having trouble sleeping after going out drinking

[junglewarfare]

Whenever I go out drinking, I often wake up 5-6 times in the night and have trouble getting back to sleep. I am pretty sure this is connected to drinking since I have never had insomnia or other sleep problems. It happens even if I have a mild night of 6 or 7 beers rather than a hard liquor blackout/time travel night. Does anyone else have this and what's a tip for fixing it?

[amplify]

Excessive drinking robs the brain of seratonin, an important sleep hormone. Try 3g melatonin to even it out.

[Praetor]

Whenever i come home drunk I wake up real early. Sucks coz im used to sleeping thru until 4pm

[His Boy Elroy]

I had the same problem, then I realized it was because I was drinking rum and cokes or rum and energy drinks all night and the caffeine was waking me up.

[junglewarfare]

i dont usually drink anything with caffeine, just beer

[Evan]

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Whenever i come home drunk I wake up real early.

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Same. I rarely sleep more than 4 or 5 hours if I drink a lot.

[dustyn]

Yep, like many others I have this same problem. Either I can't fall asleep or I wake up real early, sort of depends which way it goes.

[correia]

I always sleep like a baby after a long night of drinking beer.

[moondogg]

I wake up a lot if I'm dehydrated. Have a few glasses of water while you are out drinking, one or two before going to bed, and keep a full glass on the nightstand for when you wake up in the middle of the night. Helps reduce hangovers too.

[Wynton]

Let me alert you to the disturbing fact that this issue can get worse as you get older.

When I was in my early 20s, I had no problem sleeping after drinking (particularly if I took the obvious precaution of drinking some water). After becoming married with kids, I inevitably drank less, losing my tolerance perhaps.

At one point, I went through a stage when I found it helpful to have one drink right before bed. I noticed that if I had 2 or more drinks, I would have the issues mentioned in the OP. Then I noticed that if I didn't time my one drink correctly, it could backfire. In other words, if I had the drink at 10 pm, I might get tired for a while. But if I stayed up till 11:30, this would boomerang and I would be more alert right when I wanted to sleep.

I have nothing particularly helpful to say about this, except try not to get older.