When will I not be over the limit to drive? 😳

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Drank an inordinate amount of wine with my friend yesterday, we were celebrating my new job and him not having the C after a nasty scare.
He just kept buying more and I was too stupid to say I'd had enough.

Kids were safe and sound with DH.

I'm worried I'm still over the limit this morning to drive despite having stopped drinking at 6pm.

I have a day off but need to drive this morning but want to make sure I'm safe.

How long does it take?!

Please no flaming, I'm suitably embarrassed already.

I think the safest calculation is that you process 1 unit an hour from when you stop drinking? I think there is a website where you can put in how much you drank, and it will tell you when it's safe to drive.
If you're not sure, then I wouldn't risk it.

No you don't need to drive. Will you starve if you don't? I doubt it. Get a taxi, minicab, public transport or walk.

How much did you actually drink?

It's been over 12 hours....How much did you drink?

Why are you embarrassed? You were out with a friend? Celebrating, and drank a lot of wine. Nothing to be ashamed of.

Who’s going to flame you? Mad people of mumsnet that think half a sherry is too much and you’re a raging alcoholic if you have 2 glasses of wine a week 😂

There’s a calculator somewhere which tells you how long after drinking you’re safe to drive.

How much did you actually drink?

I know we had 4 glasses of wine in the first pub and maybe 3 in the next.

Medium size.

But I'm calculating it as 4 in the next pub to be extra safe.

If I were to drink drive that would be my whole career down the pan and it's taken me 4 years to work towards the job I was celebrating.

No shame here. But if you are questioning yourself as others have said - could you use a cab this morning?

morning-after.org.uk/drink-drive-calculator/

How could you be flamed? You've done nothing stupid/wrong! You've taken the very sensible option to critically consider what you are able to do.
You'd be (rightly) flamed if you'd driven and then asked afterwards if you should have done.

No-one can answe the question without knowing what 'an inordinate amount' of wine means for you though. For some people this could be 3 glasses, for others much more. If you finished drinking at 6, you may well be just fine to drive 14+ hrs later. All depends how much you actually had.

Just don't go out unless you can take a taxi. Reschedule whatever you had planned for the morning.

I think the safest calculation is that you process 1 unit an hour from when you stop drinking?

It’s one unit an hour from when you start drinking - less when you’re asleep. Your body doesn’t know when you’ve finished and only start processing the alcohol then!

OP, it depends on so many things... abv of the alcohol, size of a medium glass...

But I would say that’s at least 1.5 bottles of wine which means I wouldn’t be driving this morning.

Messages crossed! 7 glasses of wine is 14 units. At 1 an hour, you're technically fine.
I wouldn't be able to function on that though - I'd have the hangover from hell!!

You must be feeling rough op 😂

If you had 8 medium glasses of wine you need to wait 27 hours before driving. So you cannot drive this morning OP

You stopped at 6pm though? Over what period of time, a few hours with food or all in one go? That’s ages is my non scientific answer. How do you feel?

If you can avoid driving then avoid it but I wouldn’t be overly worried by now tbh.

27 hours 😱 Ignore me then!

I feel like absolute crap.

I never drink that much.

27 hours?! There are 2 units in a 175ml glass of wine. So that's 14 units. 6pm, when OP STOPPED drinking is over 14 hours ago (and her body started processing it when she started drinking), so the 14 hours is already an over-estimate.

Frigging hell, 27 hours, really? Might as well go the whole hog and not drive for a month, just to be sure.

Not 27 hours. I'm not sure how that got calculated.

I used the above calculator which said 19 hours but that was 13% wine and the one we had was 12% because it was on sort of wine 'menu'.

I think I figured it out as about 17 hours which I think takes me to 11?

If I've figured that out right.

We also stopped about 5.30 so I really am being a bit over cautious with the times and amounts.

Also that calculator only gave the option of 13% or 15% wine.

15% wine?!

27 hours??? For 1.5 bottles of wine? Bollox! If you stopped at 6pm, you must have started well before then - I'm sure you're safe to drive from breathalyser perspective. However, you sound bit delicate- you have my sympathies! But hope you had a good time 😊

I'm pretty sure you don't need to wait 27 hours.

Assuming 1 glass medium is 175ml (and as you're in a pub they should actually be that) at say 12% to be careful, you would have had 17 units.

Calculating from when you stopped drinking I think that would make it okay at 11am, if I was un-hungover-enough to concentrate.

In reality you will presumably have drunk that over several hours so that should be an overestimate of when it will be okay.