No effect from alcohol.

[Bi-Guy]

Every time I drink I down at least a pint of liquor, sometimes as much as a fifth, and I feel absolutely nothing off it. It's like I'm drinking water, hell, water would probably be more psychoactive.

It didn't used to be this way, I used to start to get a pleasant buzz after a few drinks, then after I got somewhere around a pint or so I would start to get drunk and it felt pretty good. So I don't even know what the problem could possibly be. I don't see how my brain just loses the ability to get drunk and enjoy ethanol, but apparently it happened. Any thoughts?

 

[jambabomba]

I did have the same problem about 8 years ago. Heh, I even remember when I was in a bar and happened to meet my personal benzo doctor there too and asked him this same question: "Can you tell me why doesn't alcohol work on me?" He was drunk and only told me "I don't know, its working good for me" and went on with his lady. Very good doctor indeed.

Anyway during the years I've learned the cause (at least in most cases I believe) is simply learning and tolerance. The more tolerance you get the more you are also learning as your glutamatergic system gets stronger opposed to GABA and thats what fastens learning. I did have cross tolerance with benzos but somehow even though I knew these things (at least tolerances) back then couldn't psychologically believe that my "safe haven" alcohol and other drugs started to petrade me leaving me empty and sad I just couldn't accept it and was searching something to cure them back. I just didn't want to believe that only thing that could heal them would be abstinence and time as they were part of my identity as I had invested my energy on them. How could you easily get loose something of your inner being? Its hard.

With LDN (naltrexone) you can "reset" your opioid system which could give you again good feeling with alcohol in a short time but GABA system would need more time to recover in natural way. Unless you use some GABA antagonists (flumazinil, ginkgo bilopa, muira puama) And learning in psychological level is hard to undo and takes time. At least we are speaking about months in most cases.

Edit: Could mention that nowdays I use naltrexone (3-6mg evning) and tried small amount of alcoholl one evening (without naltrexone of course and I don't use alcohol regularly anymore ) and damn it kicked hard. Allmost felt like I had took some opioid. It was stronger alcohol high than it is naturally without naltrexone from long abstinence. Of course the very first time with alcohol was magical but I'm not sure if it was about same level or under when speaking of that one spesific detail of experience.

 

[pasha]

homeless -> basic drug discussion

 

[PriestTheyCalledHim]

You have a tolerance to alcohol.

 

[deos68]

wish i had a tolerance like that before i was able to drink a 6 pack by myself before i even got a tiny buzz now i can only drink maybe 1 or 2 before i get hammered i never did anything different just little by little it took less and less beer to get me hammered

 

[PriestTheyCalledHim]

wish i had a tolerance like that before i was able to drink a 6 pack by myself before i even got a tiny buzz now i can only drink maybe 1 or 2 before i get hammered i never did anything different just little by little it took less and less beer to get me hammered

If you still drink a large amount you now have a reverse tolerance.

If you stopped drinking your tolerance just went down, or went away.

 

[Bi-Guy]

It doesn't seem like it's tolerence, I don't think I've drank enough alcohol in my life to create a reserve tolerence, that sounds like a Frank Sinatra thing lol.