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by peregrine 1369 days ago
Once you stop drinking the hangovers get worse and worse. The pandemic removed the pressure to drink (for some) and now it’s really hard to lose an entire day to feeling like garbage in exchange for a couple hours of partying. I still drink one or two socially but anymore and my next day is a mess.
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nawgz 1369 days ago
Sounds to me more like you don't eat and hydrate enough when you drink. If I simply have alcohol for a night and nothing else, of course I'm hungover; but if I stay hydrated and eat AND drink, I can get pretty intoxicated without much ill effect the next day.
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MichaelCollins 1369 days ago
> Sounds to me more like you don't eat and hydrate enough when you drink.

If he's like me, that's not the case. I've always drank tons of water after drinking booze. I used to not get hangovers, but as I got older the hangovers got worse. I took a few years break from drinking, and now when I try drinking a little the hangovers are worse than ever before, no matter how much I hydrate. Two drinks at dinner is my limit now. And no earlier than dinner, because it makes me very lethargic for the rest of the day. Three drinks and I'll be miserable for the next day too.

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peregrine 1369 days ago
Sounds like you drink more often than once or twice a quarter.
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nawgz 1369 days ago
Oh yeah, I am a regular consumer, but the nature of hangovers seems entirely divorced to the frequency of drinking to me.
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peregrine 1369 days ago
As mentioned in my original post. I used to regularly drink. Often with food and hydrating.

You have alcohol tolerance and I no longer have that. Your experience with hangovers is entirely based on tolerance.

Hydration and food are an important aspect of not getting a terrible hangover for me still but it does not stop them entirely.

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MichaelCollins 1369 days ago
Agreed, it's got to be the hangovers. Being drunk is fun enough, but not if it means your next 1-2 days is ruined. People were shown another way by the shutdown of bars, combined with the proliferation of cannabis as a (mostly) hangover-free alternative.
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polotics 1369 days ago
Being drunk is fun enough? having had to deal with an OD'ing colleague, passing out, getting cold and blue, having to call the ER... After that I restricted my intake to only very few small drinks.
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MichaelCollins 1369 days ago
I've never thought it fun to get that drunk, but 4 or 5 beers is fun in the moment. I hate what it does to me a few hours later though, so I no longer drink like that.
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