skin and hence diverting blood from the brain to the skin, giving you the symptoms that you describe.

[society]

mollykins i think i feel that exact same way sometimes, but always find it difficult to explain. that feelings comes on suddenly but only last for some seconds; i don't get it very often though. if you should go to the doctor let me know his thoughts on this.

[mollykins]

I'd say 1/2 the time i'm looking at stuff normally, 1/6 my eyes are darting around and . . . 1/3 i'm staring. But i have the alcohol felling al lthe time but i don't always want to stare/dart my eyes, like the fractions suggest.

[mollykins]

society, if you don't mind me asking, do you get the feeling randomly or asfter a bit to drink. and if its randomly, do you have a shunt or low blood pressure or are you dehydrated?

[mollykins]

or a virus at the moment?

[mollykins]

actually i'd say i stare a bit more than 1/3 and and looking at stuff normally less than 1/2 of the time.

[society]

i don't drink alcohol often; once in a blue moon. i work a lot so i cannot drink. for this year i must have a beer twice.

[mollykins]

when when i am staring/darting, i can stop it and look normally but its like i can't be bothered and so i carry untill i get fed up.

[mollykins]

non of the other symptoms then?

[mollykins]

but if i don't feel dizzy or light headed then its not the same as when you've had alcohol. its jsut a feelign that sometime makes me want to stare and sometimes dart around.

[mollykins]

has it got a proper name?

[ChuckFickens]

What the goldfish?

Fred.

[society]

i do feel light-headed, but that feelings only last for a few seconds. that's why i never take it serious enough to visit the doctor.