Am I the only one who somehow never gets hung over after having been totally smashed the night before? I can get so drunk that I can’t pull off standing up, and after a night of sleep be fine. Is it normal to have a headache and sensitive eyes, or is that just some of the time? Several of my friends say that they, like me just don’t get hung over. Anyone else like this?
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Has anyone else discovered the phenomenon of beer unlocking drunkenness? I can drink a lot of hard stuff and be buzzed, but if I combine the same with a single beer I can get really messed up. It can be before, after or in the middle, but I can’t easily get too drunk without at least one beer thrown in. Anyone else have this problem?
While I have never been much of a drinker, I used to get drunk in my younger years. I didn’t get hung over at all when I first started drinking which was when I was in my teens. By my mid to late 20’s the hangovers were at the point that it wasn’t worth it. I may be a bad source because I have only been wasted drunk a handfull of times and I’ve never been so drunk that I have passed out.
I know what you mean - I never get hung over either. If I’ve gotten absolutely smashed the night before, the morning/afternoon after, I can experience various moments of disassociation. For instance, I’ll be sitting infront of the television, and it will take me awhile to realise that I’m actually writing at the same time.
Can’t help you out with the second bit, though. Beer. Ick. I don’t go near the stuff. :eek:
I’m the opposite. I can drink beer all day long (and I mean all day long) and just have a little buzz, but then someone says “here, you crazy germaniac, do a shot of jager”, and I’m on the floor.
I had a memorial day BBQ this year wherein we had a ‘hairy buffalo’ punch that I drank, and drank, and drank. I also passed out at 6:30 while all of my friends continued to have fun at my house. Totally humiliating.
The moral of the story is, I’m not drinking alcohol anymore (for at least a month), because I don’t ever want to feel [red hot chili peppers]LIKE I DID THAT DAY[/red hot chili peppers].
And I find it amazing that at the age of 28, people still laugh at me when I go to a bar and get a coke. “You pussy, come on, have a shot with me”, and I say “I’m not drinking, I’m cutting down” and they howl with laughter.
You mean to tell me someone hasn’t already chimed in here with the “Oh God of Hangovers” from Hogfather? Little mystical guy whose sole function after he’d been called into existence was to take the hangovers for all those annoying people who wake up and say “Oh, I had twelve lagers and a curry last night, and fresh as a daisy this morning!”
I hate those people.
I’ve minimized my hangover quota over time, but the best precepts are:
1)No mixing. Drink one thing all night long. Or, if you must mix, mix downwards on the alcohol scale. Never mix beer and wine if possible.
Drink a pint of water for every (or two) pint of alcohol consumed
Stay away from high-sugar drinks, like grasshoppers and Pink Ladies, and Slippery Nipples and Malibu and Cokes. You’re just asking for it.
Take aspirin and drink more water before going to bed. Greasy, spicy food post-drunk is also good. Now that Taco Bell’s open until 03.00, we have no excuse anymore.
And if you’ve ignored all of the above, take a brutally hot shower after ingesting a prairie oyster, consisting of one raw egg, red Tabasco sauce, and Worcestershire sauce in a small glass. If it don’t make you puke, it’ll make you feel better. My alternate is menudo, but tripe, hominy and pigs’ feet can be hard to face in the morning.
I’ve never gotten a hangover after drinking homebrew. Current theory says the brewer’s yeast that gets filtered out of commercial beer replenishes what the body uses up trying to get rid of the alcohol, and homebrew still has the yeast in it.
However, the one time I got falling-down drunk was drinking some 13% cider I made. I had three in an hour and a half and then thought, gee, that’s like having nine beers. Uh-oh.
I think everybody has something they can drink all day and feel nothing, and something they can’t be in the same room with, and it’s all based on stomach flora and intestinal fortitude.
Like I said in the other thread, Lucky, people hate us for it.
Interestingly enough, Ethilrist, I’ve never managed to give anyone a hangover with my homebrewed mead–despite the fact that it’s extremely sweet and contains enough alcohol for a 12 oz bottle to get a hard-drinking college student and his (very large) dog too drunk to stand up. I’m told that mead can produce hangovers of legendary proportion, but I’ve never seen one. I don’t really buy the idea that it’s the yeast–once I’ve let it settle and reracked it a couple of times, it’s perfectly clear with almost no sediment. I can’t believe that there’s enough yeast left to make a difference.
I never, ever, used to get hangovers, then I started drinking. Kidding, just trying to make this a moment ot remember.
Anywho…Uh, yeah, I never used to get hangovers, though sometimes I would get a dull throb above my right eye-brow. The odd thing was, when it did happen, it only ever happened around 5-6 PM, rather than first thing in the morning (and not because that’s when I was waking up or that I was still drunk, either.)
Dehydration is a bitch, kids. Like Falsie said, drinking water is a boon, as is staying away from sugars.
In college and in the Marines, I would pick up a (1 liter) bottle of Capt. Morgans Friday night or Saturday afternoon and it would be gone by morning. Once, on a 32-hour bus ride from OSU to Aspen, I put away a 1.75 while maintaining order amongst the commoners (I was the V-P of ski club and had to change keep spirits up by changing movies and passing beers.) No hangovers in any of these cases. It might be that I only drank the rum, but who knows.
Nowadays, I make a point to drink a large glass of water before bed. Usually takes care of any brain-shrink problems, though waking up at 5 to pee and taking a Goodies Powder and some more water is a good idea, too. fixed italics tags for the hungover thinksnow
Your time will come, my friend. Make no mistake. The day will arrive when you wake up after a long night of partying and you will feel like dried-up apeshit. The older you get, the less resilient you become to bodily insult.
As has been said in previous posts, water helps. Part of the reason for hangovers is that you get dehydrated from the alcohol. And I also agree that what you drink can play a part too. I’ve made my own beer, cider and mead. I never got hungover from my own beer and mead, but the cider you had to respect. Red wine will give me a huge headache too.
Now go out and party for me, cuz I can’t do it myself without paying for it!
(Just thought that since we were discussing the topic, we might as well view the divine writ on it. Note that he strongly advises against taking aspirin before you start to drink, though after is fine, and of course you should not take Tylenol before (or along with) the consumption of alcoholic beverages.)
As for me, I don’t get alcohol hangovers. But then, I don’t get drunk very often, and when I do, it isn’t falling-down-drunk - it’s more like seriously tipsy. I do, however, get hangovers from other drugs (prescription, of course - I would never do anything that Uncle Sam says I shouldn’t!), especially ones like codiene. I notice that thirstiness and dry membranes are primary characteristics of the hangover-like experiences I have with these meds, and I wonder if the mechanism is similar.
Well, I’m Peter Pan when it comes to this stuff, I partied hard before college, partied hard every night in college, and at the ripe old age of 25 still party like a Belushi. I’ve watched my college friends go from relaible corruptors on the slightest urging to ‘only have a couple beers at a BBQ before heading home’. As these guys got closer to graduation it was comical to watch their misery the morning after grow. It definately is affected by age. As most people get older, hangovers become more and more oppressive.
This rule however doesn’t seem to apply to everyone. Personally aside from a dry mouth and being really thirsty I have never had a hangover of any kind. But then again I’ve had like 2 headaches in my entire life for any reason, so I’m guessing I got lucky in some phyisological lottery. If I have a couple big glasses of water before passing out I will be 100% after 5 or 6 hours, if I forget the water I’ll spend a half hour or so rehydrating in the AM, but after that I’m fine.
I think the more carbonated a beverage is the more prone to dehydration you are, and that might be why for some champange and beer make for such horrible hangovers. I’m not sure of the biology of the process so this is just a emperical assumption.
I have a pretty strong tolerance, but I do notice that on a given night I may not be able to get drunk on beer no matter what I do. On the other hand other nights I’ll be feeling good after 4 or 5. The same applies to hard liquor too, and I tyically don;t think I’m more likely to get out of control if I mix or not. When I do shots after I’ve been drinking for a while, I tend to get sloppy, but I don;t think thats because its hard liquor as opposed to just getting large volumes quickly ontop of a already high BAC.
Either way, I’m getting thirsty, who wants to go out?
Thinksnow, IIRC it isn’t a good idea to mix asprin and alcohol, or maybe it was tylenol? One ofthe two will kill your liver.
I personally have never been hungover, of course I have never been drunk. And I am 21, legal in the United States.
I dont know if I ever will get wasted. Unless I happen to go to a dopefest, Wonko the Sane owes me a double scotch, thanks to my shaved rodent thread, and I am sure I can get a few drinks from other people too.
Like jarbabyj, I’ve got a Jager problem too. Whooooo buddy. I’ve had it twice in my life. You’d think I’d have learned from the first time. The stuff tastes really, really good, but it knocks me on my face. And it’s left me hung over. I don’t normally have that problem.
I’ve found that if I stick with one thing (or maybe one thing plus one shot), I’m okay. Oh, and I’ve got to eat first. If I drink on a full stomach, I may get drunk, but I don’t feel crappy when I wake up.
another person who doesn’t get hangovers. Even the time I drank an entire 1/5th or is it 5th?? of Jack Daniels all by my self. Whoa I was hammered but woke up the next morning with only a bad taste in my mouth. Brushed and everything was fine with the world. The best part of this talent is makes people like spooje mad when you bring it up everytime they have one
I want to laugh like Mutley but don’t know how to type it out, sigh. And I think I’m getting over the [A]stuff[/A] way of doing it. oh well
Until I was 36 I had suffered only one hangover at 19 and it was, I’m quite positive, God’s Divine Admonishment that Southern Girls were not ever, under any circumstances, to drink ouzo.
Believe me, I listened. I don’t even cook with the stuff.
After 36, I discovered two things: One, never drink Tequila Rose when the rest of your drinking that night is Tequila shots, and two, no matter how cool and almost always right Garry is, Rattlesnakes are not supposed to be brown!
I’ve only had one hangover ever. It was from beer too. I can drink tequila, vodka, bacardi, pretty much any hard liquor (though a despise the taste of quite a bit of it) and I’ll be fine. I usually take it in mized drunks though, and even if it’s sugary or full of caffeine it doesn’t bug me the next morning. I’ll get really cuddly and tipsy but perfectly fine the next morning. Beer messes up my system though, the one night that my cousin kept handing me beer I drank 11 bottles and even then my stomach was jus slightly mad at me in the morning and I slept in. So I guess I’m blessed.
