Have your hangovers gotten worse the older you have got?

I drink a very small amount of alcohol, so I never get drunk even slightly.
Sorry for not really answering your question.

Nope. My worst hangover was due to a weekend campout with some friends at Big Bear. I was 17. I have never had a hangover that bad since (well, maybe a couple :) )

They’ve gotten better actually and that’s due mostly to the fact that I haven’t consumed alcohol for the past 9 years. On the extremely rare chance I ever choose to imbibe again, it will be in amounts so small that hangovers won’t ever factor into the equation.

A sure sign of maturity is realizing that abusing substances such as alcohol is a young man’s game. I only drink occasionally, and never more than just a few glasses of beer. Getting stupid and puking on your shoes is for amateurs.

@evelyns_pet_zebra I’m not a puker and I don’t take drugs anymore, I just want to enjoy myself and not feel like death

Maybe it’s the booze, should I give that up and go back to the Class A’s?

This is a great observation. There are a lot of differences in the way that adolescents and adults react to alcohol, and some evidence suggests that hangover symptoms are more severe in adults. Here is an article (from a lab I used to work in!) that talks about this in terms of hangover-induced anxiety.

@nikipedia Interesting

@RareDenver then stick to moderate drinking. Over-indulging in anything as you grow older will come back to haunt you. Drink slowly, and eat food and mix it up with a few non-alcoholic drinks (preferably non carbonated). And if you drink beer, stay away from the cheap shit.

Life is too short to drink cheap beer.

That’s just your liver getting older. What you need is a new one. Just remember if you put your old, used up bad liver under your pillow the Beer Fairy will leave you a keg.

YES, there was a period where I didn’t get any

I haven’t had a hangover in years. I don’t drink like I did when I was young. I did get tore up a couple months ago, but, that was a real rarity, and I didn’t have a hangover the next day. I know how to pace myself now, I didn’t when I was 21.

What I have noticed since cutting out most sugars from my diet for a few years is now when I drink alcohol, it really really hurts a few hours later even though it tastes good and feels good initially.

I find I get sick easier now, from drinking. But my hangovers are much less severe.

@casheroo That’s exactly what I was going to say. In the past six years, there were two separate nights when I forgot that I can’t drink much anymore and pretended like I was in college. One of those times was not my fault, but entirely the fault of the couple who had the martini bar made of ice at their wedding. How could I resist? Both times, I ended up getting so sick that I felt perfectly fine the next day. But in general, my limit is two drinks or three beers. I haven’t had an honest-to-goodness hangover since college, so don’t have a good comparison to make.

When you’re young, your liver is healthy, and can filter out all that poison.
As you get older, your liver gets abused, hence the hangovers.
You’ll learn to stop drinking when you wake up in the morning and find yourself lieing next to @AstroChuck.
((shudders))

Yes, though I don’t think it has anything to do with age. I drank a lot until I was 21 (there’s no such thing as an age limit when you work in a bar), then quit completely for 12 years and only drink occasionally now. Back then I even used to take part in drinking competitions. I had several bottles of alcohol a day, usually strong stuff (my favourite poison was tequila at the time). I never got drunk. Now I never drink more than a couple of glasses max, and this is only once a week or even less. So of course I’ll start getting dizzy after the third one.

Yes, they are much worse and I don’t need as much alcohol to get one as I used to.

I’ve gotten TWO hangovers in the many times I have drank, and it’s because both times I drank things I didn’t necessarily like, but drank anyway, just for the sake of trying. Luckily, I usually am hangover free, even when I get WAY too drunk.

:)
I don’t get hangovers:)
hahaha

@prude obviously you aren’t drinking the right stuff in the proper amounts. I suggest you try a couple of pints of Southern Comfort on an empty stomach. Add a couple of shots of room temperature Peppermint Schnapps and then wash it all down with some keg beer.

If that doesn’t give you a hang over, I’ll crown you as the King of No Hnagovers.

@evelyns_pet_zebra I don’t like southern comfort
I tend to mix my drinks
I can’t drink the same drink twice in a row w/o feeling ill.
so, on a typical drinking night my drinks might go something like

1 salty dog
2 tequilla sunrise
3 white russian
4 some sort of wine cooler
5 redheaded slut
6 b52
7 peppermint patty
8 bull rider
9 daiquiri
10 margarita
11 mellon ball
by then, hopefully, I am wasted and am going home.

I use to in college, I would feel horrible kind of like Jack in “The Shining”-“I think I hurt my head real bad. I’m dizzy! I need a doctor!”
I really don’t get them now, probably because I don’t go to keggers.

This is a definite yes for me…

When I turned 18 I got a job in a nightclub, and all the staff (including the management) were helping themselves to the drinks… I used to drink so much vodka it was stupid, my favorite poison was a half-pint glass filled half with vodka and the rest with double coke (that’s when you press the diet and non diet coke buttons on the soda gun at the same time, so you get twice the coke syrup :D) which made it taste like a single shot in the glass, and I’d have 5–6 of these every night I worked which was 5 out of 7 days, with no adverse affect (in the short term at least)...

Anyway, I recall times when I did really stupid things, like downing half a pint of vodka in one go, and being so surprised at how easy it was that I did it again about 5 minutes after, I woke up by the big bins around the back of the nightclub, in my managers coat, i was a little confused as to why I hadn’t woken up in my bed, but shrugged it off and went home, I didn’t even have a hangover!!...

Now, nearly 8 years later when I go out with my girlfriend, who is seven years younger than me and only just started drinking properly, she’ll get absolutely wasted to the point where I have to carry her home most of the way (and that does take an impressive amount for someone who only weighs 7½ stone (105 Lbs), and I’ll only have 4–5 pints (and I weigh nearer 12 stone (165 Lbs)) yet she’ll have no hangover in the morning and I’m stuck with a stinking headache, extreme sensitivity to light, general confusion and nausea A.K.A a bloody evil hangover… it’s just not fair :(

Taking into account my various drug addictions/dependencies from 18–24 (major ones including speed, ecstasy and coke), or the times I drank so much I got alcohol poisoning (trust me, that’s not something anybody wants, throwing up every 30 minutes and pissing out of your ass all day, every day, for 2 weeks or more), to be frank, I’m surprised my liver still functions at all…

I suppose it is fair, I’m well aware that my inability to drink much now without getting a hangover, is a direct result of the constant abuse of alcohol and drugs when I was younger.

A lesson learned, I guess, just a little too late (for me at least)... I had some great times though and if given the chance, I wouldn’t do anything differently… well, maybe, just 10% less of everything, after all I don’t wanna live forever :)

@tw34k3d welcome to fluther. lurve.

@prude fine, if you aren’t going to follow my recipe for a hangover, you aren’t going to get one.

Since when does ‘like’ have to do with getting smashed? I used to drink a lot of Jack Daniels, not because I liked it, but because it was strong enough to kick your ass. Half those drinks you listed I’ve never even heard of. Do they still serve Alabama Slammers? A gallon of those will have you crawling out of the pub.

We used to alternate shots of Jack Daniels (chased by Coke) with shots of Cinnamon Scnhapps. Not because it was yummy, but because we could get a great buzz before going to whatever party happened to be on our agenda for the evening.

One word of advice: Never chase shots of vodka with a screwdriver (the drink) after eating Taco Bell. Bad, bad, bad idea.