Favorite Hangover Cures...
 

After I a weekend of just a "bit" too much fun, I want the esteemed opinion of my fellow GC'ers cures and/or prevention of hangovers.

-Lil Snakey K

Water, water, water, water, and MORE water the night before. ALso take two asprin right before you crash. In the AM, take a hot shower and drink MORE water and some juice.

This works for me

TG

Agreed. But have been dying to try pediaylite. Have heard great things about it.

try to take a hot hot hot hot hot shower before you crash. It always sobers me up enough that it minimized the hangover the next day.
And McDonald's the next day-- it soaks up whatever's left in your system.

And hate to say it, but I always feel better the next day if I was sick the night before...

:)
Amy

Nothing in my experience works as well as a can of Pepsi or Coke (it MUST be a can for maximum carbonation) and a bagel or toast. Don't know why, but it's never yet failed to make me feel human again!

I'd have to say, try drinking whatever it was you were drinking before. If it was beer, have a beer, it usually helps me out quite a bit. Also drink lots of water, or any kind of liquid. Finally, eat something that will fill you up, some McDonalds or Wendy's or one phatty breakfast, some pancakes, waffles, something to soak all that alcohol still in your stomach.

As someone else was saying, drink water before you crash.. LOTS OF WATER. I generally drink as much will fit in my stomach. Maybe eat some bread (that's supposed to soak up the alcohol).

I still get nasty hangovers, but that's probably because I hardly ever drink enough to warrant one...

Once you are nauseous, barfing, or experiencing the whirlies don't even bother----it's too late.

BUT if you are just feeling a little too happy when you come home and you know you are going to feel it, try guzzling some Gatorade. Try to down a whole bottle (the 32 oz size at least.) Eat some crackers or toast or a bagel or something, and take 2 Advil/Motrin before you go to sleep. And when you wake up, Damasa is right, if you can stomach it "the hair of the dog" helps......even a few sips of beer or whatever will help.

OLD LADY TIP: AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION IS WORTH A POUND OF CURE!!!! Don't let yourself get that drunk in the first place! Always eat when you are drinking (have some wings or something) and once you get your buzz on, drink a glass of water between each alcoholic beverage.

This is really only relevant to LSU/ULL students, but Rasing Cane's Chicken Fingers can raise me back from the dead.

Thurs night, my roomates, their boyfriends, my boyfriend and his roomate all went out for 5 cent pitcher night. One roomate was puking before we left the bar. The other started when they got home. I went with my guy and his roomate to Cane's and didn't get sick :) Neither did they. Coincidence? I think not!

I do have to agree, though, that if you're feeling dizzy, drink lots of water and then just induce vomit. Makes me feel SO SO SO much better.

If I'm dizzy and sleepy, I usually fall asleep with one eye open. I know it sounds strange, but if I close both eyes, I get dizzy. So I just colapse in bed, close one eye, and eventually sleep closes the other one.

I pound as much water as my body can handle, and then try to have a big breakfast/lunch. Usually eating makes me feel a lot better, and I'm usually pretty hungry after a night of hardcore drinking.

Collin

Two dashes of bitters in soda water with a little lemon juice.

People say that you should have another beer but if you're already feeling nauseous then beer won't sit too well on your stomach. Before you go to bed, make sure you drink at LEAST 3 big glasses of water. The reason why you're hungover is because your body is dehydrated. While you're drinking, make sure you're eating bread or some kind of fiber....it absorbs the alcohol. After you have a drink, have a glass of water. This will keep your body hydrated. A hot shower will speed up your metabolism; you may feel drunker once you get out but it will get the alcohol to move out of your system faster (warning: if someone is extremely drunk DON'T put them in a hot shower....a friend of mine did this to his roommate and his roomie ended up in a coma...bad, bad, bad) I know this sounds horrible but you may also want to try to get yourself to throw up before you sleep so that the alcohol doesn't sit in your system while you're sleeping. If you still feel sick the next morning, drink some ginger ale...this will help soothe your stomach.

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My bartending for dummies book recommends another beer, or a bloody mary. AKA hair of the dog.

You should never take medication such as Tylenol or Advil if you have been drinking. It can cause serious liver damage. You can take it the next day.
As others have posted drinking a lot of water before you go to sleep should help prevent a hangover.

A few nights ago, some of my sisters and I were partying. Although I did not agree with them, everyone told me that my little was rather tipsy and that I needed to go and take care of her. I got a glass of water to take to her and everyone busted my chops!

They said not to giver her water, it was bad. :rolleyes: I thought water helped, like you all are saying.

Anyone know???

While as A Proffesional, I Do Not Have Hang Overs!

But, used as a conjuntive adjetive, the hair of the dog usually works!

Who In their right mind is going to take a hot shower upon coming home smashed?:confused: ;)

If you feel like whoofing your cookies do it! Male look bad but will help!

Drink liquid, sugar water as you are dehydrated and have low blood sugar!

I used to play Doctor when I was young, you know 18-25!:D

WATER WATER WATER
 

Due to my knowledge of partying I too have had my far share of "hang overs" I prefer to call them "recovery time". For my Recovery Time I always drink at least on LARGE Bottle of water before I begin, and then follow up with subsquint water during the duration of "RT". Also I throw in some food at some point so I am able to attend that nites swarees as well:)

Hope this helped:)

If I know i'm going to be drinking plenty (this weekend we had our own little version of Mardi Gras.. very big hoopla!) Thank I make sure to drink plenty of water, and try to stay away from eating terribly greasy stuff during the day. And when I get home, I try to drink at least one glass of water, or if I can, and some toast, crackers, bagel, something bread-like before I go to bed..

Mexican food and bloody mary's. Thats all I have to say:)

pickels...or pickel juice, pretzles lots of water. And ham sandwiches.

I knew somebody who was big on gin and tonic. When they got wasted they put a bottle of gin by their bed, so in the morning they could pour themselves a fix-me-up. It did great for getting over the hangover. The only problem was he was drunk again by noon...lol.

Great advice from House MOM of the Fraternity i was booted out of!

BEFORE going to the party, eat butter, well at least put on top of some crackers!

Get a buzz, but it do not get in to the blood stream as fast! Hell a Homoginzed Shooter!:D

Aspirin should be avoided while alcohol is still in the system, it can cause bleeding in stomachs already irritated by excess alcohol. And acetaminophen, or Tylenol, can aggravate liver damage. Your liver can only breakdown one thing at a time.

Alcohol stops a hormone in the body from absorbing water.

The best remedy that I have heard of is to pop a couple of B6 vitamins drink a glass of water and a virgin bloody mary. Repeat in the morning.

If I know I am over the edge I will make myself throw up if possible and start drinking water. If I'm just really buzzed and don't want to go any further I switch to water at the end of the night.

Ive only mild hangovers, and the best cure was to call in sick to work and sleep it off :D

My advice for the morning after one of those nights where you ended up playing stupid bonding games over dozens of Corona Lights and finding out waaaay too much about your sister's ex-boyfriend, wake up on your girlfriend's couch with your boots still on, locate your purse under a pile of pizza boxes and randomly soaked dish towels (don't ask) and rally the troops to pile in the Explorer to head to the local fast food place. I swear by curly seasoned fries, onion rings or anything greasy from Jack In the Box or some fast food restaurant. Our favorite combo is curly seasoned fries dipped in ranch with a strawberry shake. ;)

If you are having a mild hang over from a night of dollar shooters, then work out. You will sweat out the hard alcohol, or so it feels. I swear, I can smell the tequila and what not being purged while I'm on the eliptical machine.

Or if you are having a morning after where you are immobile and can't even fathom getting so much as apple juice past your lips, flip on some Sex in The City and vegitate.


Oh and don't take that hot shower the night that you come home inebriated. Chances are you won't make it out of the shower until you are rudely awakened by a roommate and "Hey, you ok? wake up! You alive? What the hell happened to you?"

Good luck.

My cure for a hangover:
Grab the sexy man next to me and shag him rotten... what a pick me up!




BTW That was a joke, I have no man, but if I did that is what I would do. The only alternative: I always take two aleve before I go out and I typically don't have a problem. Before I go to bed I eat Taco Bell and drink a Dr. Pepper... in the morning, VIOLA, if I had WAY too much to drink I still feel like crap, but at least I am not hungry.

I tend to wake up after a night of drinking feeling ok for the first little while. I continuously fall prey to the 'oh wow! i'm not hungover!' misdiagnosis. After years of going out, I still have not managed to clue in to the fact that it just hasn't hit me yet. I NEVER get mild hangovers. I become completely incompacitated to the point where even lying down is uncomfortable and the thought of water makes me nautious, as do the reprecussions of shoving a glass of water down my throat regardless. I usually end up in the bathroom again. Because of WATER!!! :mad:

I wish I had the presense of mind to drink water when I get home. But usually I find my way to my bed and collapse.

The only cure I've found that works, really only works for me once I'm in the post-dizzy/nautious stage of my hangover (so, usually for me, around 1:30 in the afternoon). I drag my butt over to the 7-11 around the corner and get myself a large slurpee. Don't ask me why but that ALWAYS clears up all of the remninants of hangover (usually lingering extreme headache and yucky belly).

And SATX*APhi, your friends are wrong. They were probably bothered you were trying to sober your friend up :( . Given the fact that drunkeness and hangover is caused by dehydration to the brain (seriously!), water is always the best thing to have.

Cheers!

I agree with damasa..i always take a shot/glass of whatever i had tha got me plastered the night before...works like a charm...

EAT before you go to bed, drink a glass of juice. Your body needs the vitamin C and eating a bowl of cereal or even just a banana has saved me from many many hangovers.

I agree with amycat. As they say, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Another suggestion is to avoid drinking drinks that are too sweet.

Re: Favorite Hangover Cures...
 

#3 value meal from Taco Bell and a 6 pack of Bud Light.

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I don't remember who mentioned this before, but I agree that Gatorade works like a charm. Get a large bottle and nurse it all day, and you should be fine. I also recommend pairing the Gatorade with a WaWa hoagie. :)

Water before I go to bed always makes me puke...i have no idea why.

In the morning, water, McDonalds French Fries, and a huge Coke. Followed by green tea (the kind you make at home, not the iced tea version) and then gatorade, followed by more water and the a bowel of pasta with either butter or just a little bit of sauce.

oh, and Spicy v-8 will shock your system into getting back to normal too.

I am bumping this up because I wanted to inform everyone of a great thing that stops the early morning hangover nausea/vomitting.

After a very fun social last night, I woke up this morning feeling like I was about to die. Not fun. And I drank a lot of water last night too which is weird because usually that helps!

I had this over-the-counter medication left over from when I had a stomach virus a few months ago. It's called Emetrol. It's expensive ($12) and can be found at drug stores. I used it the first time a few years ago. My doctor recommended it after I had been in bed for two days with an awful stomach virus. Cleared up the symptoms really fast.

The medication says right on the bottle that it can be used for drink indiscretions (that's me!!!!!). After two tablespoons, I was finally able to walk two feet without running to the bathroom. I was then able to drink a glass of water, take a multi-vitamin (which is very good to take when you're hungover), and have a piece of toast without getting sick.

The stuff is very expensive but it works real well. Doctors will usually tell you to pick some up when you have a stomach flu but it will work real well for hangovers also.

Pickels. It sounds gross but pickle juice will cure anything. Eat pickles before bed with DOUBLE EXTRA WATER. Drink pickle juice. Also, if you can force yourself to throw up, you will have less of a hangover.

Time to share something I learned:

We had a "Talking about Alcohol" program come to talk to our chapter - our nationals sends speakers around and you're supposed to hear from them once every four years. Anyhow, these are some things I managed to remember (it was from 10am-6pm on a Saturday and I have little to no attention span, so bear with me):

1) Water can be bad to drink if you're drunk. If you're hungover or just trying to avoid one, it's good so you don't get dehydrated. However, if you're still drunk, and have drank to the point where your body has temporarily stopped metabolizing the alcohol, it's bad. It has something to do with the concentration of alcohol in your stomach - after you've hit a certain point, your body says, "NO MORE," and the alcohol kind of chills in your stomach until your body can get to it (or you puke it up). This is not a very good place to be. If you start drinking water, it dilutes the alcohol that's sitting there waiting, and your body is tricked into thinking it can handle it again since the concentration is way down to where it was when you started drinking. More alcohol enters your system and you only get drunker. Like I said though, you have to get REALLY drunk to be at that point.

2) Hangovers are basically symptoms of alcohol withdrawal. That's why drinking more works to cure a hangover, or at least the headache/general crappy feeling of it. Won't do much for nausea. Since your body was all about metabolizing alcohol, all of a sudden it isn't there and you get a hangover. If you add some more alcohol, your body has that bit of alcohol it's looking to metabolize and you have time to readjust.

Like I said, I have a short attention span, so I could be completely wrong here, but I think this is what they said. I thought it was interesting, if nothing else.

My personal favorite cure is to stay awake until you're relatively sober. It's REALLY hard to do, but if I stay up, I'm usually ok in the morning. It's when I pass out cold that I'm hurting.

When you are drunk, what is most important is to keep yourself hydrated, and make sure that your blood sugar is okay. A friend of mine made herself throw it all up, refused to drink, and hadn't eaten anything all day prior to getting smashed. She was so weak that she ended up going to the hospital and getting an IV to get rehydrated.

My roomates all say to drink water, and I agree, but after two or three bottles of water, it's kind of hard to keep drinking it without feeling gross. The only time I've ever thrown up was when I had drank three bottles of water, I was just too full. I prefer Gatorade/Powerade myself because it tastes good and also has carbs and electrolytes to restore what you might have lost, and then perhaps you might not have to drink such a crazy amount. OJ is also good. I also have heard that you don't want to drink too much water/Gatorade, etc... because you can dilute your blood too much, and actually get water intoxication. I think it has something to do with getting to much water and not enough salt, and your cells eventually are in a hypertonic solution, your blood? and they crenate. I think it also has something to do with specific gravity, because I remember hearing a rumor that you could "flush" your system for drug tests with tons of water, and that it really is dangerous. You have to keep that ole' osmotic balance right!

My all time hangover cure/preventer is to eat tons of Taco Bell Mucho Grande Nachos with extra hot peppers or a whole bag of Baked Tostitos with salsa, before you drink, and then continue to eat while you drink. I've talked with people that are like "I can't eat while I drink," and the reverse is true for me, drinking makes me so hungry, and I ate like 30 tamales and wasn't sick. I never get sick though, so it could just be me.

What I don't get though is the people who deliberately make themselves throw up, thinking it will make them feel better. If you are that drunk that you need to puke, the damage has been done, and throwing up isn't going to sober you up miraculously. My roommate stuck her fingers down my other roommates throat last night (gross I know) and told her that she had to throw it up. To me, it's just a waste of alcohol. I understand if you throw up just from being drunk, because you can't control that, but inducing the vomiting seems a little pointless to me. Any explaination for why people do this.

I so agree! I always stay up until I feel sober, or at least until the room stops spinning, and I barely ever get hangovers.

When you are sick, don't you feel better after you throw up? Well, when I am drunk, I feel better after I throw up. If I have to stick my finger down my throat to make my headache go away, I will.

Yes, I know that in some circles making oneself throw up is just considered a waste of good alcohol (or bad alcohol if you're in college). But I had an experience last weekend where I was really really drunk but (stupid me) kept on drinking. So there was a ton of alcohol in my stomach, hanging out 'til my body could handle metabolizing more. I realized that there was really no reason to stay drunk as a skunk if I was just planning to go to bed right away anyway, and as I was feeling woozy in the first place, I just leaned over and threw up in a flower bed. Then I drank a bunch of juice when I got home. I was fine the next morning.

So to sum up what I've seen on this thread so far and what I've read in the Doctors' Book of Home Remedies:

• If you've imbibed to the point where you're already throwing up, then it's too late. But if you're just really drunk and you know that there's more in your tummy that's not even been metabolized yet, purging the rest of it out of your stomach can do some good.
• Keep yourself hydrated. Water's okay, but juice or Gatorade is better because it maintains the electrolyte balance.
• Vitamin C helps your body metabolize the alcohol.
• Bread soaks it up.
• One or two Advil won't hurt your liver as long as you take them with a bunch of nonalcoholic liquid. However, Tylenol and aspirin can cause your stomach lining to bleed.
• "Hair of the dog," while it might make you feel better, is really not that good for your body.
• Sleep is good. Lots of sleep is better.
• Prevention is even better than any of these remedies, but who are we kidding? We're college students!

I'm a big proponent of the throwing up bit. I usually would get more drunk than I wanted to and by the time it was time to go to sleep, the room was spinning and the nausea came on. I figured it would just be best to force myself to puke it up, get it out of my system, and let me sleep. It doesn't always work though - a few weeks ago, I drank seriously for the first time in months. I got smashed and making myself throw up only made all the food I'd eaten all day come up. I couldn't get the liqour out - it finally came up about 9AM the next day, after drinking mass quantities of water - to act as a "carrier" of sorts.