I'm a 22 yr old female I've been having the same problem. I use to be able to drink as much as I wanted and be able to sleep it off or throw up once and be done with it and still be able to function most of the day. Now the day after drinking what would seem to be a moderate amount I have excruciating headaches, vommitting, dizziness and it takes the whole day to recover. I'm only 22 but I think my drinking days are over even though they haven't really started but maybe that's a good thing
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I'm a 19 year old female and I've discovered the same issues, most people around me will tell me this is not normal and that I should seek help. I know that doctors will just tell me to stop drinking as well, i've noticed that it started a year ago when I came to college and have been drinking questionable, and cheaper alcohol than I had been at home. I have been drinking since 15, and never had these issues til this year. It will happen to me with just a few beers or an excessive amount of alcohol. I can not stomache anything for about 24 hours without it coming back up, including water, and half of the time I will puke up stomache bile.
If any of you get information on this let me know. I also occasionaly keep a food and beverage journal, and will start that up again to see if that gives me any other results.
Thank you,
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Not sure if anyone is still reading this but there can be a number of causes but all lead to the same root cause.
Allergies
Alchohols contain a number of allergens that many many people react to.
The main ones are histomines, wheat, sulphites and yeast.
I have had this problem for ten years and done lots of research. My answer to all of you who get these debilitating hangovers with headaches. Congestion and bad stomach.
Go get an allergy test to find out which products cause the attacks. Turns out I was wheat intolerant and very allergic to histomines so managed to find only a few drinks I can have without feeling like death.
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Are you on birth control by chance? I had a very similar story and discovered that the alcohol sensitivity was a result of birth control pills.
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It's such a relief to discover people exactly like me! I too am a 23 yo female and I've been suffering with this since I was about 17. I write this as I am finally feeling back to normal after another utterly horrendous, debilitating hangover. I had to go out to a big family lunch and managed to stick it out with trips to the toilet every 15 mins or so and I didn't eat a single thing because I wouldn't have been able to stomach it. Miserable. It's become such a regular occurrence (and I'm not a binge drinker) that I know the pattern of my hangovers down to a tee. Always vomiting, always bad diarrhoea, always excruciating stomach cramps for about 12 hours. I also experience often severe feelings of depression and guilt about drinking to the point where this happens to me and today I pretty much had a panic attack over it. I've never had it this bad mentally and it was so horrible. Crying, shortness of breath and feelings of complete depression and panic over the situation? Does anyone else experience this?
It was quite scary. My family are concerned and want me to go to my doctor but like a lot of you have said, I feel like they will just tell me to stop drinking and laugh me out the door. I like drinking, I enjoy alcohol and it can be great. But I can't do this anymore, it's not fair on my body.
It was quite scary. My family are concerned and want me to go to my doctor but like a lot of you have said, I feel like they will just tell me to stop drinking and laugh me out the door. I like drinking, I enjoy alcohol and it can be great. But I can't do this anymore, it's not fair on my body.
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You could be intolerant of the sulphites in wine and/ or beer. Use so2go or pure wine. This is good for wine but does not work in beer as beer also had another preservative that the so2go does not neutralise.
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I am a 25 year old female and I'm in the same boat! So happy to see other people experience this and I am not alone! My hangovers have never been normal. Most people don't understand how bad my hangovers are until they see it. The night of drinking I feel fine, hold my alcohol well, don't feel sick at all. The following morning is where all hell breaks loose. I wake up with the splitting headache, that's the least of my worries though. My stomach feels like an acidy pit, I start vomiting up bile every hour on the hour. Like clock work. And it lasts ALL DAY. Along with that I get a feeling of anxiety and my heart palpitates. People can't believe how sick I get, they'll say "but you only had a few drinks...." My hangovers are debilating. It's to the point that if I drink, I need to designate the entire next day for me to literally lay in bed and do nothing. I am frustrated because all my friends are able to drink and experience no hangover whatsoever. While I have a couple of drinks and literally feel like I might die. I know that sounds exaggerated but its true. The worst part is the hangover gets worse through out the day.... They don't let up! One thing I did try today is "pedialyte" (what you give a child for dehydration) that helped with the headache, but not the "acidy pit" stomach situation. I will be trying a few of the suggestions I saw on here to see if they help. Also I think I will get allergy tested and a liver function test. (Though my liver and kidneys got tested last year and they were fine) I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that my dad is half native american....I know that because alcohol was only introduced to them a couple hundred years ago, they lack the ability to process alcohol unlike Europeans who have been drinking far longer and have built tolerance genetically. I hope to find an answer to this, I would like to drink at events (like my wedding) but the fear of the severe hangover is reall a buzzkill!
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I'm a 28 y/o female and I cannot express how wonderful it is to finally know that I am not the only one out there that has these problems. I had two beers ton Thursday night. When I got home I ate some leftover Chinese food (beef lo mein) and gulped down two large bottles of water with lemon. The next morning I had a wretched headache, vommitting every hour increasing in increments to every 15 minutes. Now, it's Saturday morning and I am just getting rid of the nasty migraine I woke up with today (I have been prescribed Immatrex because I am migraine prone). This type of severe hangover has been a problem for me since college. Nothing seems to help. The one time I told my doctor, they said exactly what we have all heard before, "just stay away from alcohol". Really!? It's one thing if you have an addiction. Also, it's completely fine if you are the type of person that doesn't prefer drinking. But I can't even go out for a birthday drink with my girlfriends, or have a champagne toast on New Years's Eve? This isn't normal! And I hate how people look at me like I must have been ripping shots all night long and I deserve to be so sick. I wish I had the answer everyone. Until we find it, keep trying all of those weird things I know we have all tried a zillion times without any relief - chugging insane amounts of water after drinking, having a beer in the morning, spicy or otherwise disgusting hangover remedies. I've tried oxygen bars whilst having a really bad hangover, and once (I'll admit it!) I even tried an enema because I heard that's what you have to do to someone when they are so dehydrated they can't keep anything down. NOTHING helps except time. Maybe we do have an allergy?! I for one always have a stuffy nose when I wake up after having even one drink the night before. Please keep posting!
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Hey,
Since you posted this over a year ago, i was wondering what you ended up doing. Im in the same boat at you, im 23 year old female and ive alwAys been able to handle my liquor and drink alot. All of a sudden about two years ago i started getting REALLY bad hangovers, but not every time i drink. Sometimes it happens when i only have a few beers, and other times i can be downing shots and beers the whole night but be okay the next day. Im stArting to get really worried because yesterday this happened to me again, and it lasted longer than usual. I almost went to the ER because i was so dehydrated and weak from throwing up so much the whole day and my whole body got numb and tingaly. Anyway, when i mentioned this to my doctor he just laughed and said ofcoarse alcohol makes you hungover, stop drinking. But i know its not normal for a hangover to be like that, so i was wondering who you followed up with. I was thinking of going to a gastrologist (stomach doctor) or getting a CAT scan of my stomach, but not sure what the best approach would be. any information would be helpful, thank you
Since you posted this over a year ago, i was wondering what you ended up doing. Im in the same boat at you, im 23 year old female and ive alwAys been able to handle my liquor and drink alot. All of a sudden about two years ago i started getting REALLY bad hangovers, but not every time i drink. Sometimes it happens when i only have a few beers, and other times i can be downing shots and beers the whole night but be okay the next day. Im stArting to get really worried because yesterday this happened to me again, and it lasted longer than usual. I almost went to the ER because i was so dehydrated and weak from throwing up so much the whole day and my whole body got numb and tingaly. Anyway, when i mentioned this to my doctor he just laughed and said ofcoarse alcohol makes you hungover, stop drinking. But i know its not normal for a hangover to be like that, so i was wondering who you followed up with. I was thinking of going to a gastrologist (stomach doctor) or getting a CAT scan of my stomach, but not sure what the best approach would be. any information would be helpful, thank you
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I am also a 21 year old female and although I had began consuming alcohol a bit before then it wasn't until this year that I started to get terribly sick the day after even if it's just a glass or two of wine. Just the other day I had a glass of wine with a heavy dinner (pasta) mind you I am one of those who pairs it with a glass of water to avoid dehydration. Either way the next day (and I mean the entire day) my body was achy I had a migraine and although I threw up when I initially got out of bed I was still able to keep down food and water but my condition didn't seem to get any better and the feeling of nausea followed me around as well. I also wish I had some answers because I'm not a regular drinker and there must be something wrong going on in our body's that are causing these reactions.
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