How do you deal with hangovers? Christ I can't do it anymore

wally1990

M/29

So close to saying F it to the drink because I can't face the hangovers.

I've friend who'd tell you they are grand and don't get them but jesus I be dying all the time and I only drink beer or guinness and don't drink spirits.

Went on the sess Saturday night from 7 30pm and finished up about 4am

Spent Sunday in a heap on the couch after waking at 1pm and couldnt sleep really at all last night, sweating, tossing and turning over all night with broken sleep.

Feel like crap all day today and only tomorrow will I feel somewhat normal.

I feel like I ruined my whole weekend (well Sunday) and wasted today after work because I'm still not right....

I don't know is it worth it at all, and now with the pubs opening and guidelines I'm half drinking of going off it

How do you manage get on? They just seem to be defeat me

igCorcaigh

If you consume a lot of alcohol, you will get a hangover.

Keep hydrated, eat before bed, though nothing too salty. But sleep is the only way if you can.

How much did you drink that night?

wally1990

igCorcaigh wrote: »

If you consume a lot of alcohol, you will get a hangover.

Keep hydrated, eat before bed, though nothing too salty. But sleep is the only way if you can.

How much did you drink that night?

I would of had 4 pints of beer (the house had a keg installed) and 8 cans of Guinness

Hulk Hands

Diorolyte with a decent bit of water before bed is great. Hangovers are essentially dehydration and loss of salts, and diorolyte is specifically made to counteract those. I used to get them bad until I found it. You'll wake up around 8 needing a piss with a bit of a head but it'll be grand by midday. Solphadeine is another option for the following day if you're getting headaches. Try a few things anyway, most aren't going natural these days

s1ippy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdlXGmtNy_g

Class MayDresser

wally1990 wrote: »

I would of had 4 pints of beer (the house had a keg installed) and 8 cans of Guinness

I'd have the shirt off any man's back, and Maureen would have the fry on.

mojesius

Take dioralyte before bed and when you wake up the next day.

Water throughout drinking session. Eat at some stage.

While pints contain less alcohol, there's a load of sugar in beer and you can end up necking back a lot more 'liquid' than on other drinks. Sugar makes you feel worse. I actually find that if I switch drinks to shorts (g&t, vodka soda water) I'm better the next day than if I stick to the same drink all night.

Also, try going out for a walk when you're dying with a hangover. Last thing you want to do I know, but you'll feel better afterwards. Or if you're lucky enough to live near the sea, best hangover cure is jumping into our cold Irish waters!

Jurgen Klopp

Class MayDresser wrote: »

I'd have the shirt of any man's back, and Maureen would have the fry on.

Bastards

igCorcaigh

mojesius wrote: »

Take dioralyte before bed and when you wake up the next day.

Heard of this stuff.
Where sells it please?

I just gave advice to not eat salty food, so that may have been totally wrong. Sorry OP.

GooglePlus

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Heard of this stuff.
Where sells it please?

I just gave advice to not eat salty food, so that may have been totally wrong. Sorry OP.

Any pharmacy will have it, the blackcurrant isn't bad.

It's made to replenish salts after a dose of the ****es but works great after a dose of the pints.

You're right in saying not to eat salty food, that's just one type of salt but this stuff has a number of salts.

Class MayDresser

I've used the diorolyte as well, rank stuff to drink it. If you can hold it down. Pint of water before bed and two Solpadeine would be my go to.
Always eat before the Solpadeine wear off, otherwise the come down saps the energy and I end up back in the cot if I can.

MikeBrosnan17

I heard not drinking too much is supposed to help...

Bassfish

MikeBrosnan17 wrote: »

I heard not drinking too much is supposed to help...

Pfft! Old wives tale that!

Truthvader

Solpadine before bed but as per most things (putting on condom, locking door, remembering her name etc ) hard to arsed at the time

igCorcaigh

Truthvader wrote: »

Solpadine

My dealer is out of it.
Strange times and all.

Truthvader

igCorcaigh wrote: »

My dealer is out of it.
Strange times and all.

But luckily the pubs are shut. Strange times etc etc

Limpy

Give the misses the debit card and tell her take the kids shopping or to get some food. You need peace and quite as the foundation of recovery. Sip water, it hard to reach over, put on some rocky music and pretend the water is Adrian.

Adrian, Adrian...

Homelander

It really depends on what you drink as well. I can drink a ton of spirits with diet mixer and the next day have a mild 'normal' hangover, to the extent that I can face the gym that afternoon and by the evening I'll be fine.

But if I drink a big rake of pints of cider, I always feel way worse the following day, and end up spending the day slouched around and suffering.

NIMAN

Stopped doing hangovers a long time ago. I am rarely in a pub, even pre-Covid, and any time I am I would have taken it slightly easier.

Sometimes you just have to accept you're too old for that lark.

If I do vodka all night, I'm usually ok. Seems to be the drink that agrees best with me. Just not mad on it though. Prefer whiskey or Guinness. But a fed of the former will give me a killer head in the morning, and a feed of the latter will ruin my guts!

ilovemuffin

5HTP supplements, fridge stocked with Lucozade or 7up, 'Soakage' like egg-fried rice or a nice kebab. During a drinking session, I snack on peanuts or sometimes pork scratchings (a UK thing that recently became popular in Ireland). Also: simple pacing of the intake of the lush is always good advice.

Stovepipe

make up your own rehydration solution; sugar, salt and water. Diuralyte was developed as an emergency rehydrant for famine victims in Africa. Forget soakage or anything else.

Paul_Mc1988

Get up go for a run 30 minute run and have a cold shower when home then a nice fry. Hangover gone straight away.

Valresnick

I don’t drink much and I think that’s why my hangovers are so bad when I do drink. I mean I have to mash my head into the pillow to get the headaches to stop. I think if your body is more use to alcohol your hangovers are not as bad. Mine are awful. Even after 4 beers I will be in an awful heap the next day.

worded

I used to suffer bad as well

Drink as much water as possible before you drink alcohol. If you drink alcohol for a thirst that's a disaster. Having lots of water first gives you a slow take off and a better night

Stick to the one drink

If possible drink bottles beer all night. I noticed on holidays I had light headaches on bottles and suspected draft is piss

You do need salty food imho

Borgo

Tiredness has a lot to do with hangovers aswell as everything else other people have mentioned. The night before you go on the beer you need a good sleep and feel rested, go on the beer while your tired your going to feel 100 times worse the next day.

Stihl waters

Who remembers to drink water before bed after a lock of pints, all I ever want to do is go straight to bed, I never seem to drink water even tho I always say I will.

I find drinking something like vodka and diet 7 up instead of pints reduces the hangover considerably, I think the biggest thing with pints is the volume of stuff you're asking the body to process in a short space of time, 12 or 14 pints in 4 or 5 hours puts a lot of pressure on the system

hurikane

Truthvader wrote: »

Solpadine before bed but as per most things ( putting on condom, locking door, remembering her name etc) hard to arsed at the time

OP is asking for advice on hangovers, not rape.

phildub

Hulk Hands wrote: »

Diorolyte with a decent bit of water before bed is great. Hangovers are essentially dehydration and loss of salts, and diorolyte is specifically made to counteract those. I used to get them bad until I found it. You'll wake up around 8 needing a piss with a bit of a head but it'll be grand by midday. Solphadeine is another option for the following day if you're getting headaches. Try a few things anyway, most aren't going natural these days

I concur with this, I think its essential part of the hangover cure to take disrepute before bed and again in the am, same with solphadeine, the second u wake at all get up and into a shower and get out of the house, staying in bed is the absolute worst thing for a hangover, ur just sitting there absolutely disgusted with yourself all day and its doing you no favors.

Homelander

Aha, 14 pints in 4 hours, you must be some lad for the sesh.

Heres Johnny

Not staying out late helps. We do daytime drinking now (well, we did before covid) and we'd have a rake of pints. And I mean a rake of pints. The type of numbers you'd tell your father because you'd make him proud but not tell your mother or wife because they'd disown then kill you. And we'd be fine next day because we went out at 2 pm and were wrapped up asleep at or before midnight.
During covid we started doing houseparty and zoom drinking online nonsense and they often went on late, 3 and 4 a.m. and by christ you'd be in a jock the next day.

iamstop

T'is an oldie but a goodie for a reason, because it works.

Drink water.

It's that simple. They say drink a pint of water or so with every pint for beer but tbh that's not really practical. You do be going for a slash every 20 mins with beer alone once you've broken the proverbial seal.
I tend to wait til I'm at least tipsy. If you can get the balance right you can actually have better craic because you can stave off the blackout mouldy drunkeness and stay in the fun zone. Just make sure you empty your bladder before you pass out, where ever that may be.

loyatemu

wally1990 wrote: »

I would of had 4 pints of beer (the house had a keg installed) and 8 cans of Guinness

equivalent of 11 pints - that's a lot of booze. I mean sure, drink water, dioralyte etc if it helps, but a better solution would be slow down, stay out of rounds, switch to water or tea towards the end of the night. Better for your liver and your guts.

I find the main issue, even after a fairly modest amount of beer, is I sleep really badly and then I'm wrecked the following day.

GiftofGab

Started drinking a serious amount of water and it helps enormously. Aim for 5 litres of water the day of drinking and day after. Like 1.5 litres before going to bed and when waking up. Also, going to sleep at the usual bed time helps heaps too.

Pcgamer

One cure is four pints the following morning and you would be grand.

For the tossing and turning the following night have two cans before bed.

Strumms

GiftofGab wrote: »

Started drinking a serious amount of water and it helps enormously. Aim for 5 litres of water the day of drinking and day after. Like 1.5 litres before going to bed and when waking up. Also, going to sleep at the usual bed time helps heaps too.

Would you not be up pissing like a racehorse ? 1.5 liters before bed ?:eek: after the pints ? Fukkkk.

Hangovers for me got worse with age... 5 pints and I’d have a slight seedy hangover, more... I’d be in ‘unwell’ territory.

Tried water before bed, before drinking, soakage when I got home, nada worked.

Caffeine Codeine Combo.

Wanderer78

One of the main reasons why I stopped drinking, hangovers were very depressing

igCorcaigh

It's the dehydration that gets me.

Anyway, I have been drinking way too much this year (and other years). I now have been put on drugs for high blood pressure and cholesterol, and I know that my liver function is not good too.

Time to give up the booze.

I'd like an alternative. Pity that it's hard to find the green

Wanderer78

igCorcaigh wrote: »

It's the dehydration that gets me.

Anyway, I have been drinking way too much this year (and other years). I now have been put on drugs for high blood pressure and cholesterol, and I know that my liver function is not good too.

Time to give up the booze.

I'd like an alternative. Pity that it's hard to find the green

they found a bit in waterford

https://www.rte.ie/news/munster/2021/0104/1187594-drugs-waterford/

Granadino

Pcgamer wrote: »

One cure is four pints the following morning and you would be grand.

For the tossing and turning the following night have two cans before bed.

I have tried them all, water, beer before bed, a cure etc. Nothing got rid of the fact that I'd be in bits after a session.
Imagine Italian lads talking about the cure. Maybe they do. I'm not sure.
Got to a stage where if I was drunk on a Friday night, Saturday would be writtern off, and parts of Sunday too.
So I thought about it. If someone came up to me on the street and said "Give me €50 or €100 for this meal here, have a laugh while having it, but it will give you a headache, bad sleep, possibly puke etc" you'd tell them to eff off...
I thought to myself why am I going out, and making a decision to spend money on stuff that's making me feel rotten.
I jacked it in then, and went on non alcoholic beer. I'd have a beer with dinner, and that's about it, or 1 or 2 when I'm out with food, but that's it. No more getting drunk. Not worth the money, and I just can't hack it.

facehugger99

All right, this is the plan. We get in there and get wrecked, then we'll eat a pork pie, then we'll drop a couple of Surmontil-50's each. That means we'll miss out Monday but come up smiling Tuesday morning.

loyatemu

facehugger99 wrote: »

All right, this is the plan. We get in there and get wrecked, then we'll eat a pork pie, then we'll drop a couple of Surmontil-50's each. That means we'll miss out Monday but come up smiling Tuesday morning.

manniot2

Wondering if anyone has experience of this. I’m mid 30s, drank a fair bit in my 20s, nothing major - typical Irish, a few nights out a month I guess. I always got a fairly bad hangover, I’d be getting sick, bad headaches etc, could last a few days after a big weekend. In the last few years though, even after as little as 1 bottle of beer, I’m sick as a dog the next day and often lasts 2 days. I don’t think it’s just age, although I’m sure that’s a factor. Anyone know of people developing intolerance to even very minor amounts of alcohol as you age?

My own guess is that I vomited quite a bit after nights out when I was younger and my stomach has just lost all tolerance for it.

GiftofGab

Strumms wrote: »

Would you not be up pissing like a racehorse ? 1.5 liters before bed ?:eek: after the pints ? Fukkkk.

Hangovers for me got worse with age... 5 pints and I’d have a slight seedy hangover, more... I’d be in ‘unwell’ territory.

Tried water before bed, before drinking, soakage when I got home, nada worked.

Yeah but it's a trade off between pissing like a racehorse and having a rotten hangover... I choose the former.

Fuzzo

I find if I’m eating well, drinking enough water and doing the odd bit of excercise I can have 4-5 beers on a Friday or Saturday and not suffer, if I’ve been living on breakfast rolls and takeaways the same few beers could leave me with a two day hangover.
An alka seltzer at bed time works wonders, settles the stomach and fixes the head.

Save the 12 pint sessions for once or twice a year when the occasion sees fit and use the following day or two to catch up with the telly.

The Oort Cloud

I have the same problem now myself. I was drinking 12 cans of heineken every day for a long time and just could not handle the hangovers anymore, then I got type 2 diabetes from all the sugar intake for so long and i had no choice but to stop drinking. Back on the wagon again for the last while but it is definitely time now to give it up for good, it's just not worth it at all, spending all that money just to feel like death the following day.

I might just drink non alcoholic beer if i feel the need for one. I found it really hard to give it up last time, and then two deaths in my family recently got me back on the drink, I'll be trying a lot harder this time to get off the stuff or I'll be next. Not easy though.

GiftofGab

The Oort Cloud wrote: »

I have the same problem now myself. I was drinking 12 cans of heineken every day for a long time and just could not handle the hangovers anymore, then I got type 2 diabetes from all the sugar intake for so long and i had no choice but to stop drinking. Back on the wagon again for the last while but it is definitely time now to give it up for good, it's just not worth it at all, spending all that money just to feel like death the following day.

I might just drink non alcoholic beer if i feel the need for one. I found it really hard to give it up last time, and then two deaths in my family recently got me back on the drink, I'll be trying a lot harder this time to get off the stuff or I'll be next. Not easy though.

Jaysus 12 cans a day is a serious problem. Stop now and do everything you can to get help.

Pcgamer

Fuzzo wrote: »

I find if I’m eating well, drinking enough water and doing the odd bit of excercise I can have 4-5 beers on a Friday or Saturday and not suffer, if I’ve been living on breakfast rolls and takeaways the same few beers could leave me with a two day hangover.
An alka seltzer at bed time works wonders, settles the stomach and fixes the head.

Save the 12 pint sessions for once or twice a year when the occasion sees fit and use the following day or two to catch up with the telly.

Four to five beers? I wouldn't even expect a hangover with that.

mistersifter

have bottle of lucozade sport mid way through the night and then more before you go to sleep. This will prevent major dehydration and loss of salts.

Dont go to sleep while still flootered. Sober up a bit before you hit the scratcher.

Alcohol fúcks your sleep quality so you'll always have some tiredness the next day but the nausea should not be there if you hydrate well.

I'd also recommend sticking to pints of low alcohol beer like Rockshore Light. It's a a bit bland but difficult to do much damage on it. Darker drinks like Guinness give me worse hangovers, and I dont go near spirits any more.

Sleep is the only thing that will cure all your symptoms. So get as much sleep as you can and then get out and about, then an extra 30 minute power nap at some point.

I'd definitely concur with starting early and finishing early too. I've started doing that and do be grand.

scottygee

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117972749#Comment_117972749

Actually heard about the lucozade trick and have tried it. Def works. But I prefer the dissolving some dioralyte in a glass of water before heading to bed.

mistersifter

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118006022#Comment_118006022

I'll have to have a load of pints now on Friday so I can test the Dioalyte's effectiveness. For research.

Will report back. 😝