What type of hangover do you have?

Kingsley Amis has a great couple chapters on hangovers in his book On Drink. He talks about how to avoid both a physical hangover (or P.H.) and a metaphysical hangover (M.H.). It's his best book about drinking, out of three.

I get hangovers often due to never drinking enough water. Sometimes I get hangovers without even drinking any alcohol! Note to self: hydrate

lately i've been getting horrible head colds the morning after drinking, even if i'm not hungover (for me, that means a mild headache and inability to eat). should i take sudafed while drinking?

Kingsley Amis has a great couple chapters on hangovers in his book On Drink. He talks about how to avoid both a physical hangover (or P.H.) and a metaphysical hangover (M.H.). It's his best book about drinking, out of three

But his recommendation to drink gin with water is ga-ross.

should i take sudafed while drinking?
hmm a nephrologist I know said that sudafed is murder for your kidneys and that he's surprised it's still even on the market. coupled with the alcohol it can't be any better.

I'm old now and the hangovers are so much worse. The last two times I got very very drunk, I couldn't get out of bed the next day and was puking for hours. This never happened when I was 18! Damn you the ageing process. You are a cold and heartless bitch. Why you wanna ruin my fun??

otm. it's also a matter of tolerance. i know that hangovers used to be debilitating, but at that point i thought getting twatted to the point of passing out was super-badass.

But his recommendation to drink gin with water is ga-ross.

Soda water! This is normal!

the sweetest hangover, i don't wanna get over...

Anyway, it's excrutiating to drink gin now. The hangovers are wicked; if I drink more than three, I am PHUKKED.

"Kingsley Amis has a great couple chapters on hangovers in his book On Drink. He talks about how to avoid both a physical hangover (or P.H.) and a metaphysical hangover (M.H.). It's his best book about drinking, out of three."

I must read this. Lucky Jim has a nice paragraph on the titular character's hangover:

Dixon was alive again. Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way; not for him the slow, gracious wandering from the halls of sleep, but a summary, forcible ejection. 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 secret police. He felt bad.

what does "come a cropper" mean upthread?

it means it all goes horribly wrong

Oh god, hangover. But I've got a smiley, bouncey OHMIGOD I HAD FUN LAST NIGHT hangover which is totally worth it.

That's great, xero!

He wrote two other boks on drinking called How's Your Glass and Every Day Drinking (critical space there).

Beer, sangria and hummus chip hangover:
A sour swamp, but easy-going if you don't move around so much.

High Life & KFC hangover

Wine + Fernet-Branca. Oddly, I no longer get a headache or nausea with a hangover anymore. Just a kind of floaty feeling and an incredible thirst.

The hangover fry-up always makes me feel considerably worse than I did before after eating it. It's so unfair, 'cause it tastes so <i>good</i>.

The only real cure is a bloody mary and a BLT.

Or bong hits, stat.

Cheetos + Doritos seem to be helping a bit here, plus Coke.

The only solution for me is to stay asleep as long as possible.

STAG, (sugar free as beer can be) pitchers, with a "fuck you, I'm still drinkin'!" bottle of wine when we got home.

I will now have trouble breathing and react to any noise the dog makes with irrational anger.

Two bottels of cava = headache, blocked sinuses, excess of mucus. I.E. the usual.

Too many cigs + depression + middle age

my hangovers are all about muscular pain

I R with Noodle.

Its Satdee night here and I know I'll be in world o pain tomorrow but I've now learnt how to avoid the worst of it. The worst being vomiting bile non stop for so many hours you have to call a locum to come give you an anti nausea injection so you dont dehydrate because you can't even keep water down. Oh yeah. Not fun. Not fun at all.

That which does not kill us makes us sicker, eh?

Too much tea and coffee in preparation for a late night. Woke up at 3:30 still zinging with caffeine, woke up again at 7:00 no better. About to dive into a hair-of-the-dog jumbo cappy. Last night's wine is giving me no problem.

Oooh. My brain feels like it's in the wrong position in my head.

Managed to avoid the bile vomiting though. Yeah that's bad.

Hi. I had one of those dark hangovers of the soul, which are the worst because of the self-hating paranoia, yesterday. Bad sleep through the week and too much booze+dry retching through the night caused this. So yeah I hate the mind hangovers the worst.

I was thinking of this thread and I realized my hangover was sortof crunchy, but in a subtle way, like the sound of rice crispies in milk. Even though I don't eat rice crispies.

I chose oatmeal with cinnammon. Some watered down cranberry juice is good and my beloved PG Tips tea is going to feel so good in a minute here.

Bimble>Your hangover analogy makes your hangover seem quite pleasant. That's maybe 'cause I think rice krispies is good cereal. I'd say my last hangover was like having a head full of very dry biscuits and maybe a tiny measure of tepid water.

lately it's been more of a "skewer through skull" feeling, in my manor

I'm surprised no one has mentioned an free-floating anxiety hangover. I get those if I go out a couple nights in a row--a feeling of doom that you can *almost* pin on something in particular, but not quite.

oh god

one of those pernicious ones that creeps up on you and makes you want to fall asleep. fuck. it's quarter to seven in the evening, i'm at work, i'll be here till midnight ... aaarse.

i felt absolutely fine earlier. this sucks.

Yeah, nothing like work to make you realize how hungover you really are.

I gave up on trying to go back to sleep.

I think Jesse is right about the free-floating anxiety.

aw, feck. this is SHITE.

Lately I've been getting huge anxiety attacks, a feeling that my heart's gonna stop or explode at any moment, and unshakeable terror of death. And this is after cutting down.

okay, that gives me some perspective.

Does it feel like your heart is "fluttering" Noodle?

Anyway, no hangover yet. I'm chasing mine away. Drinking Sunday morning is like a second mortgage. Postponement is fine.

I'm genuinely sorry to hear that Noodle. Do you think that it is a result of cutting it down? When I have felt my heart fluttering it is always in the morning after heavy drinking, rather than connected to withdrawals which for me are more about sweat and anxiety than heart fluttering.

a completely unearned hangover

I don't get headaches - nausea, profound regret, and a sense of existential dread are more my bag.

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Also sometimes weirdly achey legs - and not just when I've been dancing.

headaches, nausea, poverty

sense of existential dread

yes, that is the worst, like all of my dopamine reserves have been exhausted overnight. pronounced feeling that at any minute i am going to be arrested or publicly castigated or some such. bad kafka feelings. is that what day after mdma is like? if so, i should probably avoid it

is that what day after mdma is like?

Not for me - vulnerable, fragile and slow-witted, but still kind of warm and fuzzy as well. Booze hangovers are WAY more depressing in my not inconsiderable experience.

Meaning really bad booze hangovers of course.

Also sometimes weirdly achey legs - and not just when I've been dancing.

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i get that too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJTZrWv5Y9I

i get the legs thing big time

I usually get up, feel fine for a few hours, then by noon get increasingly nauseous. Breakfast is a toughie; sometimes there's nothing better than a gigantic plate of food, sometimes I just start staring at it and get really vomity. I get really anxious thinking about what dumb shit I did that I can't remember, but no major existential dread. If anything I get this weird kind of fatalistic euphoria.

Existential dread, brutal depression, wallowing in self-pity.

Physically, no nausea or headaches, usually just tired from only getting four hours sleep (work nights) and wheezy from smoking too much.

Achy legs (if you're talking about joints) could be dehydration? I know that my arthritic knees hurt worse when I'm dehydrated (booze or no booze).

champagne, wine, campari, bloody caesar, cognac, gin hangover