worst part of a hangover

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the puking? the headache? the fact that your mouth is drier than the desert? not being able to remember what exactly happened the night before? or knowing that all you want in a big greasy hamburger but since you still can't hold down water...you don't wanna risk it

― sammywest, Monday, 26 July 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

definitely the headache. or, pour moi, leg-ache.

― ENRQ (Enrique), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Not being able to think properly.

― hmmm (hmmm), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

dehydration

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

THE SHITS

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

No, it's the stomach churning vomitty feeling. I can live with a headache, that's what aspirin is for. But the vomitty bit which makes it impossible to keep down the aspirin, that's the bit I hate the worst.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

The part where you have to get out of bed.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

general weakness

― itsa me, mario! (x Jeremy), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Cutty OTM.

Also: vertigo. (Does anyone besides me get vertigo when hungover?)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The part where you have to get out of bed.

Or the part where you realize you weren't in a bed to start with.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

sometimes i lay in bed and scream for help to deaf ears.

also: COLD SWEATS

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Or that you don't know whose bed you're in.

― itsa me, mario! (x Jeremy), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Or that you do.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

If by vertigo, you mean BEDSPINS...

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

nausea

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

that's the night before. pre-hangover.

DRINK WATER DRINK WATER DRINK WATER.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost to bedspins

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

See, I'm very good with the water-drinking bit. Which is probably why I'm not bothered by the dehydration (and the headaches are often caused by dehydration.) Oh, but the vomitty bits... oh no...

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The worst thing for me is usually the general itchiness (esp. in my feet). And the feeling that my muscles are just limp somehow.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never had a bouze-related headache and don't really get the nausea thing any more - all my hangovers these days just feel like extreme, extreme tiredness, inability to concentrate on anything for more than five seconds and generally feeling filthy despite my best efforts or outward appearance. Oh, and the guilt.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

The horrible restlessness. I often just pace the room for a couple of hours. The vague sense of self-loathing. How stupid am I to keep getting drunk?

― Wooden, Monday, 26 July 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to get hangovers at uni but only if I'd been drinking cider all evening, which I did a lot at the time (due to paucity of decent ale, particularly in uni bars, but also due to the fact that it was Bristol, so v much cider country).

Don't get them now. Quite often wake up with headaches but usually they are as result of blocked sinuses and occur regardless of whether I've been drinking or not.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 26 July 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

dehydration, yes, oh god. also, the overall feeling of being gone over several times by a steamroller.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 26 July 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

The wasted day.

― holojames (holojames), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

The sadness.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

The smell of booze coming out yr pores. I think this is what accounts for the feeling of filthiness noted by MDC above, as it takes a good long while for the nastiness to work its way out entirely.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

worst part of a hangover for me are the awful feelings of self-loathing I have the next day (or sometimes the day after that).

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Get a dog, pal.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Liz completely and absolutely OTM.

The only thing worse than going to work hungover, however, is still being drunk (technically/legally) and sobering up while at work. THEN GETTING A HANGOVER.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Hrmmm. I never really thought about the smell of the booze. Maybe that's why having a shower is such a hangover-recovery necessity, to wash the stink of booze from your pores. I always thought it was to wash off the smell of cigarettes, but this makes more sense...

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

the feeling like as if your head has been hollowed out somehow.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

the aching of the limbs, the spinny head.

actually the spinny head is the worst - the inability to focus eyesight and the spinnyness.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

p.s. the not being able to remember the night before is the BEST part of a hangover.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

as is the post-beer shits, it's satisfying and gives a closure to things.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

the redundant conversaton's a bitch, too.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Your new spouse and/or tattoos.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

the anxiety

― Anthony (Plato Guy), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

When younger, I used to kind of enjoy having a mild hangover -- a bit of a buzzing headache and low-level body-hurt made me feel more alive as I worked my way into the day and began to feel the symptoms ease. Now I just don't drink so much.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

ooh, yeah. sadness and anxiety... getting THE FEAR sucks!

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Sunday morning
Brings the dawn in
It's just a restless feeling by my side
Early dawning
Sunday morning
It's just the wasted years so close behind
Watch out the world's behind you
There's always someone around you who will call
It's nothing at all

Sunday morning
And I'm falling
I've got a feeling I don't want to know
Early dawning
Sunday morning
It's all the streets you crossed, not so long ago
Watch out the world's behind you
There's always someone around you who will call
It's nothing at all

Sunday morning
Sunday morning
Sunday morning

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

queasy nausea, achy legs, dried out sinus passages.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I also don't like it when I feel my IQ has been temporarily lowered by about 30 points.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks Kate. That's going to echo in my head all day and the only VU I have on my i-Pod is the 1969 Live album.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"I said what?- no i didnt, no didnt "

― kephm, Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

The audible BROWMBLGRUMBLRAWRs of your digestive system attempting to purge the foul horridness you have given it. God that SOUND frightens me, I'm always like "OMG IS MY COLON COLLAPSING!?!".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

the part where you realize someone put socks on your teeth and then let the cat shit in your mouth - and you don't have a cat.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

when i was in highshcool i would drink in the morning right when i got to school & there were a few times i had to vomit in my mouth and swallow it down cause it happened in the middle of a test.

― kephm, Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

the shame.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Having no idea where your keys/celly/glasses/underwear/etc. are.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

and the lag.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

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are you thinking of where the day takes you?

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't recall the title. I only saw it the one time and it made me sick.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

the one i'm thinking of has sean astin and balthazar getty in it.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

the blank sense of guilt, although you can't recall doing anything wrong, is quite nerve-wracking.

Yeah. When people actually tell me about shit I don't remember doing, I either find it funny or don't care because I can't remember it. But when it's just your own paranoia it's horrendous.

― Fergal (Ferg), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

the nerves, definitely, the nerves. sitting in a chair like all sharp breath style.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

for no reason too!

the guilt thing is bad but I only get that after ecstacy, I guess it's a relative scale, alcohol feels like a moderate night out.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

the worst part for me right now:

heartburn

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

The grueling post-booze morbidity, in bed, ruminating over how the closer things are to you, the more fucking disgusting the world is. Which is a more depressive form of Lauren's guilt, I guess.

― Dickerson Pike (Dickerson Pike), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Remembering a shit joke you made the previous night and feeling incredibly embarrased and ashamed, even though it was ONLY A SHIT JOKE.

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

>The part where you have to get out of bed.

My new policy is that I don't.

― H (Heruy), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

right now i wish i didn't remember what i said last night. somebody do me a favor and wire my jaw shut. please.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 29 July 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

*does so* But that's sorta inconvenient, isn't it?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 July 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

mmphmmngn.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 29 July 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, I think its the feeling that you might have pissed off people you really care about, and the subsequent embarassing phonecall when you realise you've done no such thing, but everyone was in fact laughing at you.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 29 July 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

the best part of a hangover is going out drinking the next night and not feeling nearly as shitty as you did when you wake up the following day.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 29 July 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

The stupidity, inability to concentrate, the worry that you did something dumb or offensive the night before, the empty wallet, and the wasted day.

Also the nausea, but I almost never get that part.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 29 July 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

the smell of alcohol on the morning of the hangover, especially foul smelling ones like tequila.

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Also: vertigo. (Does anyone besides me get vertigo when hungover?)

-- nickalicious

Yes, totally. I lose the ability to deal with stairs because my balance is shot to bits.

I also (occassionaly) get pins and needles in my right arm and get totally paranoid that I am going to have a heart attack/ alcohol related gangrene and that I actually am an alcoholic and will die quite soon, but not before I have ruined the lives of everyone I love.

That usually stops me drinking for a few days.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

That I don't feel sexy/like having sex, though we have an opportunity (baby napping, not much work to do, both here).

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

so true, anna. i'm prone to extremely melodramatic day-after fears and feverish hogarth-esque visions of my future.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno, if anything my libido is increaded when I have a hangover.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

the worst part for me is when someone who clearly wasn't with you the night before asks what you did. and with the upset stomach and hazy mind you have to attempt to re-live it all as you tell this person how much and what you drank..who you were with etc...i can't talk about it until the following day when it's ALL out of my system.

― Heidi D. (Heidi D.), Thursday, 29 July 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"get totally paranoid that I am going to have a heart attack"

yes this is what I meant with the sort of fear/paranoia thing. it's weird, I sometimes am on the bus and am in silent terror.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 29 July 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i had weird palpitation kind of things in the movie theatre last night, which turned into a low-level panic attack as i thought my long, lost weekend was catching up with me in the form of cardiac arrest.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 29 July 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

the farting

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

the burning body heat whilst trying to sleep

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

bobby otm, i woke up from too much heat this morning :(

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

Hey guys whenever I'm hungover I can't stop twitching and I'm terrified my heart's about to stop. Is this a symptom of anything other than shd probly stop getting drunk?

― Linseed Oil is maximum, and that's the law (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 15 March 2009 14:29 (seventeen years ago)

o daer god the munchies...and i have virtually no food in the house

― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Saturday, 21 March 2009 21:08 (seventeen years ago)

least favorite part: hurting so badly that i can't go back to sleep.

― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Saturday, 21 March 2009 21:10 (seventeen years ago)

I seem to have burned off the bit of me that gets hung over. At worst, I feel not-so-energetic and maybe a mild headache. None of the nausea and vomiting and killer headaches I used to get.

― plenty chong (libcrypt), Saturday, 21 March 2009 21:20 (seventeen years ago)

I never got sick the next day, but I did get was sadness, weak/achy muscles, and lightheadedness, and it would basically last until I went to sleep the next night. This is why I stopped drinking enough to get a hangover. Of course now I have no tolerance, so even with just modest amounts of sipping - two or three drinks - sometimes I'll get up with a headache and mild feelings of depression.

― The Lost Boys Buff Guy Playing Sax (rockapads), Saturday, 21 March 2009 21:50 (seventeen years ago)

Sure, the physical side effects are not pleasant at all, but I'm going to have to go with that nasty combination of guilt, dread, melancholy & resignation.

― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Saturday, 21 March 2009 21:59 (seventeen years ago)

“When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover. . . . You have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a shit you are, you have not come at last to see life as it really is.”

― too many misters not enough sisters (milo z), Saturday, 21 March 2009 22:04 (seventeen years ago)

Hey guys whenever I'm hungover I can't stop twitching and I'm terrified my heart's about to stop. Is this a symptom of anything other than shd probly stop getting drunk?

― Linseed Oil is maximum, and that's the law (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 15 March 2009 14:29 (6 days ago) Bookmark

I get this too, particularly in the muscles in my arms. Also paranoia about heart problems.

― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Saturday, 21 March 2009 22:10 (seventeen years ago)

haha that doesn't describe a hangover for me, it describes getting high on shitty w33d. x-post to milo

― I think no pants is sexy. (Matt P), Saturday, 21 March 2009 22:12 (seventeen years ago)

A hangover should always be approached as a holistically bad experience, greater than the sum of its parts.

― Aimless, Saturday, 21 March 2009 22:24 (seventeen years ago)

ooo totally. hangover synergy cannot be accounted for.

― I think no pants is sexy. (Matt P), Saturday, 21 March 2009 22:25 (seventeen years ago)

i don't get many "hangovers" anymore because i've cut way back on my drinking, but i still get frequent migraines/nausea/light sensitivity without all the fun of having gotten soused the night before. i got drunk at a networking event a few weeks ago, and the grogginess afterward was SO worth it.

― battlestar elastica (get bent), Saturday, 21 March 2009 22:45 (seventeen years ago)

Being awake and feeling shit before 10am for some reason (like now)!

― ambulance chaser (S-), Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:02 (seventeen years ago)

On that note, I'd also like to include: drinking to the point that you are able to rationalize staying out all night on a work night, only to wake up a few hours later, still drunk & having to try to conceal that fact & maintain your composure, only to hit a devastating hangover slump around noon. I guess the best approach is simply to keep drinking. I've been watching Mad Men lately, and it makes a good argument for that approach.

― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:12 (seventeen years ago)

being drunk/hungover at work sucks so hard

― I think no pants is sexy. (Matt P), Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:15 (seventeen years ago)

if you're gonna be hungover though, you might as well get paid for it

― N1ck (Upt0eleven), Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:22 (seventeen years ago)

I've been watching Mad Men lately, and it makes a good argument for that approach.

it's all fun and games until roger sterling has a heart attack and freddy rumsen pees his pants.

― battlestar elastica (get bent), Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:32 (seventeen years ago)

(sorry for any spoilers if you're still catching up!)

― battlestar elastica (get bent), Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:34 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, I'm only about halfway through the first season at this point, but if those are the climactic plot points, perhaps I'll rethink committing myself to the rest of the series (I love the writing/acting/photography, do can those things alone sustain a long-term serial drama?) Anyway, I digress..

― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:38 (seventeen years ago)

i always find a queasy stomach the worst part

― Anthony, I am not an Alcoholic & Drunk (darraghmac), Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:42 (seventeen years ago)

overheating

― lex pretend, Sunday, 22 March 2009 11:21 (seventeen years ago)

The vile flatulence.

― Mister Craig, Sunday, 22 March 2009 11:30 (seventeen years ago)

Losing my wallet for the second time in a fortnight is prolly the worst part.

― Hongroe Like the Wolf (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 March 2009 11:32 (seventeen years ago)

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