So I have had this issue for quite a while. All I know is that alcohol causes this. It seems beer does not but mixed drinks and wine do...
About 2 years ago I had some drinks and blacked out (I had blacked out once before). I was 24 at the time, 155lbs. The next day I felt really, really weird. Like tired, could not focus nor think straight, no appetite and worst of all I could not smell, taste or even feel pain. This lasted for a couple weeks. I did not go to a doctor as my spouse told me that it was probably a hang over (but I never puked or anything). I do remember eating chips and bread etc at the social event.
So fast forward a year and the same thing happened yet I did not black out--I had a few mixed drinks and went to bed. However, this time it lasted for 3 months!!! So after a week I went to a doctor and he told me that I was "still drunk". I let him know of my symptoms that I do not feel pain, I feel indifferent, apathetic blah blah. So I dealt with it for the next couple months... Scared out of my wits, I decided I would not drink again (at least too much). Well a year later I decided that I would drink a coke with a little rum. SLAM! the same f-ing thing happened for a month... And now a year later, I had 2 sips of white wine and I currently feel this same way. WTF!!??!!? It has been two weeks and I am just now starting to feel pain, taste, etc. I am done drinking but this bothers the hell out of me as to why this happens.
The scariest part about this whole trek is that no one can understand this, unless you have experienced it. It is a sense of euphoria mixed with anxiety. You double-check, triple-check your actions to make sure you are doing things right and still will doubt that you 'completed' the task correctly. For example, I washed a plate and could not tell whether it was clean or if I did not get the dirty spot off. I could not focus for more than a couple seconds on a single object and sure the hell could not multi-task. I drove a vehicle, disoriented and not knowing left from right. My vision was impaired as though I could not grasp details of the road. It was hard to determine whether it was a green light or red light and whether that meant "go" or "stop". Connecting those thoughts was very difficult and I do not wish this upon anyone--not even my worst enemy.
The only thing I could find, perhaps, would be my thiamine as these symptoms relate pretty accurately.
"Approximately 80 to 90 percent of alcoholics with WE develop Korsakoff’s psychosis, a chronic neuropsychiatric syndrome characterized by behavioral abnormalities and memory impairments (Victor et al. 1989). Although these patients have problems remembering old information (i.e., retrograde amnesia), it is the disturbance in acquisition of new information (i.e., anterograde amnesia) that is most striking. For example, these patients can engage in a detailed discussion of events in their lives but cannot remember ever having had that conversation an hour later. Because of these characteristic memory deficits, Korsakoff’s psychosis also is called alcohol amnestic disorder. It is still somewhat controversial, however, whether Korsakoff’s psychosis always is preceded by WE or whether it develops in fits and starts, without an overt episode of WE."
Please let me know if you have had anything like this or know an answer to this issue.
Thanks!!
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Listen to your body and don't drink spirits or wine. Could be whats in the drinks your sensitive to........sulphates etc. People who are low on iron in their bodies also are super sensitive to alcolhol, did your doctor check your Iron levels??
It is definately a sign not to drink these things. Its always wise to listen to what your body tells you or things can get a lot worse by being permanent.
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