Why did I drink 2 bottles of wine!

Two bottles of wine would have me throwing up and probably stuck in bed the following day. But I can consume fair quantities of rum with seemingly no ill effects.

It sounds like your emotional response (anxiety) is a sign that it was too much for you.

Presumably because the story is a fabrication?

I could do 2 bottles over a few hours, especially when cooking. But only if it was a lower strength wine, they do vary considerably. My limit is a 11% vol, .

Fenal tea before bed after drinking wine seems to help me enormously the next day😀

Yes I could drink that amount.

Yes I also have a problematic relationship with alcohol so generally just don't drink at all anymore.

I'm also paying today OP for daring to have a rare evening out with DH not quite 2 bottles but we got through 2 over the course of a evening and dinner and finished with a cocktail.

It's definitely a rare event for us thankfully the kids have been happy playing at home and it's a wet one here anyway.

Addiction is dependency. It’s needing that thing (in this case alcohol) above anything else and having to get it regardless of the negative implications on your health, relationships, work etc. MN is notoriously OTT about alcohol and while everyone is perfectly entitled to their own views around drinking, it’s utterly ridiculous to label anyone who enjoys a drink as an alcoholic.

Do you drink to this level often? Do you regularly go over the recommended 14 units per week? Is alcohol getting in the way of your life or taking up loads of your headspace? If the answer these questions is yes then maybe it’s time to start having a think about your habits.

But please don’t let silly people on here convince you that you are an alcoholic based on one boozy Saturday.

Full English is my choice.

you also have a day missing !

have you come for absolution

bread, jumbo oats, mash potato, cake, soak it up

what was the wine

Yes same and then order another bottle each in the wine bar before the club. I can still easily drink two bottles of a good red if I start at lunchtime. Try not to do that too often though.

Why should anyone have made the OP feel bad about it? Some people on Mumsnet have very strange opinions about alcohol. I suppose the OP should be grateful that she’s not elderly - there’s nothing mumsnetters hate more than old people, apart from possibly old people who have a drink to enjoy themselves from time to time. 😆😆

OP - I always swore by a nice runny cheese omelet to cure a hangover, so try some eggs if you haven’t eaten.

Alcoholism doesn’t work like that. You don’t have one binge session and immediately ‘have a drink problem.’

Of course it’s too much in one sitting in terms of units and if op did this regularly it would be real issue for her health. But alcoholism is thrown around so casually on here, it’s really unhelpful and shows complete ignorance.

Op it’s easily done to be honest. 2 bottles is six large glasses over the course of several hours. In my youth I’d drink a full bottle of wine before I even went out! Couldn’t do it now of course. Drink plenty of water, get some carbs down, have a good night sleep and you’ll be grand tomorrow.

I definitely could do this if I started drinking in the afternoon and the wine was going down easy and I was eating. Not a good idea to do it all the time though!

I’m not sure if you’ve posted here for reassurance as in ‘yes course that’s totally normal’ or if not, why you’ve posted.
If you are looking for affirmation that this is ok, then you obviously don’t think it is or feel guilt/regret. I think you have some work to do either way and I hope you are ok

I think opening the second bottle would have made me think I’d had enough.

Will you back off, jeeze.

OP, please be kind to yourself. It sounds like you made a mistake, and that’s okay.

I know that feeling of crushing anxiety after wine. I can drink a bottle, and be okay (ish) the next day, but I wouldn’t dare drink even a sip more than that, because I know that I would be crawling out of my skin the next day.
I mostly stick to two glasses now, with a lot of water during.

Alcohol is a depressant, remember that.

So you cooked a meal presumably for multiple people, chatter, engaged, tidied up as you went along, bid any guests farewell, dealt with children etc?

I mean op, it seems like 2 bottles really didn’t have much an impact on you at the time?

What more do you want- the Spanish inquisition?

Nobody expects that.

Hello friend 😂

Meh.

People will get very excitable over this.

were you happy? Had music on in the kitchen? A nice big sit down lunch with friends and family?

Im not seeing this as a problem, other than your poor head today.

🙄

Forget about it. If it was good enough for Keith Floyd it’s good enough for you.

Back in the day I was a size 10 and drank every boyfriend I ever had under the table. Not beer, couldn't handle the volume of liquid, but shots, cocktails and slammers, I outdid them all and turned up for 9am lectures the next day. I taught people how to play Cardinal Puff and won every time.

Now I fall asleep after half a glass. I'm absolutely pathetic. But in my prime, I reigned supreme. Queen of the Pissheads.

So no one made you feel bad about it? No one mentioned it?