The Hangover Thread

1 or 2. Undetectable really. A while ago I made a diary of when I didn't drink for two weeks and how I felt. Turns out I always feel a 1 or a 2 in the mornings anyway. The best I feel is the first morning after a night of no drinking, then I feel amazing - if I have subsequent nights off drinking I'm back to a 1 or 2 in the mornings regardless.
 
I've had a fair few hangovers in 2020, something I will address this year. I've done far too many days at work this year somewhere between a 3 and a 9. Even though WFH means I don't technically have to be as on the ball, its bloody awful still.

I think I will try some of these rehydration drinks mentioned on here.

BTW, apparently ibuprofen is better than paracetamol for drinkers because the latter also places a strain on the liver, which is the last thing you want to be doing when you're hammering the ale!
 
Haven't had a hangover for quite some time, when I do it's generally never more than a 3.5 on that scale.

The last real one I had was in Stoke after the 2016 Donny bash. We had a skinful of beer and then @Will Gill, @Hilly and I demolished a bottle of rum at the hotel. The following morning, I made it to breakfast and ate a spoonful of Rice Krispies while everyone else was tucking into a full breakfast. At lunchtime I barely managed to eat two chips but by the evening meal, I was perfectly fine and absolutely ravenous. I scoffed everything in front of me, drank more booze and we ended up in the Burger King opposite the hotel.

That was in 2016 and I've still got the pictures of Hilly and his bright yellow underpants in the hotel lobby.

FishLicker said:
BTW, apparently ibuprofen is better than paracetamol for drinkers because the latter also places a strain on the liver, which is the last thing you want to be doing when you're hammering the ale!
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It's an anti-inflammatory so it reduces brain swelling and helps prevent a headache. Pint of water and a couple of 'profen before going to bed is a great way to help protect against a hangover.
 
Feek said:
Haven't had a hangover for quite some time, when I do it's generally never more than a 3.5 on that scale.

The last real one I had was in Stoke after the 2016 Donny bash. We had a skinful of beer and then @Will Gill, @Hilly and I demolished a bottle of rum at the hotel. The following morning, I made it to breakfast and ate a spoonful of Rice Krispies while everyone else was tucking into a full breakfast. At lunchtime I barely managed to eat two chips but by the evening meal, I was perfectly fine and absolutely ravenous. I scoffed everything in front of me, drank more booze and we ended up in the Burger King opposite the hotel.

That was in 2016 and I've still got the pictures of Hilly and his bright yellow underpants in the hotel lobby.
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A fine memory, I look forward to a repeat someday :)
 
I can't say I have ever been that drunk that I can't remember the night before and I was in the forces in Germany for most at that when a bottle of Becks cost 18p :)
 
I rarely get hangovers these days. Had a binge drinking issue through my 20's on the weekends. Now, other than the rare occasion, I'll have two or three beers over the course of a Friday night and that's me done.

Having a mortgage and a Mrs does play into it as I don't have as much disposable cash or time to lie in bed feeling sorry for myself for hours.
 
I've been drinking for too much during 2020 which is something I'm intending to address during 2021 (though, as I type this, I am ****** ).

I always feel very tired and it greatly affects my life. Is this the drink? Is this my 3 year old? Is this my blood disorder or my knackered nose?

I'm sure these issues are confounded in some way, but regardless, I'm know that I'd be better off if I were T-total...

Anyway, diet on Monday and stopping drinking too (fingers crossed).
 
I'm 42 and my hangover is usually a 2 or a 3. No more than feeling a bit more tired than I would normally do.

The same applied to NYD (yesterday). On NYE, I had 2 large G&Ts, a large rum, a pint of double-IPA and a glass of bubbly. Around 15 alcohol units. Finished the night off with a slice of Christmas cake :D
 
Feek said:
Haven't had a hangover for quite some time, when I do it's generally never more than a 3.5 on that scale.

The last real one I had was in Stoke after the 2016 Donny bash. We had a skinful of beer and then @Will Gill, @Hilly and I demolished a bottle of rum at the hotel. The following morning, I made it to breakfast and ate a spoonful of Rice Krispies while everyone else was tucking into a full breakfast. At lunchtime I barely managed to eat two chips but by the evening meal, I was perfectly fine and absolutely ravenous. I scoffed everything in front of me, drank more booze and we ended up in the Burger King opposite the hotel.

That was in 2016 and I've still got the pictures of Hilly and his bright yellow underpants in the hotel lobby.


It's an anti-inflammatory so it reduces brain swelling and helps prevent a headache. Pint of water and a couple of 'profen before going to bed is a great way to help protect against a hangover.
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Sounds about right! It earned you the 'Two Chips' forum title for a long while!

Looking forward to doing it again when safe to do so! :) I haven't drank properly in a long time, so I fear I'll end up in the same mess you did that night :D :p
 
Sometimes I really feel like getting smashed and its tough to realise during the day how this is not going to be a beneficial thing to do at the end of a day. I don't drink often but when I do I feel like drinking a lot. I feared at the beginning of the year it wouldn't go so well and last november december time I went to AA meetings to see what it was like and try it out. I found out that some people have really suffered from alcohol and how they have lived in only their car or lost a lot of things in life.. It was an eye opener!

This year i'm driving a different way home from work to not pass a shop and also won't take any ID with me as that sometimes would stop them selling it. The realisation that my life could seriously go very downhill if I make a big mistake through drinking is very real at this point I don't want to risk going there, as I have a lot of things going for me.

I have a distant friend on facebook and from highschool who created a drink called Overhang, and this is designed specifically to deal with hangovers. It used to be on sale in Grapetree in 2017 but unfortunately the bigger players forced them out of the market by affording a higher scale of units to sell. So they haven't been for sale in shops apart from online since. If anyone is hungover a lot though this drink does increase your heart rate and made a noticeable difference to a killer day I was having a long time ago!
 
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I had a good drink on NYE. 9 cans of beer and most of a bottle of red. Was from 7pm to about 2am though, so was never drunk drunk. Just 1 or 2 drinks an hour.

hangover would have been fine except that one of my cats released a captured and uninjured blackbird in my bedroom at about 9am. I spent over an hour catching it again. The stress span me out a bit. Never really recovered. TV all day. Early night was taken.
 
I had probably a 6 on New Year's Day. Don't think I've been worse than that for a good number of years now. Maybe very occasionally actually throwing up rather than just feeling like it.

I used to go out and smash it numerous times each weekend but that's when I used to wake up feeling more drunk than hungover, so I just used to laugh about it.
 
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