To think 12 units in 3 hours hardly makes you feel tipsy, never mind drink.

[TableFlowerss]

With lockdown I’ve been drinking more on a weekend. Like many, I’m sure.

I only drink when DC are with their (with him 2/3 night a week. (totally understand that’s not possible for everyone - to drink when DC aren’t at home, obviously if they have NC with dad)

I never drink when I’m at work the next day either and it’s usually over 2 night a week only.

Since lockdown though, it feels like I drink more 😳 so to get tipsy, I’d now need about 10-12 units. I’m totally fine the next day, no hangover etc.... but what’s the norm to feel tipsy?

I feel like my threshold is higher basically. So I might drink a bottle of wine and a couple of vodkas one night (so 12 units) but then I’d have only a couple the day after. So no more than 20 units a week at the absolute maximum. Sometimes if I don’t fancy it, obviously I won’t drink at all.

I’ve got a friend who can drink a bottle of wine each night 😳😳 5/6 night a week, then go to work in a very responsible job the next day 😳😳 absolutely no way i could do that!

Again, I never drink when kids are home (at messy 4 night a week if not 5) and I absolutely don’t feel like I have a problem. Sometimes I just fancy a cup of tea!

But a recall at one point just needing a glass of wine to feel tipsy, not it’s nearly a bottle 🙈🙈🙈

What about you? Talking to my friends, theyr thresholds have increased too.

You do build up a tolerance to alcohol, which is where you can start doing damage to yourself. OP, do you drink to get tipsy? Although your tolerance may seem like a good thing ( no hangovers Etc.), what is scary is that people with high cholesterol also have a higher tolerance than those with low cholesterol , so you could be affecting that, even if not your liver.
Try drinking a glass of water between each glass of wine/alcohol - that helps to slow you down...

@EllasAuntie you are clearly just choosing to argue for the sake of it, as I said, I’m perhaps wording it badly, I don’t say it wasn’t binge drinking and I didn’t say it wasn’t a problem, what I did say is that piling in telling the OP, “oh I’d be dead drinking that” is pointless and unhelpful. I won’t be reading the link because I am aware it is binge drinking and I don’t need educating on it. The superior comments related to the fact that people felt the need to pile on and tell OP how badly they would be affected by that amount, not necessary when she didn’t ask, she asked if people’s tolerances had changed, not for them to tell her how terrible it is and how badly THEY would be affected by it.
No the NHS and Drink aware are not being superior, that’s not what I meant and I think you know that.

[quote OscarWildesCat]@EllasAuntie you are clearly just choosing to argue for the sake of it, as I said, I’m perhaps wording it badly, I don’t say it wasn’t binge drinking and I didn’t say it wasn’t a problem, what I did say is that piling in telling the OP, “oh I’d be dead drinking that” is pointless and unhelpful. I won’t be reading the link because I am aware it is binge drinking and I don’t need educating on it. The superior comments related to the fact that people felt the need to pile on and tell OP how badly they would be affected by that amount, not necessary when she didn’t ask, she asked if people’s tolerances had changed, not for them to tell her how terrible it is and how badly THEY would be affected by it.
No the NHS and Drink aware are not being superior, that’s not what I meant and I think you know that.[/quote]
She asked if she was being unreasonable to need that amount of units to feel tipsy. Read her subject line.

The posts you are taking issue with actually answer her question.

I drink 2 bottles of wine over the weekend. Usually half a bottle on fri. Full bottle on sat and the rest of the half on Sun. I think my tolerance has increased, I rarely feel drunk just 'tiddly'. You probably are drunker than you realise after 12 units just maybe getting more used to it?

Pre covid I'd usually only drink socially or the odd glass of wine here and there. I know I'm drinking over my units but my weekend wine is the only thing currently separating week days from weekends and its something to look forward to, so no plans on stopping throughout the remainder of lock down!

I'm convinced 9/10 of the food and alcohol threads on here are windups just because the reactions are so predictable and entertaining. They're like bingo. 'Won't someone think of the NHS!' 'The NHS says'. Do people in real life really live their lives according to some bot rather than use their brains? And then all the competition, 'If I did that I'd spontaneously combust!' 'Have you seen your wizard/GP?'

😂😂😂

@Mreggsworth

I drink 2 bottles of wine over the weekend. Usually half a bottle on fri. Full bottle on sat and the rest of the half on Sun. I think my tolerance has increased, I rarely feel drunk just 'tiddly'. You probably are drunker than you realise after 12 units just maybe getting more used to it?

Pre covid I'd usually only drink socially or the odd glass of wine here and there. I know I'm drinking over my units but my weekend wine is the only thing currently separating week days from weekends and its something to look forward to, so no plans on stopping throughout the remainder of lock down!

See your GP, The Wizard Gandalf, immediately before you DIE asap! And stop at AA on the way back. Hope you're also not eating anything, unless it's keto, or it'll be a race between the wine and the carbs as to what slays you first.

I had one of those picnic bottle of prosecco last night. DH had nothing. I'm now posting from the great beyond. I'll be wasted until the next century.

@rawalpindithelabrador

Can I do all that on Monday instead ? Was looking forward to my wine tonight. Was also going to get a pizza

The recommended intake is 14 units per week spread over several days. I suppose if you're drinking 12 units over 3 hours, several times each week then you're drinking more than the 'healthy limit'. However I'm no help as I rarely drink so have no idea what 12 or 14 units looks like plus I'm heavily pregnant.

[quote Mreggsworth]@rawalpindithelabrador

Can I do all that on Monday instead ? Was looking forward to my wine tonight. Was also going to get a pizza [/quote]
You'll be dead by then . You need to conjure up Dr Dumbledore now, you're probably depressed, autistic, ADHD, psychotic and dying all at the same time. Oh, and obese. Pizza is poison for your body.

I had one of those picnic bottle of prosecco last night. DH had nothing. I'm now posting from the great beyond. I'll be wasted until the next century.

I’m not sure it’s helpful to compare the OP’s drinking to this and mock anyone saying her intake is dangerous. Honestly, if I could drink a picnic bottle of Prosecco I would (well, not Prosecco but wine). But I can’t. I’d want another bottle on top (and not a picnic bottle either). And that’s closer to what the OP is describing here: very regularly going over a full bottle of wine at home alone.

I remember I told my doctor, years ago, that I “sometimes” drank a full bottle. I was hugely understating my drinking - and he was still genuinely shocked. Lectured me at length. It didn’t stop me, of course, but it brought it home that a full bottle of wine in one sitting isn’t a trivial thing on the regular.

@AStudyinPink

I had one of those picnic bottle of prosecco last night. DH had nothing. I'm now posting from the great beyond. I'll be wasted until the next century.

I’m not sure it’s helpful to compare the OP’s drinking to this and mock anyone saying her intake is dangerous. Honestly, if I could drink a picnic bottle of Prosecco I would (well, not Prosecco but wine). But I can’t. I’d want another bottle on top (and not a picnic bottle either). And that’s closer to what the OP is describing here: very regularly going over a full bottle of wine at home alone.

I remember I told my doctor, years ago, that I “sometimes” drank a full bottle. I was hugely understating my drinking - and he was still genuinely shocked. Lectured me at length. It didn’t stop me, of course, but it brought it home that a full bottle of wine in one sitting isn’t a trivial thing on the regular.

Jesus take a load off! Try for once being less than earnest. She's an adult, she's probably winding people up well aware of the situation without the need for reams of posts about how dangerous she is and being lectured by the Wizard GP, what will the NHS say?! OMG!

She knows. No need for the lectures. But they are entertaining.

[quote EllasAuntie]@SecretSpAD If you are a medical professional, surely it's important to distinguish between people drinking and eating a little more than usual, and someone who perhaps does have an issue that needs addressing?

Using phrases like 'paragons of virtue' is not what I'd expect a HCP to use. It's emotional. Your post doesn't do much to help the OP it only minimises her problem.[/quote]
I have come to the conclusion that there is only one response to make to posters like this on MN 🙄🥱

Jesus take a load off! Try for once being less than earnest. She's an adult, she's probably winding people up well aware of the situation without the need for reams of posts about how dangerous she is and being lectured by the Wizard GP, what will the NHS say?! OMG!

Yeah. It’s so funny. 🙄

A bottle of wine and a couple of vodkas and I'd be smashed. Even in my 20s that would be a lot.

PS @EllasAuntie the OP is not one of my patients and therefore I a, nit responsible for giving specific lifestyle advice as I don't know her, on,y what she writes on here. I only give my personal opinion on social media. It would be inappropriate and unethical to give medical advice I leave that to the Dr Googlers.

Honestly I'm more of a lightweight now than I was as a teenager. 12 units would probably have me in the hospital.

I think I would be either asleep or dead if I drank 12 units in 24 hours, let alone 3. I'd be worried about anyone who didn't feel any effects at all from that much.

You're drinking way too much and you know it. Stop making excuses or shrugging it off.

Personally I'd carry on. Alcohol isn't your friend after 45 and you've fell out completely after the menopause. Get your drinking and shagging in now.

If you come off alcohol entirely for 4 or 5 weeks, and then have one glass, it goes straight to your head and you feel tipsy on a lot less.

I think it is a good thing to come off alcohol every so often as it resets your tolerance levels to a lower level, and gives your liver a break.

*Jesus take a load off! Try for once being less than earnest. She's an adult, she's probably winding people up well aware of the situation without the need for reams of posts about how dangerous she is and being lectured by the Wizard GP, what will the NHS say?! OMG!

She knows. No need for the lectures. But they are entertaining.*

The OP seems to have taken the ‘lectures’ on board so 🤷🏼‍♀️

I’d be pished. But I don’t drink much or often, so after one unit I’m giggly

I drink a bottle of wine by myself most Saturday nights. Maybe even a bottle and a half. No ill-effects and I don't tend to drink on any other nights. Can't stand this moralising that goes on about drinking by yourself. Your body processes alcohol in the same way whether you drink alone or in company. And in this past 12 months company isn't an easy thing to come by if you're abiding by all the rules.

@Clayder

I drink a bottle of wine by myself most Saturday nights. Maybe even a bottle and a half. No ill-effects and I don't tend to drink on any other nights. Can't stand this moralising that goes on about drinking by yourself. Your body processes alcohol in the same way whether you drink alone or in company. And in this past 12 months company isn't an easy thing to come by if you're abiding by all the rules.

Why do you drink that amount?

Are you lonely or you like the feeling of being drunk?

Because I like it and yes, I like the hit of alcohol. Which I know people are often at pains to avoid saying. I like good wine and I like the buzz of wine. And I don't want to spread it out over the week. But no, I'm not lonely. It's generally inferred that if someone drinks a bottle of wine by themselves that they're lonely. They might be. Or they just live alone and are quite happy that way.