Does alcohol worsen your stuttering?

[LIfE]

I'm usually pretty fluent the morning after a long night of boozing, too. It's probably because i drink so much that i wake up tipsy. I talk pretty clearly when i'm tired, too.

[maxamillion]

I used to use alcohol fairly often to help manage my stuttering. After a few drinks I don't scan ahead looking for words or situations that I may stutter on. When i'm drinking I don't think about my speech nearly as often has when i'm sober. I believe the alcohol loosens up my vocal cords which means that it takes more pressure and anxiety to block or stutter.

I believe pagoclone basically mimics the effects of alcohol without the actual intoxication and nasty hangover. So if your one of those stutters who becomes more fluent while drinking then Pagoclone might be something to look into. . . . . in a couple of years of course

[Derek181]

i found that drinking alcohol in my younger teenage years helped big time. i used to love drinking because then i would be fluent and talk perfectly but that lead to me always over drinking because i wanted to get drunk to talk fluently. but now even if i drink it doesnt matter.... the effect wore off on me i think. pagoclone seems like a neat thing to try.... what other things do they perscribe it for?

[Asif]

Originally Posted by Derek181

i found that drinking alcohol in my younger teenage years helped big time. i used to love drinking because then i would be fluent and talk perfectly but that lead to me always over drinking because i wanted to get drunk to talk fluently. but now even if i drink it doesnt matter.... the effect wore off on me i think. pagoclone seems like a neat thing to try.... what other things do they perscribe it for?

When I was in my 20s, alcohol did make a difference, some anyway.
But that was probably because my stutter was soooo bad.
In later years, well, I get drunk maybe once every two years, and only on Tequila, it does help once I get to the point where I love everyone I meet.
My wife says I am the nicest drunk she has ever met. I get friendlier and friendlier until I fall down. Which is interesting in itself: most drunks seem to get more belligerent.
Could it be that stutterers wear a spiky suit of armor sober, but start taking it off when drunk?

I have found that drugs make it worse, with the sole exception of Psilocybe mushrooms - a hallucinogen. Taken in an underdose quantity, I would actually seek out social contact rather than trying to avoid it, which was mostly the case before.

But honestly I could never recommend either drugs or alcohol. At best they may hide speech dysfluency, which isn't really helping it.

[DKoz]

Drinking itself does not make my stutter worse. But if I do drink too much and they next day I have a hangover, then the stutter hits harder with a vengeance!

[Zachary]

I experience something similar. My fluency increases greatly while intoxicated. However, it worsens the morning after. I don't drink much anymore due to this, I figure it is affecting something and can't be healthy whatsoever.