Has anyone ever had a delayed reaction like this to alcohol?

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Was a family birthday and I drank 2.5 glasses of champagne with a meal between 6.45 and 8pm. Felt absolutely fine, usual slight two drinks buzz but nothing more.
Tidied up, put kids to bed, had a shower, felt completely sober. Watched tv for a bit and went to bed at around 10pm, read my book until 1030, still feeling normal. Woke up at around 1am and felt absolutely plastered, room was spinning, got up to go to the loo and was staggering and falling into the door frame on my way through. Washed my face, had a drink then went back to bed.
Managed to get back to sleep and woke up at 4.30 feeling extremely hung over.

Has anyone ever experienced this on a relatively small amount of alcohol? I don’t drink much anyway but this really put me off!

No. That's quite strange!

No, I do get insomnia if I drink during the evening. Did you drink any non alcoholic drunks? Could you have just be dehydrated or heat stroke?

No, that sounds more like an attack of vertigo.

Champagne glasses are smaller than most wine glasses, so 2.5 glasses is about four units of alcohol. Drunk slowly, with a meal, that should not have had an extreme effect on you even if you don't drink regularly. Is there any possibility that your drink could have been tampered with? I would see your GP if it happens again. As pp said it could be something like vertigo.

No, this doesn't sound like it was drink related

Doesn't sound right - at roughly a unit an hour you shouldn't even have any much alcohol in your system at all by 1am, let alone enough for the room to be spinning.

I had the same experience recently, except I hadn’t had any champagne. The room was reeling: I knew I needed to put one foot in front of the other to get to the bathroom but there was no correlation between what I wanted my feet to do and what they did. In the end, I got there by clinging to furniture. By the time I’d had my wee, I was back to normal. I am really frightened that the episode might have been a precursor to that Postural Vertigo thing

Thanks everyone, I guess I just assumed it was the champagne as I’d had it, I felt drunk, and I woke up later feeling hungover. But it would have been
very weird if it was still in my system that much later.

I was well hydrated beforehand and had 2 cups of camomile tea before bed. Drinking in the evening does cause insomnia for me (which is the main reason I don’t drink often), but usually only if I have more than that.

Hopefully it won’t happen again

8ve had a few friends recently describing their Covid as being like a hangover.

I feel terribly hungover for about 24 hours after a migraine.

That's called the postdrome.

Ignore the times on this image - my aura can last days for example, but the basic explanation of the process I find useful.

Have you still got a gallbladder? My alcohol tolerance went through the floor after I had mine out before levelling off again.

I've also had a weird reaction when I've taken paracetamol while still having alcohol in my system.

Those symptoms are pretty much the same as I get to alcohol, only mine hit within around 5 minutes of drinking even a few mouthfuls (which is why I no longer drink). I was told by a consultant at the hospital that it was a food intolerance, possibly either to the yeast or to sulphites, not the actual alcohol in the drink itself.

That's what I felt like when I had covid

No, that isn't the alcohol I wouldn't have thought.

I'd guess something unrelated like vertigo or possibly drink being spiked 😬