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Does anyone else have wildly varied hangovers? If I drink while sitting and gaming or going online, I get nasty hangovers. But then if I drink while out with friends, I usually feel fine.
This is even if I drink way more while out with friends! Doesn’t make sense to me but…. It’s clearly a pattern. Anyone relate?
I'd say this is likely caused by i) drinking at a slower pace because you're talking to people and ii) I've heard it said that one of the best ways to avoid a hangover is to wait until you no longer feel drunk before going to sleep. If you drink at home, you're probably going straight to bed still drunk, but if you're out with friends, by the time you get home you've probably sobered up a bit.
Globally, my worst hangovers originate from mixing my drinks.* If I drink six (or seven, or eight) beers, I'll probably feel fine the next morning, if perhaps a little sleepy, nauseated or have a mild headache. If I mix significant volumes of beer, spirits, wine and/or liqueurs, I'll probably feel like shit the next morning, especially if any of the drinks were very sugary, even if the absolute volume of alcohol I consumed is lower than if I'd just drunk one kind of drink. Mixing my drinks also seems to be disproportionately responsible for the emotional symptoms of hangover, namely "the fear": the sensation of paralysing anxiety and dread that you made a fool of yourself the night before.
In terms of physical symptoms specifically (headache, nausea), I used to get the worst hangovers from cheap white wine. The only kind of white wine I drink any more is sparkling (prosecco, cava).
*That being said, the single worst hangover I've had in the last five years wasn't even caused by alcohol specifically. I went to a gig, mixed various drinks and someone offered me a cigarillo in the smoking area. I've never learned how to smoke cigars or cigarillos and always end up smoking them like a cigarette i.e. inhaling, when as I understand it you're only meant to "taste" a cigar. Never figured out how to do that. Anyway, I ended up getting too drunk and left the gig early (wasn't really enjoying it anyway, so no big deal). The next day I was so hungover I literally couldn't keep water down. If you're going to smoke a cigar, make sure you've got your technique down in advance.
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