I don’t get hangovers anymore. You’d have to sober up to get a hangover. An if I’d sober up, the depression wold be a far greater concern.
Yeah I didn’t really understand hangovers until I slowed my drinking down to reasonable levels, and then to barely at all. Now it’s not so much a hangover, but I notice I’m not really 100% percent for a couple of days after some drinks.
The “I have a 5th for breakfast type” Metal.
That’s not metal. That’s a crushing dependency on alcohol.
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What’s mother mj?
Weed
Marijuana baby, that sweet sweet leaf.
During those first months of the pandemic I turned into an alcoholic, I was drinking way too much.
Flash forward to last month at a wedding, where my friends and I chugged some Gatorade and we were all tired and sleepy.
Honestly, it’s good though. We hammered our poor livers so bad, they deserve a break.
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It took me a bit after graduating to realize that college had reinforced my bad work habits. I just piled on more and more stress and didn’t know how to deal with it beyond pushing myself too far. It worked well in a punctuated semester system, but not so much at an actual job. Not to mention it was horrible for my mental health.
And the only coping mechanic I learned in college was drinking, which is a horrible coping mechanism. I didn’t know how else to handle stress, so when the pandemic broke all of us, I drowned my anxiety and worries. It was when I went through an entire 2L of soda in one night as mixer (for heavy poured drinks) that I knew I had to cut back.
Looking back, it always felt like I was chasing something while drinking after graduating, that I could never find. I don’t think it was the alcohol that helped me cope so much in college as it was the socializing and the company. It could never replicate that feeling because it was the people who made it enjoyable.
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You’re very welcome! Something else interesting is that the pandemic really broke my productivity, and I discovered I had ADHD that was never diagnosed. It was the whole forcing myself thing that masked it all my life.
I dunno if that’s true for you also, but I figure we’re similar enough that it could be helpful.
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I had no idea that hyper focusing was a symptom until later, and it makes so much sense in retrospect. That’s basically what I did to force myself to plow through work
Drinking in my 30s really meant that I won’t get much of a buzz, but will feel bloated and get a headache later. Also, unless I do all my drinking early in the day, I won’t get a good night’s sleep because my heart will be racing.
So…only have 2-3 drinks max for the day and do it before the sun sets so I have the evening to process it. Or don’t bother at all since the benefits don’t really outweigh the cost. Staying hydrated throughout is important but doesn’t really fix any of the aforementioned issues.
Hydration is definitely key. I used to think light beer was well engineered because I rarely got sick off it, but it really just has the water built in…
If I start hydrating early during the day, keep to clear liquor, limit my intake, stop in the early evening, and take some electrolytes at bedtime, I can usually mitigate 90% of the hangover. I will still have terrible sleep.
But, why am I doing all this? It’s just easier to stay sober these days.
Worst hangover I ever had, I was 20 and spent an entire May day working with my brother scraping and painting a small shed, and replacing the shingles. Took us about ten hours give or take. We had an occasional beer but nothing crazy.
Once done we each polished off about ten Labatt 50s while we watched hockey, then went out to meet friends. Got home at about 2 am.
Woke up the next day like someone had driven a spike through my head and was drumming the ends that stuck out with steel rods.
I was screwed for about 36 hours. Realized as I was recovering that I hadn’t had a drop of water all that day, just stopped working to sip on a cold beer every once in a while.
Lesson fucking learned. Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate.
36 hours was like a standard hangover for me after I hit my 30s.
I’m now 40 and haven’t gotten drunk in years because it isn’t worth losing the rest of my weekend and going into the work week for 4 hours of marginal fun on Friday.
Yeah, a lack of hydration alone will make me wake up feeling like death. Combine that with any booze and it isn’t a good time.
This is why I like weed. All the fun of the buildup, with no dropoff.
Weed mostly just gives me anxiety since I hit 30. I used to be a daily smoker in my teens and twenties.
I hope this is common because I haven’t had that type of high since legalization hit and I miss it.
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Weed makes me hallucinate while being super paranoid, it’s not actually safe for me to be unsupervised.
When you’re on antidepressants that dark place is filled with brain spiders.
When I hit my 30s it’s like my body just stopped being and to digest alcohol correctly. I wouldn’t even call it a hangover. Just a lingering uncomfortable feeling my stomach and a more than usual number of trips to the bathroom for 24 hours after. Even if I only have a few beers.
I’ve all but given up drinking at this point.
A friend of mine got that too. Even a glass of wine started to make him very sick. He had to give up drinking altogether.
My superpower is not having hangovers 🗿 🗿 (for now)
39 and still don’t understand why people complain. Just hydrate, poop, eat, poop again, go back to normal.
Because people are built different. I’ve been so nauseous from drinking the night before that I just immediately threw up every gulp of water I took, even at about 20.
39 here and still hangover free, except for Jamison for some reason.
It’s strange how sick people are nowdays.
Then, in your forties you drink a single beer, feel nothing, and have the mother of all hangovers. I’ve more-or-less given up drinking at this point.
yall really dont drink water huh?
30 here drink does nothing to me but i drink a glass of water eve3night before bed lmao
drank a margarita last night woke up at 5 am
see a doctor
30 here
Get back to me when you’re creeping up on fifty.
Truthfully, I have mixed results when it comes to drinking these days. Sometimes, it’s fine. I drink a few beer, get a nice buzz and wake up totally fine. It’s really only once or twice I had the situation I mentioned above where I hardly drank anything and woke up hungover anyway. In those cases, I didn’t chug a bunch of water because I assumed since I wasn’t feeling the effects at all, I’d be fine. If I am buzzed or verging on drunk, then I will chug a liter or something. Though for me, it’s 50/50 on whether that prevents a hangover. I don’t like those odds. It just seems more and more like the short buzz and euphoria it brings more and more often isn’t worth the chance of ruining the next day. Especially given how much shittier your system gets at handling this stuff as you get older.
I am not out of shape either.
Everybody is different - you haven’t figured out the one simple trick to avoid hangovers. Drinking lots of water is like, the most common thing to do and 99% of people still get bad hangovers
As I’ve gotten older I realized that, even though I like the occasional drink, it’s just not worth it to me any more. I find myself drinking less and less. Almost never at this point.
I’ve also noticed my friends and family are a lot more fun to hang out with when they are not drinking than when they are. People get so loud and obnoxious when they drink. They think they are fun and funny but they’re really just annoying.
I’m just intrigued by the level of the wine in the last panels. I guess it implies that she’s accelerating down the hill faster than free fall? Which I guess fits.
I used to be able to drink a lot, but I stopped over covid and now I’m pretty green after, like, one glass of wine. Cider is instant vomit mode. Pathetic. Now it’s just Coronas and sadness.
Sounds familiar. I wonder what it is about cider and malt beverages that suddenly don’t settle?
High sugar content
Corona has 1g Sugar per bottle.
Angry Orchard has 20g Sugar per bottle.
Yikes.
Vin Diesel?
I wish I was that cool.
Sources:
I’ve never had a hangover ever in my life, but could that be from my genes? My mom could really hold her alcohol well even though she didn’t drink a lot.
Yeah at this point it’s rarely worth it for me, mostly just don’t drink anymore.
And that’s why I only drink beer. But I’m Bavarian so it’s probably the genes.
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