Why cant i feel pain when drunk?

Question

well i just got into a huge fight this weekend, me and my freind took on about 10 guys and we absotuely wasted the whole lot at a night club, while getting attacked and fighting back i couldnt feel anything i was drunk, anyway i woke up with a lump on my head the size of a basketball, and now its got me wondering why couldnt i feel anything last night when i was drunk...

Answer 1

Alcohol is a great pain killer.

Answer 2

Alcohol,

a great anesthesia.

Answer 3

Alcohol dulls nerve endings, along with lots of other things (blood vessels, etc.)  So you can fight all night, but that's about all you can do...if you know what I mean.

It could also have been the adrenaline your body was creating during the fight.  It does the same thing as alcohol, (kill pain, close blood vessels) except it focuses your attention.

Of course, most anything you drink has small amounts of poison in it (besides the alcohol itself!) and that's what gives you the hangover.  That, and the dehydration.  Your best bet is to drink lots of water while boozing it up AND the next morning.  Asprin will help the pain.  

Answer 4

because when your drunk you turn into superman

but seriously its the alchohol killing your brain cells  

Answer 5

Coz you was drunk?

Answer 6

Because you are comfortably numb.

Answer 7

all the alcoholic drinks after a reasonable quantity alcoholic drinks have a tendancy to numb your brain slow down your reflexes and also lower down your sensitivity to pain and other sensations  it is like taking a local Anesthesia, it is only after the effect of alcohol or the anesthesia wades off you realize the pain or the intensity of pain

Answer 8

alcohol when drank in excess lowers your senses and perception. alcohol can make you feel no pain at all or it can make the pain feel worse just depends on who you are.

Answer 9

Because that's what alcohol does. You cannot feel pain drunk. You know those little trick electrocution pens? My friend was drunk at a party last weekend... he held down the button for like 15 minutes going WEEEEEEEE until he ran out the battery.