Food, Drink & Dining Out Types of hangover

[BACCS]

I find the amount of sleep I get will dictate how bad my hangover is the next day. I had a fairly solid drinking session last night (7 Super Dry pints ~ 525mL each); started at 6:30pm, and was in bed just before midnight. I felt fine today, and could have easily gone to the gym but I was too lazy as the cricket is on. I tend to stick clear of spirits these days as well which definitely helps.

The worst I've ever been the next day is when I skulled a whole bottle of red wine after a fairly big night on the beers and cider, that is something I never want to repeat again!

 

[Gough]

I was once rendered incapable the next day by some port that I'd bought by the litre in Mildura from a barrel and stored in a milk bottle. It was intended to be camp fire port, it was never to meant be drunk inside city limits and you certainly didn't empty the bottle in one sitting. The young fool I was, I didn't know this at the time, I do now but it cost me about 36 hours.

 

[edgie]

I can't sleep when drunk, unless I drink to the point of physically being unable to keep my eyes open. It's rather annoying so I make sure to get a big sleep in when I know I'm going drinking or I'll feel like crap

 

[Doss]

There's a big difference between a red wine and white wine hangover too, IMO.

Red is much worse- probably because it has more impurities in it. Pity that, because I'm a red drinker.

Hangovers in general are exponentially worse when you've mixed drinks too. The worst ones I've had have been nights where I've had all of beer, wine and spirits.

 

[nicky]

I love red wine but don't really drink it anymore either. The impurities and perservatives have a bad effect on me. I pretty much fall asleep mid conversation.

 

[ep2018]

Some of the most horrid hangovers I have ever had were on goon, and Jagermeister. I'm not really much of a drinker anymore, but sometimes it's really odd, like last night I had four TEDs and a Corona, woke up feeling really shit even though I had a lot of water before bed. I wasn't even that drunk.

 

[Plugger35]

One of the worst hangovers I've ever had was in Spain on a van tour where we started off drinking beers in the afternoon in our campground in some Nothern Spanish town on our way from Pamplona to Portugal,. We then kicked on that night at the campground bar drinking free pour spirits. At the bar there we met a couple of young guys whose Spanish parents owned the campground but they grew up living in Sydney so they spoke perfect English and were stoked to meet some other Australians.

They convinced us to kick on further at a local nightclub where we got introduced to Kalimotxo a mixture of red wine and coke, sounds terrible but they went down a treat and we had a great night dancing on tables and on the bar with all the locals. Crazy place.

We eventually got back to our campground around sunrise and were shattered units the rest of the day. We were planning on driving to Portugal that day but that had to be postponed. It was bloody hot there too which didn't help.

 

[Run n Spread]

Hit and miss with me. Can have a massive night and wake up fresh as a daisy and full of energy or just have a handful of drinks and have a shocking headache the next day. A lot can depend on what you consumed prior/just after drinking.

The true hangovers thou no advice, useless home remedies or food/drink holds sway. Just have to grin and bear it and hope it goes away asap. Those are the days you need cricket/footy on the tv or anything distracting that doesn't require too much movement.

Personally haven't really noticed a type/it being dependent on drinks.

 

[Gasometer]

I said it another thread recently....as painful as it maybe, a long walk in the morning does wonders...beats sitting around a stuffy room smelling god knows what.

 

[Macca19]

Nothing worse than a red wine hangover after 3+ bottles. Awful.

Generally with me, if I go overboard on something ill end up:

Beer & Vodka - Headache but no vomit
Dark Spirits - Vomit, but no headache
White Wine - No Hangover
Red Wine - Absolute ****ing carnage

 

[Silent Alarm]

Shakin' like a leaf, bile spews 'til 4pm and seediness 'til 10pm. These are the lives and times of Silent Alarm's Sundays.

I'm almost always beers with maybe one or two ciders and a few shots if it's a club. But there's no set requisite for what gives me what: sometimes you eat nothing and drink lots and wake up fine, other times your stomach and head is wrecked. What is weird is the way you can punch on if you're on a bender – you feel seedy every second day but you always manage to back it up and put it off.

I tend to get the horrors as well. I just feel so anxious and introspective after a night out, even if there's no actual hangover. The phone full of stupid messages doesn't help, but I get angsty about innocuous, normal things I've said. Probably because I'm neurotic person, but it's still odd.

 

[Damon_3388]

I find that different beers give different hangovers, or just end up making you feel like crap on the night. For example, I avoid Cooper's Pale Ale nowdays, because it just gets too heavy in the guts after a while. Whenever I've vomited or felt like vomiting due to alcohol (either on the night or the next day), the common denominator has always been beer.

I've found mostly that if I stick to spirits, I turn out alright after a decent sleep and some proper hydration when I wake up.

I hate that feeling though when you wake up after 3-4 hours sleep, feel like you've been run over by a truck, yet can't actually get back to sleep. Just lying there struggling is the worst.

 

[Catfish Alley]

I love red wine but don't really drink it anymore either. The impurities and perservatives have a bad effect on me. I pretty much fall asleep mid conversation.

I was given a good tip for this from a vinter. Old world (French, Spanish and Italian) and Chilean red wines do not use many of the preservatives that other countries do. The hangover they give you isn't as bad.

 

[Varcoe2Chapman]

For someone who has at least 1 big drinking session a week i've found the best thing to reduce a hangover is berocca and panadol.
Before i go to bed have a berocca and 1 panadol and you will wake up feeling okay the next day, just a little bit tired.

 

[Frank Grimes]

Wine is the worst for me. I don't have a problem with other drinks. I don't have hangovers due to a simple trick which works no matter how much I drink. I drink a shit load of water before going to bed. About 1 big glass for every drink I had (Sure I will be getting up to go to the toilet every hour but it's better than getting a hangover). But if I have 2 bottles of wine I still get a damn headache no matter how much water I drink.

 

[RU_]

Got on the Rum at a party one time and was feeling great, few hours down and my 10 pack gone I decided to open a red label bottle that I had brought with me just in case.. being a teenager/young adult we all got into a group and were playing 'never have i ever'.. swigging straight from the bottle was the worst idea I have ever had as the moment I laid down the world started spinning.. woke up the next morning and the smell of the rum tipped me over.. straight to a toilet with my guts coming up.. bit of a sore head too.

 

[Lester Burnham]

The latest New Scientist reports on an experiment they carried out where average drinkers gave up booze for a month.

• Liver fat dropped on average by 15%. Fat accumulation in the liver is a known prelude to liver damage.
• Blood glucose levels dropped on average by 23%.
• Blood cholesterol dropped 5%.
• Average weight loss 1.5 kg.
• Reported better sleep, wakefulness, concentration and work performance.

It was only a very small study but the results indicate that having a dry month (or more) could be good for your well being.
http://www.newscientist.com/article...dry-january-really-worth-it.html#.UsuZvdJxU6Y

 

[Clint Beastwood]

I find with goon that I usually have a good yak, and the next day I'm fine. Classy, I know.

The last time I had a really, really bad hangover I had beer, gin, wine and absinthe, vomited a little, spun out and fell asleep. The next day I woke up feeling as if I'd run into a signpost and my stomach was like a cement mixer.

 

[Mogwai]

Where's the option of having a really bad sleep and waking up at 530am refreshed but crash by 3pm?

 

[Jizzy_Wizzy]

For me, it is a complete lottery, I've gotten myself S**tfaced on red wine on a Friday night, Woken up hangover free and have been BOG for footy that morning.
I'll put away a bottle of scotch in a short amount of time, wake up in strange places feeling average but rarely for a spew.
Other times I've had half a dozen beers and woken up feeling pretty rough!
I'll generally wake up at 7am with a splitting head ache, drop a couple of Nurofen and go back to sleep, wake up at 12 feeling seedy but capable of existing!