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This is great. The people definitely need not judge her. I came on here looking for answers as well. I have a couple drinks and next thing you know I'm waking up in my bed like today. Took me 5 hours to find my car. It was in a bar district I never goto. It is scary. I'm 30 year old man. Since not finding actual reasons for my blackout's i will be going to the doctor, as these blackout's started about 2 months ago. I don't drink often, so I figured I may have got more drunk than I thought. Last night I know I only had two drinks before blacking out
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Check out this scientific study that sheds light on this topic. Makes perfect sense and could explain this growing phenomena!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2115963/Brain-scans-people-black-drinking--remember-gloat-morning.html

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You sound soo boring, enjoy drinking it is only one time a week your young enjoy it.
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"Long story short, you are in denial. You are probably an alcoholic. ". This is were I stopped reading

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Very well said!
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I used to get shortness of breath when I would drink drinks high in alcohol percentage too quickly. And used to have tingling arms. When. I looked the tingling sensation up it was due to alcoholism was the most common reason
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I also am now experiencing blackouts and I never have before. My boyfriend has wondered why I am such a lightweight now. I don't understand why. It's really starting to bother me. After just a few drinks I am there. When I used to be able to drink all night and remember every detail.
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I have gone and found this page as I to in the last 6-8 months found this happening to me. I too am certainly not an alcoholic, I am 38 and a full time working mother, after the fourth time of this happening I am really concerned as I have no memory after a certain point and when I ask friends or my husband the next day I have reply of "you waved goodbye when we left" I was having perfect conversations and do not remember a thing. I am going to see a doc this week as iam very worried. I know I am very tired after work and I wonder if tiredness has anything to do with it?
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I am very happy you posted this. I am a college student and will admit i do drink quite often. About every weekend. I've been drinking since my junior year in high school and the amount of alcohol I consume hasn't really change since then. One random night last year, I had 3 beers (my tolerance is fairly high so this is nothing to me) and blacked out. Ever since that night I black out almost every time I drink. It was like the flick of a switch. I'm not sure what changed but I'm very glad someone understands the situation. Also I just want to add that before the 3 beer night I had blacked out before, that was not the first time.
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I completely agree with this.. The poor girl obviously is worried there is something medically wrong with her. I would be too. and everyone is just gonna tell her to basically "stop being an alcoholic and just dont drink anything if you black out so much." it could be a serious problem plenty of college students drink and they dont feel out of control like that. I have this same issue, I went out and drank about once a week with my friends. and I had no intention of getting so drunk but after the first shot I stopped being able to control what i was doing and couldnt remember everything, kept drinking and drinking even though i never planned on getting drunk in the first place. I have a lot of self control and Im usually very mellow but when Im drunk i turn into the opposite of myself. obviously im not going to drink any mroe until the issue is resolved. i would not consider myself an alcoholic because never have I had a problem taking a break from the drinking, I just wish i could take a shot or two with my friends every now and then. I went to the dr recently and he said it could be a number of different things, I am vegan, wer looking into a blood sugar problem.. everyone commenting saying shes an alcoholic needs to get off of their high horse, congrats that you dont drink ever but seriously no one cares.
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Alcohol–Induced Blackouts
Blackouts represent episodes of amnesia, during which subjects are capable of participating even in salient, emotionally charged events—as well as more mundane events—that they later cannot remember (Goodwin 1995). Like milder alcohol–induced memory impairments, these periods of amnesia are primarily “anterograde,” meaning that alcohol impairs the ability to form new memories while the person is intoxicated, but does not typically erase memories formed before intoxication. Formal research into the nature of alcohol–induced blackouts began in the 1940s with the work of E.M. Jellinek (1946). Jellinek’s initial characterization of blackouts was based on data collected from a survey of Alcoholics Anonymous members. Noting that recovering alcoholics frequently reported having experienced alcohol–induced amnesia while they were drinking, Jellinek concluded that the occurrence of blackouts is a powerful indicator of alcoholism.
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I'm 17 and my blackouts started 2 years ago. I used to drink a lot in earlier grades and have a high alcohol tolerance during grade 10 my blackouts started and I thought okay I haven't don't anything wrong I'm fine I didn't do anything stupid it's ok. Grade 12 came and I'd completely black out I'd be awake but I would not remember acting the way I was or saying the things I did I turned aggressive and people who know me know I'm not an aggressive angry person so I tried to just slow it down stick to coolers the blackouts still continue and I turn into this comepletely different person. I'm scared because everyone my age parties and I'm scared to drink.

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agree 100%
living in denial
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I felt compelled to reply to this particular post because I know the poster used an incomplete section of a source, ending their post on the inaccurate and ancient assumption that anyone who blacks out is an alcoholic.

I've researched this as well, and have seen the same info from which you took your excerpt. It's a shame you stopped at info which came from 1946. The article I saw had the same info you only partially pasted - it continued from where you left off. In fact dispelled the misinformation you posted. You chose to slant your post in favor of the notion that alcohol-induced blackouts are "a powerful indicator of alcoholism". That doesn't help the original poster or the many people who've scrolled through all of these posts following the original poster, not a single bit.

Here is a link to a comprehensive article I found recently, it's from a clinical standpoint, doesn't necessarily answer the question of what to do about blacking out, but it gives a ton of medical/scientific background on what's likely behind blacking out from alcohol consumption, and it's from more recently than 1946:

http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh27-2/186-196.htm

This next article, is one I also found helpful on the subject, and reassuring as well. It's from 2011, and is in more laymen's terms than a medical journal. Fair warning - it does include some examples of extreme behavior and situations, but one major takeaway from it is that THERE SHOULD NOT BE SHAME about blacking out. Shame keeps people from talking about their blackouts, which means they're not getting help to address them, nothing more. This second article also informs how to detect blackouts (if you're drinking with friends that is, and you trust a friend to share with him or her that you're concerned about blacking out, they can help you). And finally, the author closes the article with his email address. I imagine he's gotten boatloads of email from readers, I haven't tried to contact him, but even if not him, it gives hope that other doctors out there might be willing and able to address this scary issue; particularly without jumping to a referral to AA or insisting someone who blacks out must have a substance abuse problem and must go for counseling. Point is, this doctor's saying the issue of blacking out from alcohol is a medical one, and should be addressed as such. Hope this helps anyone looking for answers, at the very least, if you read this article you'll see it's far more common than people realize, and doctors are trying to learn more about the cause so it can be addressed properly.

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Im in the same boat! Im almost 40 and never before has it been like this. I can drink a little or a lot doesnt seem to matter about that. It doesnt happen the sane every time. I go from being fine to blacked out. No inbetween toime to think Id better stop. I drink maybe a couple times a month socially. I dont drink daily but occassionslly have a glass of wine with dinner or my husband. I just dont understand why as Im older I bkack out so much. Its really scary .
I could stop drinking all together but I enjoy it too . Its just on occassion I black out and yes it happens more frequently than Id like to admit.
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