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Thanks, for being honest and your story is very familiar to me in some sense. Though I could never drink 10 beers for 4 days, even before PN; I certainly understand what you mean.
Not long ago, I went to the show to see the new Superman film (it's great, by the way) and my friend hands me a huge Pink Lemonade. He says there's about 2 or 3 shots of Bacardi in it. I figure 1 shot equals about 1 beer, so I start drinking, figuring I would not drink it all. ....However, I did.
When the show was over, I get up feeling pretty buzzed, but not overtly drunk. Still, he takes out the Bacardi bottle and I see it was a Pint and I notice almost all of it is gone, with him drinking about half of it, and me, the other half.
I was like -"Dude, I thought you said there was only a couple of shots in there. This is like half the freakin' bottle, man!"
He just shrugs and says: "Relax, man, that's not all that much!"
The thing is, when I get home that night, I have a big flare up that lasts until the late morning the next day.
Now, I get
angry with myself, first off, there was a huge storm that day, very,very humid and hardcore rain - so, I knew my PN was probably going to flare up some anyway.
Then, I didn't
prepare the drink myself (really, really stupid of me) also, for some reason, the drink simply didn't taste very strong to me. Why did I
not notice that it had much more Bacardi in it then I thought???
I kind of figured all alcohol is the same for us, but I must say that despite what others claim, hard alcohol such as Vodka and Bacardi does indeed, affect me much worse than my regular light beers.
I don't know why that is?
I hardly ever drink hard liquor, and perhaps it's what it is mixed with as well (usually some very sweet ice tea or lemonade).
My lesson was learned very quickly - in my particular case; do
NOT drink hard liquor at all!
It is possible that the flare up was caused by the massive storm that day, too, but I feel it was probably a
combination of both. Also, the longer, elapsed time I usually take to drink was
not in action, as I had drank what equaled to about 6 beers in less than 3 hours that night at the show. I
never do that with beer. So, that did not help either.
As it is, using some odd techniques, I have managed to cut my drinking down in half so far without much of a problem.
BTW; despite the Superman movie being about 2 and a half hours long- it was great, full of action and a fine story plot -- it really surprised me how much so...unless of course, my perception of its
greatness was altered by me being buzzed. LOL
