Hangover cures?

[onelegout]

I had a bit too much to drink last night, and I woke up to find that I had filled - that's right, filled! - my bed with vomit. I REALY could do with some hangover cures right now, so let's share some!
Peace
H

[Slug Toy]

great job. that must be a world record then.

if you can get away with it, i find it helps if you have a few glasses of water, take a sleeping pill, and crash for a while longer.

another one that works for me is tylenol with codein. take two, and give it about 45 minutes.

having a big meal works too. whenever i have a big headache, be it hangover related or not, food helps.

two more extreme methods get you good results too. you can try another drug to cancel out the pain and sickness (ehem.... pot). and if that fails, deprive yourself of sight and sound (blindfold and earplugs).

honestly, nothing will really cure you. you can only mask the pain and stuff, at best. only thing that really works is time.

[xmastree]

And next time you drink way too much, drink water before you sleep. Kinda hard to remember, or even to do, but it really makes a difference.

[The Modfather]

Exactly right Xmas. A hangover is caused by dehydration. Alcohol simply saps the water from your system and the effects you feel that we call a hangover are simply a form of dehydration. There are pills that help with this that block the alcohol's ability to do this, I'm not sure how they work technically but, they work for some people.

Once you've got the hangover, well, that's a different story. You should still rehydrate yourself, get a lot of water in you. It'll help but it won't make it go away entirely.

I did find this cure online, maybe it works? <Shrug>



1. Take 2 aspirins
2. Take 200mg cysteine (available at specialty food stores)
3. Take 600mg vitamin C
4. Take 1 tablet vitamin B-complex
5. Mix the following ingredients together in a blender:

* 1 banana
* 1 small can V-8
* 6 large strawberries
* 2 tablespoons honey
* 1 cup orange juice
* 1-2 cups milk (or soy milk), to desired consistency
* &#188; tsp. salt
* dash of nutmeg

6. Drink it all up.

If necessary, follow up with a dose of Maalox, lots of Gatorade, and bouillon soup for dinner. These ingredients will rehydrate your body, replace essential vitamins and minerals, and help rid your body of some of the toxic byproducts of metabolized alcohol.

[antheh]

Have water before you go to bed and I mean heaps of it. Then in the morning have a nice greasy meal like fast food or a kebab.

[blue73]

Best cure for a hangover? Some say have another drink, not too much mind just a couple of pints and then chill. But I know it's never just a couple of pints:rolleyes:

[onelegout]

I was too out of it last night to drink. i was too busy throwing up in every toilet/sink in the house. so far ive thrown up 7 times this morning, and drinking water makes it happen. But damnit im still drinking water! I have also slept for a good 4 hours, but I have a feeling that it's going to be a stubborn one and stay put!:(

[jsb666]

If im hung over i always got to the local bakery and get a few sausage rolls and a pint or two of water.

[blue73]

No matter how many times You barf Dude keep on drinking water. I know it's hard work,thats the price You pay for sex drugs,and or rock and roll, but You need to keep replacing the fluids Your body is gettin rid of. It' gonna hurt for the rest of the week too. Your belly, lungs, chest and rib cage are going to be very tender so just chill!;)

[xmastree]

The last time I was like that it was from too much tequila. Except it wasn't really tequila. Label said 'tequila flavored spirit' so it was probably meths or something. El Hombre or something.
Anyway, we have a waterbed. I was very dizzy, slight movements would trigger more vomit. I was eventually able to get to the bed and lie down, slowly. Aaahhh. Then wifey came to bed and the movement started me off again.

Yep, I was seasick from the waterbed!

I ended up sleeping in the bathroom, that didn't move so much.

[onelegout]

haha! that story made me laugh xmas! :D My friend laura recently bought some uber-cheap tequila in mexico, had one 'tequila' and lemonade shot (tequila poof) and got severe alcohol poisoning!
I have a feeling it wasnt tequila :D
Anyway, I ate toast and had REALY sugary tea and now im a lot better:D Got to drink more sugary tea and eat more toast cause Ive got another party tonight! :D
Rock 'n' roll!
H

[blue73]

As my old Gran used to tell me " Hell mend Yer ". Rock on kiddo, Rock on8)

[itsbrad]

Yeah water is the key, so before you go to bed drink at least 2 bottles. Or gatorade it helps but water is better/

[Rankenphile]

You know, not drinking until you fill your bed with puke works pretty well, too. :P


I always found that water, ibuprophin, smoothies and soup for a full day, mixed liberally with an MMO or other game that you can play for hours without loud noises but helps take your attention away from the fact that you feel like your brain is in the backof a cement truck filled with bowling balls.

[Slug Toy]

theres that nasty word again... IBUPROPHEN!!!

even though people dont seem to believe me, i stand by my statement that ibuprophen isnt what you should be taking. its just not strong enough to help an adult. it works for little kids, but not a heck of a lot. besides, its an anti inflamatory drug. you want a pain killer.

i stand my ground when i say you want heavy duty tylenol with codein

[Rankenphile]

...except codine is illegal in the US.

[onelegout]

...except codine is illegal in the US.
eh?!
Maybe refined codeine but codeine is a HUGE part of the painkiller industry. I seriously doubt that they have banned all codeine! :D
But it could be because of those silly kids who refine nurofen+ into pure codeine only to discover that they're allergic to the stuff and spend a week trying everything they can to try and get rid of their halucinations!
But NOBODY would be THAT stupid! :p

[DaveW]

thats the price You pay for sex drugs,and or rock and roll,

I don't think he's getting any with a bed full of puke. You can see it now:

Girl: "Oh Baby"
OLO: "Oh yeah" (hits out lights)
(Both fall on bed.) SPLAT
Girl: "...what's that smell? Why is this wet?"
OLO "um...look, you really don't want to know the answer to those questions. Not now, not ever. Trust me."
Girl: "AHHHH!!! (SLAP)"
OLO: "Damn. Really wish i knew how to clean up a bedfull of puke."

-Dave

[onelegout]

ahahahaha! Actualy my girl LUCKILY slept on the couch! I STILL have a realy bad headache (still drinking water!) and this morning made it 10x worse - It suddenly struck me that because of my hangover, I had 'forgotten' to do my computing A-level coursework. This meant that I had to do it all in 3 hours. I HATE EFFING VISUAL BASIC! We had to write a pretty complex program which sorted some crazy mathmatical problem using an array by sifting through the numbers in the array and re-organising them, swapping numbers depending on several other ever-changing values. I had already written the program and it worked, and I THOUGHT I was getting full marks, but no. The teacher HAD to make things complex. Apparently the way I had output it didnt work. I had to go trace the whole program from start to finish by hand, filling in the array on paper as I went. I have never, ever, experienced boredom and headache on that level before. Ever.
But I DID IT!:D in three hours! and it was probably all wrong but I DONT CARE ANYMORE :D

Now all I have to do is a recursion task and write a roman numeral calculator/converter program

HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY STAB STAB KILL KILL!
Anyone want to start a VB hate-club?

[tybrenis]

Codeine is very commonly used in US painkillers. Perhaps it is illegal in its pure and large form, but I know you can buy Tylenol with it for cheap.

[DaveW]

I don't know what's worse in learning, having to do complex mathematical equations or having to do operations on strings. Me, i prefer good old data retreival questions. You can go wrong, but it rarely happens.

-Dave

[xmastree]

My cat has a ginger tail.

[Cannibal23]

The absolute best way it to get a sports drink like gatoraid or poweraid. as was stated before hangover is caused by dehydration. these sports drinks are designed to help your body ingest and hold more water. this should in a really really bad hangover cure it in about an hour. thats just a reactionary method of solveing it. if you want to prevent it then drink it before bed or even just water at that point

[DaveW]

My cat has a ginger tail.

You sure that's not just some of OLO's overspray? Sounds like he got it everywhere. Did it have a ginger tail yesterday?

-Dave

[xmastree]

Yep. And ginger ears too. Otherwise she's white.
I think she was originally all ginger, and has been held by her tail and dipped in white paint. She managed to wash it off her ears before it dried.
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