Almost 30 and I don’t remember ever getting such a bad hangover. Heck, I used to get sober on the way home before even crashing on the bed.
Drinking alcohol is always a terrible idea. It always damages your body, mind, and life itself. No, “small amounts of wine” don’t fucking count. That nonsense has been entirely and thoroughly disproven.
Don’t drink. That’s like shooting yourself in the dick with a gun, on purpose. If you’re a woman, you do it to your kids. Not literally, that an explanatory metaphor, dumbass. I know I have to explain that shit now because I know you’ve drank alcohol before…on fucking purpose no less.
I wonder how biology plays into this. I never noticed a huge shift in hangover intensity. Yeah they got a little worse in my 30s but nothing as debilitating as what I’ve been lead to believe would happen.
Really depends what you drink. Avoid sugar, and low quality stuff. Also, eat food and drink water.
It has everything to do with electrolyte balance and hydration
Drink a glass of salty sugar water and eat a banana, chug a liter of water before you pass out
As a dry alcoholic, had I become addicted and physically dependent about 5 years later than I did, I would have been dead by now. Alcohol can be the fucking devil, but I am an extreme case of course, getting black out drunk every day. My tolerance was so high that I only stopped shaking at usually lethal doses. I was passive-suicidal. I am doing a lot better now, but this is a warning to everyone that there is almost no drug that will fuck up your organs as much as alcohol (not even heroin, meth, or crack cocaine).
Edit: Here is the price I paid:
- Pancreatitis
- Alcoholic Fatty Liver (thankfully my liver is an absolute trooper, so no cirrhosis and I am still young enough [31] to fully recover)
- Absolutely unbearable and life-threatening physical withdrawal (in the ICU, also I was given the max. dose of benzodiazepines) and still went into delirium, seizures, hallucinations, hearing voices and the fear of becoming schizophrenic (which thankfully didn’t happen)
- The withdrawal traumatized me so much that I regularly have nightmares and wake up in an ocean of sweat
- It borders on a miracle that I came out of this without any disabilities
- Though there is a chance my brain will give out before my body does, or I eventually develop epilepsy
PS: If you know someone who can out-drink everyone else it isn’t impressive, but incredibly sad.
PPS: DO NOT QUIT DRINKING COLD TURKEY, IF YOU ARE PHYSICALLY DEPENDENT
Beeing a teenager definitely is a superpower you’re not fully aware of or sufficiently appreciating at the time. Drink a bottle of vodka in one night and wake up and go for a run? No problem.
Idk if hangovers are more intensive for me or if I’m just overly sensitive, but I’ve stopped getting drunk simply because of hangovers. I’m just past the point where the upsides of drinking alcohol aren’t worth the intensity of the hangover after it. It’s just not fun anymore.
And I don’t understand how people the same age as me or older still get wasted and just shrug at the hangover, if they even have one. I still drink alcohol rarely, but probably never get wasted at memory-loss level ever again.
TBF it was never a good one.
indeed
I had my fair share of fun drinking with friends before, but I’ll admit it’s very overrated.
Drinking is fun. Getting drunk sucks.
This right here. I love the feeling of a drink or two inside of me. I can’t stand being drunk.
Yeah as you get older you really need to make sure you’re drinking enough water before you knock out and probably get something in your stomach otherwise you’re in for a bad time.
Might be a placebo but drinking those “liquid IV” mixes have been a game changer since once I’m drunk enough I don’t like to drink regular water but I can convince drunk me to drink those at least and it’s saved me so many hangovers lol
Hydration is so huge for hangover prevention. If I’m going hard for some reason, I’ll chase shots with those IV mixes.
I have salty watermelon Promix packs that I’ll mix into water when needed. They’re primarily for my workouts, but they’re great for getting you hydrated quickly when drinking.
When I was younger that was enough to totally avoid a hangover, but over time it got to be more like a way to make it less bad, still going to have a headache at least no matter what at two drinks or more.
yep, I’ve been discovering the virtues of low-alcohol beer. perhaps they had it right in the middle ages with small beer
I’ve never tolerated alcohol well so for me it’s just as bad now as it was when I was a teen. I just get sleepy which makes me want to go home at 12 and the day afterward I spend half my day puking, even after just a couple of beers.
Once I hit my 30s I ditched alcohol and switched to weed. All but two of my friends stopped drinking once we entered our 30s.
God I wish I could do that. Weed was always my drug but my job and a lot of them that pay well where I live drugs test and it’s still illegal in my country.
I’ve never actually had a hangover. I have no idea what they feel like other than, from inference, bad.
And I drink.
I have been drunk in the past too, though I really don’t like the sensation so try to avoid it.
Perhaps instead of age there’s something else that’s causing your hangover?
I was like that too, but for a while now I’ve had much worse hangovers than I ever had.
I was always hungover when drinking young. Then I stopped getting hangovers because I had an alcohol problem. Then I stopped drinking. YMMV.
Yep totally not worth it, if I even get drunk to slightly merry the next day is a write off
Ya, whenever I think about having a drink, I immediately start calculating how long I’ll feel like shit after. If I don’t have an entire day I can set aside to feel awful I don’t even. It’s rarely worth it
