Other Spiked?

[LucyLou]

I went out last night, with my friend. I remember bits from the start of the night when we went to an event at local cricket club but I don't remember much at all from when we went to a bar. From speaking to my friend this morning, she said she doesn't understand how drunk I was because we'd drank the same amount but she was saying how I couldn't even walk, was being sick and she couldn't find me for half hour and she'd called our other friend around 2am to say she thought I'd been spiked. She had 2 guys from the bar help to bring us back to her house and they helped me to bed (my friend sleeps downstairs). Now, I'm not saying that anything has happened or not, because I genuinely don't remember but what I've not told my friend is that I have woken up with no underwear on and I've got pains in my stomach. I know this could be nothing but at the same time, what if it is something. I know this is on me and I shouldn't have drank like I did. How would I even know if I was spiked?

 

[Dynamic]

Can you get a blood test at the drs or hospital? Tell them exactly this.

 

[Movingforward10]

If you think your drink has been spiked, that is a potential crime so like @Defaultxlove says, a hospital or a centre, or even the police if you felt that reporting a potential crime would help, could do a toxicology test.

 

[No More]

Statistically the very vast majority of ‘spiking’ cases aren’t so. But the advice is always if you think you have, then you need to go and get a blood test to look for potential substances. It was hot yesterday, and that has an effect on drinking. Things like dehydration, lack of food etc can all affect how badly alcohol hits you. If you can usually drink 5 pints but were done on 3, then that’s less of a concern than if you can usually drink 10 and were like this after 1. I can drink 5x the amount of some friends, and some can drink 5x the amount I can - do that’s not really a great measure.

Secondly, dump your ‘friend’. That’s terrible friend behaviour. You don’t let two random guys from a bar into your house, and then take your drunk friend up to bed. I’ve had very drunk friends before and not once have I ever let random guys deal with them. I have definitely taken clothes off friends (not underwear) before putting them to bed because they were covered in sick, and I’ve cleaned them up best I can with towels and wipes. If they are that bad I’d always stay in the same room incase they puke while they are asleep. Quite frankly, your friend is a royal asshole.

 

[Friday]

In the US any ER will run a blood test, rape kit, & get you the appropriate meds (morning after & STD) if you go in and tell them you think you’ve been roofied. It’s either incredibly kind, or majorly dehumanising, depending on nothing but sheer damn luck. IE whose on shift, and what kind of day/life they’ve had.

 

[RainbowSearchParty]

I'm pretty sure I had a drink spiked a few years ago. I didn't got to the hospital and get tested (should have, but didn't have the mental capacity to get myself there). I know how frightening it can be -- when I finally came around the next day my underwear was on inside out and backwards, and I'm not sure how it would have gotten that way .....

Rape kits can be done even if some time has passed, so please go get one. Don't shower first. Just go.

After it happened to me I did phone a doctor to ask about potential interactions with my own meds, and the doctor told me that most drugs have a short halflife, and pass through your system fast, so there isn't a lot of concern about the drug itself, just whatever happened while you were drugged. So go to the emergency room. If nothing else it helps to establish patterns of where drink spiking is happening so the police can help to stop it.

it's always better to err on the side of caution in cases like these.

 

[LucyLou]

Spoke to my therapist this morning about what may or may not have happened on the sat/sun. She also said it sound like I was spiked. Said I was sounding panicky/scared, which I obviously agree with but also said I sounded disconnected....I don't understand what she meant by this?. I've been to my pharmacy and they've given me the morning after pill (I know it's been a couple days, they said it works up to 5 days) I don't want any testing. I can't do that

 

[Friday]

I can't do that

You don’t have to get a rape kit to get an STD/STI test. If you’d test for cholesterol, or drugs for a job? Get the stupid STD/STI test. It’s blood and urine. We used to get them weekly, when enlisted.

 

[LucyLou]

I've looked into STD testing but from what I've read, I have to wait until 2 weeks after?