To think I got 'spiked'

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I did what you're not supposed to do.

I picked up an abandoned glass of fizz, and I drank it as I'm flat broke after Christmas, had a Diet Coke at the pub but wanted a fizz and couldn't afford to buy my own it was just sitting there at the bar. Already had a few glasses of wine at home with a meal then popped into our local to see some friends at about 11:30. DP had to carry me home, (his poor back!) I can't remember a thing and apparently was pretty much unconscious and when I did wake up a bit, totally incoherent- I couldn't form any words. He said he had to move all my limbs like a puppet to get me on my side in bed then didn't want to leave me alone so just played on iPad most of the night.

I feel appalling now. Shaky and sick and a racing heart and I've drank loads of water but can't seem to wee

It was the local bit-up-it's-Arse-gastro-pub and I know 'mine-sweeping' a drink is a bit student and scummy and I shouldn't have done it, but I'm starting to think it must have been laced with something and whoever it was bought for thought better of it and left it alone. Total memory blackout from about half an hour after I drank it, and before that I was ever so slightly tipsy but holding a conversation and dancing. Only wanted to stick my head in to see in the New Year.

I'm so stupid aren't I

Are you on any prescription drugs? I blacked out when i stupidly had a few glasses of wine while I was on amitryptiline for back pain. I can usually drink much more than I had that night, and never lose my memory or throw up.

I can't believe how naive you were in picking up an unattended drink. It could have been a triple vodka and coke, so there is no reason to assume someone had spiked it.

It's not victim blaming but those who are saying it , that's your opinion and you're entitled to it.

What about taking personal responsibility and not taking a drink with fuck knows what in it just because someone 'fancied some fizz'.

Forget how it happened, what matters now is that OP was out of it last night and hasn't wee'd since. She might have had a spiked drink. She certainly felt rough.

I'd be calling 101 OP. Hope you are ok.

Unless we know a drug was deliberately slipped into that drink, with the intention of someone else drinking it, there's no victim to blame.

And given Bird's earlier post and the fact the OP isn't going for blood tests, it's a pointless argument.

Young people in upmarket bars or even regular bars and pubs top their drinks with MDMA all the time it happens loads. I don't but I've been with friends who have offered to pop a bit in my drink I declined.
So it's v v likely if you pinched a drink this is what happened to you.

I don't know how old bird's dd is, but beyond their mid to late teens, it's almost impossible to stop a child from doing stuff they want, of which we might disapprove.

I don't recall her stating that she's thrilled with her dd's drug use. Unless she's encouraging it, I don't think she deserves the faces.

I've been spiked before. Similar feeling. Luckily the person who did it didn't get away with it as my FWB found out. And beat him senseles

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Wow, really Amanda - I'll obviously need to get myself clued up on all this stuff in the coming years (eldest is only 10). Are those things legal highs or illegal drugs?

Scary shit. Hope you're ok Op.

Happened to me once, well I've been spiked three times but the occasion that sounds like yours I'd had two glasses of red wine in a posh bar with a guy I'd known years, my friends came to meet us for a drink, I remember seeing double of my friends and walking to the toilet holding her belt, my mum says I came home in the early hours of the morning with the guy I'd been with, I remember nothing after the toilets, the bar presumably closed at 11 and I lived 20 minutes away, I will never know what happened that night! I called the police who checked cctv and saw nothing, I told the guy I was with who couldn't believe what I was suggesting and I never heard from him again!
I used to be able to drink 10 drinks and still know exactly what had happened so I've no idea what happened that night!
Scary to think really! Glad you are ok OP

I'm still reeling from Birds oh so casual anecdote about her daughter's dangerous and illegal drug use!

Glad you are safe and ok-ish OP. And thanks for posting so I can learn from this and spiking generally. Not something I have experience of, but frightens me for my daughter, when and if she starts hitting the bars.

Soubriquet that sounds horrific and I'm so sorry that happened to you. I've only read up to your post but wanted to say I'm so sorry? Have you ever considered going to the police? Totally understand if you don't answer me and also why you'd not want to report it.

OP that's too much liquid to have drank and not passed any without seeking medical attention.

OP you are daft for not getting checked out.

Op I'm a nurse, not in a &a E but I do a lot of work with bladder scanners and catheters. The situation with the drink aside, with the amount you've been drinking today you shouldn't be dehydrated and over 12 hours is too long without passing urine. I don't think you can rule out that you have a urine/kidney infection and that's what made you feel unwell and behave strangely last night. Please see a gp asap and and get your bladder scanned and urine tested. It can be dangerous to not deal with urinary retention.

Would MDMA do that though? Surely the young 'uns take it to feel more loved up and party all night, not to black out and lose their functions.
Either way, hope you're OK OP.

I would be more worried about what happened to the person who drank the first half of tge drink. Could you report to the pub and police in the hope that they can use cctv to see what happened.

I got spiked at a party when I was a teen. I remember being drunk and having fun but suddenly I couldn't seem to make my legs work. I crawled up the stairs to the loo and someone came with me and I couldn't see straight or speak. They lay me down in a room and I passed out. I remember that part and feeling weird. It was the events during my passing out that made me realise I wasn't just 'drunk' but ultimately I will never really know what happened to me or who did what. I was covered in big black bruises and they had also cut my hair all off. I was so ill the next day I still couldn't walk properly. I had my clothes on but it's likely I was sexually assaulted by the blokes who did it.

I didn't do anything as I was ashamed and embarrassed. The ringleader did go to prison for drug related offences for some time a few years later which did make me feel better about it. But I shouldn't have been at that party.

I would get medical help for the urinary retention

Whether the drink was spiked or not, and how the op got the drink is rather besides the point.
Op you need to go to the hospital.

What BobbetyBob said - severe kidney / UTIs can cause bizarre / irrational behaviour

I think OP knows her own body and reactions to booze, and also probably her dh does to to know that her reaction to the drink wasn't typical.

If it had been a triple vodka in the glass she would have tasted it, and if she drinks vodka a lot and wouldn't have tasted then she'd be that used to it that a triple vodka would not leave her in a paralysed condition.

Yes it sounds like a hangover but OP knows what her hangovers a like, she knows her reactions to lots of alcohol her dh will know what she's usually like and even he said it was different. It sure why ityers are insisting otherwise.

I've drank it the past to the point where I forget bits of the night before, but I know it's alcohol and not spiked because I know I've drank a lot and remember drinking loads over the course of the night.

Being spiked is very different, (I've had it happen, different circus but believe me it's very different to being shitfaced drunk and the next day is different feeling to a ha giver) instead of the drunkeness building up over the course of an evening or even a few hours of loads of drinks you can go from being sober or a bit tipsy to paralysed and unable to move or speak in half an hour. OP knows her own body, she knows that she had a clear head and wasn't hammered when she swiped the drink . It's unlikely that one drink even with strong alcohol would make her comatose and so quickly.

Was she daft in swiping the drink? Yes it was a daft thing to do and I can see the taking personal responsibilty points, but if OP has been sexually assaulted or mugged or attacked? Nope, the rapist/mugger/criminal takes responsibilty and 100 percent of the blame for that.

Is it really that bad? The extent of spiking? I didn't realise that this much spiking went on. Or if it did, by very unsavoury characters who wanted to do bad things to women. Done with deliberate intent. This thread makes it sound like spiking is rife in every pub going.

EveOnline2016 The drugs commonly used in drink spiking are out of your system within 24-72 hours usually.