To think hangovers get so much worse as you age

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I'm 50. It's six o clock and I'm nauseated, shaking with the cold and
Cannot eat. I was home
By nine last night and straight to bed with loads of water but was out for the early evening watching the rugby.
This can't be worth it? Stomach bloated and painful earlier also..
Anyone else?

Or your digestive system's playing up for some other reason?
One of the main parts of a hangover for me is acid, but other things give me acid reflux problems too.

You're not imagining it. Your lives simply can't just process it quickly anymore.

I can't have more than 2 drinks in a night these days. I have to choose them wisely

*liver

Hell yes. I used to be able to drink 5 nights a week on the trot, with very little sleep and go to work every day. now one good session takes me 2 days to recover.

They do. But that doesn't sound like a hangover.
I am just headachy and lethargic and it just lasts longer the older I get.

It's not consistent though is it. I know loads of older people (50/60+) who can still drink like troopers and get away with it. So unfair.

For me, I seemed to have it the other way round. I had horrendous hangovers from teenage to mid 20's, and very rarely get hangovers now, even if I'm up until 4am drinking. I only get hangovers now if I have less than 5 hours sleep after drinking. I'm 39 though, so maybe it is still to come.

I'm in my fifties, I have to really hit it to get a hangover. A few glasses of wine or gin don't result in anything.

Definitely worse. I've actually stopped drinking this year as every time I drank I felt so foul the next day. I'm 51 and hangovers have been like this since my early 40s.

It's a sad truth.

I find it's just not worth it anymore.

It takes days to feel right again, feel sick and can't sleep, just terrible anxiety for days after.

Although I don’t get sick or have hangovers if I stick to clear spirits, from my early 40s I get major hang-xiety. Paranoia, anxiety, it’s really horrible.

1990s student binge drinker here. YANBU. Two glasses of wine now makes me completely useless and non-functional the next day. Come to think of it, no alcohol but just a late night also makes me feel like I've got a hangover next day!

Genuine question: how do alcoholics cope with this? Their bodies must be subjected to the same pressures, probably their underlying health is worse anyway. How do they cope with being permanently hungover?

I have a high temperature now and my tonsils are swollen so a pp was correct , there was something else brewing .
Still though, I think I'm finished with alcohol. My body just doesn't like it anymore .
One of life's great pleasures 🥹

They just get drunk again, don’t they. And feel shit all the time, so drink more to try and chase it away.

I am just dawning that this is happening to me. Can no longer drink much without wiping out the whole of the next day.
Agree with PP that I then struggle to exercise or do much really.
I'm sad as I do like a drink but I'm going to have to make it one or two only from now on. I'm in my early 50s. My parents still drink plenty but clearly I have not inherited their ability to tolerate it as I age.