Hangovers are worse as you get older

christ on a bike!

I think this is bullshit

I think you are just less willing to put yourself through such torture. I recall, when I first had a proper job in my early twenties that hangovers could last until thursday, and after swearing off the drink all week you began to feel good just as the next weekend approached.

Spent days dying on the couch where I never left the house and didn't get up until 3 - and when I did get up I ate crap all day and then went and ate crap food - as did the rest of them (in my gang anyway).

Now - I do have good nights out, last night being one of them where I drank until 5 which is kinda rare these days admittedly - would just go home at 3 when everything is close.
This is a good difference in itself, weekends a few years ago involved 24/48 hour sessions - putting your body through hell really.

But I still party hard when I want, as do all my buddies, but still have enough pep for a game of golf in the morning because I eat a nutritious breakfast a don't drink until it becomes bright.

I'm very successful right now so I would urge the posters here to take a leaf out of my book, you might be a better people as a result

dodderangler

Hangovers are worse as you get older

Not really
You just know you can drink a lot more therefore suffer more
I don't get hangovers
I get hangarounds and then blame everyone else because I'm suffering

wandatowell

tbh its the waste of money that pisses me off when I get drunk

wretcheddomain

Never understood why people complain about hangovers so much given they're so easily avoidable. Do people really not prepare themselves? And no, of course they don't get worse as you get older, that's just bollocks. But avoidance is the key, fatty foods, lots of water etc...can't go wrong!

http://www.thehealthsphere.com/wp/?p=8298

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

christ on a bike! wrote: »

I think this is bullshit

I think you are just less willing to put yourself through such torture. I recall, when I first had a proper job in my early twenties that hangovers could last until thursday, and after swearing off the drink all week you began to feel good just as the next weekend approached.

Spent days dying on the couch where I never left the house and didn't get up until 3 - and when I did get up I ate crap all day and then went and ate crap food - as did the rest of them (in my gang anyway).

Now - I do have good nights out, last night being one of them where I drank until 5 which is kinda rare these days admittedly - would just go home at 3 when everything is close.
This is a good difference in itself, weekends a few years ago involved 24/48 hour sessions - putting your body through hell really.

But I still party hard when I want, as do all my buddies, but still have enough pep for a game of golf in the morning because I eat a nutritious breakfast a don't drink until it becomes bright.

I'm very successful right now so I would urge the posters here to take a leaf out of my book, you might be a better people as a result

I choose not to believe this part.

Chuck Stone

christ on a bike! wrote: »

I'm very successful right now so I would urge the posters here to take a leaf out of my book, you might be a better people as a result

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW20AQJ6Iig

Kxiii

Just drink every four hours that'll put an end to hangovers.

Ruudi_Mentari

sometimes I feel like I need a blood transfusion else Im drunk for like a week

christ on a bike!

I am rich now. It wasn't rocket science, just a re-direction of effort.

Now I am going to bed to wake up to earn more.

kraggy

You rope me in with with a decent topic in the thread title only for you to needlessly state that you're "successful" at the end of the op.

I'm out of here.

wretcheddomain

christ on a bike! wrote: »

I am rich now. It wasn't rocket science, just a re-direction of effort.

Now I am going to bed to wake up to earn more.

Judging from this post, looks like you'll have a pretty bad hangover when you wake up. Hope you drank a litre of water beforehand though!

WumBuster

Just drink 3-4 glasses of water before you go to bed to dissolve the alcohol and prevent dehydration next day, thus no hangovers.

Allyall

christ on a bike! wrote: »

I think this is bullshit

I think....

Didn't read much after the 2nd "I think"

scrolled dow tho the bottom..

christ on a bike! wrote: »

I'm very successful right now so I would urge the posters here to take a leaf out of my book, you might be a better people as a result

What are you succesful at? Saving whales? Saving Wildlife in General?
A football player?
Rugby/Formula 1/Basket making/lecturing?

What would we be better people at?

Telling people to copy us?


I'm very successful, not just right now.. But in General... :pac:

Pat Mustard

christ on a bike! wrote: »

I am rich now. It wasn't rocket science, just a re-direction of effort.

Now I am going to bed to wake up to earn more.

We're not drunk, we're multi-millionaires..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m6LhZJdCQY

aherringterm

Take a leaf out of your book for what? The only thing that happened to you was you got older... Sickner

wandatowell

Christ on a bike

orestes

christ on a bike! wrote: »

I'm very successful right now so I would urge the posters here to take a leaf out of my book, you might be a better people as a result

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKKtnSVeY9o

wretcheddomain

christ on a bike! wrote: »

I am rich now. It wasn't rocket science, just a re-direction of effort.

Now I am going to bed to wake up to earn more.

How's the hangover?

herbytosh

christ on a bike! wrote: »

I am rich now. It wasn't rocket science, just a re-direction of effort.

Now I am going to bed to wake up to earn more.

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endofrainbow

christ on a bike! wrote: »

I think this is bullshit

I recall, when I first had a proper job in my early twenties that hangovers could last until thursday, and after swearing off the drink all week you began to feel good just as the next weekend approached.

Spent days dying on the couch where I never left the house and didn't get up until 3 - and when I did get up I ate crap all day and then went and ate crap food - as did the rest of them (in my gang anyway).

you had a proper job and spent days on the couch??:eek:

AnonoBoy

Everything gets worse as you get older for everyone else but not me.

I'm great.

I think I should get both of the parachutes just in case one of them doesn't work.

ElChe32

I just drew a picture of myself in the nip with the dog

seamus

wretcheddomain wrote: »

Never understood why people complain about hangovers so much given they're so easily avoidable. Do people really not prepare themselves? And no, of course they don't get worse as you get older, that's just bollocks. But avoidance is the key, fatty foods, lots of water etc...can't go wrong!

Preparation isn't reliable. It's possible to prep, eat plenty of food, drink loads of water and still wake up feeling like a camel's arse.

The only thing I've found to be consistent is the application of the cure, which consists of lots of starchy food, water, coffee, and trips to the toilet.

I don't think hangover necessarily get worse when you get older, you just drink more and less often. I remember when I first started drinking at 15/16 hangovers always involved puking, but you were right as rain by 10am. But then, you probably only had 4 cans the night before.
At 21, hangover could easily last till 3pm, but you only got out of bed at 2pm and you might be on day 2 of a 3-day binge, so the hangovers are never that bad.
When you hit your late twenties, you're only doing heavy drinking once every couple of weeks and you're getting out of bed before 11am. So your hangovers appear to hit you harder and last way longer.

Mocha Joe

WumBuster wrote: »

Just drink 3-4 glasses of water before you go to bed to dissolve the alcohol and prevent dehydration next day, thus no hangovers.

Be prepared to piss the bed though.

Haveadayoff

You might be right but t hats not gonna stop me from drinkin lol.

SEPT 23 1989

Its hard to get some peace and quiet to deal with a hangover when you are older

BraziliaNZ

seamus wrote: »

When you hit your late twenties, you're only doing heavy drinking once every couple of weeks and you're getting out of bed before 11am. So your hangovers appear to hit you harder and last way longer.

Speak for yourself, I'm 32 now and just getting worse and worse with booze as I descend lower into nihilism and one big existentialist nightmare

Sergeant

The arrogance of youth. Hangovers do get worse as you get older. They move from a mere sick stomach, headache and lethargy to something much more profound. The uncertainty, the doubt, the crisis of the soul, the terrible wave of pitch black depression that overcomes you after you drink more than a dozen pints on a Friday or Saturday night. A bad hangover can last until the following Thursday.

If I need advice on how to clear a breakout of acne, then I'll speak to someone under the age of 25. If I need support to overcome a really bad hangover, then I'll speak to someone over the age of 30 who truly understands the trauma I'm going through.

Latchy

christ on a bike! wrote: »

I'm very successful right now so I would urge the posters here to take a leaf out of my book, you might be a better people as a result

The word '' naïve '' and the term '' sheltered life '' spring to mind OP .

admiralofthefleet

3 years ago i was able to start drinking about 6 in the evening, keep going til 4am and be back in work for 7am; 4 or 5 nights a week.
i started drinking at 3 on paddys day and went home at 1 or 2 that night and paid for it for 2 days

it definitely gets worse as you get older

wretcheddomain

seamus wrote: »

Preparation isn't reliable. It's possible to prep, eat plenty of food, drink loads of water and still wake up feeling like a camel's arse.

Well, prepping also includes what types of drink you might have given that some drinks are more likely to give you a hangover, such as red wine. But, of course, all of this goes out the window if you're going to binge from 6pm to 4am, but I'm not referring to those folks.

For many people, prepping beforehand is a very useful tool and while you might still wake up feeling like sh1t, it may well have been abated by the prepping done beforehand. I wouldn't knock it so readily.

I agree with the rest of your post though OP.

Haveadayoff

OP needs te have a day off i think lol

Shenshen

I always assumed that as you get older, you eventually realise that measuring the success of the night before by how sick and awful you feel the day after is just a ruse by people with more brains than that, who laugh themselves silly behind your back while you're embracing the loo...

GAAman

I turned 30 recently, the only difference for me is it doesn't take as much to get me drunk.

I still to this day, no matter how much I drink, ever get hangovers.

You may commence hating me.........now

Hoop66

I have found hangovers to get worse as I get older. Most of the reasons have already been mentioned.

The other one is: I've to get up with the bleedin' kids at 7am, can't lie in bed feeling sorry for myself.

danslevent

I find sleep is a big factor. I could drink little and get no sleep and be more hungover than if I had drank a lot but gotten loads if skeep.

Nothing like a carby wedge roll or a sub for hangover food

Generally find drinking not worth the hangover though. Few joints instead having much more fun consuming less amount of calories that would be in the drink, even if you get terrible. Munchies!

BraziliaNZ

does anyone else not sleep for a few days after a particularly bad binge weekend?

YellowFeather

christ on a bike! wrote: »

Spent days dying on the couch where I never left the house and didn't get up until 3 - and when I did get up I ate crap all day and then went and ate crap food - as did the rest of them (in my gang anyway)....

:eek::eek::eek:

McCrack

Of course they get worse as you hit your 30's & beyond. I did sessions in my 20's and followed through with work the next day (sometimes with as little as no sleep or maybe a couple hours sleep) No chance I could do that now.

Tom_Cruise

They do get worse, but i think generally people also drink a lot more as well as they get older.

It was always a nagen of vodka and 2 cans when i first started of at about 15, and it has been on the increase ever since (currently consuming 3 shoulders and vodka and 15 cans a night).

Sometimes i get away with it - i can wake up after a heavy session and actually feel ok, but usually i just get extremely depressed and negative about everything.

I also have trouble going home after a night out, i can never just go home to bed i always try to find a party to continue drinking into the morning.

Mrs Garth Brooks

I was able to drink anything years ago.

Now I get hangovers after drinking a glass of coke.

Ok not exactly a hangover from drinking coke but I do get migraines now from all sorts, alcohol, fizzy drinks, diluted drinks like mi wadi. Those migraines are a hundred times worse than being hungover.

The last time I drank, I had one bottle of miller and I spent the whole day after vomiting. Think it was more migraine related cause I was able for that years ago.

galwayrush

I drink more now and i haven't had a hangover in over a decade.
Only thing i do is make sure i eat well before hand and often while drinking.
A pint of water before sleep kills off any threat of a hangover at that stage.

wretcheddomain

Tom_Cruise wrote: »

They do get worse.

You can speak for yourself - not everyone has the same reaction as you do when approaching middle and old age.

BraziliaNZ

HardLuckWoman wrote: »

I was able to drink anything years ago.

Now I get hangovers after drinking a glass of coke.

Ok not exactly a hangover from drinking coke but I do get migraines now from all sorts, alcohol, fizzy drinks, diluted drinks like mi wadi. Those migraines are a hundred times worse than being hungover.

The last time I drank, I had one bottle of miller and I spent the whole day after vomiting. Think it was more migraine related cause I was able for that years ago.

You certainly live up to your name girl

La_Gordy

And the comedowns...

dj jarvis

in my 40's and i cant say they get worse TBH,

But i do get SUPER horny with a hang over - I love my Sunday F1 / fry up / ride hang overs.

zenno

Hello. My name is mick, and i'm an alcoholic. (applause).

Yep, i have to agree that hangovers get worse the older you get because i never used to get hangovers as bad as i do now. Definitely gets worse with age.

northernpower

Sergeant wrote: »

The arrogance of youth. Hangovers do get worse as you get older. They move from a mere sick stomach, headache and lethargy to something much more profound. The uncertainty, the doubt, the crisis of the soul, the terrible wave of pitch black depression that overcomes you after you drink more than a dozen pints on a Friday or Saturday night. A bad hangover can last until the following Thursday.

If I need advice on how to clear a breakout of acne, then I'll speak to someone under the age of 25. If I need support to overcome a really bad hangover, then I'll speak to someone over the age of 30 who truly understands the trauma I'm going through.

This ^^^

Went through 2 such episodes very recently, one was a few weeks ago after a football weekend so a lot of drink taken on the saturday and sunday nights. Monday I was hungover, Tuesday I was an inconsolable heap that had just f**ked his life up because I had a dissertation hand in due on the Friday (don't let that fool you, I'm in my early thirties), this depression and lack of sleep continued 'til at least Thursday - It didn't help that the 'off the ball' drama was that week, the small things are magnified x 1,000 when you're in the grips of a spiritual and existential funk brought on by the drink.

Sunnyisland

When I started drinking I got the mother of all hangovers,then in my 30,s I chilled out a bit and even had a few hair of the dog,then in my forties they came back with a huge bang,absolutely dying and promising all and sundry I would never drink again.Your body and mind is just not able for it anymore and before you know it your life is falling apart.


ps 100% sergeant.

April O Neill

Sergeant wrote: »

The arrogance of youth. Hangovers do get worse as you get older. They move from a mere sick stomach, headache and lethargy to something much more profound. The uncertainty, the doubt, the crisis of the soul, the terrible wave of pitch black depression that overcomes you after you drink more than a dozen pints on a Friday or Saturday night. A bad hangover can last until the following Thursday.

I had all this as a hungover 17-year-old. I'm 29 now and my hangovers haven't got worse since then. But then, I've always got terrible ones so there's nowhere to fall from there.

Balmed Out

I would say they certainly do get worse though I think you are capable of drinking a lot more too which could have something to do with it. Often take an extra day to get over too.
I do notice that if im very fit and drinking twice a week I tend to get next to nothing hangover wise. Not often very fit so a bit of a mute point.