MrTumble

On another thread, we got to talking about duration of hangovers. So in the interests of science, what's the normal duration for your average hangover?

Of course, if you are drinking over the top of your hangovers, then you might be cutting the hangover short, in which case take a guess on how long you'd think they would last before you're back to "normal" (whatever feeling normal means for alkies...)

karate

Since I don't drink daily ,They are short duration .

I don't really drink ,I slip for one day every couple weeks .......or did .

I think having many days for body to return to normal ,is a big plus .

When I drank daily ,I had them all day ,every day .

thisisme

I forget what a hangover feels like. I also forget what it feels like to be in debt, overweight and waffling through life without a purpose.

Carlotta

My hangovers last 0 days. I do not pick up the first drink no matter what so I don't have to worry whether I will be hangover or not the next day and how long it will last.
Simple cure.

MrTumble

I probably should of said, duration of hangovers when you were drinking - not now you are sober If your having hangovers when sober then I really feel for you

flutter

I haven't been hungover in over 5 years, but when I was drinking they'd last all of the next day really, or until I chased it with more alcohol.

alphaomega

Mine were getting up to 5 days at the end. Before 5 it was about 3. Before 3, usually one sometimes two.

They wer no longer hangovers at the end. They were straight up withdrawals

http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...different.html

huntingtontx

Sometimes I would feel a little off in the morning, but not really hung over. I drank and emergency drink, it is kind of like a powdered gatoraid. Anyway, it never lasted but a few minutes

karate

If I rembered to slug down a quart of pedailight , they were not very tough .

I seldom rembered to do that .

silentrun

Ah you started the poll. I stopped getting hangovers I was just in constant state of depression. Always lethargic and swilling coffee and freebasing sugar just to get through the day. Then drink a pint of whiskey each night. Rinse repeat.

KateL

One nights drinking and it woudl last a day, but after a bender, days on end ...

MeSoSober

Same here. For the last decade or so of my drinking life, I didn't have hangovers. I had withdrawals in the wake of multiple-day benders. A physical and emotional horror I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

I'd say it took me about three days to feel mostly normal again.

heath480

At the end of my drinking I didn't have hangovers,I had the DT's.

The last time that happened was in May 2003.I never want to go back to those days,I stay away from the first drink,whatever.

soberhawk

I do not get hangovers as I do not drink.

My running training does give me sore muscles and at occastion sore joints (then I have overdone it) – that does pass in a day or two.

soberhawk

I remember in the days tried to moderate I did sense I was feeling blue for days after I drank. I was timing it and thinking. Ok, if I give myself 6 days – I will recover fully after at have been drinking – if I take that into considuration I could function while drinking.

It is madness to think like this.

Why could I not see that this was making me missarable and just stop it.

Drunks that drink are a little crasy.

caboblanco

My hangovers usually would only last about half a day from start to finish. I haven't had many withdrawals but i can tell you the symptoms for a withdrawal vs a hangover were obvious. My hangovers i just had borderline

anxiety, dehydration. and woke up feeling like crap but after i got moving it wasn't too bad. Withdrawal lasted for days and could go back and forth in waves. the physical symptoms of itching and skin crawling. the burnt out nerve ending. this only happened during withdrawal

Turninganewleaf

I didn't get "hungover". But I did have alcohol withdrawals. I would drink for days 24/7 and then when I stopped would see bugs and things.

Twinings

Just full on withdrawals for me, even from little alcohol thanks to kindling.

Before that I never really let myself be hungover, learnt hair of the dog from a pretty early age.

Change4good

Yeah, towards the end it wasn't a hangover. . .it was withdrawal. There was no off switch.

Reminds me of the Robert Downey Jr. quote he made one summer. . ."Sometimes I think about having a drink, then I remember I have plans for Christmas."

MaidenNZ

"WHAT IS the duration of your hangovers?" and "how long DOES yours last" implies that this is a current and on going state of affairs. That we are current users. I think of hangovers and their duration in the past tense. I am trying to think of myself as a non-drinker. What were and how long DID kinda thing...

So, therefore...they USED to last roughly 3 days and I hope I never experience another.