I don't usually get hangovers, but when I do... about 12 hours, from discovery of hangover. There will almost certainly be some sleep during this period.
Drink lots of water, and have a banana it is full of potassium and other ****. helps getting over a hangover quicker.
Also before drinking have a fryup The oils and fats can clog up the duodenum (small intestine) which will slow down the amount of alcohol going into your system.
How Your Body Processes Alcohol
Food in your diet must be digested before being absorbed by your cells, but alcohol included in your diet flows directly through your body?s membranes into your bloodstream, which carries alcohol to nearly every organ in your body.
The amount of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) your body manufactures is influenced by your ethnicity and your gender. Asians, Native Americans, and Inuits secrete less alcohol dehydrogenase than do most Caucasians, and the average woman (regardless of her ethnicity) makes less ADH than the average man does.
As a result, more unmetabolized alcohol flows from their tummies into their bloodstreams, and they?re likely to become tipsy on smaller amounts of alcohol.
Here?s a road map to show you the route traveled by the alcohol in every drink you take.
Flowing down the hatch from mouth to stomach: The unmetabolized alcohol flows through your stomach walls into your bloodstream and on to your small intestine.
Stopping for a short visit at the energy factory: Most of the alcohol you drink is absorbed through the duodenum (small intestine). From there it flows through a large blood vessel into your liver.
In the liver, an enzyme similar to gastric ADH metabolizes the alcohol, which is converted to energy by a coenzyme called nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD). NAD is also used to convert the glucose you get from other carbohydrates to energy; while NAD is being used for alcohol, glucose conversion grinds to a halt.
The normal, healthy liver can process about 1/2 ounce of pure alcohol (that?s 6 to 12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine, or 1 ounce of spirits) in an hour. The rest flows on to your heart.
Taking time out for air: Entering your heart, alcohol reduces the force with which your heart muscle contracts. You pump out slightly less blood, blood vessels all over your body relax, and your blood pressure goes down temporarily. The contractions soon return to normal, but the blood vessels may remain relaxed and your blood pressure lower for as long as half an hour.
Meanwhile, alcohol flows in blood from your heart through your pulmonary vein to your lungs. Now you breathe out a tiny bit of alcohol every time you exhale, and your breath smells of liquor. Then the newly oxygenated, still alcohol-laden blood flows back through the pulmonary artery to your heart, and up and out through the aorta.
Rising to the surface: In your blood, alcohol raises your level of high-density lipoproteins (HDLs), although not necessarily the good ones that carry cholesterol out of your body. Alcohol also makes blood less likely to clot, temporarily reducing your risk of heart attack and stroke.
Alcohol makes blood vessels expand, so more warm blood flows up from the center of your body to the surface of the skin. You feel warmer and, if your skin is fair, you may flush and turn pink. (Asians, who tend to make less alcohol dehydrogenase than do Caucasians, often experience a characteristic flushing when they drink even small amounts of alcohol.) At the same time, tiny amounts of alcohol ooze out through your pores, and your perspiration smells of alcohol.
Encountering curves in the road: Alcohol is a sedative. When it reaches your brain, it slows the transmission of impulses between nerve cells that control your ability to think and move. That?s why your thinking may be fuzzy, your judgment impaired, your tongue twisted, your vision blurred, and your muscles rubbery.
Alcohol reduces your brain?s production of antidiuretic hormones, which keep you from making too much urine. You may lose lots of liquid, vitamins, and minerals. You also grow very thirsty, and your urine may smell faintly of alcohol. This cycle continues as long as you have alcohol circulating in your blood, or in other words, until your liver can manage to produce enough ADH to metabolize all the alcohol you?ve consumed.
Most people need an hour to metabolize the amount of alcohol (1/2 ounce) in one drink. But some people have alcohol circulating in their blood for up to three hours after taking a drink.
As i've got older it can take up to a day to get rid of a bad hangover, which is spent in bed. Although sometimes they go away in the afternoon, usually a couple of painkillers, a cup of tea and a few hours asleep i bed and i feel fine.
Most people need an hour to metabolize the amount of alcohol (1/2 ounce) in one drink. But some people have alcohol circulating in their blood for up to three hours after taking a drink.
I think you might have got this information from a US source ;) , "one drink" (in terms of measures of alcohol) and "ounces" of alcohol will be meaningless to most people here. As far as I know the body can metabolise one unit of alcohol per hour, that's roughly half a pint. Drunkeness and attendant hangover is less about how much alcohol you drink in many cases and about how quickly you drink it and it gets into your bloodstream. If you drink six pints over six hours you'll have less of a hangover than if you drink four pints over two hours.
In my experience the best way to avoid a hangover is to drink at least a pint of water at the end of the night and, importantly, to drink it once you've stopped needing to go for a piss every half hour because that means that the alcohol isn't messing with your body and expelling all the water you take in any more.
The best way to avoid one, though, is, of course, just not drinking too much. I read an interesting thing about alcoholism the other day which said that one of the problems alcoholics have is an inability to stop drinking once they've started. Abstaining isn't actually that hard (unless the person is physically addicted or self-medicating), the problem is being able to go to the pub and just have one or two pints; many people find they keep drinking until they are forced to stop ("time gentlemen please!"). The way to avoid a hangover (and becoming an alcoholic) is apparently about being able to stop boozing when you don't have to and before you're actually drunk.
The best way to avoid one, though, is, of course, just not drinking too much. I read an interesting thing about alcoholism the other day which said that one of the problems alcoholics have is an inability to stop drinking once they've started. Abstaining isn't actually that hard (unless the person is physically addicted or self-medicating), the problem is being able to go to the pub and just have one or two pints; many people find they keep drinking until they are forced to stop ("time gentlemen please!"). The way to avoid a hangover (and becoming an alcoholic) is apparently about being able to stop boozing when you don't have to and before you're actually drunk.
I can relate to that. If I'm sitting watching telly with Mrs Spoons I tend to drink at a more civilised pace (half a bottle of cider an hour) than if I'm up the pub with my mates.
I do have a tendency to drink to excess when I'm on my own, and lately I find it just makes me depressed the next morning. No headache, more like a very black, sombre mood that it takes the whole day to shake off. I do like a drink but if this is how it makes me feel I'd rather go tee-total (or go back to Mrs Spoons' snails pace drinking)
Sorry to hear about your feeling poorly though dude. Hope you get on the mend soon.
I can't handle hangovers so well these days - took me a couple of days to shake off the NYE cobwebs this year. Doing my usual January drying out now. Lasted until mid-February last year, but this year I have a gig (RX Bandits, in case anyone wonders) to go to on the 3rd (I think), so that'll no doubt turn into a beer fest! Actually, I'm also going to see Jefferson Starship in a couple of weeks, but that won't be a beery kind of gig... ;)
Another vote for the pint-of-water-before-bed here. Usually works wonders...
the last one took about 2 weeks, along with a GP supervised staged programme of tranquilisers, anti-pyschotics, and vitamins (and I strongly resisted being hospitalised)
not touched a drop of alcohol since Xmas 2010 and yet I still get the occasional day where I'll wake up and feel like I've had a monster beer sesh the night before. luckily these 'hangover flashbacks' only last about 5 minutes
not touched a drop of alcohol since Xmas 2010 and yet I still get the occasional day where I'll wake up and feel like I've had a monster beer sesh the night before. luckily these 'hangover flashbacks' only last about 5 minutes
I no longer drink enough these days to warrant a hangover. When the hangover began going into day 2 was when I decided that drinking vast amounts of alcohol was no longer for me.
I remember years ago a mates' brother drank a whole bottle of vodka AND beer at a New Year's party, he was in bed for about 5 days! His skin had a slightly yellowish tinge to it, he never did that again:grin:
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Although with me having Pneumonia I haven't touched a drop since New Years Eve, and I've probably completely detoxed by now.
I have my suspicions the next time I drink I'll be hammered off about 3 beers, and it'll take about a week to recover from it :lol:
I'm Irish I dont eat, I just drink.......
Also before drinking have a fryup The oils and fats can clog up the duodenum (small intestine) which will slow down the amount of alcohol going into your system.
How Your Body Processes Alcohol
Food in your diet must be digested before being absorbed by your cells, but alcohol included in your diet flows directly through your body?s membranes into your bloodstream, which carries alcohol to nearly every organ in your body.
The amount of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) your body manufactures is influenced by your ethnicity and your gender. Asians, Native Americans, and Inuits secrete less alcohol dehydrogenase than do most Caucasians, and the average woman (regardless of her ethnicity) makes less ADH than the average man does.
As a result, more unmetabolized alcohol flows from their tummies into their bloodstreams, and they?re likely to become tipsy on smaller amounts of alcohol.
Here?s a road map to show you the route traveled by the alcohol in every drink you take.
Flowing down the hatch from mouth to stomach: The unmetabolized alcohol flows through your stomach walls into your bloodstream and on to your small intestine.
Stopping for a short visit at the energy factory: Most of the alcohol you drink is absorbed through the duodenum (small intestine). From there it flows through a large blood vessel into your liver.
In the liver, an enzyme similar to gastric ADH metabolizes the alcohol, which is converted to energy by a coenzyme called nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD). NAD is also used to convert the glucose you get from other carbohydrates to energy; while NAD is being used for alcohol, glucose conversion grinds to a halt.
The normal, healthy liver can process about 1/2 ounce of pure alcohol (that?s 6 to 12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine, or 1 ounce of spirits) in an hour. The rest flows on to your heart.
Taking time out for air: Entering your heart, alcohol reduces the force with which your heart muscle contracts. You pump out slightly less blood, blood vessels all over your body relax, and your blood pressure goes down temporarily. The contractions soon return to normal, but the blood vessels may remain relaxed and your blood pressure lower for as long as half an hour.
Meanwhile, alcohol flows in blood from your heart through your pulmonary vein to your lungs. Now you breathe out a tiny bit of alcohol every time you exhale, and your breath smells of liquor. Then the newly oxygenated, still alcohol-laden blood flows back through the pulmonary artery to your heart, and up and out through the aorta.
Rising to the surface: In your blood, alcohol raises your level of high-density lipoproteins (HDLs), although not necessarily the good ones that carry cholesterol out of your body. Alcohol also makes blood less likely to clot, temporarily reducing your risk of heart attack and stroke.
Alcohol makes blood vessels expand, so more warm blood flows up from the center of your body to the surface of the skin. You feel warmer and, if your skin is fair, you may flush and turn pink. (Asians, who tend to make less alcohol dehydrogenase than do Caucasians, often experience a characteristic flushing when they drink even small amounts of alcohol.) At the same time, tiny amounts of alcohol ooze out through your pores, and your perspiration smells of alcohol.
Encountering curves in the road: Alcohol is a sedative. When it reaches your brain, it slows the transmission of impulses between nerve cells that control your ability to think and move. That?s why your thinking may be fuzzy, your judgment impaired, your tongue twisted, your vision blurred, and your muscles rubbery.
Alcohol reduces your brain?s production of antidiuretic hormones, which keep you from making too much urine. You may lose lots of liquid, vitamins, and minerals. You also grow very thirsty, and your urine may smell faintly of alcohol. This cycle continues as long as you have alcohol circulating in your blood, or in other words, until your liver can manage to produce enough ADH to metabolize all the alcohol you?ve consumed.
Most people need an hour to metabolize the amount of alcohol (1/2 ounce) in one drink. But some people have alcohol circulating in their blood for up to three hours after taking a drink.
But I'm Irish . I'm always pissed.....
I think you might have got this information from a US source ;) , "one drink" (in terms of measures of alcohol) and "ounces" of alcohol will be meaningless to most people here. As far as I know the body can metabolise one unit of alcohol per hour, that's roughly half a pint. Drunkeness and attendant hangover is less about how much alcohol you drink in many cases and about how quickly you drink it and it gets into your bloodstream. If you drink six pints over six hours you'll have less of a hangover than if you drink four pints over two hours.
(1) just a drink or two more than I should have had - 3 or 4 hours next morning for hangover, cured with coffee and fresh air
(2) mixing drinks or far to much of something I don't normally drink - probably 12 hours, and not drinking for the next 24 hours
(3) more than a few Bregdog Tokyo stouts - raging nausea and incapacitated for about 2 days!
The best way to avoid one, though, is, of course, just not drinking too much. I read an interesting thing about alcoholism the other day which said that one of the problems alcoholics have is an inability to stop drinking once they've started. Abstaining isn't actually that hard (unless the person is physically addicted or self-medicating), the problem is being able to go to the pub and just have one or two pints; many people find they keep drinking until they are forced to stop ("time gentlemen please!"). The way to avoid a hangover (and becoming an alcoholic) is apparently about being able to stop boozing when you don't have to and before you're actually drunk.
I can relate to that. If I'm sitting watching telly with Mrs Spoons I tend to drink at a more civilised pace (half a bottle of cider an hour) than if I'm up the pub with my mates.
I do have a tendency to drink to excess when I'm on my own, and lately I find it just makes me depressed the next morning. No headache, more like a very black, sombre mood that it takes the whole day to shake off. I do like a drink but if this is how it makes me feel I'd rather go tee-total (or go back to Mrs Spoons' snails pace drinking)
Hair o' the dog doesn't count! ;)
Sorry to hear about your feeling poorly though dude. Hope you get on the mend soon.
I can't handle hangovers so well these days - took me a couple of days to shake off the NYE cobwebs this year. Doing my usual January drying out now. Lasted until mid-February last year, but this year I have a gig (RX Bandits, in case anyone wonders) to go to on the 3rd (I think), so that'll no doubt turn into a beer fest! Actually, I'm also going to see Jefferson Starship in a couple of weeks, but that won't be a beery kind of gig... ;)
Another vote for the pint-of-water-before-bed here. Usually works wonders...
that was over 5 years ago though :)
Aren't those also known as "colds"? ;)
so, erm. ..not really :confused:
I no longer drink enough these days to warrant a hangover. When the hangover began going into day 2 was when I decided that drinking vast amounts of alcohol was no longer for me.
Best decision I ever made...
I'm hot an alconolic, onest hofficer. I'm just "bibulous".