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

This is a great story! Thank goodness you sere found!

I would have assumed the fruity cocktails didn’t agree with you and upset your stomach and combined with the fact you don’t drink much led to the vomiting and diarrhoea. The paracetamol is a red herring.

Sounds like you might have been spiked

I think it was the alcohol!

I'm a nurse and I've never heard that you can't take paracetamol which alcohol.

Mostmedical students i have known have taken paracetomol to pre-empt the hangover, with no effects.
Your symptoms sound like too much alcohol and maybe a dodgy meal/snack which have played havoc with your liver and stomach.
It wasn't a near-death experience

Don't worry OP, I had an actual death experience due to my own stupidity. As in I literally died and got CPRd. I fell down a staircase. At home. Because I was walking whilst reading on my laptop. The laptop belonged to a terrible employer. It was destroyed.

Anyway when I woke up in ICU I was actually remarkably well, considering, because my momentary death was caused by positional asphyxia and once reoxygenated I only had bruises and sprains. Of course waking up in ICU is very confusing and I'd also been intubated, which I could feel. Some people become aggressive apparently, but I just continued to embarras myself, because they asked if I could read something in front of me (checking for brain damage I guess) and apparently said affrontedly, "I do know how to read you know, I have a PhD".

The staff had a laugh out of it anyway, and I got to go home pretty soon.

So yeah. Don't look at your phone or laptop on the stairs.

You can't take paracetamol after drinking? Well that's a new one to me. I've reached the age of 61,not realising that I've risked my life several dozen times over the years!

@Ohhbaby of course it does.

People seem to forget that alcohol is a poison and if you have too much in your system your body expels it - with very unpleasant effects

Yes - it was the alcohol alone.

No - it wasn't because you'd picked up norovirus on your evening out 😂

or the classic 'it must have been food poisoning'

If your drink had been spiked the effects would have shown a lot more quickly ie on the journey home.

I can’t drink those cheap 2 for 1 type cocktails. They give me the most excruciating headaches, where I’m clutching my head in my hands and wanting to die from the pain - no exaggeration. They’re a waste of money anyway, very little alcohol and shit ingredients and full of sugar which was probably the cause of the diarrhoea.

Reading this at 5:39am having just taken 2 paracetamol for my hangover… staggered home 5 hrs ago
never heard of it being a no!!

I agree with others, you got a bug or a bout of food poisoning from ice or a glass etc

hope you’re better now and get a bit more sleep

Norovirus has an incubation period surely? Would you feel bad 6 hours after exposure?

As a doctor can you comment on the question of taking paracetamol after a few drinks? Or how likely her symptoms were to be from the paracetamol or a bug?

Losing vision seems pretty extreme and although not a doctor I can imagine with all those symptoms op might have felt extreme anxiety which can cause a feeling of impending doom.

Op we've all had a bad case of stomach flu, food poisoning or a virus so bad it's felt like we were going to die so I do sympathise.

For someone who doesn’t drink, that’s a lot of alcohol and your body is not used to dealing with and probably over stimulated your nervous system.

I don’t drink but one time I did, I also felt fear and thought I was going to die, I also don’t like not being in control of my body so the whole thing was like living through a nightmare I couldn’t wake up from. Never again.

That simply isn’t true - paracetamol is perfectly fine for most people to take if you’ve had alcohol.

The website that says what you found goes on to say “The exact amounts and timing of alcohol and paracetamol intake that could lead to liver damage are unknown.” meaning their first claim is not evidence based.

Actual NHS guidance here:
www.nhs.uk/medicines/paracetamol-for-adults/about-paracetamol-for-adults/

and from the US’s national library of medicine, which collates all clinical study reports:
”No proper clinical studies have been carried out to investigate the alleged paracetamol–alcohol interaction and acute liver damage has never been produced by therapeutic doses of paracetamol”

Sounds like food poisoning to come on and leave that quickly. Possibly norovirus if you're very healthy. Not symptoms of liver failure, which is actually the risk for habitual drinkers taking lots of paracetamol, rather than an occasional drinker. Also not near death.

You can't take paracetamol after drinking?🤔

Sounds an awful lot like the norovirus, which I had quite recently. And not the alcohol.

Did you by any chance read just the first result that Google now chucks up first?

If so... thats very very vague (states no doses of either) and is really referring to a rare reaction some people might have...

You may have had this reaction. However you also may have been spiked, I think its more suspicious that you didn't seem drunk after that amount of alcohol when you don't normally drink... being spiked with something that counteracts the effects of alcohol might do that (coke/speed for example can do that).

Or you were already on your way down with some sort of food poisoning or puking bug.

Either way... your body told you to get rid of what was in your stomach, you did, you didn't die, you're no more likely to die than the rest of us and less likely than many.

All rather overdramatic OP, certainly not a NDE… Sounds more like a vomiting bug than anything. DD had norovirus a few months ago and what you describe is pretty much spot on.

I’ve taken paracetamol before/after going out drinking more times than I can count (chronic pain!), never had any ill effects bar getting drunk a bit faster.

At worst you had a bit of a bug or had eaten something dodgy. There’s no way taking two paracetamol would do this. You’ll be fine

Do you have anxiety? I think it's very over the top to call it a near death experience.. either can't handle much alcohol (I personally can't handle much at all!) or a bug like others have said.. but it's very dramatic to call that a near death experience

This sums it up, you did not have a near death experience you just decided it was

Had some diarrhoea for days afterwards

I'm voting norovirus, too. I got it last month - no idea how, but it's a persistent little bugger. Starts really dramatically then drags on for a few days, as you've described.

But, anyway - have a glass of water with each alcoholic drink, your body will thank you for it although it won't stop you catching any bugs (sadly)!