Cure my hangover

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If I wake up the next day with a hangover it means I drank more than I should have and wanted too the night before. There is no pre-drink preperations. I throw up a lot the next day and feel nautious and get a bad headache. I feel like death and the taste in mouth doesn't go away no matter what I eat or drink or clean it with.
What I also do the next day is pray that I didn't do anything I am gonna regret. I wait and get anxious. Anxiety is my hangover rememdy.

Gatorade, pedialyte yes its all about potassium, thats what they give you in E.R.

[QUOTE=morey]Gatorade, pedialyte yes its all about potassium, thats what they give you in E.R.[/QUOTE]
If you mix vodka with Gatorade it takes care of this while you're drinking!
I'm a fan of screwdrives cause the oj keeps my hydrated and whatnot, but I don't really get hangovers
also eating bananas helps with the whole potassium thing

Wow i think this is my first successful thread (9 replies in 4 hours, a first for me)
thanks everyone for getting back to me so quickly
keep 'em coming.

apparantly ginger is supposed to be pretty good at curing nausea. Anyone have any crazy old wives tales, like: say a hail mary backwards and sleep with one sock on. (i just made that up, do as i ask not as i do)

i read it up there somewhere-
drink lots and lots and lots of water.
have a drink- have some water have another drink- have more water.
headaches and the like are usually caused by dehydration so if you chase the liquor with good ol H20 you dont get them.
once you get home from your night of boozing- drink more water.
etc etc.

[QUOTE=Proton]Anyone have any crazy old wives tales, like: say a hail mary backwards and sleep with one sock on. (i just made that up, do as i ask not as i do)[/QUOTE]

Nothing that involves prayers and socks, but I've heard ancient Romans ate fried canaries. Also rubbing half a lemon under each armpit, but you have to rub the lemon clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern; and if you believe in hoodoo voodoo, stick 13 black-headed pins in the cork of the bottle that gave you the hangover.

[QUOTE=Proton]please

give me your best prevention methods, what you do while your drinking, when you get home, the next morning. Any special teas, herbal remedies? Is it all about electrolytes? Do you sleep a funny way. At the wrong end of the bed, upsidedown?
Give me the good and the bad
so please, cure my (characters) hangover[/QUOTE]

[I]caveat emptor:[/I] I realize some of this is already stated above.

A quart of buttermilk first thing in the morning, which raises your blood sugar and starts rehydrating you, curing the two primary causes of a hangover.

Also, if you get the munchies at bedtime from a boozer, it's your body telling you something. Eat. And drink a lot of water, as much as you can before bed.

I'm not prone to them myself, but when I've had them they've been whoppers. One led me to try the 'hair of the dog' cure, and I can testify that it only made things worse. Much, much worse. I traded a headache, muscle fatigue and an unfocused mind for all that plus a puking fit. From one beer.

I've heard lots of superstitions about mixing grapes and grains and so on, but as far as I know alcohol is alcohol in terms of hangover potential. What I've noticed is that with beer, especially good beer that I'd sip, it's almost impossible for me to get anywhere near drunk enough to have a hangover. Plus, beer has a lot more water in it. It's probably still a net negative in terms of hydration, but not like straight whiskey or other spirits.

The other thing with beers, especially something like a nice IPA is the stuff that leaves mouthfeel (body) in beer is unfermentable complex sugars (carmelized sugars and other simple carbohydrates), which probably help keep your blood sugar up, again as compared to straight liquor.

And those carbs mean the beer is, to use Miller's advertising argot, more 'filling.' If it's more filling, you're less likely to guzzle it down in quantities that will leve you falling down drunk. I'm not saying it can't be done, it's just that someone who isn't setting out to get hammered is less likely to get bombed on a proper beer than a mass market lager.

That gets a little beyond the 'cure' angle and into the 'prevention' angle.

If you don't like buttermilk, I'm sure other things would work just as well. A quart of V8, regular milk, orange juice or whatever.

I've also heard people who swear by ice cream, esp. milkshakes, which would scratch the same itch. Elmore Leonard used that in one of his books, 'Killshot.' Leonard's a great one to read for realistic drunks and the consequences thereof. Voice of experience, been AA for over 30 years but I guess he used to really put it away.

i agree about the prevention tactic. after st patrick's day, there wasn't a damned thing i could do besides rest and breathe and try to drink water. i drank some diet pepsi, but when the boy called to say he was bringing home some bread and cheese, that inspired some pretty violent backflips of the stomach... it wasn't until that night that i could handle some dry saltines and chicken broth. otherwise, lots of water and snacking tends to put the brakes on things. that night, however, i just plain drank too much. way too much. more than anyone of my constitution should ever approach. it was really, really stupid and irresponsible, and a good, stiff reminder of how i need to remember a little temperance... it was fun, but in no way worth the next couple of days.

I hope you're only getting drunk like once a year. Otherwise you are destroying your throat...

it says 'CURE my hangover' not 'PREVENT my hangover'. amateurs.

the guy in the shining chews aspirin when he has a hangover. Ive never tried it with a hangover, but i have a headache 24/7 (literally) and have used it to get rid of the headaches quicker.
also, ive read that a bloody mary works. my main problem is always my stomach feeling like shit, (ive kind of gotten used to headaches) so i take a coupla tums or drink mylanta or something. never works as well as i think it will, but its better than nothing.

[QUOTE=Proton]please

give me your best prevention methods, what you do while your drinking, when you get home, the next morning. Any special teas, herbal remedies? Is it all about electrolytes? Do you sleep a funny way. At the wrong end of the bed, upsidedown?
Give me the good and the bad
so please, cure my (characters) hangover[/QUOTE]
Preperation: Before you go drinking, prepare your stomach. Eat something greasy (like pizza). If you don't want to eat, swallow a tablespoon of olive oil before drinking. This lines your stomach so the alchohol isn't absorbed into the blood stream as quickly.

The Act: You have a few choices while drinking:
- Eat some bread to absorb some of the alchohol (the effectiveness of this varies).
- Drink lots of water it between your other drinks.
- (Don't criticize for this) If you are planning on drinking a lot that night, go to the bathroom after every three or four drinks. If you are an amateur, stck your finger down your throat and make yourself throw up. If you're a pro (or you hate sticking your finger down your throat) you can clench your stomach muscles the right way several times in succession, and this will make you vomit. After you have thrown up, eat a couple pieces of bread or something greasy, wait 10 minutes, and your good to drink again for another four or five drinks. This helps you get really drunk, but doesn't let your blood stream absorb as much alcohol as if you hadn't thrown up.

- After treatment:
When you get home, drink at least 1 gallon of water with 2 Tylenol or IB Profen. Don't do it with Aspirin or any other blood thinner, because the last thing you want to do is have thinner blood right now. Some people also like to take a multi-vitamin, but I find that it makes me too nauseated to be a whole lot of help.

Hope this helped.

Robin

Also, when you wake up, if you have a hangover, eat burnt toast. When you get alcohol poisoning and get your stomach pumped at the hospital, they give you charcoal to help. The burnt part of the toast has the same effect (only it's a smaller amount, so it's to a lesser degree).

[QUOTE=notreallytrillian]Preperation: Before you go drinking, prepare your stomach. Eat something greasy (like pizza). If you don't want to eat, swallow a tablespoon of olive oil before drinking. This lines your stomach so the alchohol isn't absorbed into the blood stream as quickly.

The Act: You have a few choices while drinking:
- Eat some bread to absorb some of the alchohol (the effectiveness of this varies).
- Drink lots of water it between your other drinks.
- (Don't criticize for this) If you are planning on drinking a lot that night, go to the bathroom after every three or four drinks. If you are an amateur, stck your finger down your throat and make yourself throw up. If you're a pro (or you hate sticking your finger down your throat) you can clench your stomach muscles the right way several times in succession, and this will make you vomit. After you have thrown up, eat a couple pieces of bread or something greasy, wait 10 minutes, and your good to drink again for another four or five drinks. This helps you get really drunk, but doesn't let your blood stream absorb as much alcohol as if you hadn't thrown up.

- After treatment:
When you get home, drink at least 1 gallon of water with 2 Tylenol or IB Profen. Don't do it with Aspirin or any other blood thinner, because the last thing you want to do is have thinner blood right now. Some people also like to take a multi-vitamin, but I find that it makes me too nauseated to be a whole lot of help.

Hope this helped.

Robin

Also, when you wake up, if you have a hangover, eat burnt toast. When you get alcohol poisoning and get your stomach pumped at the hospital, they give you charcoal to help. The burnt part of the toast has the same effect (only it's a smaller amount, so it's to a lesser degree).[/QUOTE]

Medically speaking some of that advise is garbage. The activated charcoal treatment in the ER compared to burnt toast, you're talking about the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing one.

If you're puking drunk, that [I][B]is[/B][/I] alcohol poisoning. Mixing some sort of ritual gagging in is not going to save your ass. Four or five shots more? Kids die from 'power hours' and other rituals that encourage drinking enormous quantities. For that matter, the Russian vodka shot competition, last time I heard about it, the winner died of alcohol poisoning hours after claiming the trophy.

Some of what you're saying about greasy food is legit, but I have to question the value of intentionally ingesting extra fats to allow you to take on alcohol you're hoping not to absorb.

Whether you take a hangover as a natural consequence of excess along the lines of the Thanksgiving Day nap, or if you (or your character) wake up to a nasty surprise, I can't see where dubious tips on wasting resources is helpful.

I'm far from a teetotaler, but trying to use toast as an activated charcoal treatment, that's too much.

gatorade, greasy food, a multi vitamin, but the only real way is to make yourself a cocktail.  'climb back up the tree you fell out of.'             ' the beer I had for breakfast ,wasn.t bad so I had one more for dessert.'

Activated carbon is really a myth. The food industry uses active carbon to filter impurities from distilled liquors...that means you pour vodka through an active carbon filter (say a brita) and water AND alcohol both come out...but the impurities are left behind.

Then you also have the issue that burnt toast is NOT active carbon...it's just regular carbon without the high surface area that makes active carbon unique. Active carbon requires preparation and treatment...it's not common naturally.

Finally you have the issue that active carbon treatment for alcohol poisoning, it's a myth. At best the activated carbon will leach out impurities from the blood stream, or filter toxins still in the stomach. But since it doesn't work on ethanol, hospitals don't administer it. Active carbon DOES work on methanol which is where the misconception comes in.

Really more an FYI and to clarify the doctor bit since it was inaccurate. People do eat toast, they do sell those active carbon hangover/drinking pills and the such, they just don't work beyond placebo effect.

I find sleeping it off works for me. That or I have another beer. It make take a long time to finish beer number one but once you've got it down your neck you're all good again. If you don't fancy that...sure water does the trick