Hangover cures

Slanty · 19-08-2018 10:17PM

2 dissolving solpadeines and berocca boost in a glass of water. Combined with a big greasy fry and I guarantee you will feel great

smelly sock · 19-08-2018 10:21PM

oceanman wrote: »

lol:D

Yep 3 pints for the lads and a ballygowan for the dry bollix in the corner.

ygolometsipe · 19-08-2018 11:51PM

Pauliedragon wrote: »

Not sleeping is a symptom of alcohol withdrawl which is dangerous terrotory. Your body is fighting you're brain all weekend when the booze wears off Sunday night your brain is still fired up which is why you can't sleep. It's not a good sign bud.

Cheers for the concern but your being a tad dramatic.I don't drink nearly enough for withdrawal. Alcohol disrupts REM sleep which catches up with you hence feeling tired.
I also sleep in on Sunday which doesn't help.
I'm not 21 anymore.

20-08-2018 12:59AM

1) Pint of milk before you start drinking in the first place if your intention is drinking to excess.

2) No Kebab/KFC/Chipper takeaways. Drink gives you a "false hunger". If you fancy a bite then go home and have a brown bread sandwich with cheese and lettuce. By the time you get home your appetite will have worn off anyway.

3) At least one pint, maybe two of water just before bed.

4) The most underrated and underreported... when all else fails stay in bed until noon. Maybe even 2.30 on a Sunday. Nothing beats that.

Noveight · 20-08-2018 01:01AM

Deleted User wrote: »

1) Pint of milk before you start drinking in the first place if your intention is drinking to excess.

Does that really work? Few of the lads in college used be firm believers, can't say I've ever tried.

20-08-2018 01:08AM

Noveight wrote: »

Does that really work? Few of the lads in college used be firm believers, can't say I've ever tried.

Well, let's just say I'd swear by it (plus the water and food bit) when I was "college age". Obviously personal tolerance levels have to come into it at some point, but I did this regularly and was rarely bothered by hangovers. *

*Caveat (of course, if that bit doesn't work for you, you can always try the staying in bed until noon part!)

PTH2009 · 20-08-2018 01:22AM

I remember has a disolveable multi vitamin before I started drinking the other night and it actually ended up making me more drunk later on

I'm guessing Multi Vitamins and drink don't gel well together ?

smelly sock · 20-08-2018 01:59AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

1) Pint of milk before you start drinking in the first place if your intention is drinking to excess.

2) No Kebab/KFC/Chipper takeaways. Drink gives you a "false hunger". If you fancy a bite then go home and have a brown bread sandwich with cheese and lettuce. By the time you get home your appetite will have worn off anyway.

3) At least one pint, maybe two of water just before bed.

4) The most underrated and underreported... when all else fails stay in bed until noon. Maybe even 2.30 on a Sunday. Nothing beats that.

No ham on the sambo?

kevovek · 20-08-2018 04:33AM

Painkillers and water as soon as you wake up then the most important part is to make yourself go back to sleep for a few hours.

Edgware · 20-08-2018 07:32AM

smelly sock wrote: »

Yep 3 pints for the lads and a ballygowan for the dry bollix in the corner.

He only drinks the still stuff. Sparkling gets him excited and you cant be having that. He'd end up roaring at the barman to turn up Nationwide because the Tidy Town results are on

harry Bailey esq · 20-08-2018 07:33AM

Sex, xanax and a cold breakfast beer. In that order

conzy · 20-08-2018 07:35AM

Youth...

If you can keep anything down.. ibuprofen. Take that with a pint of water and go back to bed. Repeat every 4 hours until you are not dying. Order food that night when you are just about able to manage solids. Back to bed

Sprinter Sacre · 20-08-2018 09:14AM

Get in as much water as you can stomach at the end of the night as possible. I try and get to the state where a little push might make me spill water out of my mouth I'm so full up with it. Another pint of water when you wake up with some paracetamol and a Berocca. After that some soup and rolls (oxtail works best for me but tough to stomach some days) and chewing gum to get the stomach churning and to get rid of the taste of death in your mouth.

omb0wyn5ehpij9 · 20-08-2018 09:23AM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Water & Time I find are the only cures for me

Add in some sleep and they would be my 3 cures. I'm mid 30s now, so not exactly old, but nothing else works. When I was younger, food used to work but these days it just makes me feel worse!

20-08-2018 09:25AM

smelly sock wrote: »

No ham on the sambo?

Absolutely not. You want to keep your salt intake to a minimum, and there's already enough of that in the bread and cheese. If you need an extra ingredient then try something with a high water content such as cucumber, a little onion, or maybe some chopped radish.

Aglomerado · 20-08-2018 09:27AM

Dioralyte before you start drinking + a couple of Starflower Oil (Borage) capsules also.

Dioralyte & water before bed.

Fry up and a vat of orange juice the next morning.

posturingpat · 20-08-2018 09:32AM

Spicy Mexican eggs seem to work for me if it's only a mild hangover these days. Finding someone to make them not so easy.
If it's a bad one it really is just time.

20-08-2018 10:05AM

A massive fry washed down with Orchard thieves....or just orchard thieves. It’s has everything you need all in one, sugar, alcohol, flavor and kills the thirst.

At the end of the day the only cure that actually works is drinking again the next morning.

MonkeyTennis · 20-08-2018 10:08AM

Czech style Garlic Soup.

PandaPoo · 20-08-2018 10:14AM

Going for a swim makes me feel great. Having to haul yourself to the pool is the hard part.

Kivaro · 20-08-2018 10:29AM

An extraordinary number of Limerick people reading this thread this morning.

FTA69 · 20-08-2018 10:29AM

Depends on the scale of it. I've had ones where I'll gawk eight times and can't even keep down a glass of water, you've pretty much poisoned yourself at that stage and there's nothing to do but wait it out and hope the puking stops by dinner time. Dark days indeed, the ones where you're lying in bed afraid to open your eyes cos you'll gawk again and all that's there is bile.

People saying don't eat before bed or eat a sandwich etc are codding themselves, you need a big carby feed before the session and one after, falling asleep on an empty stomach with no soakage is always guaranteed hassle the next day. I find whiskey or wine also gives me a splitting headache the next day.

For more moderate hangovers I'll usually hold off eating til around one and then have something hot like a Thai green curry or some sort of spice washed down with Coke followed by a nap. It's hard going like.

The whole drinking the next day is a bad plan cos you're left feeling like a depressed bloated manitee by the end of it.

odyssey06 · 20-08-2018 11:52AM

Some tips here on how to avoid what legendary author and boozer Kingsley Amis describes as "the existential hangover":
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/10426077/The-worlds-worst-hangovers-and-how-to-avoid-them.html

"Start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover. You are not sickening for anything, you have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a s**t you are, you have not come to see life as it really is, and there is no use crying over spilt milk."

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 21-08-2018 09:00AM

FTA69 wrote: »

Depends on the scale of it. I've had ones where I'll gawk eight times and can't even keep down a glass of water, you've pretty much poisoned yourself at that stage and there's nothing to do but wait it out and hope the puking stops by dinner time. Dark days indeed, the ones where you're lying in bed afraid to open your eyes cos you'll gawk again and all that's there is bile.

People saying don't eat before bed or eat a sandwich etc are codding themselves, you need a big carby feed before the session and one after, falling asleep on an empty stomach with no soakage is always guaranteed hassle the next day. I find whiskey or wine also gives me a splitting headache the next day.

For more moderate hangovers I'll usually hold off eating til around one and then have something hot like a Thai green curry or some sort of spice washed down with Coke followed by a nap. It's hard going like.

The whole drinking the next day is a bad plan cos you're left feeling like a depressed bloated manitee by the end of it.

Let’s face it, the “cure” is just an excuse to horse into the drink again the next day. It sets off dependency alarm bells for me. It’s also just delaying the inevitable.

FTA69 · 21-08-2018 09:06AM

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

Let’s face it, the “cure” is just an excuse to horse into the drink again the next day. It sets of dependency alarm bells for me. It’s also just delaying the inevitable.

If you're on holiday or some other thing and do it very occasionally then it's not time the end of the world but of every Sunday is "cure day" then you're engaging in some fiercely unhealthy drinking patterns and it'll catch up with you definitely, p*ssing two days on the bounce every weekend is just plain bad and courts a habit.

I'd sooner the puking and dying after one good session rather than the days of bloat, depression and sweating you get after prolonged binges.

pawdee · 21-08-2018 09:14AM

I recommend squirrel en-croute, fox paw in aspic and Salt & Vinegar Taytos followed by a cold bottle of Lucozade. Then, sit in an office chair for a good spin around before tickling the back of your throat with a feather. You'll feel amazing.

gctest50 · 21-08-2018 09:21AM

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

Let’s face it, the “cure” is just an excuse to horse into the drink again the next day. It sets of dependency alarm bells for me. It’s also just delaying the inevitable.

Ethanol therapy is a thing though - if someone drinks antifreeze ( glycol ) or methanol it will do them serious harm .

….... so you dose them up with ethanol - it really is a cure

( sometimes)

beertons · 21-08-2018 09:24AM

Cocaine.

odyssey06 · 21-08-2018 10:31AM

beertons wrote: »

Cocaine.

Original recipe coca cola would have been your perfect tonic so!
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/food-matters/i-d-like-to-make-the-world-a-coke-attempting-the-original-coca-cola-formula/

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 21-08-2018 10:48AM

gctest50 wrote: »

Ethanol therapy is a thing though - if someone drinks antifreeze ( glycol ) or methanol it will do them serious harm .

….... so you dose them up with ethanol - it really is a cure

( sometimes)

Presumably that’s to, you know, avoid death rather than relieve hangover symptoms. Hangover symptoms are probably a side effect of the therapy.

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