No hangover

[TaylorLeigh]

I can't explain this. I have had blackouts and brownouts. Full nights that I can't recollect and choppy memories of other nights that even photos with me in them cannot trigger a response.

I have lost count of the number of drinks, yet the day after, I am only lethargic, a bit mentally foggy (feel tipsy until early afternoon or so) and dehydrated. I don't experience the pounding head, nausea hangovers that even my friends who drink less than me experience.

I'm not sure it is fortunate, but I cannot explain this. Anyone else experience this?

[Tom1]

Taylor, please read my reply in your other post. I do not get hangovers either, as a matter of fact I usually drink 2 bottles of wine (which is way less than many years ago) and feel FINE the next day. THAT IS THE SCARY PART, and perhaps what makes people like you and I have trouble stopping so much, because we apparantly don't suffer the IMMEDIATE consequences our friend do. I could always out drink my friends and kept going LOOOONG after they were out. I WISH I would have passed out (never have).Unfortunately, I also have pictures of me that I can't remember.I remember (many years ago) meeting girls I had had "encounters" with at bars and having NO RECOLLECTION of it! I have been punched in the face standing, spun around, and had no idea I had been punched till bouncers started surrounding us.However, although you and I don't experience the "hangover" our friend do, you realize the weakening of your immune and other systems that occurs with etoh, and the "fogginess" we have both experienced DOES affect our pt care and our motivation.I do not use physical pain or health problems as a motivation to stop because I do not experience it. I use the fact that alcohol has a mental and spiritual hold on me and I do not like anything, especially a substance, to have that kind of power on me. God Bless, Tom