Hmm, I suppose I’ve had hangovers in the past but how can I be sure? I generally get a real bad migraine-like sinus headache with some nausea BUT I get similar headaches with nausea occasionally without drinking (just due to pollution or allergies or changes in air pressure) so I’m thinking that the feeling I get is not really caused by the alcohol but by an allergic reaction to the hops for instance.
They feel great, man!
Try this. Right after work/school this aft get yourself a bottle of rum, a bottle of Jack, some brew, and some wine. Make yourself a whole bunch of Mai Tais, wash them down with Jack and Coke. Don’t ruin the effect by eating anything - remember that beer is liquid bread. Start the eve off and end it with wine. Shots of vodka are always fun as well. What you are aiming for is the perfect combination of volume and speed.
DO NOT wimp out by allowing yourself to throw up.
Let us know how you feel in the morning. It’s fantastic, I tell you!
With their fingers.
You are not sure you have had a hangover? Have you ever gotten really, really drunk? The effects you feel the morning after would be the hangover.
My symtoms are dry mouth, dry eyes, sensative to loud or sudden noises (not a normal headache) and the inabliity to eat a lot even though I am hungry. But I never had nasuea. For me it is usually worse when I don’t get enough sleep.
If you get those effects even if you had only one drink the night before then you may have an allergic reaction. I’m not a doctor but I would think the reaction would start shortly after the alcohol enters the blood stream. It seems wierd that it would come 10 hours later. But then again, I am not a doctor.
Hello my name is NYR407 and I am a… I figured I would say it first before someone else does. I’m not but at least I know I learned something in College.
I’ll level with you. They’re awful. AWFUL.
The worst hangover of my life… [cue dream sequence]
the day after Rockstock ‘97…it was a kickin’ concert. I ate nothing all day. Then I went out and had: eight or nine Miller Lite’s, four shots, half a bottle of champagne and a bread stick.
I woke up with both of my knees bleeding.
Then, my head was pounding, it felt like it would actually split in half. I lay in the hotel room squeezing my head together. Went to get some cool water.
Puked my brains out. Broke a blood vessel in my eye.
Lay down again, crying.
Get up and throw up again an hour later. Try to drink more water.
Figure that taking a shower will help.
it doesn’t. Throw up again IN THE SHOWER, leaning against the wall.
OK, so the stomach is EMPTY.
Still can’t drink water. Can’t even eat toast. Nothin’. My face looks like pale, cold oatmeal. Eyes bloodshot, cold sweat.
I had to ride the train home from rockstock, and I was nauseous, sweating, head splitting, dizzy, dehydrated and exhausted the whole time, with the train jostling around, back and forth back and forth.
When did I feel better?
Three days later.
My advice to all the youngins is this:
Don’t try to hang with the rockstars. it’ll bring ya nothin’ but grief.
jar
Oh no, I’ve definitely felt the effects of alcohol but how do I know that what I feel is the same as what others feel? To me they feel much like an allergic reaction - or is that just what hangovers are, allergic reactions? I suppose if I knew what exactly caused a hangover I’d get a better understanding of my symptons. As I said, I get major sinus/migraine headache with stuffy nose and nausea (sometimes even after only drinking two beers) BUT I get very similar symptons at other times without drinking any alcohol.
And what’s funny, no matter HOW bad the effects, we’re all right back at it the next chance we get. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gurgled the words “I’ll never drink again.” whilst chugging some hair of the dog.
On the rare occasions when I get a hangover, mine also feel very similar to a sinus headache. In fact, a little food, a sinus pill, lots of water and 20 minutes back in bed is the only hangover cure that works for me.
jarbabyj: yeah, I’ve had experiences like yours but I’ve also had similar experiences (not quite as bad) when alcohol was not involved. This leads me to believe that it was not the alcohol that was the cuplrit but some other ingredient (yeast? hops?) in the beverage. Similarly, some cheaper wines will give me horrible sinus headaches while others have little or no aftereffects. I’ve been told this has something to do with “tanins” (sp?).
I’m just trying to get a better understanding of the aftereffects of alcohol and trying to separate the problems caused by the alcohol itself and those caused by other ingredients particular to the brand or type of beverage.
You know the way your head feels after you’ve gone a couple days without sleep? Like that, except much much worse.
That plus a weird sort of nausea - the kind where you think maybe if you eat something it’ll help settle your stomach - and it doesn’t work.
A lot of the problems stem from being dehydrated. As you know alcohol makes you piss a lot - that’s because it messes up your hormones that control the release of urine. So drinking fluids helps a lot to make you better. Non-caffiene drinks are the best to drink when you are hungover.
To give you an idea of what I mean by a similar problem WITHOUT drinking alcohol: Occassionally (perhaps once or twice a year) I’ll get a major sinus/migraine headache accompanied by nausea that lasts for two days. During this time I’m pretty much a vegetable because the discomfort is so great (kind of like a hangover no?). I don’t know what causes these headaches but I suspect it has to do with food or something odd in the air - allergy tests have never shown anything except an aversion to dust mites. These episodes are not much different than the ones I occasionally get after drinking a little more than I should so I have reason to believe there’s a relation that has nothing to do with alcohol.
Here’s some “Texas Crude” descriptions which sum it up pretty good:
“I feel like hammered dogshit.”
“I feel like I was eat by a coyote and then shit off a cliff.”
“I feel like I was shot at and missed, shit at and hit.”
When you have a hatchet stuck in your head, barnyard animals having a party in your stomach, are shaking, throwing up while brushing your teeth after you’ve thrown up in the shower so hard that you hurt something (see jarbaby), having heavy-duty, rapid fire dry heaves while simultaneously blowing liquid shit across the room while bent over the toilet (my personal favorite), screaming in pain when the end of a single hair splits, the sound of your vibrating teeth is agonizing, and all you want to do is find a clean slab of cold tile to lie on while waiting for the peace of death, think to yourself… Did I drink last night? If so, it’s a hangover. If not, my guess is that you did drink and just don’t remember. Other than that, I would think general dehydration.
Okay, here’s what you need to do:
Go to your nearest supermarket that sells wine. Look around the wine section until you find bottle of what is affectionately labelled, “Fortified Wine” (colloquially called, “Transient’s Friend”). You’ll find a product called Mad Dog 20/20–they say it is wine, but I’m sure it has been cursed by some priest of Satan, because that stuff is pure, bottled Evil. It comes in several flavores, choose one you think you might like, but don’t think too hard; after that bottle you’ll never want to touch the stuff again, anyways.
Take it home and drink it down. You’ll have a blast! Wake up the next day and you will have your answer.
Incidently, the best way to avaoid a hangover: Drink water, of course, but suppliment that with large doses of vitamin B (get one of those “Stress Complex” types from the store), both before you start drinking, and the next day(after you get up).
For me it feels much like a bad case of the flu. A real bad, kill-me-now kind of flu.
Maybe one of your problems is the kind of beer you drink… I know I get a bad reaction from, for lack of a better word, “standard” beer. At one point I though it was an allergy to hops, but I believe now it is a reaction to the preservatives. Draft beer is also chancey, probably due to unclean lines.
To my mind, Tom Wolfe described the sensation of a hangover in ‘Bonfire of the Vanities’ pretty accurately. Fallow, the journalist, wakes up with the sensation of a ‘membranous mercury sac rolling around inside his skull and seeping out through his eye onto his pillow’ or something along those lines
I heard it described in the following manner once.
“I feel like little elves shit in my mouth and put socks on my teeth.”
I’ve felt that way a time or two.
Some people are allegic to beer yeast but it’s not too common. Never heard of a hop allergy before, but suppose it is possible. Many more people are allergic to tanins, which are found in wine.
plenty of drinkers can’t handle either beer or wine, but get no negative reaction from distilled liquor. So Robo, do you get this feeling from all booze or just certain types?
dont ask me until then.
i’ll tell you all about it.
and yrlle at you.
and then puke.
actually.
sdont ask me
,
love you all.
night night
water you say.
normally sems liek agood idea.
but i daon car e fright now.
give me my bed
right now,
.
cya all wheneever i regain conciousness
beer = friend
hangover = enemy