by English Nurse

Created on: April 03, 2007   Last Updated: June 01, 2010

You stumble out of bed, muttering NEVER AGAIN, with a head that feels like the entire English Footie team is dancing on it, a stomach that feels just ever so queasy - that late night kebab was probably not a good idea.You need coffee just in the vain hope it'll unstuck your furred up tongue from the roof of your mouth. The slightest noise goes throw your body like a knife. As you pass the mirror in the hall way you notice this vision of deathly paleness, with hair that appears to have been styled by a 3 year old and why oh why didn't you remove last nights make up? On reaching the kitchen you find the remains of last nights kebab - even the cat turned it's nose up at it!  After trying to work out how to put the kettle on you realize you're out of milk.....Lightening up a cigarette you inhale deeply to realize that perhaps smoking 40 B&H last night wasn't a good idea! Yup you're in the land of the living dead or in plain English you've got a hangover! Hopefully other surprises like "Who the F* is that in my bed?" won't be added to your obvious pain and distress. Unfortunately hangovers don't give you amnesia so you may well be able to recall all the events of last night!

~~What is a hangover~~
Ok there might be a few of you out there who can honestly say you are clueless to what a hangover is. Nothing personal but I hate you ok? Alcohol is basically a poison, which your body fights to get rid of. The toxins in Alcohol along with it's diuretic effect (- we've all suffered that once you start weeing you end up going ever 30 minutes or so syndrome haven't we?) basically cause your body to dehydrate, irritate the stomach lining, cause problems to your sensory nerves and depleting your store of glucose and other important nutrients.

~~Signs&Symptoms~~
Headache, fatigue,nausea, irritability and dehydration. It is also possible to have: vomiting and dizziness. This is obviously not an extensive list and I'm sure you'll be able to add more of your own symptoms!

Ok so you've got one hellva hangover and life would be good if you were no longer suffering this miserable existence that is unfortunately your life right this second. You're vowing to never ever do it again well until the next time.....

Lets be a bit sadistical here and look at what you should have done to avoid looking like Frankenstein this morning.As they say prevention is better than a cure! Don't you just hate those smug self satisfied gits that come out with stuff like that?

~~Preventing a hangover~~

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