please help me, i think im an alcoholic

I use to drink but not to much anymore,it really gets old after a while and plus I get really bad hangovers.

 

Did you drink water? I'll be fine after heavy drinking if I chug two glasses of water before going to sleep.

 

If you get Whiskey Face, put the bottle down!

 

Nope,I have drank plenty of water before sleep and still wake up with a hangover,hell I have gotten a hangover from just two beers before.Im no lightweight at all,for some reason hangovers hit me alot harder,hints why I don't drink to much now.

 

Try to drink some water and wait some time before going to sleep, at least in my case after 3 or 4 litres of beer (the usual when I go out on weekends), if I wait at least an hour before going to sleep I wake up in much better shape than if I arrive at home and go to bed immediately. Don't know the explanation but works great for me ;-)

 

One way to drink Absinthe so you get the flavour without the huge amount of alcohol is to use a droppre and drop the absinthe onto a sugar cube that is on a spoon so the cube turns green and is starting to dissolve and then drop the cube into a small glass of cold cold water and just let it dissolve naturally. After a while it will go a light cloudy green and you can drink it, slowly like a scotch.

Although I've only had good Absinthe in Estonia that was 100% absinthe with nothing taken out.

 

Your metabolism slows down when you sleep. IIRC, your body only breaks down about 1/8 to 1/4 the amount of alcohol when you sleep versus when you're awake.

 

I've heard of this sugar method before. Sadly, my mate and me decided that a slug of the stuff in one shot would be a good idea. Goodnight Vienna! :evil:

 

Absinthe is only absinthe (IMHO) when it's not cut with Pernod, the bile of satan. I went to the Reading Festival once and they had illegal under the counter "wormwood liquer" which was about 60% (ABV) and Absinthe before being cut with Pernod, tasted like bitumen, but your brain went out of the window. I spent the entire 3 days drinking that and for the life of me only have photo's to prove I went there.

"I saw Chilli Peppers? no, really?"

*shown the photo*

"No way, I would have remembered that!"

(apparently not)

But yeah, just the end of the week drinking isn't so bad, if you can go Mon-Thur without drinking and only get hammered on the weekend you are just habitual, when you drink every night, wake up drunk every day and feel weird when you aren't then you have problems.

 

People shouldn't be allowed to buy alcohol unless they know how to drink it. Absinthe is a strong drink and technically mildly poisonous too. However drunk well it is quite a strong and nice drink. I made a bottle last about 2 years, which is handy as going to east europe is quite hard to do if you just want a bottle of Absinthe.

The proper way to drink Absinthe is to have a small measure in a glass, get a slotted teaspoon, put a sugar cube on it and slowly pour cold water over the sugar until it disolves making it 1 part Absinthe to around 4 to 6 parts water. However my method means that you end up with a scotch like drink that won't kill your brain.

I love Scotch too and again I can make a good bottle of Scoth last over a year. The only ways to drink scotch is neat or mixed with a small amount of coldish spring water (not tap) or ice made from spring water. I prefer water and then spend the next couple of hours drinking it.

I also love Sake.

 

True,were am from whisky drinkers mix it with tap water but we have "soft" water here unlike certain places in the UK were they have "hard" water...does that make sense? hehe

 

That's most of Britain barred from drinking then lol

 

stop putting the money into booze and buy yourself a bunch of classic/import consoles and games. You'll get the same euphoric feeling with no hangover.

 

The question is not "Am I an alcoholic?" but "Am I a lightweight?"

There nothing wrong at the moment with what your doing. Its called growing up. ome back when you can drink a bottle of After Shock.

 

If it feels like too much, then it probably is. Everyone is different. Listen to what your brain and body tells you. I do not think you are an alcoholic though, unless you are getting drunk to escape problems. In that case, it's a bad sign.

 

Pfft, I can finish a bottle of JD on a good night out in a few hours, two aftershocks would have my head in the toilet in minutes, would rather drink a homeless mans festering urine than that rubbish, probably have more alcohol in it anyway.

 

I have yet to drink. =(

 

Sometimes though water can make you throw up, even if you wait like an ho ur after heavy drinking to drink water.