Thanks for all the advice.
As I recall we were averaging 3 glasses per 750ml bottle, so 250 ml per (big wine glasses) glass. I had 4 and a half glasses, so I guess about a bottle and a half of wine or so. The wine was 13.5% in strength.
I am feeling a bit better now (9pm). I drank Kyra's remedy. The vertigo has gone now when I stand up.
This afternoon was brutal though. I couldn't go back to sleep as everything was spinning around and making me feel sick when I was in bed. I couldn't stand up without getting off balance, so all I could do was sit in my desk chair and surf the web & Terb. Reading on-screen wasn't a problem. The vertigo was my main complaint, the sick stomach next, headache wasn't that bad - I have a high threshold for pain, so maybe the headache was bad but I just don't feel that sort of thing much (headache pain). The vertigo was what was bugging me the most. Didn't want to drive to the store for food, etc due to the vertigo so just sat at my desk. Ate some leftovers from the fridge.
Funny thing is, after the party broke up at 2-3am, I was feeling fine. No vertigo, no headache, no sick stomach, no problems. I walked a mile and a half home, feeling good, and even gave myself a field sobriety test by walking a straight line and touching my nose, and both tests seemed fine. When I got home I wasn't tired or sick, surfed the web for 40 minutes, sent e-mails, had a shower, brushed my teeth, then went to bed feeling fine. At noon today though when I woke up the vertigo was intese, stomach making strange noises and sick feeling in stomach with no desire for food. Also clammy hands and arms and I was sweating a lot. Not a pleasant afternoon/early evening.
I guess the stuff has cleared my system more now. I limit myself to two glasses so as not to break the drinking and driving laws (I live in the sticks and need to drive everywhere) but yesterday I walked to the party as the house was close enough to do so and so I let myself get carried away with the quantity as I knew I wouldn't be driving home and would be walking.
Strange thing is, when I left the party and felt fine and passed my field sobriety tests, I was thinking how competant I felt to drive (not that I would have obviously having consumed a bottle and a half as I know better) and how my not driving was totally a mental decision based on my knowing in my mind I drank too much to drive, and that it was illegal/unsafe, but not a result of any symptoms of actual impairment or not being able to walk a straight line, etc. This afternoon though I FELT like total crap and wouldn't have wanted to touch car keys with a ten foot pole.
Anyway, thanks for the advice and I am happy to report, while not 100%, the worst has appeared to have passed.
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