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

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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?

Did you reply to the wrong post there? I’ve never woken up to be sick.

Yes, years ago, I vaguely remember doing it but not enough to get out of bed

Sorry, you said you ‘had to get up to be sick’. I assumed that meant you’d woken and realised you needed to be sick.

When I was a teenager, sure. I think most people will have.

Just done a quick poll in my office. 12 people. Not one has, ever.

No, I’d never go to sleep if there was a risk of being sick.

On the (very rare) occasions that I realised I’ve had too much when I lie down I’ve got back up again, and sat up until I feel better or have been sick.

I’d always assumed that you’d have to be in a very dangerous state already from alcohol poisoning to collapse / pass out in a way that you risk vomiting in your sleep.

No, never.

I've never been drunk, either.

I was married to an alcoholic, I hate what excessive alcohol does to people.

The way to make sure it never happens again is to cut right down on your drinking.

Not from alcohol, but I've vomited in my sleep from illness. Luckily I was already in hospital when it happened and the nurses were brilliant

About 4 years ago, I drank so much that I blacked out. I woke up in a pool of vomit, had to run to the bathroom to be sick again and discovered I had a massive bump/bruise on the side of my head with no memory of how I got it. I know I had a bottle of wine, and had opened a bottle of vodka (to share) too, but nothing after that. I was never a regular drinker anyway, but I’ve been too afraid to drink since then.

So so dangerous. I’ve had two family members both alcoholics pass away like this. So so tragic. Literally choking to death on their vomit in their sleep.

I don’t think I’ve vomited in my sleep, but I have wet myself on two separate occasions through stupid amounts of alcohol. I thankfully never feel compelled to get myself in that state anymore.

Sadly, my younger brothers, best friends dad did vomit in his sleep through drink, aspirated on the vomit and his lungs were so filled with it that he was hypoxic for a long time before he was found (still alive), spent months in intensive care, but didn’t make a full recovery, he is permanently brain damaged and now lives in a care home and cognitively no longer recognises his family or the comings and going’s of day to day life, isn’t able to walk or do anything for himself.

If you’re so drunk that you don’t wake up or turn over to protect your airway from vomiting you’re essentially deeply unconscious rather than asleep. If you’re ever in the presence of someone who you think could be that drunk then you need to be taking them to hospital, or at least preparing yourself for an all night vigil by the bedside to sit and watch them, so you can wake/roll them to let vomit pour away if needed.

Came on to say this. Friends exh choked to death on his own vomit whilst drunk. Teenage son found him. Awful, and so avoidable.

Yeah when I was in my early 20's. I was asleep on my friend's sofa, she'd stripped the sofa and washed it before I even woke up. Horrifying, vile, disgusting. Not enough bad words to describe it really. We're not friends anymore but surprisingly, that isn't why.

Never while asleep, that’s very worrying OP. The thing is, once you’re that drunk there is not a lot you can do if you’re alone. Eating bread would have increased the choking risk surely.

This should be a wake up call to drink less

No, never! My mum was an alcoholic and did this a number of times. I lay awake in bed shaking and listening for her in case she choked, at the age of about 12. Fun times.

No. That's real problem drinking territory

Once as a teenager, ds1 never woke up until after he was sick as a child. It made fir a few long nights for me when he started drinking alcohol

No, but I often throw up the next morning, if I was that drunk, even if I wasn’t sick the night before. (This used to happen in my youth, but has recurred in the last three years after a very long absence, when I drank to excess occasionally, just not to puking level. I have concluded that I no longer have the alcohol tolerance I once did and more or less given up booze. Holding onto the bathroom floor all the next day is simply not worth it, however good a time I am having)

You are lucky to be alive! Drink sensibly!

No, but I have sat up all night with a teenager when I thought it was a risk.

I have drunk myself sick, but not unconscious.

The teen in question is 21 now and barely touches a drop!

Yes, it’s not big and it’s not clever 🤣🤣

Yes, and knowing how close I was to dying that night was a turning point in my life and my relationship with alcohol. I was beyond drunk, absolutely incapacitated, I partially flooded a bathroom in a hotel by trying to wash the bedding and not turning the tap off.

Even several years later, I feel upset thinking about it. It’s kept me awake at night with emotions I can’t explain. Knowing I caused disruption to the people working there (and possibly damage to the room) and being so close to causing my own stupid death changed me (I hope) forever.

I don’t think it was connected but… earlier that fateful evening, I signed up and posted on mumsnet for the first time ever!

Agreed. I enjoy drinking and do so regularly. Have been drunk many a time but never in such a state that I’ve woken up in my own vomit. Can’t actually remember the last time I was sick (the next morning) from a hangover - probably in my early twenties. I would never drink enough to be semi/unconscious, it’s pure stupidity.

Yes, once. I got to scared I could have died from choking, that I never got this drunk again.

No, never. I know few people who drink alcohol at all to be honest, and those who do don’t drink to excess. My siblings and I don’t drink alcohol at all, seeing our parents drunk on a regular basis was enough to put us off. Someone said earlier that most people have done it, I doubt that very much.