Hangover. Drinking sucks!

[Anonymous]

I drink maybe once every six weeks. Went out for a friend's big birthday last evening. Restaurant brought us limoncello shots. Wine flowed.

I am now reminded why I rarely drink. My sleep was shot and it's late afternoon and I STILL feel like total ass. Drinking is the worst! Fun in the moment but then you pay!

[Anonymous]

Not to mention it causes cancer. The less you drink, the better. I have wine once or twice a year and never more than two glasses.

[Anonymous]

Drinking to the point of a hangover as an adult is an interesting life choice, OP. Just because it's there doesn't mean you need to binge on it.

Do you get hungover every 6 weeks?

[Anonymous]

I mean its literal poison. You're feeling bad bc you didnt drink enough to die.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Drinking to the point of a hangover as an adult is an interesting life choice, OP. Just because it's there doesn't mean you need to binge on it.

Do you get hungover every 6 weeks?

Damn you’re annoying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not to mention it causes cancer. The less you drink, the better. I have wine once or twice a year and never more than two glasses.

That’s not what the data show. What was shown was there was “no safe level” shown in retrospective observational studies. You won’t really be able to establish a safe level without a prospective study with a control arm. So it’s unremarkable they weren’t able to establish a safe level.

As for the connection to cancer, they can correlate higher alcohol use with higher cancer incidence but they can’t isolate alcohol as the cause vs other lifestyle factors.

All things being equal, you can drink more than 4 glasses of wine a year without increasing your cancer risk. M

The link between cigarettes and cancer is far better established and, if not addictive, you could have several cigarettes a year without a meaningful impact on your overall health.

The concept of “no safe level” bleeding into news as entertainment and reporting on complex science without explaining study design is deleterious to society. There’s a safe level of every substance. It could be microscopic but nothing is toxic at *any* level. There’s a maximum level of uranium exposure in drinking water yet people think alcohol has no safe level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Drinking to the point of a hangover as an adult is an interesting life choice, OP. Just because it's there doesn't mean you need to binge on it.

Do you get hungover every 6 weeks?

No, why?

[Anonymous]

OP - you sound like a bizarrely fragile person.

If you can't handle a single, fun night out with friends without feeling weak and sick, I'm guessing you wither in the face of any tough demands life throws your way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP - you sound like a bizarrely fragile person.

If you can't handle a single, fun night out with friends without feeling weak and sick, I'm guessing you wither in the face of any tough demands life throws your way.

What weird logic. resilience is a mentality - alcohol has physical effects on the body, which is what OP is feeling. The two are very different. Hangovers suck OP. At a certain point it just becomes not worth it to drink.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP - you sound like a bizarrely fragile person.

If you can't handle a single, fun night out with friends without feeling weak and sick, I'm guessing you wither in the face of any tough demands life throws your way.

lol! I’ve never heard this side before. By golly you must have an amazing tolerance…good for you!! Bravo for being able to sally forth after a night of binge drinking. Gold medal and kudos for you.

[Anonymous]

Not sure how old you are OP, but, at 48, my days of drinking are pretty much over. Not worth it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP - you sound like a bizarrely fragile person.

If you can't handle a single, fun night out with friends without feeling weak and sick, I'm guessing you wither in the face of any tough demands life throws your way.

You sound like my uncle who died of alcoholism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP - you sound like a bizarrely fragile person.

If you can't handle a single, fun night out with friends without feeling weak and sick, I'm guessing you wither in the face of any tough demands life throws your way.

You sound like my uncle who died of alcoholism.

My father has had a bottle of vodka ever few days since he was 20. He is still alive at 75. He also smokes a pack a day. I hope it means I live til 97.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure how old you are OP, but, at 48, my days of drinking are pretty much over. Not worth it.

+1 at 58. A hard seltzer or two at a BBQ? Fine, but any more than that and my body revolts. My wine days are over.

[Anonymous]

Lol, old person hangovers are not for the faint of heart.