Re: Does anyone feel like this after drinking...
 

This has happened to me before too. The dreams felt so real too and my dreams are normally obviously dreams but not these but peoples stories say that it can't be true. I'm pretty sure they were dreams though based on what I've been told and that the people in my dreams wouldn't have done what they did but since it seemed so real part of me wants to believe my dreams causing me a lot of worry. I too would like to know what causes this.

Depends on what I drink. If I just drink lager or beer I just have a normal hangover. Headache and an iffy stomach is pretty much cured by paracetamol and a fried breakfast. But when I drink spirits like vodka or whiskey, my hangover is like an ecstasy comedown lasting for like 2 days, with the headache and iffy stomach to boot. When I get in this state, I normally stay in bed until the early evening. I can never remember anything and I'm always paranoid that I had made a total fool of myself in the bar/nightclub/at the party.

It's for this reason I don't drink very much.

Wow I guess it's not just me then. Yeah, I'm hungover now and if I had to go into town I'd probably be hyperventilating, or freak out, even with the meds I'm on (which usually stop all that). I have to plan my drinking so I'm not doing anything the next day, when I'm hungover I can basically walk about 100 yards to the corner shop and that's it.

I have a ridiculous tolerance to alchohol, I can quite happily put away as many as 14 cans of 9% lager in one day depending on when I start, that's as many as 56 units in a day, which is like 4 bottles of wine or something (my brother said). When my doctor asks I always lie.

Also alchohol makes me oversleep *badly* so I can't drink before a working day. I need a job 'cos I know that'll cut down my drinking.

You're absolutely right, for me example, I am certain that this anxiety problem came from drug abuse, specially mdma can blame for that. It was after the comedown i felt so unreal, my perception were really weird, and life seemed to be like a dream or smt. And then i realized after i drink, i get this anxiety. However it has gone really better. I was working out as well training in the gym. Sport increases your serotin and works for your brain recover. But the main thing is, which i'm really interested, that will it ever go away totally. I mean if i have a really hard party. that next day i will just feel the normal hangover ( which could be hard) but still without the anxiety and the ****. for me instance even now its not that bad after drinking, that i would consider it leaving, coz i really like clubbing and having partys .

Hey OP,

I think you might be suffering from delerium tremens, wiki and exercise friends are you. Alcohol enemy be. Something something Darkside.


Peace

I doubt it's the DTs, He said he usually only drinks once a week.

I get depressed the next day after i drink so i quit reluctantly.

Just want to point out that alcohol can mess with your meds. I was told not to drink on both of the meds I've tried. I asked why and was told that it will stop the drug from working properly for the next little while. Also I think that some can make the hangover worse.

I feel the exact opposite, for whatever reason. When I wake up after a night out i usually feel calm and accepting of myself, and then as the day goes by I gradually return to my "normal" self, meaning that the background level of anxiety returns. Perhaps simply the alcohol wearing off? It's nice not to suffer any adverse effects(other than those of a pretty mild hangover), but the knowledge that the state is merely temporary(or the hope that it isn't, followed by the dissapointment when it is yet again proven that it is)can be quite depressing.

Whenever i drink a lot i wake up the next day with extreme anxiety and heart palpitations.

Drinking usually makes everything better. After awile I start to think about SA and I get sad then angry. Next I usually make my self feel stupid because I cant talk the way I want too.

I know what you're talking about, as of right now I am having this problem. Im 24 now and I have always drank beer, after the birth of my son a year ago it seems like my anxiety has sky rocketed, Ive had anxiety and problems like that since i was 18(panic attacks all that jazz) but it never was a problem after drinking, now I can come home from drinking, pass out, wake up a few hours later and wont be able to go back to sleep the rest of the night and the whole night Im VERY jittery no matter what i do i toss and turn trying to sleep and cant, its horrible, I tell myself every time that I am done drinking, but then I do it again and im pissed off lol
As of right now, this is happening to me.. I cant sleep and all jittery I feel like my chest is just like shaking..i HATE this feeling, but I have come to find out that If I drink vitamin water( a few of them like 2-3) that I feel 10x better, but not just any of them, has to be the pale pink one, called focus, weird i know, but it helps me a lot.

yeah back in the day i could drink loads on a night out and feel
hungover the next day but it was not thet bad.
these days i really try not to get steamin as the next day my anxiety
is just too bad and the paranoia can kick in sometimes. the higher anxiety can last for days and its just not worth it.
Im resigned to having a few beers maximum when i do drink now, how times change!!!

Im literally always drinking vitamin water, i buy them in bulk. And ive only gotten a hangover twice in my life, never when i was drinking water while i was drinking it really works.

Anxiety after drinking
 

i have just come across this thread and i have just started getting the same problem. I do drink a fair bit but in the last couple of weeks i have had a panic attack , loads of anxiety and ache all over for the next couple of days or more. I am 33 and have partied hard but am really considering knocking it all on the head if this continues - why does this happen ?

I have a problem while I am drinking, so I really never do, and if I do, it's just a drink or two, although sometimes that has even messed with me. It makes me freak out and feel like I don't have control. I always get really nauseas as well. It sucks, because I would love to be able to get drunk every once in awhile, might take the edge off, but I can't, so oh well, maybe one day.

I used to get massively anxious the day overindulgences of alcohol; since ive been taking SSRIs however, my hangover have begun to involve much less anxiety
Alcohol comedowns are definitely experienced differently by sufferers of anxiety

http://www.anxietyguru.net/why-alcohol-causes-anxiety/

I have some anxiety if i drink alittle bit but if i drink alot i get social. Its weed i have issues with.... That stuff makes me have panic attacks like crazy:afr

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I hope people still use this site. I suffer from anxiety after drinking.
This happened to me 8 years ago..I was always in a weird depressed altered reality state. I never linked it to alcohol but it DID go away,after a year of utter hell I was just left with general anxiety. This anxiety (which i never had before my original episode) stayed with me for years.. oddly If i fely anxious I would drink.,.. drinking made it go away, every time..
I dont drink alot. Id go out on weekends and have maybe 3 or 4.. sometimes more, sometimes less. But drinking HELPED. (this maybe be why i never linked alcohol to this this first time). Anyway. recently it CAME BACK. i noticed if i drink any amount of "beer" i have flare ups the next day of the following:
Anxiety
Depression
Intense fear
Lack of focus
Lack of concentration
difficulty breathing
odd internal sensations that set off more anxiety
lightheadedness
depersonalization (feels like im watching my life through a camera lense)
extreme fatigue
Low body temperature, constantlt cold
flu like symptoms
stiff neck/odd neck sensation;cant really explain. my neck just feels tight and "wrong" (happens the night of drinking, may signal a flare is coming)

It use to last 3-4 days. Id hide myself from the world and just hope i dont die.. I FEEL like im going to die but I never do.

after 3-4 days I bounce back and feel great. I honestly forget everything bad I felt and feel invincible again. thus I drink again with friends. which leads to this again and again.

Things Ive noticed:
It seems to happen mainly when I go out and drink beer. If i stay home and have 1 or 2 glasses of wine I feel great the next day.; so is it "beer" or anxiety from going out in public? no clue
My urine will smell horrible at the end of these symptoms. Once this happens I tend to feel like a million bucks again.
Ive also noticed that its dwindling again.. it used to last 3-4 days.. I recently had 2 beers with dinner out with friends and I only felt terrible for about 28 hours after I woke up the next day. Is this indicative that Im healing or just not as bad since I only had 2 beers?.. no clue

Ive been to doctors and they simply dismiss me saying "quit drinking". this isnt acceptable. It went away once so whatever it is, isnt some sort of resistence.. its either from anxiety itself or an underlying condition. my doctor just doesnt care since its not constant, its only after I drink.

Things Ive looked into that may be part of the issue:
Anxiety (plain and simple.. anxiety makes more anxiety. subconcious is linking the anxiety to going out drinking so does this on autopilot- Both times this started I had a panic attack first. Panic attack cause this or did this cause the panic attack? no clue)
Lyme disease(look up video blogs on youtube and youll find people explaining mental/anxiety issues from Lyme and it sounds "exactly" like what I have..why it happens only when I drink beer? no clue
Candida overgrowth (yeast overgrowth in the gut.. google symptoms and it sounds close.. beer may have something to do with flare ups since it contains yeast and sugar..look into your diet and possible antibiotic use recently. it may have caused candida overgrowth. no clue)
Celiacs disease (similar to Candida but has to do with a wheat/gluten intolerance in your intestines)
Lupus (again symptoms sort of resemble this but Lupus sounds more severe and constant, no clue)

I hope people will post any similarities so we can figure this out since Doctors dont seem to care. quiting isnt an acceptable answer for me. I love beer, Id love to have a beer at the game without feeling like im dying for 2 days following. It HAS gone away once before so suggests it is cureable/treatable. I just did it by accident, or turned it back on by accident.

I always seem to have a bad feeling lingering over me after drinking :( Kind of like I did something wrong or said something embarrassing. And although this is usually not the case, I can't seem to shake it. I try to tell myself that everyone else I was with was drinking as well and thus probably not paying much attention, but that doesn't seem to help much.