TomSawyer

Yep. I can't emphasize how miserable a cycle this was.

ThorgNorton

2-3 days here. 2 weeks without a hangover has been awesome though. :-)

karate

Most of us learned about the hair of the dog ,That's the one way ,no stops ,no speed limits ,wide open slide into torture .

MattyBoy

I've only ever had hangovers on a handful of occasions when I first started drinking... Generally I would feel dehydrated and rather fatigued for about 3 hours after waking up. And the taste in my mouth would be bloody awful... The worst part of it in my opinion. Would drink a litre of water and brush my teeth for about ten minutes to get rid of that aftertaste and dry mouth.

Toward the end of my drinking it would be closer to withdrawal symptoms - no headache or nausea but just terrible , disabling anxiety and mild tremors. Absolutely awful stuff... Never again ey!

kaonashi

When my hangovers turned into something else that was the beginning of the end for me. I googled alcohol withdrawal and ticked the boxes.

Couldn't be happier to wake up every morning without the handicap of the remorse from the night before and the feeling of death that would go away only after a gallon of water, a bunch of food, a few advils, some exercise and a good amount of the way and my life wasted.

Fallow

2 days. One day being physically ill. The next day recovering from booze and from being ill the prior day. Hangovers are the main reason I quit drinking.
Just too much time wasted.

Sanantoniosober

^^^
This.
I used to joke that I was turning into Hank Williams jr, the hangovers hurt more than they used to, and all my rowdy friends had settled down (or were in jail, or homeless, or dead).

Then one day I realized I "missed" hangovers, because they became daily withdrawals.

TomSawyer

You know, in retrospect the 2-3 day hangovers (read: withdrawals) probably saved me. If I was only getting 1/2 day or even 1 day hangovers I know I'd probably still be drinking.

Wastinglife

Physically, I didn't get hangovers. But I always woke up massively depressed. I would then keep the drinking going to get away from that miserable state of mind.

Bostonsportsfan

When I was drinking all day everyday I rarely was hung over. I would just sleep 8+ hours and wake up ready for more. When I relapsed after my first detox I had bad hang overs that would take a day to get over.

TopFlight

My problem was that when I drank, I smoked cigarettes, which I didn't normally do sober. So a night combined with excessive drinking and a bunch of cigs would leave me feeling crappy for at least 2-3 days.

SnoozyQ

Good grief ! Even revisiting those thoughts makes me physically nauseous

I used to virtually lay as still as a statue next day , fearing movement would trigger vomitting . Then I would have sweats , and desperately try to sleep it off, to no avail.

I would feel as though I may have a heart attack or stroke if i got up to shower. Showering itself was an ordeal , often holding on to the wall to steady myself.

If i finally did drift off to sleep I would wake with a leg jolt or just wake 20 mins later. It was NEVER a rested sleep.

The ceiling fan would be on full pelt.

I couldn't clean my teeth or i was gag.

Usually diarrhoea.

Couldn't eat anything or even drink water at times.

It always got worse before it got better ...around 3 pm ..hideous as I was always hoping for respite by then.

It NEVER happened.

Sometimes i seriously wished for death during the worst of it , just disappointed if i woke up and still was hungover badly

This makes me sad now ;( to think i felt that way

And i miss drinking because ...??????

MrTumble

Well that was interesting, thanks for all those who polled.

Im now quite convinced that my own 3 day hangovers are probably more akin to withdrawal than to hangover - previously I hadnt considered that as a possibility, i thought I was just getting worse hangovers as I got older.

Im now beginning to think I might be at a more advanced stage of alcoholism than I'd previously considered. Quite scary.

Leana

Same here.....Flutter when's your sober date? Must be close to mine Aug 1, 2008.

karate

Im very shocked there are not more people that chased the hangovers with hair of the dog .

SnoozyQ

Good point Karate . There wasn't an option for that .

Only 47 people have voted so far , so maybe that's what MrT meant when he said explain , if you don't get them :-) xx

MaxxPower

Hangovers? It all depended on what I was doing...for the most part - Nope.

I never believed in all of this stuff(withdrawl/hangovers) - until I started getting hospitalized. So it was ''mind over matter'' for many years for me. Just did what I pleased..thinking I was different.

This may be the only reason I lasted so long drinking in the mornings.

Ignorance is bliss...

No doubt about it though - it all caught up to me.

karate

Oh ,it gets worse than just drinking in the mornings ,It can progress to where you wake up in the middle of the night with the shakes ,and have to drink then .

Owllie11

SnoozyQ...you just described me 25 days ago...I have never felt so sick in my life. I couldn't move without puking. It was horrible. It was as if my body told me it was done and my mind had to accept that fact.

jdooner

My hangovers went away about 5 years ago. I would sometimes get severe withdrawal but only rarely if many drugs and booze were involved.