How do people get when they are hangover?

[dbeirigo]

I don't drink (alcohol), I'm writing a scene where a character is suposed to be hangover but I don't know what that's like and I don't wanna go off a list of symptoms from google because I feel I might messup and people will know I don't know what I'm doing and that I'm writing a character who drinks and I don't even drink.

[BlairFujin]

my personal experience is usually just being really thirsty, you drink and drink and your mouth still feels dry and my dad who knows his limits way less than me mine tends to get headaches

[abigaillmartin]

I don’t drink alcohol either, but I know people get nasty hangovers and get really sick and headaches. Their words and actions are impaired.

Ernest can sum it up because despite the stereotype that The Irish drink a ton Ernest doesn’t.

“It kills your brain cells, and make you stupid.” - Ernest McDermott

Though he did drink once. But that’s for a future episode.

[RedLenai]

well, that depends on the person.

On my end I never got hangover since I have a high tolerante to alcohol despite I don't drink much but when I do I drink a lot and mix different types of alcohol, besides I like sweet drinks over bitter ones.

Some people tend to have terrible headaches, others cannot tolerate any kind of sound or bright lights, others have an upset stomach, nausea or feel extremely tired.

[KSlinger]

Like the others said, everyone's different.

I get vertigo. My sister vomits. My friends get migraines behind the eyes. My FIL doesn't get hungover at all because he smashed his head on a tree and basically trepanned himself when he was thirty. Young people bounce back from drinking faster. Older people don't.

You really can't go wrong with how little or how badly a hangover effects someone. Everything goes.

[Mallory]

Alcohol is basically a mild poison to your body and a hangover is the result of your body dealing with it. If you’ve ever been in a situation where you put a lot of physical stress on your body (dehydration, heat exhaustion, eating something toxic) you can think back to how you felt in the aftermath and it would probably read as authentic. Just lots of lethargy, maybe (often) headache, lots of thirst (alcohol is a diuretic and makes you pee too much), maybe an unsettled stomach.

[NickRowler]

I don’t drink. Tho I have heard about people feeling ill and vomiting. Some people might drink Hair of the Dog, tho that always seemed counterproductive.

Some people might feel disoriented, including lapse of memory to what happened the night before.

[conventurecomics]

Here's the CONventure gang one hangover from room parties. Typical Neko sleeping in comfort.

[king-goldfish]

You might feel sick to your stomach, you might have a headache and be sensitive to lights and loud noises, you might be really tired and feel like you have a cold. You will not be on your A-game mentally. You will just want to sleep. One big hangover/withdrawal side effect that doesn't get shown a ton in media is anxiety: you might just feel very keyed up and worried. You might have panic attacks (didn't happen to me until years into my alcoholism, but it can happen). You will probably crave a bunch of greasy food. Sometimes you can have hangovers that last multiple days, sometimes they last a few hours. You might also feel repulsed and physically sickened by the smell and/or taste of alcohol, especially the alcohol you were drinking the night before lol. Despite this, having a drink—"hair of the dog"—absolutely does help in the short term (can't be drunk and hungover at the same time!) but is not a pattern you want to get into for obvious reasons.

If you are a very heavy drinker, over a long period of time, you might think you no longer get hangovers because you are always just kind of hungover and have learned to live with it.

[Zay]

I don't get hungover often, but I remember the first time it happened, I felt like trash, man. Like, my head was spinning, and when I tried to eat it felt like I was gonna barf. That hangover was honestly a wake-up call for me.

[Innocynce]

From what I know, they're in a INCREDIBLE amount of pain. It seems similar to a migraine as they hate light and loud noises: anything intense that one would normally think nothing of is painful during one.

[EncryptedWriting]

It depends on how heavy you drink. It could feel like a migraine and most times you are super thirsty - like water is heaven. Your limbs might also feel a little weak, like you are trying to maintain your balance but with more strength.

[375]

Whenever I was hung over in college, it felt like I had a really bad cold and that my movements were slow. I had absolutely no appetite, required a large amount of water, and was exhausted. But that was bc I partied all night long (づ￣ 3￣)づ

[Lensing]

It´s different for different people and how used they are to drinking alcohol.
I´m a touring musician all my life, I drink and I know all kind of drunks and
it varies a lot.

I would puke and be sick the next day when I was a teenager but I could drink again
the next night. I´m used to it now, I never puke from alcohol, I rarely feel sick after
drinking but I´m tired and exhausted and I wouldn´t drink 2 nights in a row.

I have friends/bandmembers who are depressed the next day, migraine and can´t
move the whole day or are grumpy and moody, other people who
play a 90 minutes football game and are still hungover.

I never feel thirsty like @EncryptedWriting wrote. I have to force myself to
drink water when I´m hungover because I know it´s better to drink water.
The only thing I like to drink when I´m hungover is something like orange
juice

[blakestackman]

Experiencing a hangover can be characterised by a range of unpleasant symptoms, including headache, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, weakness, dehydration, sensitivity to light and sound, cognitive impairment, and mood disturbances. The severity of these symptoms can vary widely among individuals and may be influenced by factors such as the amount of alcohol consumed, individual tolerance, hydration levels, and overall health.
Also, the older you are, the higher your chances of getting a hangover.

[liminal-collapse]

The vast majority of a normal hangover would be a combination of what you feel when you haven't slept properly, because it interferes with sleep, and dehydration because alcohol is a diuretic, and encourages your body to get rid of liquid. If you've ever been in a situation where you've stayed up all night, then you already know what a lot of it feels like.

You can feel a bit dissociated, and cognitively slow. Often sore all over your body.

The dehydration can cause headaches, unpleasant GI effects, dry eyes, dry mouth, thirst.

And hangovers affect different people differently. Young people sometimes barely experience them. As you hit your thirties and up, they become substantially worse. In some people, hangovers create an unbearable kind of anxiety, which is withdrawal, and those people are very likely to end up alcoholics, because drinking relieves that hangover anxiety. So they might start having a drink int he morning so they can get through work, etc etc.

[ThunderChicken]

I don't drink, so I can't say for myself, but as for my father when I was younger, the one way he got when hungover was CRANKY. We learned to not be around him on most Sundays...

[sleepykuya]

Like others have said, but it's different for everyone! Depending on age, too, because I definitely feel hangovers differently versus an older member of my family. For me, I'd just feel tired. Like...don't get out of your pajamas, stay in bed, eat a lot of carbs and pass out for eighteen hours kinda tired. I usually hydrate, so I don't have a massive headache, but it feels like your entire skull is pounding and ready to jump out of your head if you don't. Usually cranky. Stomach might hurt, too, and stomach problems follow if you're sensitive.