Tolerance sucks.

[TheUltimateFixx]

Have reached the point where I'm definitely gonna have to take a break to lower my tolerance, because 4 pint cans of extra strength beer at a cost of £10 consumed in a single hour are now just barely getting me slightly tipsy.

I'm cut off from my heroin supply for which drink in any case for me is just a lame substitute, and I am majorly pissed off and generally unsatisfied.

 

[Jabberwocky]

Alcohol tolerance lowers relatively quickly compared to other drugs, about 5 days can reset tolerance. UNLESS you're an alcoholic and have been drinking for years, it can take 2-3 weeks or longer.

 

[paranoid android]

Ya i remember my alcoholic uncle would give it up before hed go back to work on a oil rig, suffer through the dt's, then get loaded drunk when he came home. So tolerance doesent last all that long.

 

[TheUltimateFixx]

Alcohol tolerance lowers relatively quickly compared to other drugs, about 5 days can reset tolerance. UNLESS you're an alcoholic and have been drinking for years, it can take 2-3 weeks or longer.

I've been going pretty hard for about the last decade.

 

[VerbalTruist]

Are you trying to dry out completely?

 

[TheUltimateFixx]

Are you trying to dry out completely?

Hard nope. I just wanna cut it out until my body allows me to get decently drunk again without spending a fucking fortune and pissing in about equal time to the actual drinking.

 

[Jabberwocky]

Hard nope. I just wanna cut it out until my body allows me to get decently drunk again without spending a fucking fortune and pissing in about equal time to the actual drinking.

For me and my tolerance it takes about a week to notice an appreciable decrease (to the point where I need 1 or 2 less beers to reach my desired drunkenness).

About 15-20 days for my tolerance to go down to near baseline.

2-3 day breaks seem to do nothing for me

 

[TheUltimateFixx]

For me and my tolerance it takes about a week to notice an appreciable decrease (to the point where I need 1 or 2 less beers to reach my desired drunkenness).

About 15-20 days for my tolerance to go down to near baseline.

2-3 day breaks seem to do nothing for me

I think I'll take about a month off and see how it goes.

 

[jasperkent]

The stress of dealing with my mom (who has dementia) being in hospital with Covid and now needs to go to an assisted living facility which I'm not even sure I can afford, plus she calls me 20 to 30 times a day.....well, I've been hitting the bottle pretty hard.

Once I get things squared away with her and get OKed at work I'm gonna have to detox in rehab for a week or so. I've rarely been successful at doing it on my own. I need medical detox. There was a time when I could do it with black market benzodiazepines....not anymore...the fentanyl and all that, ya know.

Wish me luck, y'all. I'm getting too old for this shit.

Love ya,
The Old Hippiebilly