It’s always TERRIBLE idea irrespective of age

As a dry alcoholic, had I become addicted and physically dependent about 5 years later than I did, I would have been dead by now. Alcohol can be the fucking devil, but I am an extreme case of course, getting black out drunk every day. My tolerance was so high that I only stopped shaking at usually lethal doses. I was passive-suicidal. I am doing a lot better now, but this is a warning to everyone that there is almost no drug that will fuck up your organs as much as alcohol (not even heroin, meth, or crack cocaine).

Edit: Here is the price I paid:

• Pancreatitis
• Alcoholic Fatty Liver (thankfully my liver is an absolute trooper, so no cirrhosis and I am still young enough [31] to fully recover)
• Absolutely unbearable and life-threatening physical withdrawal (in the ICU, also I was given the max. dose of benzodiazepines) and still went into delirium, seizures, hallucinations, hearing voices and the fear of becoming schizophrenic (which thankfully didn’t happen)
• The withdrawal traumatized me so much that I regularly have nightmares and wake up in an ocean of sweat
• It borders on a miracle that I came out of this without any disabilities
• Though there is a chance my brain will give out before my body does, or I eventually develop epilepsy

PS: If you know someone who can out-drink everyone else it isn’t impressive, but incredibly sad.

PPS: DO NOT QUIT DRINKING COLD TURKEY, IF YOU ARE PHYSICALLY DEPENDENT

Really depends what you drink. Avoid sugar, and low quality stuff. Also, eat food and drink water.

I wonder how biology plays into this. I never noticed a huge shift in hangover intensity. Yeah they got a little worse in my 30s but nothing as debilitating as what I’ve been lead to believe would happen.

TBF it was never a good one.

Idk if hangovers are more intensive for me or if I’m just overly sensitive, but I’ve stopped getting drunk simply because of hangovers. I’m just past the point where the upsides of drinking alcohol aren’t worth the intensity of the hangover after it. It’s just not fun anymore.

And I don’t understand how people the same age as me or older still get wasted and just shrug at the hangover, if they even have one. I still drink alcohol rarely, but probably never get wasted at memory-loss level ever again.

Drinking alcohol is always a terrible idea. It always damages your body, mind, and life itself. No, “small amounts of wine” don’t fucking count. That nonsense has been entirely and thoroughly disproven.

Don’t drink. That’s like shooting yourself in the dick with a gun, on purpose. If you’re a woman, you do it to your kids. Not literally, that an explanatory metaphor, dumbass. I know I have to explain that shit now because I know you’ve drank alcohol before…on fucking purpose no less.

yep, I’ve been discovering the virtues of low-alcohol beer. perhaps they had it right in the middle ages with small beer

Once I hit my 30s I ditched alcohol and switched to weed. All but two of my friends stopped drinking once we entered our 30s.

Yep totally not worth it, if I even get drunk to slightly merry the next day is a write off

Ya, whenever I think about having a drink, I immediately start calculating how long I’ll feel like shit after. If I don’t have an entire day I can set aside to feel awful I don’t even. It’s rarely worth it

You probably just need practice.

As an alcoholic, yes.

I’ve never actually had a hangover. I have no idea what they feel like other than, from inference, bad.

And I drink.

I have been drunk in the past too, though I really don’t like the sensation so try to avoid it.

Perhaps instead of age there’s something else that’s causing your hangover?

I can still tolerate drinking fairly well, but I probably drink too much. In general it is an immunosuppressant so it’s a bad drug to consume regularly. I grew up in a drinking family and a drinking area. I am deciding in my middle age that the benefits are too far below the costs. Sticking more to edibles for my unwind time after a hard day.