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Please help me (so hungover)

252 replies

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:
Ratonastick · 22/12/2018 14:28

I’m going to ignore the sanctimonious, these things happen occasionally. The worst hangovers are always the ones when you’ve been in good company and have lost track as you have been so busy laughing and having fun. There are many worse things.

On a related note, I am happy to confirm that today’s research has shown that 2 cans of ice cold Pepsi, a mince pie and 3 packets of frazzles works like a dream. Breakfast of champions.

GrapesAndCheese · 22/12/2018 14:40

Yes @ihatehoney you don't really know a true hangover when you're 20. I'm now 27 and my hangovers are fucking awful. But up until I was about 25 they were very manageable, no matter how much I drank. In fact, aged 20 I drank more and took much worse care of myself. Now I'm 27 I'm the opposite, but my hangovers knock me sideways.

ihatehoney · 22/12/2018 14:45

@MissyCooper hopefully I won't have any! Barely drink anyway- I'm such a lightweight! (Cheap though so that's good!) that hangover I had was from 2 small glasses of white wine.

ihatehoney · 22/12/2018 14:48

@SlowNorris shut the fuck up😂 I know when I have children I certainly won't drink to excess and be unable to care for them the next day. Common sense? It's alright for some parents who are lazy.

OP's lucky she has a kind husband! Though if my boyfriend had gone out and gotten shitfaced and ruined a nice day for us I would be pissed (and thrown up everywhere). Certainly wouldn't be doing everything for him.

PaulHollywoodsSexGut · 22/12/2018 14:50

@ihatehoney

Making sweeping statements about what you will or won’t do when you have children shines a light on your absolute naïveté and will rightfully earn you a further barbecuing on this thread.

Now toddle off and spread your malaise elsewhere.

fernandoanddenise · 22/12/2018 14:51

The WORST thing about hangovers in your thirties is the existential guilt alongside paralysing headaches and (this may be just me) jaw ache. Urghh. I feel your pain OP. My remedy: bacon sandwich, tea, bath, back to bed. Get up at 6pm. Glass of prosecco, curry. Bed at 9pm. Requires supportive DH. Good luck! X

fernandoanddenise · 22/12/2018 14:53

Ihatehoney your boyfriend is a lucky guy - you sound so understanding about the frailties of the human condition Wink

BirdieInTheHand · 22/12/2018 14:54

paulhollywoods

Please tell me that you're joking Confused

It's really not necessary, in a functional relationship, to have to beg forgiveness because your childrens' father has to look after them on a weekend Confused

PaulHollywoodsSexGut · 22/12/2018 14:56

@birdieinthehand

For me, when I fuck up, I need to put it right; even when the person on the “receiving end” is all “it’s ok, it’s fine” but you can see they’re buggered themselves.

It was a suggestion; I just can’t bear running any kind of “karmic debt” and both those times I really did fuck up x

Reallybadidea · 22/12/2018 14:57

@Ihatehoney you still haven't said why (you think) it was irresponsible for the OP to get drunk.

I know when I have children I certainly won't drink to excess and be unable to care for them the next day.

Ah yes, those days of being 20 and knowing exactly how to parent my theoretical children. Lol.

PaulHollywoodsSexGut · 22/12/2018 14:59

I can also tell you absolutely right now that if the sexes were switched on this occasion then truly and honestly the MN hive mind would be calling for the OPs blood.

It truly is just “one of these things that happens”. There’s no rewind on an absolute mother of a hangover. Just exit from the day, get better and make it up to the person who’s had to pick up the slack.

Why is that such a bad recommendation?

(and pringles. Eat lots of pringles).

Zoflorabore · 22/12/2018 14:59

Bloody hell leave her alone, we all need a blow out now and again!

Op I find that painkillers, Diet Coke and pop tarts sort me out then a nice shower.
Early night tonight too and you should be right as rain tomorrow :)

Crunchymum · 22/12/2018 15:00

You need a Baileys over ice (a big one) and Kettle Chips.

WhatWouldTheDoctorDo · 22/12/2018 15:05

How are you feeling OP? No further advice, but I'd have got in the shower, and then retreated to the sofa for a Christmas movie afternoon with the children so I could snooze.

Reallybadidea · 22/12/2018 15:07

if the sexes were switched on this occasion then truly and honestly the MN hive mind would be calling for the OPs blood.

I'm not sure there's a consensus of opinion on MN about anything. However I don't think women often post about their husband being really hungover and incapacitated if it's a very rare occurrence, which in the OP's case it is. Usally it seems to be that they post when it's part of a pattern of selfish and inconsiderate behaviour from their DP. And another difference is that the OP is saying how bad she feels about it and how grateful she is that her DH is being nice about it. I doubt that a man saying the same thing would get any more of a pasting than in this case.

MrsCar · 22/12/2018 15:07

No to the baileys... she doesn't need more alcohol to cure a hangover Shock

ExpectingToFly · 22/12/2018 15:10

Shamefully I used to get these type of hangovers ALL the time throughout my 20s and into my 30s. The only thing that works is the red soluble panadols. You need those. I would throw up all day, bile and couldn't move, in and out of consciousness. Utterly useless and so full of shame and guilt. I realise now that that wasn't normal!
panadols are the only way! Please send your partner to get you some
Hugs, tomorrow is a new day Flowers

HolgerLowCarbingLoser · 22/12/2018 15:14

When a man does exactly the same level of parenting and wife-work, has little to no time on their own and is constantly picking up the slack for everything relating to the children, then my answer would be exactly the same for him.

Original poster
MissyCooper · 22/12/2018 15:23

UPDATE: I am almost functioning again. Lying on the floor with the toddler building mega blocks. DH is mildly amused by the whole thing.

I feel I may have embarrassed myself somewhat last night although I think most were in a similar state it was one of those nights.

OP posts:
cadoth · 22/12/2018 15:24

@MissyCooper u did nothing wrong !this thread is unbelievable, glad you've recovered a teeny bit... Thanks

WhoTookTheChristmasCookie · 22/12/2018 15:28

@ihatehoney Ah, to be a 20 year old know it all again...

BirdieInTheHand · 22/12/2018 15:32

PaulH

But you getting drunk and having a hangover and needing your DH to step in isn't a "fuck up" except when either he has specific plans to be somewhere (of which you're aware).

Why should you have to be sorry that he is having to take the parenting lead? Why is that so abnormal?

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 22/12/2018 15:35

I kind of agree with Paul actually. I’d be pissed off with myself if I was unable to spend a family Saturday in the way DH and I had planned because of a raging hangover.

VanGoghsDog · 22/12/2018 15:36

I always feel better after a poo!

Nicknamesalltaken · 22/12/2018 15:41

There’s a lot of nonsense being spouted here.

If you have a partner, you step in for the other. If you don’t, then there is a problem in your relationship.

We aren’t just parents, we are adults and we cock up sometimes, over do things, act like twats occasionally. But mostly we try our best and if we’re lucky we have someone close to look after us, and us them.

Give each other a break and don’t judge.

When you get to my age (pushing 50, single parent with 4DCs) the hangovers go on for days, with a hearty existential crisis thrown in. It’s proper shite.