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A hangover that lasted two days

Started 31 August 2025 · 16 replies · 143 hearts · read 3k times

LinneaTurku, FI · 31 August 2025
11 months ago

A question rather than an update: A hangover that lasted two days

Practical question, and possibly a silly one.

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

Sorry for the length. If anyone has been here, I would very much like to hear it.

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MorayElgin, UK
#1

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#2

Gently disagreeing with the opening post, or rather adding the other half of it.

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#3

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

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OttoPrague, CZ
#4

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

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NedChesterfield, UK
#5

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

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SephNorwich, UK
#6

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

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LucasSão Paulo, BR
#7

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

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DotFalmouth, UK
#8

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

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NkechiAbuja, NG
#9

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

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PerdyShrewsbury, UK
#10

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

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BoWhitby, UK
#11

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

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RafeBordeaux, FR
#12

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

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TeganNewport, UK
#13

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

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BethanPontypridd, UK
#14

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#15

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

If any of this has landed close to home for you while reading, our support resources page lists the kinds of services worth finding. No obligation and no drama.

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TamGlasgow, UK
#16

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

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