Almost 30 and I don’t remember ever getting such a bad hangover. Heck, I used to get sober on the way home before even crashing on the bed.

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    7 days ago

    Drinking alcohol is always a terrible idea. It always damages your body, mind, and life itself. No, “small amounts of wine” don’t fucking count. That nonsense has been entirely and thoroughly disproven.

    Don’t drink. That’s like shooting yourself in the dick with a gun, on purpose. If you’re a woman, you do it to your kids. Not literally, that an explanatory metaphor, dumbass. I know I have to explain that shit now because I know you’ve drank alcohol before…on fucking purpose no less.

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    9 days ago

    Beeing a teenager definitely is a superpower you’re not fully aware of or sufficiently appreciating at the time. Drink a bottle of vodka in one night and wake up and go for a run? No problem.

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    I was always hungover when drinking young. Then I stopped getting hangovers because I had an alcohol problem. YMMV.

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    I’ve never tolerated alcohol well so for me it’s just as bad now as it was when I was a teen. I just get sleepy which makes me want to go home at 12 and the day afterward I spend half my day puking, even after just a couple of beers.

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    9 days ago

    I haven’t really gotten drunk for ages with a few notabene exceptions. Sure, I still drink beer, but rarely to the point of actually getting drunk.

    Exceptions:

    • On a work trip halfway around the world. After a looong day in the equatorial heat, some coworkers and I met in the bar to unwind. Upon trying to pay, it turned out that the ops manager had put his card in the bar and we all drank for free that night.
    • Recently I met up with a former coworker that I hadn’t met in over 10 years. We went out for “a couple of beers”. Yeah, I had trouble finding the subway after.

    I’m 42, by the way.

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    I can still tolerate drinking fairly well, but I probably drink too much. In general it is an immunosuppressant so it’s a bad drug to consume regularly. I grew up in a drinking family and a drinking area. I am deciding in my middle age that the benefits are too far below the costs. Sticking more to edibles for my unwind time after a hard day.

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    Yeah as you get older you really need to make sure you’re drinking enough water before you knock out and probably get something in your stomach otherwise you’re in for a bad time.

    Might be a placebo but drinking those “liquid IV” mixes have been a game changer since once I’m drunk enough I don’t like to drink regular water but I can convince drunk me to drink those at least and it’s saved me so many hangovers lol

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      9 days ago

      Hydration is so huge for hangover prevention. If I’m going hard for some reason, I’ll chase shots with those IV mixes.

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      When I was younger that was enough to totally avoid a hangover, but over time it got to be more like a way to make it less bad, still going to have a headache at least no matter what at two drinks or more.

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      9 days ago

      I have salty watermelon Promix packs that I’ll mix into water when needed. They’re primarily for my workouts, but they’re great for getting you hydrated quickly when drinking.

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    Ya, whenever I think about having a drink, I immediately start calculating how long I’ll feel like shit after. If I don’t have an entire day I can set aside to feel awful I don’t even. It’s rarely worth it

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    9 days ago

    yep, I’ve been discovering the virtues of low-alcohol beer. perhaps they had it right in the middle ages with small beer

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    9 days ago

    Once I hit my 30s I ditched alcohol and switched to weed. All but two of my friends stopped drinking once we entered our 30s.

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      7 days ago

      God I wish I could do that. Weed was always my drug but my job and a lot of them that pay well where I live drugs test and it’s still illegal in my country.

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    Idk if hangovers are more intensive for me or if I’m just overly sensitive, but I’ve stopped getting drunk simply because of hangovers. I’m just past the point where the upsides of drinking alcohol aren’t worth the intensity of the hangover after it. It’s just not fun anymore.

    And I don’t understand how people the same age as me or older still get wasted and just shrug at the hangover, if they even have one. I still drink alcohol rarely, but probably never get wasted at memory-loss level ever again.