To ask if you have ever thrown up in your sleep after a drunken night out?

[rosesANDthornes]

Happened to me a few days ago after a very drunken evening. I remember towards the end that I felt very queasy but ended up not throwing up (went to the bathroom to try and chunder but nothing came out). I ended up going to bed quite wasted, however I woke up with with the smell of vomit and there seemed to be dried puke on my duvet and pillow.

I also was super super hungover.

Has this ever happened to anyone else?

queenMab99 that's so tough. It's frighteningly common, and the dangers of drunken vomiting in your sleep shouldn't be underestimated.

The only way to prevent it is to drink less, stick to lower alcoholic percentage drinks. Only time will sober you up once alcohol is in your blood. Eating won't help, that's a myth.

No. That’s worrying. Tbh I haven’t ever been sick since I was a baby. I wish I could have been sometimes, but I haven’t. My father was the same.

You've not thrown up at all? be it from motion sickness or an illness?

interesting

Once as a teenager but I blame the joint someone was passing around rather than just alcohol. Was terrifying and never mixed the two since.

I've heard that being cross faded can make you sick

Yes, once in Ibiza when I went on my own for a week away and got really drunk with other girls from my hotel. Scared me senseless when I woke up the next morning as I knew about the risks of asphyxiation. The mess was appalling, I've never had such a bad hangover and I was so ashamed. I washed the sheets in the shower as best I could, cleaned my room and apologised to the cleaning staff about the sheets. I didn't drink again that trip and have never been so drunk since. Very foolish.

No never. I haven't been sick from drinking since my 20's to be honest. Certainly in the last 10 years I have majorly learned my limits and rarely have more than 6 units on a night out - anything more than 4 will make me feel a bit hungover and I can't be bothered wasting precious time feeling ill.

It is very dangerous. Yes I have. Wear a backpack to bed. Stops you rolling on your back. That drunk though you'd be relying on someone else to do this to you.

Once when i was 14 and raided my grandparents drink cabinet.

My grandparents kept on eye in my but I woke in a pile of my own vomit.

FWIW, I'm now 42 and have never ever been even close to thay state since.

Bless you. Glad you're okay now. Mind if I ask how old you were at the time?
I know ibiza is a bit of a party place.

Now I'm wondering is there a way to 'know' if you're so drunk that you'll throw up in your sleep. When I crawled into bed I don't remember feeling extremely sick.

No. I'm very rarely sick anyway. Only once was I sick from drinking, and that was quite early on in the evening. I was sick, drank a pint of water and was subsequently fine.

Once, in my early 20’s. I’d been drinking cocktails and hadn’t realised quite how strong they were.
Woke up with strawberry daiquiri all over the pillow.
Gave me a shock and haven’t allowed myself to get that drunk since. I know when to stop now!

Nope, never. I hate feeling drunk, so only been slightly drunk twice in my 20s (I'm 42) - being the child of an alcoholic everything about getting drunk repulses me & can't imagine wanting to get that way regularly.

Now I'm wondering is there a way to 'know' if you're so drunk that you'll throw up in your sleep

If you’re drunk then throwing up in your sleep will always be a risk. Maybe just try to not get crazily drunk at all?

Only once, and I think it was due to the medication I was taking as well. Luckily I was just dropping off to sleep and not actually asleep, it was the strangest thing. I was lying on my back, didn't even feel that sick and then suddenly vomit everywhere. It's terrifying to think that if had had been sound asleep I could have choked, so sorry for those who have lost loved ones this way. It's never happened again luckily.

@rosesANDthornes I was 24 and plenty old enough to know better. Unfortunately I hadn't accounted for the free pouring of drinks out there when I was drinking vodka and coke. I dread to think how much vodka I drank that night - pure alcohol poisoning.

No, never, not even in my teens/early 20s. Now I'm in my mid 30s and can't remember the last time I got so drunk that throwing up would even be a possibility, a light tipsyness is as far as I go these days.

I don't remember feeling sick

Op you did say in your opening post that you felt extremely queasy at the end of the night! That's the same thing.

I don't know how old you are but you seem so naive and ignorant about the effects of alcohol.
If you like to party then go ahead but at least find out a little more about types of alcohol, it's effects and the dangers of binge drinking. It's usually easy to spot the signs in yourself that you're feeling drunk. Stop there it's far more cool than falling over, waking up covered in sick or worse.

A terrible hangover and nausea is alcohol poisoning. It's no fun.

Most of us have done it but know why it happened, the dangers, how to treat it, and how to prevent the worst of it, drinks that make it worse, not eating beforehand, mixing drinks etc.

Talk to FRANK online has friendly straight talking info on all drugs and alcohol.

Yes. Thank fuck I was still downstairs on the sofa and my mum was there.

"What should I do?" Honestly?

How about you start controlling your drinking and taking your life and your dignity more seriously?

"She died choking in her own vomit"

Is this how you want to be remembered?

Please wake up and smell the roses - not the vomit.

I did this when I was 17 and never, ever again. In some ways it was a good lesson, I've frequently been drunk since but never this wasted ever again (I realised the problem back then was I drank far too much far too quickly - ever since then, even at uni, I have always made sure I don't drink too quickly so I can sort of monitor how pissed I'm getting)

If you don’t know when to stop OP it’s probably best if you don’t drink at all.
And I don’t mean because you’ve had one incidence of being sick, more because you’re looking for advice on ‘signs that you’re going to be sick in the night’. If you drink far too much, there’s always a risk of being sick in your sleep. So don’t drink too much.

Never. I’ve thrown up before going to bed, or had to get up to be sick, but doing it while unconscious / asleep is extremely dangerous. You could just as easily have vomited while lying on your back, inhaled it, and died.

No never. I drank myself to sickness and even passed out from it as a teen but have never been sick in my sleep. When friends would pass out as house parties we used to wedge pillows or hoodies at their back so they couldn't roll.

To be fair, it was only sheer luck that meant you woke up to be sick instead of doing it in your sleep. It could easily have been you, too.