Seizure from drinking?

[spunkmeyer]

Is it possible to have a seizure after drinking WAY too much?

I do not have a history of seizures, I've never had one. However after a night of entirely too much drinking (8hrs later), I was throwing up and right before I was about to, I felt like I was dreaming? and the next thing I know I am shaking uncontrollably and my face is smashing into the toilet bowl, resulting in a bloody lip.

I can only guess that this lasted about 15 seconds or so. I felt as if I was dreaming the entire time and then once I realized It was real I snapped out of it, with a bloody lip.

I almost feel as if it didn't happen..

did I have a Seizure?

[IBKleen]

WOW. I don't know if it was an actual seizure; however, have you considered not doing that again?

You even admiited to "drinking WAY too much"....so, whatever happens after that could be a number of things. Try NOT drinking..see if it happens again???????

Just a suggestion.

[mddie]

My brother use to have seizures with drinking... my advice is to get help, because when it comes to the point where you are having fits, you need help!!

[spunkmeyer]

Please let me clarify, I've been drinking for 10 years. I've probably thrown up from drinking about 5 times in my life, this being one of the times.

I do not drink everyday, I don't even drink every weekend (although I used to).

What puzzles me is I did not even have that much to drink, I am almost thinking that I may have possibly been drugged.

[mddie]

how much do you drink and how often?

[spunkmeyer]

Hard to say.. I don't have a 'set schedule' of drinking.. I'd say it's extremely rare if I drink at all during the week, *IF* I do it will be one or two beers. I usually drink on the weekends socially, or for events (weddings, birthdays, etc)..

The amount will vary, most of the time I just stick to beer, usually about 1 or 2 an hour, and I only drink Light beer. Sometimes I will throw shots into the mix but it really depends on the occasion, the people I'm with, etc.

[mddie]

I reckon that was then a one off due to the bender... alcoholic poisoning.  Just make sure you don't do it again

[spunkmeyer]

I was thinking the same thing, I did not know you could have a seizure from alcohol poisioning.

I don't think I'll be touching alcohol for a while..def not hard alcohol..

I was mixing patron with jagermeister, and beer :( bad idea...

Thanks again!

[mddie]

no problem... you certainly don't drink enough to be having alcohol related fits, my bother was on six litres of cider a day... and if he couldn't get it, then he fitted.  don't obsess about it, just learn from it and don't mix drinks, worse thing you can do.

[Manyquests]

Can you have a seizure when withdrawing from alcohol?

[rdde]

I have heard of people having seizures from alcohol withdawal the "DT"`s.
After a "good" wknd somtimes i twitch in my sleep and it wakes me up, somtimes i even make a wierd little noise also at these times it feels as tho i`m not actualy asleep. Its no so much my limbs that twitch altho they do but more so my head. I have also noticed some blood in my snot. I dont drink all the time mainly occasions on the weekend but there have been a few in a row lately

[Wolfwind]

Yes you can have seizures from drinking, along with strokes. I had a stroke when I was just hung over, and didn't know it until I had a flash back a year into recovery from alcoholism.  I was told that it doesn't matter what I drink, how much I drink, it is what happens when I drink. If I start having blackouts throwing up, and breaking out in spots like other states, jail, or getting into fights ect. I may want to stop doing the booze.  It sounds like you suffered acute alcohol poisening, and maybe your system is reacting alergically to the alcohol. I got to a point that I broke out in hives when I drank!

[msmarlowe]

Yes, you can have seizure from drinking too much and then stop drinking after you have been drinking for a long time...My mom has done this many many times...they do but her on something like depakote thats for bipolar and also helps with the seizures.

[roguehawkfan]

I had a seizure trying to withdrawl from alcohol. Didnt even know I did until I woke up in the hospital. Doctors said that was really risky way to stop alcohol after many years of heavy drinking. But, being I was so used to having it I went right back and got drunk 2 days later. nasty addiction.

[squeaky957]

Yes, my wife is an alcoholic, and has had several seizures after drinking. She, as one might expect, swears it has nothing to do with alcohol, but she has never had one without first consuming alcohol.