Originally Posted by
intention 
I blackout every time I drink, even if I don't drink to oblivion and actually pass out.
I am not making any excuses for this as I know it is a problem hence the reason I have now quit drinking but I am just curious about something.
My tolerance to alcohol has gone up over time in that I need more to get drunk but my threshold at which I blackout has lowered.
A few times recently I have been out for social meals and because I am in company I only have maximum 3 glasses of wine. I know from what people have told me that I appeared fine, a little tipsy but just like everyone else but I have no recollection of anything after those drinks until I sober up a couple of hours later.
Has alcohol damaged my brain? I have been reading about P.A.W.S. and a few months ago I did 6 weeks sober and I noticed real problems with my short term memory, in that I was forgetting things from 5 minutes ago and it was really frustrating.
I ask this because I spoke to another alcoholic today who experienced blackouts really quickly after a couple of drinks and they never used to.
Any thoughts or explanations of this would be appreciated. Thanks.
Hi Intention !
I don't know weather this will be helpful or not, but I read your post and this is what I found on that subject.
It was suprising to me and made sense.
Supposedly its cause by blood alcohol levels rising too fast, from drinking too much in a short period of time.
I can post a link to the rest of this one if you like!
Binge Drinking and Blackouts
• Drinkers who experience blackouts typically drink too much and too quickly, which causes their blood alcohol levels to rise very rapidly. College students may be at particular risk for experiencing a blackout, as an alarming number of college students engage in binge drinking. Binge drinking, for a typical adult, is defined as consuming five or more drinks in about 2 hours for men, or four or more drinks for women