I have never had a hangover beyond a headache that lasted until the afternoon. I’ve partied with the best of them. I’ve had nights where I drank probably a bottle of vodka by myself, drank a case of beer, etc. I’ve passed out, mixed my drinks up, beer and liquor, had nights where I don’t remember what happened beyond a certain point, etc. yet I’ve never thrown up from drinking, never had the head by the toilet bowl praying to the porcelain god.
When I get very drunk, I usually wake up about 6:45 and talk as though I have a cold. I’m a little dizzy but after I nap around 11:30 or 12, I’m good as new. Yet friends of mine give horror stories and I’ve seen the worst from them. None of that has ever happened to me. I don’t think I"m unique or follow any typical pattern. I won’t pass up on a shot of something because I happen to be drinking beer.
Oblong, how old are you? Sounds like my life story from ages 18-24. I could drink all I wanted with minimal bad mornings.
I turn 30 in 6 months. It’s all very different now.
I’ve only been hung over once - and I’m NEVER drinking gin again!!! Seriously! I puked all morning, was extremely dizzy, and didn’t wanna get outta bed till my bf brought me some soda. I have no idea why that worked, but after a couple of sips I felt SOOOOO much better.
Oddly enough, I stopped having hangovers when I followed my friend’s advice. Take a multivitamin before going out drinking. I did it, and haven’t had a single hangover since. I’m still a fairly young lad too.
Yeah, you can do a lot of things to slow down/stop your hangovers…
Take a multivitamin before you go out, drink at least 32oz (preferably more) of water with two or three aspirin (never Tylenol!) when you go to bed, and have Gatorade or apple juice by your bedside to drink in the middle of the night to replace electrolytes. And for some reason, if I am hungover, a big dish of Chinese food for lunch seems to help. Could MSG help in some way? I dunno…
So anyway, these things help, but I really think that it is becoming a losing battle for me.
20’s – mine sounds about like yours. Sometimes there was an exception. The nights where the parties went to dawn. When I worked at a department store in my late teens and early twenties a lot of us would party pretty hard on Friday night after work, drag our selves back to work on Saturday morning, and say we were not going out that night. But by mid afternoon we were all feeling better and making plans for Saturday night. Oh it’s so much fun to be young.
30’s – a little longer to recover, but usually ok by late afternoon. Sometimes a little “left over” in the evening.
40’s – I’ve really cut down. But there were a few times I must have thought I was 25 again and way over did it. Those times put me out of it for the entire next day and evening.
Kamikazi and Tequila Hang-Overs Suck, especially when you’re in the Navy and the boat is getting underway, and you went drinking the night before, not fun.
I have had both, not at the same time. Both gave me the feeling of the Flu. Lethargic, you want to sleep, Thirsty, Queasy/Nausea, No Appetite, cause if you look, smell or eat something - you will Hurl. Headache - Like a Polka Band is playing in my head. You can’t wait for the day to end, so you can go to your rack and sleep/pass out. Basically you feel like S***.
Hangovers? I’ve only had a hangover ONE time and I know exactly why. That night I had been working and my friends picked me up right after work then we went out… I hadn’t eaten since about when work started (I was a waitress at the time…)
And I’ve only been sick once while drinking as well. That time was when we had some booze in the house (some beer, smirnoff’s ice, vodka and cola). It was a Friday and we had a few drinks… everyone else took off and I had another couple and proceeded to get sick. It was insanely hot that day though, and we live on the top floor of an apartment building. It gets pretty warm in here when it’s cold out it was a sweatbox that day. Fell asleep and a few hours later woke up feeling fine and went out that evening to my bf at the time’s house.
Generally though I don’t drink a whole lot… never gotten so drunk I passed/blacked out… I try to respect limits like that. Usually means I’m the one in the group who drinks the least but I found it quite hilarious last week (two weeks ago?) when my roomie and I went out, we matched drink for drink and he got sick. I may be female but I can hold my liquor decently! As long as it’s not whiskey… whiskey gets me drunk fast which I learned to my chagrin one night at another ex-bf’s house. One glass of whiskey mixed with soda and I was nicely tipsy when it usually takes several drinks to get me there.
Usually to counteract it though, I don’t just drink and then go home and pass out. I usually sober up a little before going to sleep (usually by cutting out the drinking an hour before going home, or just sipping at one drink for the last couple hours) and by drinking about a litre of water before I go to sleep. Then another when I wake up.
Yes, when younger it’s basically drink, wake up, go to school or work and drink again.
40 now. If I overdo it, there is almost a 100% chance of vomit the next morning.
Strangley though, I never vomit WHILE drinking. I actually make it through the night, get home, go to sleep, wake up, couple cups of coffee, VOMIT.
But, as a veteran, I don’t shy away from the vomit. I know that it’s inevitable and I might as well get it over with.
Back in the day (early 20’s), I had a friend who, while drinking beer (that’s all we drink) decides that he feels a little full. So, he turns to the side, sticks his finger down his throat and “boots”. He wipes his mouth, and cracks another beer. Now THERE’S a professional!
Ooh, just saw Omni’s post- that last paragraph could have described me back in the day. If I was getting too drunk, I’d go “talk to God on the big white telephone” and then start drinking again.
I’m 29 and have been going at it for about 10 years now. The only precautions i"ve taken is to eat a lot of pasta or bread if I know there will be drinking later.
My worst streak was working a convention in New Orleans earlier this year. We were there Super Bowl week. From Thursday-Tuesday my schedule consisted of: Drink, eat dinner, drink, drink, drink, stumble back to the room around 2, get up at 7, convention from 8-3, drink from 5-8, eat dinner, drink again from 10-2… repeat.
Since I went on a low-carb diet, my hangovers are worse, but shorter lived. Before, they’d kick in a couple of hours after I get up, and last two days. Now they’re with me when I awake - headache, nausea - but only last about 3 hours, and are then followed by a Vague Feeling of Dread that lasts until I go to bed.
I haven’t had a hang over in a long time as I don’t drink that much anymore, but I’ve had my share.
The effects seem to be different depending on the type of alcohol. Beer always gave me that bloated, stomach-churning feeling that could only be relieved by throwing up. Unfortunately, once I started I could never seem to stop and ususually ended up with the dry heaves. Many is the night where I laid right in the bathroom floor so as to not have to move too far (I recall Bill Cosby’s quote: “Thank you, toilet, for being so cool on my forehead.”) Come morning (early afternoon?), I (actually, several of us were usually in the same situation), would smoke a little to take the edge off, stumble to the cafeteria for lunch (lots and lots of liquids), and stumble back to the house for a nap. After a bit of a break, we’d start again (youth is wasted on the young).
Liquor almost never gave me an upset stomach, but would guarantee a headache of monumental proportions. The kind of headache where it feels like someone has put a metal band around your skull, level with your temples, and is slowly making the band tighter and tighter and tighter. The remedy was usuallly the same - sleep as much as possible, smoke a little to take the edge off, drink and eat, sleep some more, vow never to drink again, start to drink immediately.
Regardless of the poison, my mouth also used to get incredibly dry (probably a combination of the dehyrdation from the alcohol, smoking, and not bothering to brush my teeth before I collapsed in bed). I used to describe it thusly, “Man, I think a baby dragon took a shit in my mouth.”
He lay sprawled, too wicked to move, spewed up like a broken spider-crab on the tarry shingle of the morning. The light did him harm, but not as much as looking at things did; he resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum. During the night, too, he’d somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by the secret police.
I’m the opposite of Omnipresent. I’ve thrown up a few times while drinking, but after I go to sleep, that part of the hangover goes away. I wake up with a headache, and kind of a foggy feeling. I usually go back to bed until I feel better, which is usually about 10:00 or so (although last Saturday, I stayed in bed until 1:00 pm; quite an evening). I feel better for a few hours, then crash in the late afternoon for a couple of hours, then I’m ready to go again!
Never had one. I tend to metabolize alchohol quickly. I also drink lots of nonalcoholic beverages after I drink the hard stuff; it prevents dehydration.
The worst was the time I drank about half a bottle of Russian vodka. I woke up still drunk, though.
