In drunk mood but had no alcohol - irrational behaviour

My boyfriend has been diagnosed with BPD and he gets in moods like this. Drinking makes it worse but sometimes he will be sober and start acting drunk...slurring, eyes glazed over. It's awful.

Hi there, my partner get's this..... what is BPD? bi-polar?

Hi, i have just spent ages scouring the Internet to try a find something to explain my husbands drunken bouts. Everything ive read on here explains his symptoms to a T. Hes been to the doctor previously who took bloods and urine, which all came back clear. The doctor suggested it may be fatigue. This evening hes had a particularly bad spell. All weekend hes been fine, right up until 6pm this evening. Suddenly he cant talk, walk, even drink out of a glass. Hes was wobbling everywhere about to fall over, his eyes slowly opening and closing like hes about to fall asleep... But still insistant that hes ok? I couldn't understand what he was saying. Then he randomly started crying.. Sobbing? Waffling on about stuff i cant understand and getting really moody with me? I am extremely worried! Ive insisted he goes to bed, which eventually his has done. This whole thing is so stressful and frightening. He cant ever remember any of the conversations we have had, once hes better again? We never know when its going to happen and its hard trying to explain to the kids whats wrong. I am however comforted to know we arent going through this alone!

I'm glad that I finally took my strange behaviour to google! I noticed that most of these posts are from spouses or family members and seems like the majority of the cases are due to alcoholism. But since I don't think I've been doing any drinking in my sleep it's interesting to see other causes that people have experienced.

I'm a 33 year old female, that maybe has one drink a month (and I've noticed over the past few months that after a couple sips of a drink I will immediately feel the effects). Drank a bit more in university, but not that often. No childhood issues. I get migraines but only take meds for them acutely once I have a migraine. Otherwise no real medical issues to report. I'm lactose intolerant, and overweight and I know that I occasionally grind my teeth in my sleep. I've never had any problems with any bloodwork. I'm wondering about the sleep apnea possibility since I know that I snore on occasion as well. So I will go get that checked out.

Anyways, besides getting drunk really easily lately. I get what I call "giddy tired". I have a fairly regular sleep schedule. Usually up around 6am and to bed around 10pm. It used to be a really rare occurrence when I was tired I would feel like I was drunk. Everything was really funny, I'd be very silly. But now it's gotten to be quite consistent. Around the 10pm mark if I'm still awake and around people then I'm basically drunk. I slur my speech, everything is funny, I'm silly and happy, and just want to curl up somewhere. I don't feel safe to drive, and my thoughts are a bit random. I have to concentrate pretty hard to do regular tasks like walk into my house and get ready for bed and I'm uncoordinated. I don't think that I act this way when I'm home alone, but it could just be that I go to bed before I reach that stage. With the timing I find it unlikely that I'd have the yeast overload but I'll check into it and diabetes as well. I never get it during the day unless I've lost a lot of sleep.

On a funnier note. About 6 years ago I had a period of a couple of days where I was having these same symptoms during the day. I figured something must be seriously wrong with my brain and went to the doctor. He couldn't find anything but we figured out that it was due to the cold medication I was taking at the time. I was actually drunk on cough syrup! As soon as I stopped that I went back to normal. I had no idea that it could effect me that much! But certainly not on any now!

This is exactly what happens to my husband. Did you find anything out?

we are experimenting at the moment,we have found by my partner not having milk in



coffee he hasn't had an episode for a week now.he used to have half coffee half milk so


quite a bit. I think the carbohydrate has a lot to do with this as someone suggested before

My husband is going through this. drunkness like mannerism, slurred speech unsteady on his feet. makes no sense. He has I think depression and anxiety or even PTSD. The feelings sometimes leads him to binge drink from the pain. I know not all of it is from drinking as I see the switch being turned on from ok to drunk like right before my eyes. it all started about 3 years ago. we have been married for 34 years and I feel I have lost my best friend.

This sounds like my husband's symptoms. He is very tired when this takes over him. I am afraid he is going to get hurt or hurt himself as his cognative and thinking skills are slowed.

try keeping a check on carbohydrate intake as I wrote before,my partner hasn't had an episode since cutting out milk which contains quite a lot .

Hi, I know this thread is old but maybe my 61 year old dad has been having almost the exact same symptoms as some of the people on here described for the last several months. before anyone responds with this, I'm absolutely certain it isn't alcoholism or auto-brewery syndrome. It's almost like some sort of mood swing or manic episode. You can be in the middle of a normal conversation with him and suddenly hes acting like hes mentally impaired. A lot of the times hes both unable to hold his balance but also very hyper, he can't hold a consistent train of thought, his speech will be kind of slurred and he will start sentences without finishing them, hes unable to concentrate, will as the same question multiple times or just completely miss something you said to him as well as have pretty drastic mood swings. And then, usually within an hour it will go away.

At first when it started it was right after he had had a bad reaction to levoquin, which is an antibiotic he was taking, so we just assumed it was a side effect from that and it would occur once or twice every few weeks, and then for about a month it stopped and i thought that it probably was just the levoquin, but then about 3 weeks ago he had another episode, then again two days ago, and then i found this thread today after he came home during his lunch break and started acting loopy, and then again about 30 minutes after he got off work.

One of the first times it happened he thought it was a stroke as hes had two previous DVTs. after a trip to the hospital and several tests the doctor said that nothing that could cause an episode like that came up at all. The tests she ran were for vitamin deficiencies, potassium levels (high levels can cause psychosis), bloodsugar and pressure. They did find that he had a very high riboflavin count although i dont think that was related to anything. Since then he has also had a CAT scan and an MRI and they didnt find anything. The doctor said it was probably just dehydration, which is what some other people in this thread said they have been told by their doctors, but he drinks water regularly and has had several incidents since. I also forgot to mention earlier that alcohol does seem to intensify the problem. The last two times he has gotten A SINGLE beer while we were out eating at a restaurant he ended up having a similar episode (but hes 170 lbs and I was with him for the entire times, both times, so I know there is no way he should be acting like that off of just one beer).

Since then he and my mother have kind of just been blowing off any episodes he has had like its not a big deal, I think partly because they dont want to acknowledge it and partly because they feel like the doctors wont take them seriously if they dont go in while he is having an episode because last time they came out with nothing, but these last few weeks he has been really freaking me out. I spent the last couple of hours pouring through the internet and the most similar causes appear to be
-fatigue/exhaustion/lack of brain oxygen as a result of sleep apnea or other sleep disorder
-cerebral or spinal ataxia
- High levels of potassium or electrolytes
-low/high insulin/blood sugar levels

I know for a fact it is not the latter because as Ive said when he went to the hospital last time the tested his blood sugar and insulin.
It could be the electrolyte thing because he chugs like two vitamin waters a day sometimes like he thinks thats healthy, but my mom stopped buying those because we thought that might have been part of the problem and its still happening

So now I'm starting to worry he might have some sort of degenerative disease or brain chemical imbalance. Most of the types of ataxia that cause the kinds of symptoms people have been describing like slurred speech and loss of balance are a genetic disorder that can be screened for. Additionally the cerebellum is also the part of the brain related to organized thought which could explain a lack of coherent thought and inability to pay attention. Im planning on talking about it to him this weekend adn seeing if I can convince him to take a trip to the Neurologist. Hopefully my ramblings help someone else on here, or at least let them know they arent alone.

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Did you ever find out what was causing this with your husband? My husband who's 55 suffers the exact same symptoms nearly every night. One minute everything's ok the next it's like he's intoxicated; his movements are jerky, his speech slurred, he rambles, repeats himself, feels the world is against him, takes offence at the slightest little thing then declares how much he loves me - he swings from emotional highs to lows including anger. This has been happening most nights for years. I still haven't worked out why. I just try to get him to go to bed as soon as it starts.

The next day I tell him how bizarre/upsetting/irrational he was and he has no or little memory of it - usually he is very sorry. I've offered to video his behaviour to show it to him and hopefully persuade him it's worrying enough to seek medical help but he's against this.

I've seen people with diabetes have very similar symptoms but he had a fasting blood sugar test a couple of years ago and it was normal.
Daytime he has a responsible job and is the nicest kindest man who I adore.
I need to know what's causing this.

there are so many of us with this problem in our lives but no one seems to be able to help.where do we turn to after doctors tell us there is no problem.

I see the same thing in my wife - and it is not alcohol..
What medical specialty is the best choice?

Do d you get any answers? I'm in the same situation.

My daughter acts the same but her sugar is so normal