Hangovers

Guest2 · 16 May 2011 at 20:30

I thought hangovers were supposed to get worse the older you get? I am 26 now and dont have anywhere near as bad hangover as when I was 18

Over the past 3 years I have been eating more healthily and doing more exercise. I joined the gym on 1st March and have been almost 40 times, doing cardio and light weights.

I went out last sat and drank an aweful lot, passed out in a club and somehow got home. I was up at 9am, felt a bit hungover so had some water and food and was fine. I then went to town for a few hours shopping. This would have never happened 8 years ago

Is it my liver / kidneys getting fitter or is it they have been knackered by years of alcohol abuse so now im more 'immune'?

Antar Bolaeisk · 16 May 2011 at 20:31

I always get these from a hard nights gaming,. I've found increasing AA levels can help though.

Limenote · 16 May 2011 at 20:32

pavement textures look terrible up close

Podmonkey · 16 May 2011 at 20:34

Gaming hangovers are awful I agree.

Guest2 · 16 May 2011 at 20:35

oops, wrong thread. please move to gd / sports

Kosmiche · 16 May 2011 at 20:36

1. Did you update to latest patch?

2. Are you playing with anti aliasing enabled?

3. Why is this in pc games forum.

linktoinsanity · 16 May 2011 at 20:48

Lol. GD material surely?

Geckovich · 16 May 2011 at 20:54

Reinstall the alcohol?

Ceryndrion · 16 May 2011 at 20:56

Have you tried using the command switch -hangovers off ?

Robert1986 · 16 May 2011 at 21:00

Your liver is now immune. You can drink a litre of vodka with no side effects.

btw, having to drink more to get drunk just means you're becoming alcholic.

Antar Bolaeisk · 16 May 2011 at 21:05

Geckovich said:
Reinstall the alcohol?

That only makes matters worse for me although maybe I'm doing it wrong. I re-install after flushing the system but it tastes really funky when re-installing, and it's warm.

Guest2 · 16 May 2011 at 21:32

Robert1986 said:
Your liver is now immune. You can drink a litre of vodka with no side effects.

btw, having to drink more to get drunk just means you're becoming alcholic.

Thats the thing, I can drink less than a few years ago. Be really drunk but then have no (or not much) of a hangover.

Robert1986 · 16 May 2011 at 21:55

Guest2 said:
Thats the thing, I can drink less than a few years ago. Be really drunk but then have no (or not much) of a hangover.

Depends what you ate while drinking. Eating lots of creasy/fatty foods gives you a nice coat of crease round your stomach lining that slows the absorption of alcohol into the blood. Also depends if you mixed your drinks or not. Its always best to get drunk on one type of drink to avoid a major hangover.

Avoid drinks with lots of sugar like ciders. They give you a bad hangover. Clear spirits like vodka(high quality vodka not cheap nasty stuff) give you least hangover/headaches because it has less toxins... but then again, depends how much you drank.

and if you want the worst hangover of your life, try tequila...

sigma · 16 May 2011 at 21:56

Sleep helps loads.

Shayper · 16 May 2011 at 21:57

I've been permanently hungover for like the last week!

Oh, the joys of being a student

Freefaller · 16 May 2011 at 21:57

It depends on what you've eaten on the day, your metabolism could be bolstered up owing to your healthier lifestyle, your body mass may have increased - I know that having gained 2-3st and being relatively healthy my tolerance and metabolism of alcohol has improved. You may have hydrated yourself more, or you may just not have drunk as much or as many different types of alcohols.

G|mp · 16 May 2011 at 21:58

It takes me 2 days to get over hangovers now :/

tom_e · 16 May 2011 at 22:01

G|mp said:
It takes me 2 days to get over hangovers now :/

Same

Barks · 16 May 2011 at 22:03

I'd consider myself very fit and I get savage hangovers.

A normal night out is fine just a bit tired... but those ones where you probably drink 40+ units... eurghhh

Haircut · 16 May 2011 at 22:04

Hangovers have definitely got worse with age for me.
As a student I could drink 12 pints and get up for a 9 o'clock lecture the next day no problem.
These days I can wake up with a stinking hangover having only had 4 pints sometimes.

I do drink quite a bit less than I did as a student these days so I'm probably not used to the heavy nights quite so much, but I'm sure age is a factor too.