A man from Glasgow suffered the longest ever hangover recorded in medical history after he drank 60 pints of beer and ended up suffering horribly for about four weeks, though some of his symptoms lasted even longer.
According to a study from The Lancet, in 2006 a 37-year-old bloke turned up at hospital feeling somewhat the worse for wear after drinking enough to put an elephant out of commission.
Somehow still alive after 60 pints, the man was struggling with blurred vision and a persistent headache and told doctors at the hospital that his symptoms had been present for four weeks.
When they checked him over, they found no evidence of a head injury or an infection, but a spinal tap (the medical procedure, not the band) revealed there was pressure on his brain.
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The man then revealed he'd been on a multi-day binge after a 'domestic crisis' in which he'd consumed the gargantuan amount of beer, and doctors got a clearer idea of what was wrong with him.
Having suffered through four weeks of a painful hangover, further tests on the man found he could be suffering from lupus anticoagulant syndrome, which is when the body's immune system attacks its own cells.
A specialist found that the 37-year-old was suffering from bleeding nerve fibres and swollen optic nerves, which doctors put down to the huge amount of alcohol he'd imbibed.
They reckoned that the alcohol had set off the auto-immune issue so while the man was suffering from a horrible hangover headache, his body was a lot more damaged than he realised.
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While this bloke has the dubious honour of having the longest hangover ever recorded, clocking in at four weeks, the effects triggered by the hangover lasted for months.
It was about six months before the man's optic nerves properly recovered from the battering they'd taken.
No doctor in the world is going to recommend that you go on a 60 pint binge, whether it's spread across several days or not.
Attempting to do that in one sitting would almost certainly kill you, and the Glasgow man's multi-day binge left him with a hangover for four weeks and damage to his eyesight for months.
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While attempts to craft the perfect hangover cure are in development, there's nothing quite like not getting a hangover in the first place by drinking responsibly.
What you drink can also have an impact on the type of hangover you're going to get, with darker spirits giving you a worse time the following morning.
Joe Harker