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--- alcohol [2023-01-26 17:34] – zzazz
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-It's really easy for my wife to drink too much because she hardly drinks and she's a tiny Asian woman. I'd say it takes 4 or 5 solid drinks on an empty stomach for me to get nausea and approach the danger zone. Alcohol poisoning really isn't that bad, and most people don't do anything too bad when they overindulge, maybe just get a bit annoying. If you want to avoid overindulgence, try to pace yourself, drink water, eat food... but if you make drinking a hobby, it's bound to happen every now and then, that's just a fact.
+It's really easy for my wife to drink too much because she hardly drinks and she's a tiny Asian woman. I'd say it takes 4 or 5 solid drinks on an empty stomach for me to get nausea and approach the danger zone. Alcohol poisoning really isn't that bad, and most people don't do anything too bad when they overindulge**[citation needed]**, maybe just get a bit annoying. If you want to avoid overindulgence, try to pace yourself, drink water, eat food... but if you make drinking a hobby, it's bound to happen every now and then, that's just a fact.
 If you feel like you gotta puke, you're at a fork in the road. You need to either stop that from happening or make it happen. Life in the middle is the worst. If you want to puke, go into the bathroom, jump up and down, touch your toes and stand up straight, get your tummy and head bending and moving. Take a kneel before the porcelain throne and even take a whiff when your next nausea wave comes. Once you puke, wash up and swish some water around in your mouth. It may seem counter-intuitive, but just letting it happen is the surefire way to feeling better. On the other hand... I find the best methods to suppress nausea to almost be a form of meditation. Deep breaths. Avoid cigarettes and greasy/sweet snacks. Repeat some mantra in your mind. I like to visualize all my feelings of nausea materializing as a shining golden ball in the middle of my head and let it slowly drop into my guts along my spine, at which point it fades away. I don't know why it is, but it works for me, and that technique's worked for my friends I've taught it to. If none of that works, just go lie down on your side and try to pass out. Sleeping on your side means you won't die if you do throw up in your sleep.