In drunk mood but had no alcohol - irrational behaviour

I have been looking into this and came across auto brewery syndrome.. might be worth your while to mention this if you are going to see a doctor. Just a thought

Yep. It's 2016 I've lived with someone for 23 years who acts exactly like this and I'm finally looking it up I don't know what took me so long but here I am !! And I have no answer I hate that nobody else has an answer either.... The blood sugar and the seizure suggestions are interesting on this post .... but it's like he has a combination of ADHD repetitiveness slurring mumbling looks drunk has a smirk on his face basically he acts like Jim Carrey in one of his movies he's just a little psycho goofy person .... and you can't talk to them you can't break that barrier because he's just stuck there .... I don't know what the solution is but it's causing a lot of issues between us.

I may never find this thread again but hopefully for all of us suffering with a person that we care about like this you know I wish you all luck. Maybe he should stay off coffee and take an anti-seizure pill like gabapentin

I don't know there has to be something that keeps this person levelheaded

And just so you know he doesn't remember his actions either he just remembers how I reacted to him behaving that way

Stay strong try to figure it out I don't know it's 2017 almost and it's amazing that these situations still go on undetected by the medical field

And by the way he does stand up and walk and he's capable of all that kind of stuff it's just his attitude his attitude completely goes berserk

Anyway I hope that this reaches the right people at the right time I guess who knows maybe in the next five years somebody else will read this and feel comfort in knowing they're not alone and it's not some weird thing that you're imagining it's an actual fact that my guy and obviously other people's family members are going through something chemically weird .

And that's it have a good day !

Look up dry drunk and bpd and alcoholism link

I lived with alcoholics all my life,I thought I knew when someone has been drinking .My sons new GF goes through these episodes.She doesn't smell like booze.We actually thought it was a chemical imbalance .She's fine,then she's slurring her speech,whining and she's falling down.This is the first closet alcoholic I have dealt with.She finally admitted she had a couple of shots after we threaten to throw her out.Face the possibility the person you love is a hidden alcoholic.A HWY. patrol came to my door to tell me my brother had died in an auto accident.My brother was drinking.The GF came home nearly hitting my house with 4 HWY patrol cars following her.Don't find out the hard way if that's what the problem could be.

My husband has been doing this very thing the last few months hes only 50...after he sleeps all night hes fine in the morning...but it happens again almost every night. It's so strange. Hes been told hes low on testosterone but taking meds to increase his levels has done nothing. He acts drunk..slurs his words..talks jibberish...and thinks he's fine. Please let me know if anyone finds out what is causing this. He eats terrible..doesn't drink water...dehydration can also cause these symptoms...but geez...its still happening.

What have you found out since this post?

Did you ever find a cure or even an answer to what was wrong

has anyone seen a doctor and had an answer to the problem or like us been dismissed as making a fuss

Mel, so far no diagnosis for myself but have found others who have been diagnosed with ABS. Look at the Facebook page 'Autobrewery Awareness Syndrome, & 'Auto Brewery Syndrome Support' for more information and Dr details who won't fob you off

This syndrome called Auto Brewery Syndrome ABS is not new -- it was first described in the 1960s and was described by many doctors in England and Japan.

Dr Barbara Cordell has started a website about it to try and put resources in one location. There are facebook pages where people discuss their issues as well as successes with other sufferers and their partners.

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My 56 year old fiancé exhibits the same symptoms. Usually on his days off (he works retail and never seems to slow down at work), or after very stressful days. Did not happen at all when he was off for 3 weeks recovering from surgery, or on vacation. Stress related? Any answers?

i have read all the writings on autobrewery syndrome but the symptoms aren't all the same.my partner is a very busy gearbox fitter so has a very stressful long day but no episodes. it occurs on his days off when he is talking to his friends and out and about on leisure pursuits with adrenalin high.

I had read through this entire thread, worried as I too found this thread while my husband was experiencing the same symptoms.

I trekked my husband, our 2 small children (8 months) over to the doctors office, to try to figure out what is wrong.

I made a list for the doctor:
*Mindlessness --
-could not perform routine tasks: ie
remembering own email address (works in IT)
-took off baby's pants during diaper change, instead of putting pants back on baby, put clean pants in the laundry instead, then got more pants out and put them in crib, then found looking for more pants. Child still standing in crib pantless
-put half full dishwasher on, did not check for soap, just turned on for no reason
-grabbing at our sons foot under the table and holding it for awhile and thinking it was our infant daughter who was across the room
-throwing clean clothes into the laundry
-watching me pump breastmilk and then mindlessly throwing it down the sink, and then not remembering that he even did it.

I had read through this entire thread, worried as I too found this thread while my husband was experiencing the same symptoms.

I trekked my husband, our 2 small children (8 months) over to the doctors office, to try to figure out what is wrong.

I made a list for the doctor:
*Mindlessness --
-could not perform routine tasks: ie
remembering own email address (works in IT)
-took off baby's pants during diaper change, instead of putting pants back on baby, put clean pants in the laundry instead, then got more pants out and put them in crib, then found looking for more pants. Child still standing in crib pantless
-put half full dishwasher on, did not check for soap, just turned on for no reason
-grabbing at our sons foot under the table and holding it for awhile and thinking it was our infant daughter who was across the room
-throwing clean clothes into the laundry
-watching me pump breastmilk and then mindlessly throwing it down the sink, and then not remembering that he even did it.
*When asked fairly simple questions – looks right through you and after further prompting may end with an “I don't know” ie
- Did you eat today
- Were you asleep
*Not able to stay on task ie
- Book time with our son before bed- wrestling instead, leaving in the middle of reading a book to put on laundry. Or not reading/stopping in the middle and staring into space,l and our son having to remind him “Daddy Read”
- Feeding our infant her solids – staring at her and not remembering what was supposed to be done
- Going downstairs to grab something needed (item for dinner), and not coming back up for a very long time.
- Starting to get a bedtime snack ready for our son (same thing every night), but staring blankly in the fridge
Tasks taking a very long time, or not getting done as a result.
*Heading to the bedroom when friends are over and falling asleep
*Occasionally manhandling the kids when trying to play – and not realizing
*not getting to sleep at night, not waking once asleep. Falling asleep at strange times.
*Coming home after leaving for work, and sleeping (ie Monday – slept all night, then 10-2:30, then in the car ride to the doctors)


I considered perhaps as he was borderline diabetic in past results, as well as as other posters had suggested thyroid could be a factor, or perhaps something going on with his brain. I was fearful of what could be causing my husband to be so mindless/acting drunk.

I wanted him to be tested for these things, or God knows what else it could be.
He swore up and down, and on our children's lives, that it wasn't alcohol.
I expressed to him how worried I was, and that I would rather it be alcohol than all of the things I was imagining. At least then we could deal with it.
Again, it was communicated that it was definitely NOT alcohol.

He has alcoholism and his family. He has had issues with alcohol in the past. However he has sworn on the kids lives before, and lied to my face, and then I either found hidden alcohol or he's finally admitted it to me.

However a little trust has been rebuilt, and I felt that he was telling me the truth.

Boy was I foolish.

He even went through with blood tests- the result was that hey found elevated kidney function which would be from recent alcohol consumption.
He then tried to lie to me again....

Anyhow. Now to figure out MY next steps...

my partners is definatly not alcohol as I have been with him to see this gradually happening. the symptoms are wrong for autobrewery,his sugar levels are always fine. I liken it to a battery wearing down in his brain.