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To wonder if I was just really drunk or drink was spiked?

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Neverhavetoomuchglitter · 29/12/2019 15:57

Had a messy night out last night. Knew I would be hungover today and drink more than usual. However I ate loads through the day to line my stomach and when I tot up the drinks it was alot but I've drunk far more at other times.
We were in a bar and there had been some sleazy bloke dancing near my friend and trying to come onto her. She wasnt interested and ignored him. He actually followed us into the next bar. I went to the toilet on my own and left friends on the dancefloor. All of a sudden I felt overwhelmingly weird and had to leave. I grabbed my coat and didn't say a word to anyone. I walked outside and leant against the wall. Couldn't stand properly so sat leaning against the wall. I remember putting my head in my knees and next thing I was being woken by 2 strangers asking me if I was ok! I couldn't stand up and just sat there. No idea how long I had been like that for but the time then was 2.45am. Then my friends came out and looked shocked and upset to see me there. They'd thought I'd gone home. They helped me up and I still felt really weird and tearful as I was confused. When I got home I went to bed and started twitching and shaking uncontrollably. It was awful and booze alone has never made me like that. Today I feel absolutely dreadful and it is a real effort even holding my phone and typing this. I can't eat or drink anything without being sick and just keep sleeping on and off. Really not sure what to think.

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raspberryk · 29/12/2019 16:00

Sounds like when i had mine spiked Sad

WhittlingIhopMonkey · 29/12/2019 16:01

That doesn't sound at all normal tbh - just for context though, how many drinks is a lot? Were you still drunk this morning when you woke up?

Either way you sound terrified. I've had a similar experience, it's awful. Mind yourself today x

Allthepinkunicorns · 29/12/2019 16:03

Sounds like you have been spiked. It happened to me and a friend when we were very young and is a similar description. I'm glad you were found and came to no harm.

MissChananderlerbong · 29/12/2019 16:05

Anything more than 10 units can have a very differing affect on me. Sometimes I'm fine, but depending how quickly I've drunk what mix there was and how tired I am I can be very drunk or really not that bad!
Just saying it may not have been a spike. I've definitely been out and had similar amounts a few weeks apart and felt very different on the night

LGY1 · 29/12/2019 16:06

Sounds like when I had my drink spiked. The “drunkness” hit me like a train, I too felt weird & got myself out of the situation & then my legs went from under me.
The next day I felt like utter shi* - not inline with how much I had drunk.
I always think alcohol is pretty consistent and we know ourselves, this was different

Bluntness100 · 29/12/2019 16:07

Can you clarify how much you drunk? And what you drunk?

aroundtheworldyet · 29/12/2019 16:08

it sounds like you were spiked. That’s quite unusual

FoxysFolkFace · 29/12/2019 16:10

It sounds like you've been spiked to me. How scary for you, hope you're okay!

CornishPorsche · 29/12/2019 16:11

That sounds horribly similar to my experience. I had drunk 2 glasses wine with dinner, and I suspect it was the vodka and come I ordered at the night club which was spiked. I'm so glad I was able to get into a taxi before anything happened to me.

SunshineInMySprocket · 29/12/2019 16:14

I had a similar incident in March and I’m convinced my drink was spiked. I have never felt or acted like that but knew I needed to get home. My DH was furious with me until I described how much I’d had to drink and eat. I went from chatting to him on the phone and then to my friends to a shaking, wrecked mess in about 30 mins.

LadyAllegraImelda · 29/12/2019 16:18

Definitely spiked

cochineal7 · 29/12/2019 16:42

Another one saying spiked. Also from bitter experience. You know yourself. The sudden onset is telling and not the same as with alcohol although at the time it feels similar enough not to raise alarm bells (which I guess is what makes it so effective). Sorry. You were lucky though.

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Neverhavetoomuchglitter · 29/12/2019 16:45

A shaking wrecked mess that's exactly how I was. I've just remembered a photo my friend took of us and sent it to our group chat. It was 11pm. We then went in the next bar where i would guess i stayed for 15/20 minutes before leaving. Yet it was 2.45am when I woke up on the floor. I must have been out of it for nearly 2 hrs. That is really scary and quite awful that no one came to me earlier. I had a missed call at 1.30am too.
I drunk a bottle of wine and had a double rum and coke with a shot. So definitely pissed but on a big night out I've had more.

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DrCoconut · 29/12/2019 16:52

I had a similar experience at university. Out as normal at the SU bar then suddenly I was in the toilets and didn't remember getting there. Someone was asking me if I was ok and had I taken anything. My friends took me home and as soon as I hit the fresh air I fainted and was sick. That night I was shaking and hallucinating and it was terrifying. Then came the worst hangover ever, lasting 3 days. I'm fairly sure I was spiked but no idea who or why. You know yourself if what happened was within the scope of your normal reaction to drinking.

TARSCOUT · 29/12/2019 16:52

Definitely spiked. I am a lightweight it comes to alcohol and I would have been really drunk with what you had but not lose 2 hours. At least you came to no harm

Ffsseriously · 29/12/2019 17:28

All the people saying they were spiked, how do you know are there tests or did you go to the police?

aroundtheworldyet · 29/12/2019 17:33

I don’t think that’s enough booze to do this. Unless you never drink.

MyBeloved · 29/12/2019 17:34

Sounds identical to when I was spiked. Sudden onset, fainting, vomiting, loss of ability to use legs/talk.
Had vertigo for 3 days following as well.

BalloonSlayer · 29/12/2019 17:35

A whole bottle of wine, a double rum and coke and a shot, but you think you were spiked because you were incapacitated for 2 hours?

RebelWithVerySharpClaws · 29/12/2019 17:41

Spiked. Guard your drinks like rottweilers. There are some stinking blokes out there that will stop at nothing. Hope you feel better soon OP.
Drink spiking is illegal but without CCTV everywhere is very hard to prove.

Stickybeaksid · 29/12/2019 18:02

You drank a lot. I would have been like this after the amount you had. Not sure you can blame being spiked.

Lockheart · 29/12/2019 18:06

It really could be either; it's impossible to say without a test. And even then, only if your drink was spiked with a drug rather than more alcohol.

Was your drink ever out of your sight?

Newbie1999 · 29/12/2019 18:08

This is exactly how I felt when mine was spiked. Hope you’re ok!

Santasy · 29/12/2019 18:09

My tolerance has dropped with age but i had a drink spiked over twenty years ago and it did not feel like being drunk so I would say, yes, it's quite possible your drink was spiked.

I don't understand the reason for spiking drinks. In my case I was with friends for most of the night but a stranger looked after me for my disappeared hours. Memories of that time came back over the next couple of weeks BlushSad and I'm pretty sure nothing sexual happened. So what was the point?!

BooFuckingHoo2 · 29/12/2019 18:09

I think spiking is pretty rare in comparison to the amount it allegedly happens. I can think of several people I know who claim to have been spiked and in reality just drank a lot and passed out/threw up from drinking!

A guy I know who’s a police officer said the majority of spiking incidents that are reported tend to be when it’s one man with one woman as opposed to a man spiking a woman out with a group of friends. Apparently when a man has predatory intents it’s far easier to spike and take advantage of a woman who’s already expressed an interest and is separated from her friends/alone as opposed to a woman who’s minding her own business in a group.

Not saying this didn’t happen to you OP but I’ve had similar where I’ve lost a few hours when I didn’t think I’d drunk more than usual, and I’m pretty sure I wasn’t spiked!

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