How do you deal with your hangover?

[xaero1]

Any good hangover cures? Never mind old wives tales about frog's feet or sh1te like that... I'm talking about ones that actually work

It took me 3 years at university to work out the cure i use most. It's very simple -> very very hot beans on toast with bacon and a nice juicy orange on the side. The beans have to be steaming hot so you warm up and feel a bit better, the bacon puts salt back into your body, and the orange gives you a quick fix of vitamins. Obviously drinking lots of water is an essential part of the cure too.

I also find that physical exercise sorts me out very very quickly. Maybe it kick starts your body to rid the impurities or something like that. Not sure.

So have you got any interesting cures you'd like to share?

[Jim27]

* Drink at least a pint of water before going to bed - lets your body rehydrate as you sleep and gves it something through which it can get rid of alot of the nastier poisons in your bloodstream
* Eat something substantial before going to bed - greasy food is good. Doner meat. Garlic. Onions. Chilli sauce Absorbs alchohol and raises blood sugar level
* In the morning - drink lots of fluid and eat lots. My personal favourite is getting out of bed at 11, taking Ibuprofen, then straight to the local Brewer's Fayre for giant gammon steak, fried eggs, chips & veg.

Orange juice is good as it replenishes vit C. But the basics are plenty of water and food - meat is best as it's a great source of minerals & salt etc.

Brainiac tested hangover cures. The 3 they compared were hair of the dog (makes you feel better short term but the hangover's still waiting for you), painkiller and isotonic drinks (ok but not great) and the best cure - big fried breakfast Good news for the carnivores, bad news for the vegetarians!

<Any vegetarians in the house? Please raise your hands. Oh - there's one - over there near the back...but he doesn't quite have the strength to lift his arm all the way up...>

[Ent]

i get up as soon as i wake up, take a hot hot shower then go out and eat whatever is out there thats big and greasy

then drink 1ltr of water as soon as i finish that meal......but not at once....take about 30mins to drink it all, then an hour later i'll get a 2ltr bottle of water and drink that in about 1hr time.

then everything is back to normal inside 4hrs time from out of bed!

but for some reason...the older people in the pub always says '' drink whatever got you drunk last night again, then you'll be fine...''

thats true or not?

Ent

[Pikey]

Fry-up is always good

[Jim27]

Ent - yes, to a degree. Brainiac: Science Abuse covered this one. Apparently there are two types of alchohol in drinks - a nicer one and a nasty one. Your body processes the nicer one first, you get p1ssed and are happy. Once all the nice easy stuff has been dealt with your body then tries to process the nasty 'orrible stuff. This is usually in the morning and this stuff is what you're drinking water to dilute and flush out of your system.

If you then introduce more booze, your body goes "Aha! More of the easy alchohol! Let's get stuck into that and leave the 'orrible nasty type until later on.".

Like I said - you'll still feel crap and drag it out for probably the rest of the day. My rule is food and water before bed. Up in the morning (usually quite early 'cos I'm creasing for a pee after drinking the water before bed) then a couple of ibuprofen tablets, a pint of water and then, like ya say - off out to eat whatever's out there. The more bacon / gammon there is, the better.

Then have a kip after lunch

You probably feel worse in the morning because, although you've slept, your body hasn't. You mental state has been altered by the booze and you don't get the quality sleep that you need. That's why I always try to catch an hour's kip after eating - your body naturally has an energy slump after a big meal as it concentrates on digesting the food - go with the flow and make use of it to get a good 40 winks. When I wake up after that I'm fine and dandy

Jim

[Yanskii]

Originally Posted by Jim27

If you then introduce more booze, your body goes "Aha! More of the easy alchohol! Let's get stuck into that and leave the 'orrible nasty type until later on.".

True, but the trick is to keep drinking (slowly!) until you go to bed. That way you have your hangover whilst you're asleep

Not to be recommended if it's a work day, and remember the idea's not to get plastered all over again

[C&C]

I always used to find that going whitewater kayaking the following day used to sort out a hangover.

You got to the river bank in December feeling like s**t, then seal-launching down the bank into freezing water, and going to play in the white water soon gave you more to think about than a hangover!! (It was just getting to the riverbank that was the problem!!).

Conrad.

P.S. Nowadays drinking pint of water before going to bed seems to help a lot!

[-C-]

Usually the curl up & die approach

However, I 'try' & make the last couple of drinks water in the night, have as much as I can stomach before I go to bed, preferably with a rat burger of some description to soak up all that alcohol.

Thats the ideal scenario - normally I just come home & pass out & moan like hell the next day

[ROGordon]

I'm lucky ......my family are prolific alcoholics and hangovers don't seem to feature much in our morning after routines.

The trick is, once you start drinking don't stop.

[empi]

I normally find mounting the ripper from the night before after a narcotic's binge is a winner

[Wildman]

Sleep mainly but if all else fails a Port & Brandy (double Port, single Brandy) helps. Repeat till symptoms gone. It's kill or cure!

P.S. Please enjoy responsibly.

[andreasgtr]

Take 1 Aspirin and 1 vitamin pill before going to bed+ some water. No headache or bad feeling the next morning.

[turboslippers]

I don't tend to get really bag hangovers as I always just sleep through the nasty bit. I.E if staggering to bed at 4 in the morning then I make sure I don't get up till at least midday. Then, the worst of the hangover has gone but I definately agree with the lots of orange juice and big fry up.
Does anyone else get the delayed reaction hangover? Its a cheeky one...you wake up (not ****ed) but feeling pretty ok...get a nice big fry up on the go, go for a walk for the paper. After all this you feel pretty good THEN about 2pm you start to hugely rough and then feel like death until about 8pm that night. Occasionally one of those creeps up on and it can be 4 hours after getting up and feeling pretty good.
Another way of avoiding massive hangovers I find is to not drink spirits! If I can stick to just wine then I am ok, 5 pints of beer/cider and then wine and I'll be a bit fuzzy but beer+shots is always a disaster!

[Typhoon]

Oxygen...If you have access to an Oxygen tank at work like they carry in ambulance's or like pilots have on aircraft, I don't think the kind from scuba gear works though (never tried it). All you need to do it take 3-5 deep breaths and you should be good to go. One of my old bosse's @ the airport showed me this trick when I showed up to work way hungover, and it worked like a charm.

[turboslippers]

I like this Oxygen idea, might ask dad to get me a little tank lol.
Another method I have found that I can report on this morning seems to have worked!
After drinking over 10 pints of wife beater (stella) over the course of a day/evening simply come in and order the saltiest chinese you can think of. I didn't do this intentionally but the place over the road surpassed themselves lastnight with truly epic amounts of sodium chloride added to their not particualy nice to start with dishes.
After I had got up in the night for 2 pints of water the 3rd time to cure the raging thirst I lined up 6 pints of water on the bedside table and managed to get through all by this morning
Consequently I am feeling pretty ok this morning and am not dreading the 200 mile drive to my dads for a Christmas meal/**** up...