Husband embarrassed when I felt unwell

This. Its pathetic.

Sounds like you were hypoglycemic

Your his acting like an arse

The study your quoting is actually an experiment to see if alcohol affects the blood pressure upon standing from a seated or lying position (positional hypertension). And the study shows that people that haven't had a drink that aren't affected by a change in blood pressure ARE affected after having 3 beers.. I'm not sure any of that relates to the OP to be honest, so while it could be true, OP began to feel unwell sitting down, which is nothing to do with that study.

It's not ignorant to assume that OPs problem is down to the affects of drinking on an empty stomach rather than positional hypertension, you still get the same drop in blood pressure.

Drinking on an empty stomach also means a person will become drunk much quicker than they normally would and are more likely to get sick as the body struggles to process the alcohol.
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Drinking with an empty or full stomach
If you drink alcohol with an empty stomach, the alcohol passes directly into your bloodstream. When alcohol enters your bloodstream, it widens your blood vessels. This causes:

• blushing, as there is a greater flow of blood to the skin surface
• a temporary feeling of warmth
• heat loss and a rapid decrease in body temperature
• a drop in blood pressure

Die quietly then, is it?

Weddings are a joke anyway. I don't know anyone who cares about supposed wedding "etiquette", let alone judges anyone for being ill at a wedding.

Some of the language being used here is so ableist. Embarrassing, juvenile, gross, mortified, big trouble...

I'm glad I'm not friends with any of you knobs. I'm disabled and often have health episodes. If you were a stranger at a wedding I was a guest at, and judged me for taking care of myself to avoid fainting/collapsing/losing control of bowels etc, you should be ashamed of yourself.

As for the people who are so anal about wedding "rules", get a bloody grip.

So then you know there is a feeling of fainting before actually losing consciousness. That’s when body is getting really weak, and people aren’t always able to walk or hold their head up even they’re still conscious.

If my partner did the head on table, I would be mortified.

I agree. I’m now alcohol intolerant due to ME/CFS, so don’t I don’t drink at all now. However, before I realised what it was, I had a few occasions where even just half a glass of Buck’s Fizz for, example, made me feel really ill, like woozy and sick. I never drank loads anyway, mostly a few glasses of BF or Asti over Christmas and on other occasions. Sometimes I might have managed a glass of it and felt ok but others it knocked me sick. It was weird and no pattern to it. Obviously I realised after a while I just couldn’t handle it at all anymore so I avoid it completely now.

You do not draw attention to yourself at a wedding.

How old are you? 3?

Putting your head on the table was gross and obviously looked to the rest of the table that you were drunk. You would have been mortified if your DH did that, I’m sure.

You should quietly said to your DH that you weren’t feeling well and asked him to walk with you to a quiet area.

This makes me wince!

ywbu putting your head on the table!

Id have been in big trouble too if I’d done that

@sandyhappypeople

Oh the ignorance.

It can happen after half a glass. It is not her fault.

I started having this in my early 20s after not having it ever. I dint drink now

No it's not drunk. It's a reaction to the alcohol but not drunkenness. It can happen after half a glass. It can be a one off or it can be something that now keeps on happening.
It typically happens when someone has low ish blood pressure as typical or when pregnant but it can happen to anyone.

I can't believe so many adults are so ignorant.

Inside can't believe how many adults are so pleased to exhibit their ignorance on a public forum.

@TheresaCrowd
I kind of think you know....why mention the alcohol at all then?
Because it's the alcohol that sometimes causes the sudden drop in blood pressure.
Are you seriously inf us you've never heard of this

It can happen as a one off or it might be something that now happens to the op regularly so she'll have to take care of
But it's not her fault.

@TheresaCrowd

Putting your head down on a table at a wedding is juvenile.
Juvenile? It's not juvenile it's a medical thing.
I guess what would have been better was to push her chair away from the table and put her head between her knees but you'd probably have a problem with that too.
Juvenile is such a weird interpretation of someone trying to lower their head to not pass out or vomit

We don't know why OP got ill. OP is old enough to know if she was drunk and she says she wasn't.

And why assume orange juice was available? In a wedding you're often a captive audience, you eat and drink whatever they set in front of you.

Sounds like some sort of food poisoning to me.

If I don't believe it I just wouldn't bother engaging with it.

I'm not going to worry about believing a woman who says she wasn't drunk, but thanks for the concern.

But even if was a blood sugar level drop it was still because she drank and hadn't eaten anything.. so the end result is still caused by OP drinking on an empty stomach, why not have breakfast, or have a snack, or not drink until dinner, they have non alcoholic choices like orange juice, you don't have to drink.

While unfortunate and obviously not done on purpose, as an adult you are 100% responsible for the choices you make, she can't expect her DH to be okay with all the kerfuffle caused when it was entirely self inflicted.

I can understand him feeling a bit uncomfortable but what else could you have done in that moment? Like you said, you couldn’t move. And yeah, it’s not great the 2 proseccos on an empty stomach thing but I’m going to assume it’s not something that regularly happens and it’s not like you did it on purpose to cause a scene.

What is shit is his continued attitude throughout the day. There was no need for that at all, especially as it went on for longer than you probably anticipated.

This exactly. I’ve got low blood pressure and heat, too much to eat at once, crowds with a lack of air can make me feel faint or actually faint.

A discreet head hold like that described would not draw anything like as much attention as actually lying your head flat on the table. That looks like someone who has had one or two too many.

Why didn’t you put your head on his shoulder? You must have looked like a drunk with your head on the table.

Gosh if you believe every single word you read on the internet without ever reading between the lines, or stretching your thoughts even slightly, I'd worry if I were you.

But for OP being pale and clammy is not the result of being drunk, so it's something else.

And if you don't believe the OP why even bother engaging with her? Maybe crack on and find a new thread that you do believe.

You admitted you had drank on an empty stomach so clearly you were drunk. Putting your head on the table would have been really inappropriate and embarrassing so I can see his point!

Just wow.

Have you heard yourself?