Do you get hungover?

[homesick_american 1]

Um, I am going to venture to say that you have to poision yourself with enough alcohol to trigger a hangover. I am assuming this amount almost always crosses the drunken threshold. If you don't drink or don't drink enough to get drunk than of course you aren't going to get hungover. I don't care about these responses. I only want to know who does/did get drunk and experiences/experienced hangovers. My poll is fine.

Not really. Some people (myself included) suffer from migraines after drinking certain types of alcohol, including red wine. With me it takes half a glass of red wine to induce a head-splitting migraine. Some people (myself included) also have issues with an impaired ALDH enzyme which induces a mild to severe allergic reaction to alcohol. When I drink I almost immediately get hot and dizzy and my heart feels like it's going to jump out of my chest, though the reaction has never been serious enough for me to seek medical attention. If I drink too much...and too much for me is 2+ cans of beer...due to the enzyme problem I get nauseating headaches the next morning because I can't digest/metabolize alcohol properly. Strangely enough this problem usually affects east Asians (Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, etc) but I'm white. All I can manage is a single can of light beer or a tiny amount of liquor without getting a headache the next day. Any more than that...or any red wine...and I'm in hell.

So...if someone had a bad headache the next morning or gets stumbly and flushed after only one drink, don't immediately assume they have a drinking problem.

[Lou Lou 1]

The best way to avoid a hangover, or even avoid feeling rough after a few drinks for the over 30s ( ) is to take Milk Thistle. It cleanses the liver so helps filter all those bad chemicals through. Take one before you start drinking, one before you go to bed, and one the next morning. I have never known anyone to suffer after taking this miracle supplement. Of course plenty of water helps too, and if you're into homeopathic remedies, Nux Vomica will work just fine.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

I swear by milk thistle!

And McDonalds.

[Jenn! 918]

I doubt that certain people are immune from hangovers, they just don't drink enough to trigger one.

I've had 2-day hangovers in college. And yes, McDonalds is the way to go....

(how would Mickey-D's help one deal with a hangover?)

I don't know. It must be magic!

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

it's the magic grease

[Dr. Obvious 49]

So...if someone had a bad headache the next morning or gets stumbly and flushed after only one drink, don't immediately assume they have a drinking problem.

I never assumed that. Defensive much?

[homesick_american 1]

So...if someone had a bad headache the next morning or gets stumbly and flushed after only one drink, don't immediately assume they have a drinking problem.

I never assumed that. Defensive much?

From your post it certainly seemed that you did, though your point was as clear as mud.

[LovinLiberia 0]

I don't ever really drink. I have been slightly hungover one time after a wild night in Liberia, lol.

[Nessa 23]

When I was 17 I could go out and party, drink all night and stay out til like 4, 5am and wake up at 7 to go to college and I would have hangover for a couple hours, then everything would go back to normal. Now if I drink til like 11pm last night and get drunk I'll get hangovers for a day, sometimes I'll still feel bad for a second day. So te secret is: not to drink. Works like magic.

The person that creates the cure for hangover will be the richest man on Earth.

[Autumnchik 6]

McDonalds is the best way to avoid a hangover.

No, I believe there have been clinical studies showing that Denny's or Waffle House at 3 am (depending on which part of the country you live in) is the absolute best way to avoid a hangover

[Marilyn. 340]

the only time I have been close to even being drunk was when I drank almost a whole bottle of Baja Rosa... I got really giggly ... and I almost fell in the toilet .. but I didn't feel hungover at all in the morning

[Alex+R 0]

Um, I am going to venture to say that you have to poision yourself with enough alcohol to trigger a hangover. I am assuming this amount almost always crosses the drunken threshold. If you don't drink or don't drink enough to get drunk than of course you aren't going to get hungover. I don't care about these responses. I only want to know who does/did get drunk and experiences/experienced hangovers. My poll is fine.

If I have one or two drinks, I might not get drunk (but ask Rey, I usually get at least tipsy) but I'll still get a hangover. I once had a hangover from one beer. I really should never drink, but since I went to college in Wisconsin, not drinking would have ruined four good drinking years of my life!

[Fandango 1,439]

I have drank enough to get drunk, enough to throw up on rare occasion, but I have never been hungover. In fact, after I drink, I wake up the next morning feeling great. Anyone else not get hungover?

That's because you are under 30. Hit thirty and it'll start, believe me.

Me? I rarely drink anyway, but if I do it's guaranteed that I'll feel sh!t....but I'm over thirty. When I was your age (sound like a parent now don't I?) I'd never had a hangover either. Give it time....mwahahahahahahaha.

Both of my unforgettable, awful, horrendous, torturous hangovers have been when I'm under 30..

oof, I'm recoiling from the memory.

The first one, funny enough, was when I was 17. I was running for a seat for the State of Florida College Democrats Some Teamster guy got me rip roarin drunk, I drank about 9 rum & cokes in an hour...got really ill...tried to keep up appearances (lest it get back to my family and their friends)...and I tried to fight off the sick feeling, then promptly threw up all over the room

The next day, I was the keynote speaker on a riverboat cruise. Yeah, that worked well Dry heaving off the side of the boat!

To this day, not one more R&C!!!!!

The other time was in Germany with D...involved raw hooch that was still fermenting, absynthe, Jagermeister, and a bottle of Mickey Finn's that I bought at duty free. oooh that one was a doooooooooooozy!

[Leney 0]

I've never had a hangover. It may have something to do with the fact I have ice in every drink, and the water probably helps a bit.

[homesick_american 1]

McDonalds is the best way to avoid a hangover.

No, I believe there have been clinical studies showing that Denny's or Waffle House at 3 am (depending on which part of the country you live in) is the absolute best way to avoid a hangover

We used to go to Kerbey Lane or Magnolia Cafe in Austin when we had money, Kettle if we didn't. Taco Cabana was also interesting at 3:30am.