Everyone knows what a heart attack feels like, because we have all seen them on TV. Obviously you clutch your chest as though a bomb has exploded inside you.
So when it arrives in the form of nausea and the vague sense of an invisible hand squeezing things inside your chest, and a tingling in your jaw and down your arm, well, you may very well think to yourself: this is one mother of a hangover as you begin to bend double.
The signals can be all the more confusing if for many of the preceding days you have been smoking and drinking in a way that has given you one mother of a hangover.