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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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[–] • 9 pts

a hangover is fundamentally an electrolye imbalance, drink a gatorade or something maybe take an iburprophen since it might be mild inflation induced from electrolyte imbalance. water is good but you need salts for the body, but it could be any number of things good luck hope it doesnt last long

[–] • 7 pts

Drink a Brawndo.

[–] • 3 pts

It's got electrolytes.

[–] • 5 pts

Look, noone is denying that Brawndo has what plants crave. This much is true; plants most certainly crave Brawndo.

What I'm arguing, is that what plants crave, isn't electrolytes, at all..

In fact, a close look at the evidence reveals that there has been 0 documented cases of Brawndo having ANY of these supposed 'electrolytes'.

[–] • 2 pts

Good point about water lacking electrolytes. I'll give that a shot since the symptoms fit and it's easy enough to test.

[–] • 4 pts

Had literally the same issue and that was exactly the problem. I ran everyday but drank water almost exclusively.

Pedialyte had me feeling better in short order.

[–] • 0 pt

That sounds a lot like my situation - healthy, lots of cardio, lots of water, possibly not enough electrolyte supplementation.

[–] • 0 pt

Spot on answer, same thing I was going to say.

[–] • 1 pt

electrolyte == potassium, am I right?

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

Muscles work off of a sodium and potassium differential across the cell membrane. A deficiency in either will cause the same symptoms.

[–] • 0 pt

technically all salts are electrolytes, how things are marketed idk. NaCl is salt and it is an electrolyte the more complex salts are usually what your body needs albeit table salt is the bodies biggest electrolyte. also it depends on the chemical for potassium i assume ur talking a potassium electrolyte not just K on the periodic table

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If you were as intelligent as you are trying to sound, you would have noticed that the entire conversation had been about electrolytes. When a word has multiple meanings, if the conversation has consistently used only one of those multiple meanings, any shorthand references to the same word will default to the consistently used meaning. Therefore, as no word was given by the commenter as to a change, your question shows that you haven't actually listened to the conversation.