To think I had a near death experience because of my own stupidity?

What did you have to eat that evening? It sounds a lot like what happened to an ex who ate some dodgy prawns with the itching, sweating and puking up vast amounts in between shitting himself inside out.

The other possibility is have you been taking antibiotics for something like a tooth infection or bacterial vaginosis? It's also the reaction you get if you have alcohol within about 3 days of taking Metronidazole.

(BTW if anybody's wondering, he was one of those people who just wouldn't be told not to eat the 'they're a day past the use by date, I'm throwing the prawns away' or 'You can't have alcohol when you've been taking those'. My sympathy was entirely non-existent).

Op alcohol is essentially a poison. Your body did what it should and got rid of the toxins. I get this any time I drink.

I always take paracetamol after drinking! Sounds more like a bad effect from the alcohol. I took Imodium before I last went out drinking as I had stomach cramps. Now these you aren’t supposed to drink with I found out after! I then fainted when I got home, was sick, had diarrhoea and sweating and shaking then an awful ringing in my ears!

Paracetamol are very unlikely to have made you feel like that!

I had a nurse friend who said its safe to take paracetamol after drinking

I always take paracetamol and a pint of water before going to sleep after drinking - stops the hangover being as bad. 40 years old and had a good few very drunken years at uni and in early 20s and never had this experience. Cocktails were probably stronger than you thought - mixing drinks definitely makes me feel like room is spinning and throw up

Sounds more like food poisoning or a bug than the alcohol. Paracetamol and a glass of water was standard post pub/drinking when I was younger..so v much doubt it was that.

Absolutely this. Sound like you were proper drunk.

I've never ever heard of paracetamol doing that before...

More likely, you either had a bit of a tummy bug brewing, which the alcohol made worse. Or you ate or drank something that disagreed with you.

But sometimes our bodies just do weird shit for no obvious reason. Personally, I'd just chalk it up to "bodies being bonkers" and carry on.

@Sleeplessworried you actually binge drank that night according to the nhs definition “The NHS defines binge drinking as ‘drinking heavily over a short space of time’.2 Another way of thinking about it is ‘drinking to get drunk’.
More than 8 units of alcohol in a single session for males, or more than 6 units in a single session for females is the technical definition.3 That’s equivalent to about four pints of normal strength beer for a man or three pints for a woman.” Source https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/facts/health-effects-of-alcohol/lifestyle-effects/binge-drinking#whatisbingedrinking. This is one of the reasons why more and more younger women are being diagnosed with liver disease. Someone who is otherwise healthy may get away with it in the short term but you said you have been hospitalised with heart issues in the past, surely this is not going to help?

I survived my nights out aged 18-26 by drinking a pint of water and two paracetamol before bed and trust me, I'd had much more than you to drink. I never knew you shouldn't take paracetamol whilst drinking?

Possibly migraine + hangover? The vision problems could be a migraine aura. Alcohol can trigger migraines, and potentially something non-alcoholic in the cocktails could as well (depending on what sort of cocktails they were). I doubt that the paracetamol was the culprit.

This once happened to me after news year eve. It turned out I had food poisoning. Don't punish yourself op

Drinking a small amount of alcohol while taking paracetamol is usually safe. Try to keep to the recommended guidelines of no more than 14 units of alcohol a week. A standard glass of wine (175ml) is 2 units. A pint of lager or beer is usually 2 to 3 units of alcohol.

It may not be safe for you to drink alcohol with paracetamol if you have certain health conditions, such as liver problems. Check the leaflet in your medicine packet to find out whether it's safe to drink alcohol when taking paracetamol.
https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/paracetamol-for-adults/common-questions-about-paracetamol-for-adults/

I get racing heart, panicking feelings, sweats, bad tummy purely from alcohol. Started in my mid-30s.

I can have 3 alcoholic drinks in total now or I get exactly these symptoms.

He says he reacts badly to it in larger quantities, but I wouldn't say he's allergic. He can drink two glasses of wine (just about) but no more without having those nasty symptoms.

Covid now often starts with similar symptoms. I had this about 6 weeks ago after a meal out. Dreadful digestion problem in the night and a fever - I was freezing cold for ages. Very scary.

Sounds like you got properly drunk is all. If those cocktails had three shots in you'd be wasted. 3 units on prosseco, six on cocktails, one on the shot. I'd be very ill on that, even if the cocktails only had two units (and they mostly don't these days).

Can’t see it being the two paracetamol. More likely the combination of the drinks. Prosecco can do funny things to the bowels…🤔.

This doesn't sound like too much alcohol or the paracetamol to me.
Did you eat? Could be good poisoning?
Or maybe you actually were spiked? Did you leave your drink unattended at all?

I would say it was from mixing your drinks

Maybe you have Norovirus?

Exactly this. And if you're not used to it (or didn't eat enough beforehand) then you're bound to feel pretty shit afterwards.

It's a lesson most of us learn in our teens and twenties

Evidence please

OP are you normally this bloody dramatic?
How do you get through life?

Took a while for this classic line to come up!