To ask for your tips to overcome this nightmare of epic proportions?

[Franknotfrancis]

I’ll start by stating I don’t drink often , because I’m terrible at it. I’m just one of these idiots that seems to always overdo it and feel horrible the next day which is why I tend to leave the stuff alone. Yesterday, I was celebrating achieving something quite clever ( oh the irony!) and forgot that I’d not eaten anything all day and merrily ploughed into a part worn bottle of vodka and a couple of DHs beers. I also don’t smoke very much at all and seemed to have channelled Dot Cotton last night. So basically I’ve woken up with a churning stomach, the shakes, a sore throat and a thunderous head. Somewhat heroically the little one has been dealt with this morning and I managed to get him ready quite happily before DH kindly has taken him to school . I honestly feel like I might die, the room is spinning and I’m sweaty. I have the school run at 3:15 and I’m supposed to be at a family gathering this evening. Is there any hope of feeling normal by then? I do this to myself maybe 3/4 times a year and it’s always a horrific 36 hrs to get back to normal. I need to do better now. Also, no funny anecdotes to share, I’m incredibly boring and well behaved when ratarsed, I just seem to drink for the sake of it. I’m 40. I know I should know better but I was excited and in a celebratory mood and didn’t realise how much I was putting away. Can anyone help me feel better?

You’ll be fine by 3. Eat something now, then sleep for as long as possible (not past 3 obvs).

We’ve all done it from time to time OP. If you’ve any Actimel in the house it’s great for settling your stomach. Lucozade is my go to for hangovers, usually helps but not by the evening sadly, not for me anyways.

You need a lie down, carby foods, and lots of water and fizzy drinks (or alka seltzer if you have any). You’re unlikely to be in tip top condition by 3.15, but I imagine you’ll have recovered enough to function.

Good luck!

Eating lots of stodgy, greasy food helps but the only thing that really sorts me out is a nap!
I remember going on a bender with a friend in London and ended up clubbing in Soho. The next day I was a wreck. I really couldn't function at all. I went home, had a nap for an hour and woke up as if it had never happened! Amazing! Try and have a nap and I guarantee you'll feel better.

Well you managed to write a long and detailed OP at least!

* I honestly feel like I might die, the room is spinning and I’m sweaty.*

Solution: start a mumsnet thread 😂

Ibuprofen, dioralyte to replace your electrolytes, water, carbs, caffeine.and sleep

Deliveroo a McDonald's breakfast with coke, go back to bed. You'll be fine by pick up!

Paracetamol, dioralyte if you have any, water with sugar and salt if not. Coffee. A bacon sandwich. A nap.

Op you were posting multiple times throughout the night.

Long and articulate posts.

This!

And have a shower and do skin care and put some slap on before school run. You'll feel better.

At 8, 9, 10, 11pm you posted multiple times on serious threads

oh and 2am and 3am

articulate. Detailed. Long. You can’t have been that pissed

There's a protein in egg yolk that helps, apparently.

Also, my own deadly hangover cure was a good creamy trifle.

Read all the amazing threads on this ok mumsnet from those of us who have been there before you. McDonald’s - or at the very least a massive icy coke, a hot shower and clean clothes and you will be fine. It gets easier as the day goes on. Try to get outside for a walk after you’ve digested some food.

Thanks everyone for suggestions so far, I managed to drink a massive mug of tea and a couple of pints of squash but I’ve got that horrible ‘about to throw up’ feeling in my belly and mouth so I dont think I can eat yet. DH is in a fabulous mood because he didn’t want to go to this thing tonight anyway and he’s probably expecting me to cancel but I’d feel too guilty to cry off because DC loves seeing his family. For some reason I couldn’t sleep, was too anxious I wouldn’t get up for DC ( plus the gallon of cola I’d chugged) so I feel very out of sorts. Anxious and trembly and like something terrible is about to happen! Urgh, I hate this feeling so much. I wish there was a magic pill that just knocked you out till the worst of it was over. I’m such a baby, I really am.

Surely if you do this every 12 weeks or so, you k ow by now what works for you?

Sounds bonkers but a Starbucks caramel macchiato and paracetamol is a fool proof hangover cure for me if it's bad and I need to get on with something then and there (but maybe not good if you want to get back to sleep!)
Milk to line the stomach for paracetamols, caffeine to wake you up, sugar and it has salt in it too. Honestly works every time as long as I can stomach it so sometimes need to work myself up to it 😂

Eggs on toast, diet coke, a couple of aspirin and sleep an hour (or two).

irn bru, paracetamol and stodgy food.

Definitely diarolyte if you have any.

@HandsupSue yep that’s me on the sauce actually very typical, I love a good waffle when I’m drunk. It honestly doesn’t hit me till I go to bed and the room starts spinning. I either shop, write, do puzzle games or tidy up. I’ve never sent a text that ‘looked drunk ‘ either. Believe me though , I feel like actual death now.

A fry and a full fat coke.

You need something with sugar in it. Dioralyte, sports drink etc. Then carbs (I have a friend who swears by bananas) and sleep.

For me there is no such thing as a fix-all hangover cure. There are things that help (paracetamol, fizzy drinks, salt and vinegar crisps, carbs, sleep) but after a bender I tend to feel utterly shambolic for about 24 hours and then slightly less horrendous but still really rough for a further 24 hours or so after that. Even three days after the event I’ll still be feeling tired and sad. All of which is why I no longer go on benders.