I found that on my college days or before that, I could go out and have as many drinks as I wanted, could be up the next morning ready for whatever without much issue at all. Maybe feeling a bit of nausea but thats about it.

Around my mid 20s was when the hangover got worse, which would actually turn me into a bit more of a couch potato the day after drinking

These days it seems like it just is not worth it at all. If I drink on lets say a Friday, my whole saturday is shot due to feeling extremely hangover. And what makes it worse, is that Saturday night I likely will find it impossible to fall asleep and just lay in bed awake all night, so that now my sunday is done for to as I am so tired. Sunday night I might be able to get 3-4 hours of sleep so now a consequence of drinking heavily on Friday is that I am still felling terrible on Monday.

Just seems its not worth it anymore. I don't know how the people who are 40, 50, even 60+ are going to the bars so frequently as I would see regulars that age every time I went out.


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  2. I gave it up after one too many times waking up in unknown places and what finally did it in for me was when I heard my daughter say “why is daddy always like that”

  3. I’m the same dude… something happened in the past 2 or so years, and it feels like I fell off a cliff… alcohol mostly makes me just feel gross now.

    I used to LOVE getting drunk… it was so much fun… now I don’t even really experience the “fun” part of the buzz anymore… I’ll get lightly tipsy, but nothing like before, and then i’ll just start to feel like shit.

    I haven’t gone completely sober, but I just rarely drink anymore.

    Like you, I do not understand how people my own age or even older can continue to drink at the amounts that they do.

  4. Career alcoholics haha… idk but some say they are functional alcoholics and are successful but idk, I just wonder what they could have done without wasted days and time..

    Oh well yolo, cheers to your health – hope with a Coke Zero haha

  5. As of the last 6 months I’ve definitely been feeling like I’ve had enough of the wasted days after being hungover. The holidays were a real eye opener, I had a lot of fun going out but the day(s) after were complete wastes and the hangxiety is real. As a single man I guess it’s time to try finding different social hobbies.

  7. Almost never drink at all anymore and if i do no more tyan a few, cant handle the hangover, takes my mental health a week to recover

  8. Hangovers got worse for me in my mid 30s but not terrible as long as I can hydrate and have enough time for sleep.

    Now I’m 41 with a 1 and 6 year old and there really isn’t time to drink and if I do I get no extra time to recover.

    Given all that I don’t drink much anymore.

  9. I can’t handle the hangovers at 47. So alcohol kinda just faded from normal consumption to once in awhile. My last hangover I could feel for 3-4 days. It’s just not worth it.

  11. It got tougher to handle, yeah – but mostly it was because of health reasons and scares. I worry that I’ll slip back into it at some point, honestly because I didn’t necessarily want to stop. It just felt like the smart thing to do.

    But maybe that’s how it’s supposed to feel.

  12. I gave up 7-8 years ago because I could no longer handle a hangover that lasted for a whole weekend and also because I didn’t understand how moderation worked. As soon as I’d had one drink, I would just keep going until the bar closed.

  13. The older I have gotten, the less hangovers I have, and I haven’t cut back. Could be the Indica, which in my experience keeps hangovers to a minimum.

  14. I don’t know man, I hydrate so much I don’t typically get hangovers. I’m also not trying to get sloppy drunk. Typically sip on bourbon, scotch, or Irish whisky. Lately though my medication won’t allow it

  15. I quit alcohol because as I age, I have more and more responsibilities to maintain including a family now. I can’t recover quickly like in my 20s. Taking days off at my shitty college job doesn’t matter, but it does matter when making 6 figures managing a team of engineers. Alcohol is expensive and I rather spend the money on my family instead.

    Also addiction runs in my family tree… need to break that cycle.

  16. “We don’t do these things because they are easy, but because they are hard.” – John F. Kennedy

  17. Yeh sounds about right. Drinking is for special occasions now and has to be planned well in advance with the knowledge that the next couple of days will be write offs. I know even a couple will affect me the next day.

  18. Well. Sort of. After 45+ years my liver said No Mas, so it was either quit or die. So I guess technically I can’t handle it anymore.

  19. Nope, butcrather because of the nerve pain meds im on, 1 shot is the equivalent of 5! Lol

  20. You don’t have to drink to oblivion every time, my guy, or ever for that matter.

    Sounds like an unhealthy relationship with alcohol but cheers for making a change.

  21. What killed it for me was the unpredictability of the hangover. One night I went out with a buddy who was in town and had 5 or 6 drinks. Felt fine the next day. Another time I had 2 beers while I made dinner and felt like dogshit for 2 days. 

    Not really looking to roll the dice anymore.

  22. Definitely not worth it anymore. For the last few years I’d have 1 or 2 beers max. Really stopped enjoying the taste of beer a little over a year ago. It just gives me heartburn & I don’t sleep well.

  25. Since my late 30s alcohol has been a lot less “happy feeling” and certain consequences got worse. Hangover pain is about the same, it’s just things like skin and hair health, bloodshot eyes, feeling dull and stupid. So now I try to only drink socially / on special occasions, and I watch my dosage a lot more because I always had a tendency to binge

  26. Just too busy to drink

    I feel the brain fog the day after. I can’t be my best self at home or work.

  28. My drinking fell off sharply when the first Covid lockdown started, I was always a social drinker rather than a home alone one. By the time things normalised again the people I used to go out with had drifted apart and settled into different life stages. I doubt I could handle a night out anymore

  29. Same. In my 20’s I could put down a case of beer in one night and be up and fine the next day. Groggy but functional.

    I still have **one** a few times a week in my 40’s if I fee like it. Anything over that and it starts to affect my sleep and I feel like crap the next day which isn’t worth it to me. I haven’t been drunk since my sisters wedding ~5-6 years ago. I had a 2 day hangover from that which I never want to deal with again.

  31. At 38, I’m finding it harder to recover. I don’t get hangovers as such, but all motivation is gone the next day. I used to be able to drink and get up and workout the next day. Now all I want to do is curl up on the coach and doom scroll. This year (2026) I’ll be trying to only drink on special occasions and make a rule that no alcohol to be in the house.

  32. i didnt give up drinking, but i certainly gave up *getting drunk* a long time ago.

    at a certain point, i decided that i didnt want to lose control of any part of myself. i didnt want to live with regret nor forget any part of my life. the hangovers were never that bad for me personally.

    it’s been years since i had more than a few drinks over the course of a night

    it hasnt been very difficult though, i never enjoyed drinking that much where i was worried about it. i do still smoke weed somewhat regularly, & my social life has moved from clubs to bars to dive bars to mostly hanging out at peoples houses

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