Comments on: Alcoholic Blackout – Types of Alcohol Blackouts, How They Work, and the Consequences

By: podge

podge — Sun, 09 May 2010 20:24:47 +0000

I have blackouts all the time, I dont drink often anymore.

When I did I would black out 8 times out of ten. Now I drink 3/4 times a year it always results in blackouts. Last night was most recent. at 12.30am I was fine, fully consious in control, half an hour later i was a total ape but i dont remember a bit of it.

Next time I will do the exact same thing. convince myself in advance that it wont be same as last time, start drinking ale, bang in a few shorts.. feel grand during the night and then turn into an ape. Anyone care to let me know why?

By: Alex Murphy

Alex Murphy — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:52:38 +0000

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By: Mike@medical answering services

Mike@medical answering services — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:14:48 +0000

Glad that I’m not experiencing alcoholic blackouts. It seems like I’m not even drunk cause I still manage to be awake and talk normal, not just like my friends. Maybe, its all in the mind. I have the ability to control myself if needed.
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By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:29:11 +0000

I am an alcoholic, I have been drink heavily for the last 9 years. I am 25………..I just recently have started blacking out every night and do not know why. This has not happened to me since i was a teenager, and it scares me. Last 2 nights last thing I remember was watching a movie and then I was waking up in my bed, alarm clock set and all. 2 days ago, my front door was standing wide open when I woke up….. Does anyone know what could be causing these sudden blackouts?

By: Marina

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By: mikan@mlbgearshop

mikan@mlbgearshop — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:33:30 +0000

Blackouts are truly dangerous. I am lucky that I stopped drinking. I nearly experienced an accident because of my alcoholic blackout. I mean it was just so sudden.

By: krysta

krysta — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:46:06 +0000

IF YOU BLACKOUT YOU NEED TO STOP DRINKIN I’M NOT ANYWHERE NEAR SUICIDAL AND THE FIRST FEW TIMES I BLACKED OUT I KEPT SAYN I WANTED TO DIE WHICH IVE NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT AND THE LAST TIME I BLACKED OUT THIS GUY I KNOW SAID I WAS SAYN I WANTED TO KILL MYSELF AND HE WALKED IN ON ME IN HIS ROOM FROM TRYN TO COOK ME SOME EGGS TO SEEING ME WITH A WHOLE BOTTLE OF HIS PRESCRIPTED OXYCODONE PILLS UP UP TO MY MOUTH…GOOD THING HE KNEW HOW TO GET SOME OF THEM OUT ME BY HEIMLICH AND FINGERS DOWN MY THROAT AND MADE ME THROW UP….GETTING DRUNK IS THE MOST DANGEROUS THING YOU COULD DO FROM THINKING NOTHING OF IT..IF U NEED HELP GET IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IM A RECOVERING ADDICT AND I KNOW ITS NOT EASY AND IM ONLY 21 YEARS OLD

By: Bill Urell

Bill Urell — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:07:44 +0000

It is not uncommon to get injured when in a blackout. I used to think I had a deadly disease because I would wake up with bruises on my body and not remember getting them. Case solved when I woke up at the bottom of some stairs.

By: Edward

Edward — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:37:26 +0000

I know of three blacks outs I had.

The first time I got drunk and it was a binge drunk.

Second time I was with some friends at a bar. Someone bought me a round. I took one sip and the next thing I remember it was morning. When I asked the people I was with, they said I was ok was talking with them.

Last one was the scariest. I was at home and having rum and cokes and didnt think much happened. The next morning I could see blood in my iris but no black eye. A eye doctor looked at my eye and said I suffered severe trauma to my eye. Much like when a baseball play gets hit in the eye. My vision is ok but wow it made me think.

I dont know if I have had any others.

I am not a alkie. I have been to AA and after hearing their stories I am not even close to them. I can go weeks without a drink and don’t get the shakes or intense craving for a drink.

A friend of mine told me her sister has no memory of this but she was drinking at home and thought nothing had happened. When she walked out the front door, her car was on the front lawn, 4 flat tires, both sides of the car were bashed in and it appears she hit something in the front.

By: rachelle

rachelle — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:32:37 +0000

i am so scared….. i black out….i need help… i have missed night school again… but i seem to make it 2 work….i wish someone or something can save me…i feel like i am not going 2 make it

By: me

me — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:53:04 +0000

I blacked out last night. I’m pretty sure I took the garbage out without any pants on.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:56:57 +0000

Still trying to figure out my blackouts, I was a heavy drinker for 30 years, now have 10 years sober. but I used to blackout on purpose and did so many, many times. It never scared me, until things got too far out of hand. I think lots of alcoholics similar to those on the streets black out just to escape the world. I don,t recall hangovers after a blackout.

By: Wanda

Wanda — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:31:39 +0000

I am experiencing blackouts every day it seems if I don’t just lay down and go to sleep. If I am doing the laundry half way through it I apparently am drinking and then when I wake up in the middle of the night I go to the laundry room to finish and my husband said I did it all, folded it and even fixed dinner for him and my grandson and I don’t remember even doing it.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:09:23 +0000

I just had the worst blackout of my life this past weekend. Although I know I have had them before, nothing bad has ever happened. Only done some things that I might be embarrassed of. But this weekend was different. I am still trying to put the pieces together. I am scared to death of the consequences of my actions.

By: Bill Urell

Bill Urell — Sat, 02 May 2009 16:07:51 +0000

Hi Phil,
I had a turning point in my drinking for the worse. When I had my first blackout I had a ‘66 Lincoln w/suicide doors that was my joy. I woke up one morning and could not remember how I got home. That scared me to death.

I thought I remembered something about branches of a tree whisking off my windshield, bit could not be sure. At that point I made a decision: I would quit drinking or quit driving…I tore up my drivers license. That decision changed my life. I never got a DUI or hurt anyone but I really hurt my chances in the world.

I would suggest you let things lie…it is what it is. There is a good chance you will never know ‘what happened’, especially if the memories were never imprinted on your brain. So now the problem is not remembering, but learning how to live with the FACT that yu will never know.

Will memories return? Who knows? I work with cognitively impaired alcoholics and addicts on a daily basis. Some get some memory back some do not. The brain has a magnificent capability to rewire itself around damage sometimes.

Hang in there…do the next right thing, which at its most basic level is not to drink or drug.

Bill