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EDIT: Based on feedback from a number of people, I tried electrolyte supplements and all was well today. It looks like I was drinking enough water, but not enough electrolytes.

Hey poaler bears, I want to pick your brains. The last two days I woke up feeling up feeling like I had a nasty hangover (severe headache, nausea, sensitivity to light, etc)...but without the drinking to explain it. I had one beer Monday night, and nothing aside from water last night. I drink plenty of water so being dehydrated would be strange, I'm not diabetic, I dont have sleep apnea, and I'm not sick (I feel fine during the day).

The symptoms are exactly what I'd expect to have if I was 22 and at the bar until 3am, not from drinking a glass of water and going to bed at 9pm like a geezer.

Any ideas where to start looking for a cause?

EDIT: Based on feedback from a number of people, I tried electrolyte supplements and all was well today. It looks like I was drinking enough water, but not enough electrolytes. Hey poaler bears, I want to pick your brains. The last two days I woke up feeling up feeling like I had a nasty hangover (severe headache, nausea, sensitivity to light, etc)...but without the drinking to explain it. I had one beer Monday night, and nothing aside from water last night. I drink plenty of water so being dehydrated would be strange, I'm not diabetic, I dont have sleep apnea, and I'm not sick (I feel fine during the day). The symptoms are exactly what I'd expect to have if I was 22 and at the bar until 3am, not from drinking a glass of water and going to bed at 9pm like a geezer. Any ideas where to start looking for a cause?

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I had a similar experience with the punishment not fitting the crime. Hangovers from a single drink of high grade hooch. WTF? Put on my science hat and dove deep.

Our bodies produce 2 liver enzymes that metabolize alcohol. Alcohol Dehydrogenase and Aldehyde Dehydrogenase. ADH & ALDH, respectively. ADH breaks down booze into acetaldehyde (toxic as all hell) and then ALDH picks up the baton and further breaks the poison down into acetate which is then further denuded into H2O & CO2 and eliminated.

The presence and efficacy of these enzymes is both genetic and age dependant. Which explains why injuns can't handle the firewater and why hangovers hurt more than they used to for some of us as we advance in years.

Leave it alone and let it lie in the cask, keg or bottle on the top shelf, fridge or cellar and you'll feel better. All alcohol is poison. Doesn't matter how bright, rich, dry, sweet, sour, soft, firm, big, subtle, opulent, austere, bubbly, oaky, fruity, tanniny, leggy, smokey, peaty, hoppy, tobaccoy, toasty, plump, pungent or passionate it is. It's still poison.