The new forums will be named Coin Return (based on the most recent vote)! You can check on the status and timeline of the transition to the new forums here.
Please vote in the Forum Structure Poll. Polling will close at 2PM EST on January 21, 2025.
Alcohol + Urination = Near Passing Out
jotate
Registered User regular
Registered User regular
So here's a weird thing I've noticed over the past few years of drinking but never thought to ask anyone about. If I'm drinking and then go to the bathroom, I get *extremely* light headed while actually urinating. To the point where I regularly will pinch it off, sit down, and continue from there. I've never gotten to the point where I've passed out or vomited, but I feel as though I've been pretty close. It's an extremely displeasing transition from a pleasant intoxication to a severe sense of flailing consciousness. Leading into it, I'm perfectly fine. Walking out, I usually regain my wits in a minute or two - sometimes with an extremely warm feeling in my limbs.
In terms of frequency, I'd say it occurs fairly infrequently. Maybe 10-20% of the time (out of all the times I drink+piss which obviously is just about every time I drink at all). This question is placed after an extreme occurrence tonight. I went to the bathroom, started feeling the sensation at the urinal, then realized that there was no available stall to halt and relocate to. Walked backed to our table genuinely unsure if I was going to take a face plant into the floor.
I'm sure the appropriate response is "Go see a doctor, ya dumbass." I just figured I'd toss it out there and see if anyone has a thought (or similar experience).
In terms of frequency, I'd say it occurs fairly infrequently. Maybe 10-20% of the time (out of all the times I drink+piss which obviously is just about every time I drink at all). This question is placed after an extreme occurrence tonight. I went to the bathroom, started feeling the sensation at the urinal, then realized that there was no available stall to halt and relocate to. Walked backed to our table genuinely unsure if I was going to take a face plant into the floor.
I'm sure the appropriate response is "Go see a doctor, ya dumbass." I just figured I'd toss it out there and see if anyone has a thought (or similar experience).
jotate on
0
This discussion has been closed.
Posts
you are getting dehydrated
Shogun Streams Vidya
That and you should just drink more water in general. Being hydrated is good for you.
Thank you, Rubacava!
seriously why wouldn't you
You are getting dehydrated and so you should drink water
(also reduces hangover headaches entirely if you have a few glasses before bed. You have to pee an extra time, but's alright)
I heard a lot of times that one unit of alcohol (1 glass of wine, a beer, a shot, a whiskey) should be followed by one glass of water. Of course I totally disregarded this until just recently, but it really helps. Hungovers are noticeably reduced and since it takes like 10 sec to down a glass of water there's no real reason not to.
You will also reduce the risk of going insta-drunk, which is good (fuck you vodka!)
I've had that happen to be pretty strongly happen to me after a modest amount of alcohol which normally doesn't produce that effect.
The difference was I was laying down pretty much the whole time. I got up abruptly, marched to another room, halfway there I was on the floor and nearly blacking out. Once the blood started pumping, back to normal!
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
Dehydration doesn't give me dizziness, it gives me muscle cramps in my legs and waking up by that sensation in the morning is probably the most effective and horrible thing ever.
According to my doctor, what happened here is a brownout. See the below wiki article:
Urinating, climbing stairs, or standing up too quickly can cause this, especially when dehydrated or intoxicated.
Not being dehydrated is probably a good idea as well. It does wonders for the next morning.
Do you urinate frequently? I mean, obviously if you're getting pissed you'll be urinating more often than normal... but is it a lot more often? Or, do you urinate frequently anyway? Does this ever happen when you aren't drinking? It's not likely, but it could be hypoglycemia.
I'll get more info.
You're most likely thinking of hypoxia, linked above.
but they're listening to every word I say
Alcohol disables ADH in your body.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasopressin
So, after you've well and disabled it, no amount of water drinking can actually rehydrate you because the body can't concentrate urine (retain water) until the ADH comes back online. According to the prof. this takes a few hours.
So if the dehydration is bad enough, it will lower your blood pressure, which could account for your light headed feeling.
Bonus Experiment!!!
Recreate the symptoms at home and then see if lying down relieves the dizziness. If it does, I'd be willing to bet it's low blood pressure brought on by dehydration.
Seriously
It's called MIC-TUR-ITION
welcome to the club!
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/micturition-syncope/AN01608