- This weekend in Seattle, an unusual group of scientists will gather to mull these and other questions at the meeting of the Alcohol Hangover Research Group. Their logo, fittingly, is a pint of beer next to a spilled glass of red wine.
Hangover research is a bit of a neglected field, not the highest priority in terms of health-research funding. But there’s a lot hangovers can tell us about our brains, our guts, and the epidemiology of alcoholism. In other words, tell me how you feel the morning after getting blitzed, and I’ll tell you what you are.
I do believe this is right up your alley, b_b. And cW.
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I for one completely support this area of research.
Also, can we please start using the #spiriteddiscourse tag more. It's amazing.
Nothing beats an IV. When I was a teenie bopper weighing probably 130 soaking wet I made the error of imbibing an entire fifth of five o'clock vodka. Spent an early morning in the hospital. Worst hangover of my was cured instantly. Now if they only could have done something about the sores on my mouth from all the vomiting!
I had to take one of my friends to the hospital the next day (same day?) for a similar reason - except Everclear instead of Vodka. I showed up at his house around noon on a Sunday and he was pretty out of it but I didn't think much of it. We watch some TV. I'm on the computer. An hour later, he stumbles to the bathroom, vomits, exits, looks at me, and passes the fuck out. Woke up a couple seconds later and started puking again. Scared the absolute living daylights out of me. After a couple more vomit sessions where I was completely unsure of his level of consciousness, I threw him in his car and high tailed it to the ER. A couple hours later he was good as new and we hightailed him and his fake name back to the house. I always tell people - if you are seriously that intensely hungover you need to go to the hospital. It will cure you almost instantly and it's really not worth 12 hours of puking and the further dehydration after a long night/day/3 day bender. Especially if you are at the point where you are losing consciousness. Puking and passing out simultaneously is not good. Not that I condone ditching on a $1,000 ER bill for a bag of saline and bed, but if you pick a big one you can usually sneak out. Just make sure your info is fake before you do that - dumbasses.
At least it was you that got to take him, and not his family. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that my mom's least proud day as a parent was that singular day back in '99. It was senior skip day, and I took the day off, and got wasted by 1:00 pm. My buddies dropped me off at home, and my mom showed up about 5:00 in the evening, went to the bathroom, and found me laying on the floor completely passed out in a pool of my own wretch. I can't imagine what a failure as a mother she must have felt like in that moment. Oh well, all's well that ends well, right? At least I can handle my booze now :)
Maybe that's why I still occasionally get blackout. I've probably thrown up twice in my life while drunk and three times hungover. One you got to semi-experience the other day on the Hubski call.
If you have a bachelor party and I'm privileged enough to attend it, my goal would be to replicate this event.
It isn't the bags, it's the needles and the sticking. Shooting yourself up with heroin? itty bitty needle. IV fluids? mammer-jammer needle. Not the sort of thing you want to practice with while hung over. I'm also not entirely sure of how things could go wrong, but I'm entirely sure they could.
If I drink, one glass of red(or white!), have a beer, or a mixed drink... I end up getting a headache. This happens whether I've had food, hadn't had food, drank it with food. I'm always hydrating so I know it's not that. I just feel like my body has adverse reactions to alcohol. Hangovers are so bad they are for the record books. It's awful. As a result, I have no relationship with alcohol. I feel like I'm alone in this! But when I try to search, there's really not a lot of research on hangovers, so this is kind of hopeful that maybe someday, someone, somewhere, can say "water, this is why you can't drink fermented beverages"