I'm sure you all think "yeah, right!" with a sarcastic smile when reading the thread title, but that's the truth.
Without dragging the story for too long, I have decided 3 months ago to stop drinking for around 3 months. Now, I should mention here, I'm no alcoholic, or even a very heavy drinker. Normally I'd only had a few beers usually one evening of the week (Friday or Saturday) and rarely get drunk at all, but I like beer and enjoy its taste.
Anyway, more and more often I was getting the worst possible hangovers on the planet (remember, I wasn't even drunk the night before). I'll save you the details, but let's just say the next day I was dying and could not drink anything (not even water) or eat anything or even unable to get up from the bed for the next 24 hours with a fever and a massive headache and dizziness. Very unpleasant. And lately it happened more and more often. I could have 4 pints in the space of 4 or 5 hours (hardly much) and the next day would be terrible.
So 3 months ago I said enough is enough and stopped drinking altogether. The plan was to wait until Xmas time, let the body recover a bit from whatever that is and have a little drink then and see where I am. Well, I've had few beers on Friday night first time in months. It was a little bit of an occasion as one of my mates was here for a short period and I've not seen him a long time. There was a few of us there and I've about 6 x 33cl beers in the space of the evening (from 6pm to 11pm). Wasn't drunk and was hoping it should be alright the next day.
It wasn't. I was dying today big time. All day. I was only able to get up from the bed around 6pm. With nothing to drink and no food with a massive headache I was hardly a good company though. First meal I've had around 8pm. Now am still a bit shaky but much better. Anyway. I think it is time. I think my body is trying to tell me something... so:
Goodbye beer.