I use to do what I call a brown-out, I would remember some stuff from the beginning of the night then remember nothing after the 7th or 8th shot and 8 or 9 beers. I'd only get black-out drunk once or twice a month if I was doing good back in the day. I use to be a really heavy drinker and I would hardly ever puke off booze, it was the food I would eat that would fuck up my stomach. I built up a pretty good tolerance to booze over the years and I was able to put a 5th of sailor Jerry away a night and still be 'fine' and functional. It wasn't until I had health problems that I slowed down the drinking.

Do alcoholics build up some type of tolerance that removes the crippling nausea barrier?

Yes.

I've heard before that your alcohol tolerance never goes down. If you stop smoking weed for a month, your thc tolerance basically goes back to zero. With alcohol, you're constantly increasing the amount it takes to "get you where you want to go."

When people make enough of a lifestyle out of it, they can get to where their "appropriate dose" is enough to make their body want to shut down.

Some people also have the genetics for it.

You sound like you're not an alcoholic. You should treasure your low tolerance. It makes things cheaper. Better yet; go off the sauce. (pic8.co)

Dedication.

When I was boozing I was using it to numb myself and ultimately fall asleep because of depression and insomnia. At first a handful of drink would do it. I could have a few beers, feel numb and then easily just go to sleep. But you build up a tolerence. After a while it takes a sixer. Then only hard liquor will do. Over time only a crap ton of hard liquor, so much so that you blavkout and piss yourself, because anything less would not be enough to numb you or help you sleep.

I do not recommend using alcohol to self medicate of course, but that's how I got to regular blackout.

I never have more than 3 drinks in an evening. Reason being is that I know I'll be absolutely miserable for the next day if I don't stop there. I hear claims of co-workers drinking a 30 pack of beer in one evening and I can only assume they're lying.

A 30pack of 12 ounce cans of beer with an alcohol content of 5% contains 2.67 gallons of water alone. The kidneys can filter about 32 ounces per hour, so it would take over 10 hours to drink that much water.. never mind the 17 ounces or so of alcohol that the liver would have to process.

Thanks for asking this question. I am happy to answer.

As an alcoholic who has been at it for awhile, it is not like you would expect.

The weird thing, or weird belief, about alcoholism, is that it should go away if you do not feed it.

Even if you do not feed your alcoholism, it gets stronger.

I was sober for more than five months; I drank about 3/4 of a bottle of whiskey after that amount of sobriety; I felt fine afterwards, there were no (immediate) health consequences.

Let me know if you have any questions.

"Winners never quit, quitters never win"

The only way I can even imagine blacking out drunk is if I theoretically decided to ?keep pounding liquor while violently vomiting?

Yeah I don't vomit, it's a genetic thing. Both sides of my family are potato niggers