Hangover cures?

[german]

I had a massive Saturday night, got home when it was light this morning. I always wake up fine, never felt sick in the morning or had a hang over.......but my girlfriend on the other hand lol...........gone, sick as anything and cause I wake up fine she hates it, and sure enough the question comes - why dont you get hangovers?

For me I just load up on water before I go to bed and if I think I might be sick I put a pillow over my head - and those two things have done good by me.

I know a few of the lets say experienced drinkers here would have a few secrets 🙄 and I am curious to how people here deal with it.

Kust

 

[goddess_nemesis]

I'm not an experienced drinker, but I have seen this on the show 'Brainiac'. They tested several remedies to help cure a hangover. The most effective was drinking a glass of water (for the dehydration) and taking an aspirin (for the headache) before bed.

A hangover is basically dehydration. Like what you do, drinking water before bed hydrates the body lost while you were drinking.

 

[TicklishLurker]

I don't drink a lot, but like it's been said, drinking causes dehydration. It also causes a lost of b-vitamins. So lots of water while you're drinking, after you've been drinking, and the next morning, plus sublingual (under the tongue) b-vitamins helps.

 

[Goodieluver]

Drink water
antacid tablets
asprin
eat somethin greasy, these are all post "i have a hangover" moments, should speed up recovery

 

[Dussicar]

I'm not an experienced drinker, but I have seen this on the show 'Brainiac'. They tested several remedies to help cure a hangover. The most effective was drinking a glass of water (for the dehydration) and taking an aspirin (for the headache) before bed.

A hangover is basically dehydration. Like what you do, drinking water before bed hydrates the body lost while you were drinking.

That's pretty much EXACTLY what I do.

 

[DannyMc]

Water all the way along while your drinking . A woman once told me she takes asprin before she drinks and it does it for her . A bowl of menudo in the mourning is supposed to do it . A Bloody Mary drink is also supposed to help ....... Alcohol is supposed to throw off your blood sugar , so for that I don't know if an orange or a piece of candy will do , to bring it it back to normal . Also you probably lose alot of salt from your system .

 

[Strider]

I drink sugar water and take a few tylenols before going to sleep, gatorade works too, but actual sugar water that you mix up yourself is the best.

 

[TicklishLurker]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangovers

There's a list of treatments on that page.

 

[AphxA]

I usually drink Gaterade.

 

[OnnaOtaku]

I don't really get hangovers. I've only had one and it was due to a crazy night in Washington DC. I felt like crap the next day. I finally felt better after forcing myself to vomit a few times, taking some tylenol or something, and trying to sleep, then finally eating something that would coat my stomach. I had fetticcini alfredo. It seemed to have worked out pretty well for me.

 

[Cosmo_ac]

I drink sugar water and take a few tylenols before going to sleep, gatorade works too, but actual sugar water that you mix up yourself is the best.

Never take Tylonal with alcohal or soon after drinking alcohal as it makes a poison that kills your liver. If your going to take something take Aspirin.

Me, i have a personal mix of things i take for feeling hung over. First 2 pepto Bismal pills, second 1-2 graval as they help your stomach, and as depresents also help you fall back asleep and sleep it off, gatorade a large bottle like a liter, or water if it's not available. Then i just usually try and fall back asleep until i feel better.

Oddly i don't get headaches from drinking, just an upset stomach, which always sucks.

 

[german]

Never thought of Gatorade and I have a whole fridge full of it.

Yeah the old headache tablet works well to, it was so funny I just said to her if you cant handle it dont drink - the look she gave was priceless lol.

Thanks for ideas, I will pass them on to Dani.

Kust

 

[Wildben]

oh german, i feel your pain my good man. i get shocking hangovers! and i also have quite a penchant for the old drink so its not a good combo. the following guide is more a 'fools guide' than a fool-proof one.
here is my guide to 'beating that hangover' (trying to sound like a yank commercial)

1. during the morning of the hangover engage in a pleasing activity with a consenting partner, examples include tickling or sex

2. have a hearty meal (a fry up). 3 sausages, 3 rashers of bacon, 1 fried egg, hash browns, black pudding perhaps, baked beans, mushrooms, fried tomatoes, you name it! replacing your headache with cronic stomach ache is always a winner

3. put your head in a bucket of cold water and attempt to say a tongue twister. perhaps 'she sells sea shells on the sea shore'. this will cool you down and possible confuse you, again taking your mind off said hangover

4. sue the goddamn bar! we live in a litigious society, especially those of you from the states. folks are claiming, and winning, for all sorts of random self-incurred mishaps. and you didn't want to get drunk, hell you didn't even drink that much! someone must be to blame. you won't lose your headache, you may gain some serious dollar though

5. "if you can't beat that hangover, join that hangover"....well, rejoin it the next day. wake up, put your boxer shorts on over your jeans, forget to shave and hit the nearest boozer. you may eventually lose friends family and your job but hey, your drunk!

ben x

 

[steph]

Switch back and forth, one drink, one glass of water. Hangover is brain's way of telling you it's dehydrated. I like excedrin (eat first please) and alka seltzer.

XOXO

 

[Goodieluver]

Switch back and forth, one drink, one glass of water. Hangover is brain's way of telling you it's dehydrated. I like excedrin (eat first please) and alka seltzer.

XOXO

Why steph, i would think just having your presence was a cureall

 

[Goodieluver]

Never thought of Gatorade and I have a whole fridge full of it.

Yeah the old headache tablet works well to, it was so funny I just said to her if you cant handle it dont drink - the look she gave was priceless lol.

Thanks for ideas, I will pass them on to Dani.

Kust

pedialyte works too

 

[DannyMc]

Crackers and 7 Up might help an upset stomach .

 

[steph]

HEE! Cutie!
I was a checkout girl and serious partier in college. I used to tell people "give it an hour, if it doesn't work, come back and I'll buy it off you from my own $"!

XOXO

Why steph, i would think just having your presence was a cureall

 

[unit5610]

The aspirin or tylenol with water before bed is key, but something else I always have good luck with is canteloupe. If I have most of a small canteloupe before bed or when I get up overnight on a solid drinking night it makes a big difference the next day. It's mostly water anyway, and maybe there's some vitamin or something in it that helps out.

 

[tkrexx]

Menudo. No, not the boy band, the soup. With beef tripe to absorb some of the excess alcohol and bile, like your own innards do.

 

[Ethical Edward]

Dont get drunk! Always the best cure! 😉

 

[Coffee]

I've found that if you combine two of the above mentioned techniques you can bypass most hangovers...(my experience anyway) towards the end of the night switch back and forth from booze to water like Steph said and before you go to bed drink plenty of water and take an asprin with it. Oh and on a side note do yourself a favor and try not to mix different kinds of booze. If your drinking beer stick with beer, if your drinking scotch drink scotch if your drinking wine say with wine, you'll be less likely to get sick.

 

[natural tickler]

Alka Seltzer always was a good friend of mine

 

[BLUE_THUNDER]

alka seltzer and taco bell get the job done for me, but i dont normally get hangovers unless i drink wine or champagne

 

[TKpervert]

Alka Seltzer is the best 'maybe' fix, but the only sure cure is, if you have a hangover on Tuesday, wait til Wednesday, no more hangover.
If you still have a hangover on Wednesday, you really overdid it and you're lucky to still be alive.