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What Causes Fever And Headache After Drinking Alcohol?

I had 4 micro beers on Friday night...woke up sat morning feeling like I had the worst hangover in my life ...as if I drank straight liquor all nite instead of just 4 beers. Had horrible headache.....ached all over. Drank water all day (my normal bev of choice)....sat night I got chills and realized my temp was 103.2....took 4 Advil and went to bed. Woke up 4 times to change as I was soaked in sweat. Next morning felt better...but still not quite right....around noon...started to get chills again....took 4 Advil ...and laid on the couch all day....which I normally don t do. Chills went away until 10 pm last night...took 4 more Advil and went to bed. Woke up once over night to change due to sweat.....woke up mon am feeling about the same as i did Sun morning....took one excedrin as i still had a headache...(i never take more than one at avtime if i take it at all)....around 10 am....got the chills again...took 4 Advil ....and chills went away. Chills came back at 8 pm this evening...I still don t feel great.....but I don t feel real bad either. I still have my appetite ...and I constantly drink a lot of water...as I said...it is a beverage of choice. I am 53 male in good health 6 1 and weigh 189.... Been working out regularly since dec 13...I am in very good health overall. Only medication I take is 20mg Pravastatin for cholesterol....I would be described as slim. I also take Flonase occasionally for allergies...and I usually take a 81 mg aspirin daily....although I have not taken one since sat because of the Advil intake. I have no real pain anywhere....have been peeing normally....bowel mvts have been normal. Issue now is I just peed and it was a very dark clear brownish color. I have not had anything really different than my normal diet ...only thing I have been eating since sat that I normally don t is Greek yogurt. So with all that.....can advil cause my pee to become dark ....or do I have an infection somewhere ...ergo the up/down temp swings?
Mon, 2 Nov 2015
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Addiction Medicine Specialist 's  Response
cannot say in your particular case, but generally, these aren't alcohol symptoms.

Many other conditions cause fever and chills etc. infection of course comes to mind and sinusitis ("I take flonase for allergies", "headache" etc ) , but also inflammatory processes such as the liver ("I pee brownish") which could be technically related to alcohol.
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What Causes Fever And Headache After Drinking Alcohol?

cannot say in your particular case, but generally, these aren t alcohol symptoms. Many other conditions cause fever and chills etc. infection of course comes to mind and sinusitis ( I take flonase for allergies , headache etc ) , but also inflammatory processes such as the liver ( I pee brownish ) which could be technically related to alcohol.