Hang-over cures

Oeneus · 08-06-2005 6:21am #1

Just thought I might start a conversation about hang-over cures as I'm not sure what to buy before heading off to the Download festival tomorrow. There's nothing worse than getting completely rat-arsed the first night and suffering the next at a festival.

The only one I've tried before is Alka Seltza, which seemed to work really well for me.

But does anyone know of any others, and are they any good?

cournioni · 08-06-2005 7:03am

Oeneus wrote:

Just thought I might start a conversation about hang-over cures as I'm not sure what to buy before heading off to the Download festival tomorrow. There's nothing worse than getting completely rat-arsed the first night and suffering the next at a festival.

The only one I've tried before is Alka Seltza, which seemed to work really well for me.

But does anyone know of any others, and are they any good?

Lots of water and Ice cream.

Either that or just keep drinking for the whole festival.

TerrorFirmer · 08-06-2005 7:20am

Its lame, but someone has to say it.

Don't drink!

_blank_ · 08-06-2005 7:26am

You now those effervescant Vit C tablets that come in the long tubes, they are brilliant. There is one called Zing that I swear by. You just dissolve one in a glass of water, drink, and it is great.

Either that or a big Double Whopper Meal, with Cheese. Coke as the drink. Lovely.

amazingemmet · 08-06-2005 7:35am

My two tried and trusted hangover cures are:
1 bacon and orange juice
2 hair of the dog

John · 08-06-2005 7:35am

Take two paracetamol before you try and go to sleep. Then take two when you wake up (provided four hours have lapsed).

joejoem · 08-06-2005 7:47am

A breakfast roll with blue cheese and lots of water.

As someone said earlier the dissolvable vitamin c tabs (same as 20 oranges) with water and some paracetemol.

Follow this up with trying to convince yourself you had an early night the night previous. ("I wasnt on the piss last night I was well behaved")

Ishmael · 08-06-2005 7:54am

Loads of water before you go to sleep.

Best Method i've ever tried.

joejoem · 08-06-2005 8:01am

Ishmael wrote:

Loads of water before you go to sleep.

Best Method i've ever tried.

Prevention rather than the cure.........................although like the saying goes "Prevention is better than the cure"

What about the times when you wake up still drunk, there is no stopping that hangover, its like a pain train waiting to steam through. ala Terry Tate - Office linebacker

toiletduck · 08-06-2005 8:20am

Drink water before you go to sleep and first thing in the morning have a big glass of 7up with a cigarette. That usually helps me.

jimi_t · 08-06-2005 9:06am

Bottle of lucozade sport/powerade before bed with 2 neurofen or tylenol...Either that or :
A) Don't Drink

Don't Stop Drinking

Blisterman · 08-06-2005 9:10am

RU 21. The Russian Hangover Pill. Works for me.

*Page* · 08-06-2005 9:29am

i found a good one there the other week.. its a drink call "VIT HIT" its great you can get all different types but i got the boost one and it cleared up the hang over in about 10-15 mins..

its got, vits, C,E,B1,B2,B3,B5,B6 and B12 its low calorie ands its low in sugar, no fat. no artificial colours , and no caffeine! its also got some GINSENG in it to!!

_blank_ · 08-06-2005 9:30am

Where did you get this magical potion?

prospect · 08-06-2005 9:39am

Hangover Pain = Lack of water and salt in your system. This is because, basically, you have pissed them outta your system.

So a good fry with pleny of rashers, and loads a water should sort you out.

And as said by someone else, at least two pints of watrer before you go to sleep.

egan007 · 08-06-2005 9:42am

I beat my hangover today by waking up at 5:30 swallowing a disprin and loads of water.
went back to sleep - was grand by 8:30

LegacyUser · 08-06-2005 9:51am

one egg, 1/4 cup 7up, 1/2 cup orange juice, 2tbl spoon of sugar, 2 lemon's juiced, a bannana, 1 tea spoon tabsco sauce.

blend the lot and neck it.

*Page* · 08-06-2005 10:05am

you can buy it in most shops for €1.99

it comes in all different flavors it is yummy!!

juno75 · 08-06-2005 1:31pm

Its very bad to pop pills on top of drink before you crash , put a lot of strain on the kidneys I heard.

Each pint of water you drink before you sleep is worth two in teh morning, even though its bloody horrible to neck 3/4 pints of tepid tap water befor you mong.
Seeing as a hangover is dehydration of the brain the water is the best way.

Lots of fried piggie in morning and juce and THEN pills are cool, plus even more water.

I was keeling over with a hangover last saturday in the English Market, walked straight into the fish section and the world started to spin. started to gag a bit and went to chemist and thay gave me motilium and by jove I was feeling pretty good and hour later and well away from them fishy things.
Deffo recommended.

Black Coffie is also essential

Or
Like said, dont stop....

Retr0gamer · 08-06-2005 1:45pm

1) Call in sick
2) Stay in bed

Piste · 08-06-2005 1:51pm

1) Before you sleep (or when you fele you've had enough and want to sober up again) eat bread, it'll soak up the alcohol in your stomach and will prevent you having a horrible hangover the next morning.

2)If you do have a hangover and can't stop vomiting, take gaviscon (the chewable tablet) tastes horrible but works a treat and settles your stomach.

3)To get some vitamins into you, a good, thick smoothie can work wonders. Orange and Mango is good.

4)Finally, water, and lots of it, it'll flush out anything nasty left in your body.

sleepwalker · 08-06-2005 1:52pm

mcdonalds milkshakes work a treat

other than that

plenty of water and tablets and food should cure ye

memphis · 08-06-2005 4:00pm

Redbull always does it for me.

Also, drink water before going to bed with 2 headache tablets and you should be sorted.

Lots of water also next day!!

Tobias Greeshman · 08-06-2005 4:07pm

The glass of water before you go to bed of course (but thats just a prevention - as already stated anyway). So I tend to go for a large cuppa tea, have a really large mug I drink out of, with a rasher pannini cooked on a George Foreman Grill! 'Tis good, with red sauce too of course! Hangover gone in 45 mins!

dawballz · 08-06-2005 5:35pm

The day before the night you go drinking:
Eat plenty of good food, well, not good food, but just no sweet stuff really like cake and sweets and all the rest. Drink plenty of water that day too. Just before you go out/begin drinking, eat a banana. It will provide soakage for the beer that is to come.

When you come back, have a 2L bottle of water beside the bed and make sure to drink a good bit just before you put your head down.

Whenever I wake up during the night, I always take a drink of water.

In the morning, have a nice big fry, with loads of water.
7up is good to drink when you're not feeling thirsty, but imo it will make you more thirsty too.
Give it about an hour after the fry and you're all set up for more drink.

If you are still headachey, take pain killer(s), I've heard alka seltzer are good all right, but usually for me 2 panadol is good enough.

Oeneus · 08-06-2005 5:40pm

The idea with Alka Seltza is you take one before you go to sleep and wake up all happy and ill-free. 'Tis good stuff.

Kernel · 08-06-2005 6:50pm

The water thing is great, but if the damage is done, the only way out is a curer.. more drink. Once you get the first couple down you're laughing again, then have some food. I heard that a Bloody Mary is the best cure for a hangover, but I absolutely hate tomato juice, so I would puke drinking one of those.

Saturnine · 08-06-2005 7:17pm

Glass of Slimfast or Big Mac meal just dont get coke with it.

ClareBear · 08-06-2005 7:43pm

When you're really drunk and can barely crawl in to bed, the thought of drinking 2 pints of water isn't that easy though

tSubh Dearg · 08-06-2005 9:43pm

I usually mix normal orange juice with red orange juice (sanguinello), add a splash of cranberry juice then add the magic ingredient of a disolvable vit c tablet. Works like a treat!

You can just use Orange juice on it's own though with the vit C tablet, works just as well

catspring · 08-06-2005 9:56pm

if you are nauseous eat a slice of dry bread and drink a can of coca-cola (not pepsi or any other cola drink). my mum taught me that and it works a treat.

Johnson · 08-06-2005 10:59pm

I don't get hangovers thanks to a genetic quirk. Neither does my brother.

ziggy · 09-06-2005 8:43am

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petes · 09-06-2005 10:52am

I heard the water before bed works but ffs people who here remembers to do that when they are pissed.

Also brandy and port will sort your your stomach(but is basically a variation of the cure)

John · 09-06-2005 11:12am

petes wrote:

I heard the water before bed works but ffs people who here remembers to do that when they are pissed.

I do. If you've had a really really really bad hangover you quickly learn no matter how pissed you are.

dawballz · 09-06-2005 11:42am

Yeah me too. But I think that's because when I become dehydrated, I know it and if I wake up in the middle of the night I'm nearly dying with the thirst, and need a drink.
Also, on non-drinking nights, because of my broken nose, I have to breath through my mouth when I'm sleeping, and it causes my mouth to dry up.
Hence, I never forget to have water beside the bed.
I drink about 3L of water per day too.

Blisterman · 09-06-2005 12:00pm

I didn't heed my own advice and woke up this morning hungover. A lie in followed by a breakfast roll and a glass of oj, seems to have done the trick.

otron · 09-06-2005 7:39pm

Oeneus wrote:

The idea with Alka Seltza is you take one before you go to sleep and wake up all happy and ill-free. 'Tis good stuff.

Isn't it a bad idea to take paracetemol before going to bed? I heard that it puts your already busy liver under more pressure and that it's harmful in the long term.

Remember kids, Lots of water with some food not long before you go to bed. Porridge & tea the next morning.

jonny68 · 09-06-2005 8:28pm

Ishmael wrote:

Loads of water before you go to sleep.

Best Method i've ever tried.

very true shame though i often forget when i stagger in locked to do that but it certainly does help when you do it,you dont feel half as bad in the morning

jonny68 · 09-06-2005 8:29pm

Johnson wrote:

I don't get hangovers thanks to a genetic quirk. Neither does my brother.

you lucky bas***d

i know someone like you as well they can drink until the cows come home,wake up the next day and feel grand..i envy you people

Cool_CM · 09-06-2005 10:40pm

Powder stuff called "resolve" they sell behind the counters in all good centra's work wonders and settle stomach as well as getting rid of headache.
if all else fails water defore bed, water next morning followed by lucozade sport and if headache still there some form of painkiller, never fails to work
else just sleep. i worked in a music shop, after xmas party went to work next morning, found a large keyboard soft case and used it as a sleeping bag in work.
enjoyable experience!

Kernel · 10-06-2005 4:24am

Johnson wrote:

I don't get hangovers thanks to a genetic quirk. Neither does my brother.

You and your brother are either in your early 20's (or younger) or don't drink enough!

Hangovers get to be a right bastard when you get older - slowing metabolism / liver damage etc..

rubadub · 10-06-2005 1:03pm

Prevention is better than cure. Drink nothing but decent vodka, skyy is pretty pure stuff. Many liquers are good too since they strip out every last bit of the other alcohols out during distillation, many vodkas acutally add back hangover inducing alcohols at the end for taste, but most liquers want only the flavour of the fruit/herb/spice.

Homer J Simpson · 10-06-2005 1:22pm

My girlfriend gave me Feminax last Saturday morning when I had the mother of all hangovers. It's actually for period pains. Mightnt suit everyone but worked on me.

Goolay · 10-06-2005 1:52pm

Pint of Alka-setzer before bed and then another the next morning is good, but here's my favourite:

Wake up feeling death. Suffer until 2pm when El-Paso restaurant in Howth opens.

Order anything you like from the menu but make sure you order a cup of "Hot Pat" sauce with it.

El Paso used to categorise their hot sauces like this:
3=mild
5=hot
7=very hot
10=extremely hot

There used to be a regular there called Pat who had special instructions for the chef to triple the consistency of the number 10 sauce.

Douse your food with the sauce, eat and hallucinate.
Your endorphins will go nuts, you'll sweat out the poisins and float out of there.

A specialist cure but the best one I know!

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