Good ways to fight a hangover?!

[FarScape]

Just drink 2 glasses of water before you go to sleep, after a night of alcohol...

Also drink water in the morning. hangover is a just a simple dehydration.

[Capital Knockers]

Other than Blood, and a few others, it seems like people on SS don't know much about drinking.

First of all! The water thing, fuck yes. As blood said, one glass of water is jack shit. When you're coming to the end of your drinking, try having a glass or 7 before you goto bed. When you do goto bed - have a MASSIVE (I mean massive, my hangover glass holds almost 2L) glass of water right beside your bed. That way, when you wake up in the middle of the night, or the next morning, you have hydration immediatly. gets rid of the pasties too. In addition, if you drink like 9 glasses of water before bed, you're going to pass out, wake, piss - but you have that drink before sleeping again. Helps process it better by morning.

Now the food deal - here's the thing. Vitamins B and C and etc, are great for helping. Fruit Juice for example is a great thing to drink in the middle of a party. The fructose helps you process the alcohol a little faster - and you can mix fruit juices with multipul different kinds of alcohol. Foods that are high in grease and fatty crap, is good for drinking. However, try to eat it before the drinking, not during. It's because the food kind of 'soaks up the alcohol' as some people mentioned, but the thing is it doesn't really. It's just something to do with the lower intestines if I remember correctly. While digesting fatty/greasy foods (McDonalds makes money off drunk people for a reason!) the passage to the lower intestines are closed off because the food is blocking it you could say. The fatter the food, the harder and longer it takes to digest. So naturally, the alcohol metabolizes WITH the food, rather than going RIGHT in and fucking you up. The grease/fat kind of acts like a protective base for your night of drinking. If you're going to eat WHILE drinking, stick to stuff like wings. Fills you up, fatty, greasy, and you can easily eat alot, or a little, good control.

Hair of the dog works, but try having something like a ceaser or cocktail - for those extra vitamins. Speaking of vitamins, a multi-vitamin before and after drinking are a good plan as well (if you drink for the kind of periods I do). Coffee, is usually a bad idea in the morning because it's only going to dehydrate you further. Try having an apple, and a glass of OJ, put the coffee off a few hours, it'll work alot better that way, and maybe prevent a headache.

With headaches we come to tylenol and such. Now I just pop them whenever, drunk or not if I feel like it, so I can't really push this - but it's not a good idea to take them with alcohol in your system. Again, be a man, or woman, and just take the millions of other hangover cures. The side effects of aspirin, Tylenol and ibuprofen can be magnified when alcohol is in your system, so it is best (even though it may be the first thing you reach for) to avoid them to kill the hangover pain. Aspirin is a blood thinner, just like alcohol, and can intensify its effects and Tylenol (or acetaminophen) can cause more damage to your liver. Ibuprofen can also cause stomach bleeding. So be cautious when going for the quick relief.

Now if you're brave, here is the best way to kill a hangover. First, get up, back to drinking water. Bit of light food, to put something in the gut, the other Vitamin, OJ, Apple. Then, grab bottles of water, and go be active. If you have the willpower, you'd be surprised how well this works. Toast and a little jam is a good light morning food, gives you the long term energy of wheat and the natural sugars to help make the hangover go away. I've also heard milk CAN help - though I wouldn't personally run for it.

the spacers trick is good for long drinking occasions. mix it up though, have water, then every 2nd or 3rd spacer, a smaller glass of juice.

Mixing Alcohol isn't bad if you watch the percentages, and know what goes with what. people get fucked up that way because they'll go drinking a bunch of whiskey, then beer, then a fucking White Russian or something and they think they puked because they 'mixed drinks' - it's because they don't know how to drink, what to drink. That really only comes with alot of experience and tolerance. Last of all, Sleep. Don't be afraid to sleep in, else you might wake too early, and that is the cause of more hangovers than alcohol ever will be - not enough sleep!

[TagMor]

I've also heard milk CAN help - though I wouldn't personally run for it.

Milk works for lining the stomach, same as the fatty food u mentioned... is also good in the morning if you have thrown up all your stomach lining (that strange yellow stuff)

now ima get plastered.. moreso

[Capital Knockers]

That looks mighty tasty TagMor, I have a couple beer left, but I'm saving them for later. Or I might just have them in a few minutes, depends on whether my mom has any pot to spare. It really fucking blows when you go dry at 3 or 4 am - just too late to call dealer, or friend, and way too fucking early to call either once morning hits

It's good to know about that milk thing. However I still wouldn't really go for it other than to maybe replace the lining as you said. Something about a tall frosty glass of ol 2% and a massive hangover just don't work for me

[Mr. Peanuts]

That's fucking sick who the fuck puts a raw egg in their Bloody Mary?

PS: Worcestershire is key.

Yeah, the only time Worcestershire actually complements something is when its in a Bloody Mary. Raw eggs make me puke, but in a Bloody Mary all whizzed up its actually pretty tolerable.

[Ewan]

I never really get that bad a hangover, just tend to feel a bit depressed the next day, this is what I tend to do:

After the drinking is over, I would normally go to chick-o-land, basically a poor-man's KFC. Get some chicken pieces with some chips (fries).

Before going to bed, if I was in a state to remember I'd typically have a glass or 2 of squash (no point FORCING yourself to drink 4 litres of water, you'll just wake up needing a piss, or worse if you're totally blitzed, you might just piss the bed), this is good cause it hydrates and has sugar in too.

In the morning, I'd typically feel a little bit sick and not want to eat, but I'd force myself to have something (cheese toastie was a common one), and that'd make me feel better.

I found the best morning drink was definitely this Polish drink called "Kubus", it's kinda a cross between a smoothie and fruit juice, and must be loaded with fruit sugars and vitamins, very refreshing when straight out the fridge. Comes in a variety of flavours too, this one is "Raspberry, Carrot & Apple"

Obviously, it's probably hard to find in the US, so a smoothie or fruit juice will probably have to do! In the UK should be easy enough to find if your local supermarket/corner shop has a Polish section.

[RednaZ]

Reading this topic... it's just not fair. I don't drink a drop of alcohol and yet every morning I wake up with a blistering headache, fuck you all.

[Zeebu]

in summary, water and activity will work wonders

[paradise!]

they sell pills in the pharmacy that if you take 2-3 hours before drinking you wont have a hangover.

nice and vague.

[Ewan]

Reading this topic... it's just not fair. I don't drink a drop of alcohol and yet every morning I wake up with a blistering headache, fuck you all.

Err, you might want to go see a doctor about that

[Capital Knockers]

Err, you might want to go see a doctor about that

Or maybe he isn't drinking enough?

[SEAL]

-Like everyone else says, drink alot of water before going to bed.
-And sleep in.
-myth or not (someone wrote that), mixing drinks fucks me up the next morning. such as wine + beer. or shots.
-Best remidy is to drink water during your drinking night. A coke can give a boost too... the sugar + non alcohol gives me a real boost, and i can continue again.
-exercising (such as going for a run) the next day helps alot, eventhough you wouldn't want to.

[DankNuggets]

1- water, water, water. Drink in between drinks if you can, especially if you're drinking liquor, even if it's a mixed drink. Generally mixed drinks still don't have that much liquid in them compared to beer, and they're usually more alcoholic. In hs, we used to bong a lot of beer. in between bongs or at the end of the night, we'd bong water. Drink it before, during, or after: water absorbs quickly and throughout your system i believe.

2- Food. Eating beforehand fills you up and leaves less room for drinks. Also, it keeps you from having just liquid in your stomach, which could make you sick if you get really full. DO NOT EAT A LOT OF FOOD BEFORE YOU GO TO SLEEP. DO NOT EAT A LOT OF FOOD BEFORE YOU GO TO SLEEP. Wheter you think it's a myth or not, you don't digest as well when you're sleeping. If you go to be full of alcohol and food, you'll wake up full too. This generally is worse than just drinking water before bed IMO.
3- Sleep. You're gonna need it, and probably at least 6 hrs or you'll have a headache from not sleeping anyway.

THE NEXT DAY

1- Water, drink it as soon as you wake up. If you really like oj or milk, fine, but they're not as easy on your digestive tract to begin with.

2- Food. If you're hungry, go for it. If not, I'd wait until you are hungry. Eating toast or something light in the morning can help, but don't over do it.

3- Caffine. Drinking something with caffiene won't help your dehydration any, but it will dilate the blood vessels in your brain slightly, which can help with headaches. It won't sober you up, but it should make the pounding not as bad.

4-Green. I find that a bowl of nuggets is awesome for a hangover, but this is strictly my humble opinion, the others have more scientific merit.



****NOTE****

Hang overs are not caused by dehyrdation alone. You cited that for ethanol, but you're not drinking pure ethanol. As you already know, alcohol is a poison, and it will have its effect on you. Also, the quality of the alcohol matters a lot more than you might think. Shitty vodka gives you a hang over because it isn't filtered as much and the chemicals* that are present in higher concentrations in shitty alcohol are much higher than in your "triple filtered premium" liquors. I'm not sure but this probably applies to malt liquor or even some darker beers too (i think they give me worse hangovers).

*I can't remember the name of the chemicals, but you can check out Erowid to figure out the actual names. I strongly suggest anyone who does anything to spend some time on this site. A lot of information.

[project dragon]

Sleep until the hangover goes away. : )

[NaiLed]

Sleep until the hangover goes away. : )

works for me. but then i rarely to never get hangovers anyway. lucky me