What is your cure for a hangover?

[Mrs Mitchell]

Date: 3/28/2010 1:49:29 PM
Author: susimoo

In Scotland it is a bottle of Irn Bru!

It taste as awful as it sounds!

I stick to 2 paracetamol and lots of water. Then contemplate food when I feel up to it!

And a roll on square sausage? With a potato scone if you''re really bad. Don''t skip the irn bru though, or it won''t work.

 

[appletini]

Date: 3/28/2010 2:37:30 PM
Author: ilikevodka
Alka-seltzer works hangover miracles, seriously. Alka-seltzer dissolved in a massive glass of room-temperature water as soon as you wake up, then more plain water as you can stomach it. If you''re throwing up, then every time you do, repeat the A/S step. But definitely water, water, water. Chewing on Vitamin C tablets can also help get the bad taste out of your mouth.

Then.. take a shower, take a nap, go to Waffle House for some greasy hashbrowns in the afternoon, and you''ll be as good as new!

Ditto on the alka-seltzer! I buy the extra strenght and dissolve it according to package directions. If its a mild hangover I feel better. if its really bad then it makes me throw up and then I feel much better.

 

[JSM]

I always, always, keep a bottle of water by the bed (reusable!). I swear there is no better feeling in the world than waking up parched and downing a large amount of fresh cool water. I would take a few large drinks throughout the night, and it prevented the hangover headache for me.

 

[Iowa Lizzy]

Level 1 Hangover Cure: If it''s a minor hangover and I need to be up and about anyway, then I prefer a big breakfast at Perkins. Pancakes, hashbrowns, bacon, eggs. Big coffee and orange juice.

Level 3 Hangover Cure: If I''m up before 10:30 but I don''t feel like getting out of my sweatpants, then I throw on a baseball cap, some sunglasses and hightail it to the nearest McDonald''s drive-thru for a McGriddles sausage egg and cheese value meal.

Level 5 Hangover Cure: If moving to the couch is as far as I''m going to get, then I park myself in front of the TV with multiple bottles of Gatorade and a box of Saltines.

 

[HVVS]

Some of these posts were hysterical. That college prof story, in particular.

Here''s how my male coworkers do it, and they are pros at drinking all night and going to work the next day:
1. Eat something heavy and substantial before drinking, to "get some ballast in your system" = fatty foods
2. Drink to excess. Drink some more.
3. Dance or otherwise move around some.
4. Eat some more fatty food before you go to bed. Banana, too, for potassium. Drink some water.
5. IF you should feel hungover the next day, the most efficient cure is to drink a little bit of alcohol and some water. That will curb the headache, nausea, and vomiting, all in one. Seriously, a wee nip does do that. Better than anything else. If you start to feel the hangover again, take another swig. Repeat as needed until 2PM or so, when you start to feel like you''ve burned it all off. Then go to the gym for a workout.
6. Vegetable soup or pasta with tomato sauce or tomato juice or other tomato stuff is good.

NEVER mix Tylenol or acetaminophen and alcohol. It''s very dangerous for your liver. You can look that up on hte Internet.

 

[curlygirl]

Sadly, as I''ve been getting older, the hangovers have been getting worse which causes me to not drink as often but then when I do, it hits me harder and I end up with a hangover anyway! Vicious. I have to agree with the others who mentioned drinking a little more to ease the pain. I''ve found that for a really bad hangover where I can''t afford to lose a whole day nursing it, a little hair of the dog definitely makes the situation more bearable.

 

[Arkteia]

Date: 3/28/2010 3:54:18 PM
Author: Dancing Fire

Date: 3/28/2010 2:49:14 PM
Author: Smurfyimproved
I don''t usually drink much, a glass of wine here and there with dinner, but last night I splurged and had 3 bacardi sevens. I know, I know, I''m a bad kid lol But it seems like I get a hangover regardless of if I have 1 drink or however many, hence, why I don''t drink much

means you need more practice.

No. People just metabolize alchohol differently. People who get bad hangover usually metabolize alcohol into more toxic products.

 

[Arkteia]

There once was a competition for a best hangover recipe in a well-known Russian newspaper. Well, you know that in Russia recipes for hangover are very important.

Lots of things were advised. One of them included some salty water, like marinade from pickles. Something like that. It is traditional, and is supposed to help.
Yogurt helps, too, or at least it is what they believe. Cold beer was recommended. Also, not to mix what you drink is believed to be important (either vodka, or wine, or beer - but never end with beer if you had to mix). But aspirin or Alka-Seltzer was the star one.

I wish I would cut out all these recipes (they published only the winning ones). One of them included vodka with small pieces of bread in it. Disgusting, as I believe, but people claimed it worked well.

So if I have hangover, which is unlikely, I''d drink coffee and take an Alka-Seltzer. And try to sleep on it, with a magnetic strip on my forehead (I believe it helps migraine).

 

[charbie]

Date: 3/28/2010 2:37:30 PM
Author: ilikevodka
Alka-seltzer works hangover miracles, seriously. Alka-seltzer dissolved in a massive glass of room-temperature water as soon as you wake up, then more plain water as you can stomach it. If you''re throwing up, then every time you do, repeat the A/S step. But definitely water, water, water. Chewing on Vitamin C tablets can also help get the bad taste out of your mouth.

Then.. take a shower, take a nap, go to Waffle House for some greasy hashbrowns in the afternoon, and you''ll be as good as new!

alka-seltzer morning relief that they used to sell...um, my husband should have taken out stock on that stuff because he LIVED by it!
i feel like a lush. um, i''ve had a number of hang-overs. what can i say- my friends and i liked to DRINK....A LOT....in college. and my husband and i still like to go out and tie one on every so often.

i love me some mcdonalds when im hungover, and a nice big diet coke from the fountain.
oh and ice cream.

 

[perry]

Date: 3/28/2010 3:00:27 PM
Author: isaku5

Date: 3/28/2010 1:51:30 PM

Author: perry

Don''t get drunk.... Works every time.


Perry

Oh Perry, don''t be so rigid. Let loose, have a blast and then get over it - no big deal

. As long as you''re not falling down drunk or throwing up, it''s a good feeling on occasion.


I have to confess that until my 40''s, I didn''t drink because I didn''t like the taste of liquor and the wines that were available here were so sweet. Fast forward to our anniversary trip to Europe (mostly Switzerland) where there was no such thing as a ''bad'' wine. Did we get drunk? No, but we had a great time.

isaku5:

I was trying to allow most people some flexibility..... You want a rigid answer.... Then don''t drink - hangover problem solved Guess what, you can still have lots of fun without drinking (or at least I and a number of other people I know can).

But, I have no objection to people who drink in moderation.

Perry

 

[Porridge]

Dioralyte. It is THE cure. Hair of the dog works wonders if possible. Then I do whatever the hangover tells me to do. The hangover wants pizza and tv? The hangover gets pizza and tv

 

[Arkteia]

Just noticed that "Hangout" sounds very similar to "Hangover". Funny coincidence...

 

[isaku5]

Date: 3/28/2010 8:17:24 PM
Author: perry

Date: 3/28/2010 3:00:27 PM
Author: isaku5

Date: 3/28/2010 1:51:30 PM

Author: perry

Don''t get drunk.... Works every time.


Perry

Oh Perry, don''t be so rigid. Let loose, have a blast and then get over it - no big deal

. As long as you''re not falling down drunk or throwing up, it''s a good feeling on occasion.


I have to confess that until my 40''s, I didn''t drink because I didn''t like the taste of liquor and the wines that were available here were so sweet. Fast forward to our anniversary trip to Europe (mostly Switzerland) where there was no such thing as a ''bad'' wine. Did we get drunk? No, but we had a great time.

isaku5:

I was trying to allow most people some flexibility..... You want a rigid answer.... Then don''t drink - hangover problem solved Guess what, you can still have lots of fun without drinking (or at least I and a number of other people I know can).

But, I have no objection to people who drink in moderation.

Perry

I''m sorry, Perry, if my post sounded like an attack of sorts. I didn''t intend it to do so; however, I''m unsure how you were allowing flexibility by using your ''rigid answer - don''t drink''...

 

[Diamond*Dana]

Lots of water, and usually some sort of pain reliever before I go to bed. I also find that greasy food helps. Hangovers suck, but they are a sign that you had a great time the night before

 

[Circe]

Date: 3/28/2010 8:21:59 PM
Author: Porridge
Dioralyte. It is THE cure. Hair of the dog works wonders if possible. Then I do whatever the hangover tells me to do. The hangover wants pizza and tv? The hangover gets pizza and tv

Both hilarious and accurate. Also, I like the idea of Hangover as an Imelda Marcos-like dictator: it would explain my many hangover-fueled shoe-shopping expeditions.

Okay, best tip I ever got? Charcoal pills. Charcoal basically absorbs everything in your stomach. In the 17th c., its efficacy was demonstrated by someone who took arsenic ... and then charcoal, who then proceeded to live a long a happy life.

This was recommended to me one late-summer night in college, by a girl whom I knew to be sort of a hard-core partier. Would I rather stay hydrated and not drink too much in the first place? Dear god, yes. If I realize that it''s been that sort of a party, and that the day before me will suck? Charcoal. Take one pill (they sell them at The Vitamin Shop and such), drink a Very Large Glass of Water, wake up smug. Works every time.

If you skip the charcoal? See Porridge''s cure, above. What the hangover wants, the hangover gets!

 

[Miscka]

Date: 3/28/2010 9:53:40 PM
Author: Circe
\Take one pill (they sell them at The Vitamin Shop and such), drink a Very Large Glass of Water, wake up smug. Works every time.


If you skip the charcoal? See Porridge''s cure, above. What the hangover wants, the hangover gets!

Hilarious!

I rarely get hangovers, but I usually need grease + coffee + nap.

 

[Gailey]

Date: 3/28/2010 5:01:13 PM
Author: Mrs Mitchell

Date: 3/28/2010 1:49:29 PM
Author: susimoo

In Scotland it is a bottle of Irn Bru!

It taste as awful as it sounds!

I stick to 2 paracetamol and lots of water. Then contemplate food when I feel up to it!

And a roll on square sausage? With a potato scone if you''re really bad. Don''t skip the irn bru though, or it won''t work.

I find lashings of Ayrshire bacon in a nice crusty bread roll works quite well. These days I cheat and take a Zomig before I go to bed.

Can''t do the Irn Bru thing, but I substitute with Lucozade.

Calories are what you need for a hangover. Preferably before the hangover kicks in.

There''s a reason we always went home from the pub via the chippy for chips and curry sauce!!

Oh happy days!

 

[Gailey]

Forgot to add.

Greasy calories are what you need. Stay away from anything remotely healthy when you have a hangover.

 

[Gailey]

Date: 3/28/2010 5:26:59 PM
Author: HVVS
Some of these posts were hysterical. That college prof story, in particular.

Here''s how my male coworkers do it, and they are pros at drinking all night and going to work the next day:
1. Eat something heavy and substantial before drinking, to ''get some ballast in your system'' = fatty foods
2. Drink to excess. Drink some more.
3. Dance or otherwise move around some.
4. Eat some more fatty food before you go to bed. Banana, too, for potassium. Drink some water.
5. IF you should feel hungover the next day, the most efficient cure is to drink a little bit of alcohol and some water. That will curb the headache, nausea, and vomiting, all in one. Seriously, a wee nip does do that. Better than anything else. If you start to feel the hangover again, take another swig. Repeat as needed until 2PM or so, when you start to feel like you''ve burned it all off. Then go to the gym for a workout.
6. Vegetable soup or pasta with tomato sauce or tomato juice or other tomato stuff is good.

NEVER mix Tylenol or acetaminophen and alcohol. It''s very dangerous for your liver. You can look that up on hte Internet.

Well that''s me done for then. That was standard operating procedure when I was growing up.

 

[redfaerythinker]

Don''t hit me... but I''ve never had a hangover. Not that i''ve never been drunk... I did go to college after all. I''ve been falling down drunk, and so drunk that I was still drunk when I woke up. Just lucky I guess. I drink very rarely now though. Just not that into it anymore.

 

[bee*]

I should have read this thread yesterday-I was dying a slow painful hangover death. The only thing that works for me is heating up glasses of 7up (kind of like sprite) and drinking it hot. Depending on level of hangover, if it''s mild I crave a big Irish fry. If it''s like yesterday I can''t touch food.

 

[susimoo]

Date: 3/28/2010 11:19:38 PM
Author: Gailey

Date: 3/28/2010 5:01:13 PM

Author: Mrs Mitchell

Date: 3/28/2010 1:49:29 PM

Author: susimoo


In Scotland it is a bottle of Irn Bru!


It taste as awful as it sounds!

I stick to 2 paracetamol and lots of water. Then contemplate food when I feel up to it!

And a roll on square sausage? With a potato scone if you''re really bad. Don''t skip the irn bru though, or it won''t work.

I find lashings of Ayrshire bacon in a nice crusty bread roll works quite well. These days I cheat and take a Zomig before I go to bed.


Can''t do the Irn Bru thing, but I substitute with Lucozade.


Calories are what you need for a hangover. Preferably before the hangover kicks in.


There''s a reason we always went home from the pub via the chippy for chips and curry sauce!!


Oh happy days!

Mrs Mitchell and Gailey

You have me rolling on the floor laughing!!!

I didn''t mention the bacon or square sausage because I am a vegetarian! I do get very jealous when DH has these very items to cure his hangover! After 20 odd years of not eating meat nothing smells as good as morton''s roll with bacon and tomato sauce!

 

[Mrs Mitchell]

Oh my. I can''t imagine coping with a hangover and vegitarianism all in the one morning! Butte fried mushrooms, maybe? I love that. Gailey is absolutely right about it needing to be greasy and calorie laden. The morning after the night before is not the ideal time to start detox!

I haven''t had a hangover for a very long time. Since before I was pregnant. Must be somewhere between three and four years. I still remember them vividly, though. I do like to drink to excess, I just don''t have much opportunity these days!

 

[susimoo]

Hi Mrs Mitchell

Hash browns or waffles normally hit the spot. And let''s not forget our national treasure, The Potato Scone!

Sara is 4, so I can totally relate to the not being able to drink very often. Any time I have reached the dizzy heights of 3 drinks or more, I remember that watching Handy Manny at 7.30am with a hangover, is never a good thing. So I stop!!

 

[charbie]

Date: 3/28/2010 3:58:36 PM
Author: MonkeyPie
I am a hardcore drinker, when I do drink - a few weeks before my husband and I started dating, we did 12 shots (straight vodka, flavored I think) in rapid succession, and I had already been drinking vodka and Red Bull for a couple hours before that. Never got a hangover of any kind. I can hold my alcohol like nobody''s business

This just cracked me up! Makes me not feel like such an alcoholic when I admit to the fact that the hubs and I like to drink...and *gasp* get stupid drunk sometimes! Thanks for the honesty, MP!

 

[dani2142]

I''ve heard to drink Pedialyte. Never tried it but I''ve heard it works. For me I usually only drink beer so I''ll make sure I drink a lot of water while I''m drinking if I plan on drinking more then a few, which is unusual in my old age. I can''t remember the last time I drank more then 3 beers.

I do know that when I am hungover I always crave ice cream. Weird, huh?

 

[Strawdermangrl]

This sounds and kind of tastes gross but works like a charm! My uncle is a Chef and taught us this after our first Mardi Gras, regular glass with half milk and half a can of coke. Only used it 2x and both times, felt like a new person.

 

[stephbolt]

Water, big bottle of Gatorate, everything bagel with cream cheese, water, sour cream and onion pringles.

Luckily, it''s been a long time since I had to use this remedy.

 

[purselover]

I don''t think I''ve ever been hungover - my body must be pretty good at processing alcohol, my friend''s swear by gatorade and saltines though

 

[dragonfly411]

McDonalds - Double cheese burger, fries and coke. This is my miracle cure. My mom introduced it to me.