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Please help me (so hungover)

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MissyCooper · 22/12/2018 12:43

Work Christmas lunch yesterday. Ended up a highly boozy affair. Got home about 1am. Threw up (tidily). Threw up again this morning and now I can’t get out of bed. Every time I sit or stand I want to be sick. My head is splitting.

I have two under-fours. This is my first night out in a long long time. DH took them out for Christmassy things this morning and I am gutted that I couldn’t be there. I just couldn’t. They are heading back now and I need to get up and help.

Please help. Someone out there must have a hangover cure.

OP posts:
NotAColdWomanHenry · 22/12/2018 13:38

My favourite cure when younger was paracetamol, coke and a banana. Then cooked breakfast and coffee when you can face it.

Op I found that I could get away with drinking a lot on a night out in my 20s, but as I neared 30 the hangovers got much worse, even on less alcohol - that’s ultimately what modified my drinking and I stopped getting drunk at all. I had some horrific ones and really feel for you.

Hang in there for later on when you will feel it subside... bliss. Then I agree make up the childcare to DH so he gets a break.

NotAColdWomanHenry · 22/12/2018 13:40

But it wasn’t planned/agreed and he has taken over whe op is out of action through her own drinking. I’m not tut-tutting, I just think it would be fair to show appreciation for how he’s stepped in, by offering him that break too.

DarcieStarlight · 22/12/2018 13:41

You need a can of coke, brush your teeth too it helps rid of the taste on your tongue of last nights acohol.
A nice warm bath and wash your hair.
Try and get some food inside you, I know it sounds awful at this time of day but curry is genuinely the only food I ever want to eat when I'm hanging. It's the only food I manage to keep down too.
Keep your sugar levels up and try not to move around too much. You should start feeling a lot better in a couple of hours.
At least it was one to remember OP 🍷🍾

Theunsungsong · 22/12/2018 13:43

I think the 'make it up to your husband 'was a joke. Like all the stuff about teaching your husband a lesson by leaving him with the dc and going off on a spa weekend as punishment for any transgressions that gets rolled out on the relationships board.

OP, can you blame it on a bad pint?

Bloomburger · 22/12/2018 13:43

Dioralyte is what the ladies who lunch seem to take after a heavy session round here. I dint drink anymore but seem to remember a kind size mars bar and litre of orange juice used to do wonders.

hobnobsaremyfavourite · 22/12/2018 13:44

This was me last Saturday
I also had the “beer fear”
EnvyBlush
In the end the only thing that fixed it was a glass of wine in the evening a very salty Chinese and a good nights sleep
And i have twice as many children as the op so I must be truly evil according to some posters and no I didn’t “make it up” to my dh Hmm

LittleLlamaontheduskyroad · 22/12/2018 13:44

Shower
Sugar - coke / lemonade / lucozade / full sugar versions
White toast & butter
lots of water
early night

ihatehoney · 22/12/2018 13:47

@BigSandyBalls2015 😂 I honestly don't go out too often. I wasn't being mean, it literally was just irresponsible of her to drink so much. You can still drink and get a 'functioning' hangover- meaning you can still go about your next day without puking. That's what I tend to do.

I'm probably in the minority or my age group, I'm 20 and barely drink. Too busy to go out!

HolgerLowCarbingLoser · 22/12/2018 13:48

Appreciation, sure. And if it really is a wholly egalitarian household where they divide all parenting responsibility and wife-work pretty much equally, and where OP does not routinely pick up the slack and where DH does not routinely get far more leisure time and time out and drinking sessions and/or weekend sports sessions, or whatever the case may be, and where he routinely looks after the little ones on his own, then yes, it’d be nice to reciprocate.

Otherwise, there is absolutely nothing to apologise for.

MrsTommyBanks · 22/12/2018 13:48

My go to in my drinking days was a bacon sandwich with tomatoes and brown sauce.
My DD swears by a pepperoni and cheese drinkers with Lucozade.
But probably the best thing is two paracetamol and lots and lots of water.
Hope you feel better soon Flowers
Also ignore the pp trying to guilt trip you.
It's Christmas, you are entitled to have a fun day/night out Flowers

Theunsungsong · 22/12/2018 13:49

It's true hangovers get worse as you get older. When I was in my early 20s I could drink all night then get up in the morning, have a fry up at a local greasy spoon and feel right as rain.

Now it takes me three days to recover.

Lovemusic33 · 22/12/2018 13:49

Drink plenty (coke is good) and sleep it off. Dh Han look after the kids for a day? These things happen.

Amibeingnaive · 22/12/2018 13:49

This was me on Weds (also my birthday).

The only thing that ever helps: Mexican food and a strawberry daiquiri

MrsTommyBanks · 22/12/2018 13:50

Cheese dunkers bloody auto correct.

Titsywoo · 22/12/2018 13:51

Water, salt to balance electrolytes, sugar to bring blood sugar back up, banana for potassium, lots of sleep. Poor you, sounds horrendous!

MujosMama · 22/12/2018 13:51

Don't eat anything. Sip water, lucozode or flat coke till you stop wanting to throw up! Have a shower and sit in it for a bit xx

Amibeingnaive · 22/12/2018 13:51

Oh, wait... scratch that.

Follow ihatehoney's advice and just hop in the DeLorean

PaulHollywoodsSexGut · 22/12/2018 13:52

No I’m not joking. I did this twice to DH who is a total legend all the time but I do feel on those two occasions I did fuck his plans for the family that day plus I was utterly mangled - like crying, whimpering, useless. I didn’t trust myself to hold the baby, was terrible. The guilt....oh the guilt. And it was only meant to be “a couple” Blush

I just had to delete myself from the family for a day those times as I was neither use nor ornament. But it was out of order of me to get so utterly shittered and just delete myself from the next day.

So TLDR no, I’m not joking! It’s an easy mistake to make and pointless to try and “be mum” when do mangled so just accept you’re out the game for a day and make it up to DH.

That’s not me being a big sexist, that’s just fair. I’d expect the same if DH did so.

SlowNorris · 22/12/2018 13:52

I'm probably in the minority or my age group, I'm 20 and barely drink. Too busy to go out!

What a shame people don’t get to experience your cheery nature.

PaulHollywoodsSexGut · 22/12/2018 13:53

Ps I am honestly not trying to guilt trip you OP...I really know your pain xxx

CatnissEverdene · 22/12/2018 13:53

Treat it like a tummy bug. Flat full sugar coke, eat little and often and starchy food like banana or toast. And lots of fluid.... copious tea with sugar. And if you feel more human, I find a brisk walk in the fresh air helps..... gets rid of the crap in your system quicker.

hobnobsaremyfavourite · 22/12/2018 13:54

Think I prefer a sheepish hungover person than a sanctimonious twat

Reallybadidea · 22/12/2018 14:01

@ihatehoney Why is irresponsible? Genuine question. There is another sober, non-hungover adult in the house to look after the children, so what's the problem?

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MissyCooper · 22/12/2018 14:15

Ah she’s 20 and naive. That explains it. Come back in ten to fifteen years and tell us how your hangovers are then.

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CaptainBrickbeard · 22/12/2018 14:24

I don’t have to get drunk to have a hangover in my mid-30s. I had a single G&T last night and had a splitting headache this morning. I drank plenty of water as well!

Sugary coke, crisps and sleep is the only cure. I miss having a good few drinks but can’t bear missing a whole day of the weekend recovering anymore. I wish I could have my early-20s constitution back again!