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My ultimate hangover cure. What's yours?

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  • 09-08-2020 3:58pm
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 21


    It's probably been asked before on Boards​.ie in various forms, but I want to add my own take on the dreaded hangover and how I developed a method to dramatically lessen the harmful effects of the grog.

    Disclaimer: This is /my/ method and won't necessarily work for everyone, but you are free to try it out and see if it works. And this method doesn't entirely get rid of a hangover, it just lessens the effects.

    1.) Soakage. It's an obvious one, but often overlooked. The trick is to get all three macros into your stomach so your body has everything it needs to survive the drinking session. My go-to method for years has always been a dirty kebab with generous amounts of dressing and plenty of lettuce. It has all three macros: Fat, Carbs, and Protein, and some micronutrients from the lettuce. It's not necessarily healthy just because it has three macros, but you could say it is tailor-made for a heavy night out drinking beer, and for me it works.

    2.) Electrolytes, lost salts, & micronutrients. I'm not sure how well known this is, but alcohol strips your body of essential salts, micronutrients and electrolytes, leaving you feel horribly deprived and malnourished the following day. It is paramount to have all this ready to get back into your body as soon as you feel malnourished and deprived of nutrients. My favorite go-to to get these back is fresh spinach leaves, cacao powder, & tinned anchovies. The spinach restores micronutrients, the cacao is loaded with magnesium (and a mild stimulant called theobromine), something your body will be craving the following day, and the anchovies are packed with salt which again is stripped from your body by the grog.

    3.) Headaches can be alleviated with Nurofen Plus. (I have no affiliation), I just love having this on hand because it has something that hasn't been banned in Ireland yet: Codeine. It's a terribly powerful pain-killer. Just do your homework on this as-well as ibuprofen as the two can have negative side-effects like constipation etc. One tablet is enough to banish my headaches. I know others who need two.

    4.) Sugar. The science is there. Alcohol reduces your blood sugar and you will feel tired and drained after a session. So make sure your fridge is packed with six to eight of various cold cans of tonics like Red Bull, 7up, sparkling water, etc. You will need these throughout the day hence the large amount, and you will be thankful you don't have to make a half-drunken trip to the shop just to buy a can of sugar water.

    And that's it! What is /your/ method for reducing the effects of a hangover? I'd love to know!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭begbysback


    Don’t drink


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,338 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    I'm curious how sparkling water replenishes blood sugar levels?


  • Registered Users Posts: 24,268 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Not drinking


  • Registered Users Posts: 363 ✭✭Tig98


    Drinking hot water. It just goes straight in and flushes out the body very well. I usually drink one or two pints and am fine the next morning.

    About 1/3 fresh boiled water 2/3 cold ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭Chalk McHugh


    Time is the only proven cure.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Don't mix drink types


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,178 ✭✭✭killbillvol2


    Solpadeine, Dioralyte, Berocca in a pint glass of water. Repeat if necessary.


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,272 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Sounds great OP but from my own experience and talking to others hangovers seem to be a lot worse to deal with the older we get.

    20 years ago I could leave a nightclub at 4am and while I might not have been feeling the best i could still do a days work but now not a hope.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,527 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    A fry, packet of chipsticks and an orange calippo. Big mug of tea too.

    The tide is turning…



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,509 ✭✭✭Purgative


    A ride


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  • Registered Users Posts: 228 ✭✭hellsing101


    Lucozade and a chinese, will sort you right out.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭Loveinapril


    The ride, loads of water and a Chinese.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,987 ✭✭✭skallywag


    20 years ago I could leave a nightclub at 4am and while I might not have been feeling the best i could still do a days work but now not a hope.

    Big +1 to that.

    Exact same, was leaving a place at 4am on a Thursday and would get into work about 10:00, feeling terrible, but still able to soldier on and get through it.

    These days there is no way I would do it, did something half similar a couple of years ago and was one of the worst horrors I've ever had.

    OP, best tip I can give is drink a pint of water before bed, and have a bottle of something along the lines of Gatorade during the night, sip away on it when you wake up from time to time, etc.


  • Registered Users Posts: 24,358 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    Time is the only proven cure.

    I always find a bit of alone time helps 😉


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭Feisar


    lawred2 wrote: »
    Not drinking

    That's sort of a prevention rather than a cure.

    A blowjob followed by a shower finishing on cold and a coffee usually does the trick. One can get by minus the blowie but it does help the mood.

    The above is grand for yer standard mild, "I had a few to many" hangover. However if you are in the depts of hell, yer hair hurts and monsters you thought long buried are looking for their pound of flesh yer fecked.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    being under 35

    alternatively, staying in bed til two pm


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    A fry, a shïte, a shower, a vigorous ****, and back to sleep for another few hours.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,684 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    Copious amounts of DIY SOS, Come Dine with me, Don't tell the bride, Four in a bed, Grand Designs, Homes under the Hammer, Couples come dine with me, Friends, The Goldbergs, The Big Bang Theory, Frazier, How I met your mother, Scrubs.

    Cuppa tea and breakfast wrap.
    And a Kinder Beuno.
    Because fcuk it I'm mid 30s and I've a hangover.


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,272 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    A fry, a shïte, a shower, a vigorous ****, and back to sleep for another few hours.

    Would it not be better have the **** before the shower?


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Would it not be better have the **** before the shower?

    Doesn’t matter, dude. That’s what a sock is for.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 363 ✭✭Tig98


    Would it not be better have the **** before the shower?

    Not at all.

    When you cum and the happy hormones are out the last thing you want to do is deal with the hassle of washing and drying yourself


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,527 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Doesn’t matter, dude. That’s what a sock is for.

    Never “warmed” to the idea of using the sock. Equate the “sensation” to that of licking a 9v battery.
    Tig98 wrote: »
    Not at all.

    When you cum and the happy hormones are out the last thing you want to do is deal with the hassle of washing and drying yourself

    Would you not, at least, run it under the tap after, T?

    The tide is turning…



  • Registered Users Posts: 35,624 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    The ride, loads of water and a Chinese.


    Not sure fcking a Chinese guy in a pool is a cure. But what ever works for you.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭completedit


    My hangovers have got better. 21-25 were the worst ages. I drink more now but tends to be the same drink for the night or just beer.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    I drink; ergo I am


    That’s 5000m on the ergometer. For my sins.


  • Registered Users Posts: 24,268 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    being under 35

    alternatively, staying in bed til two pm

    Even if I wanted to stay in bed until the afternoon, I'm awake every single day at about 630 regardless of whatever time I went to bed or what I was at..


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Heroin.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭Stevieluvsye


    Gave the gargle up in January as new years resolution and haven't gone back since. The hangovers i used to get after anything more than 6 cans/pints would leave me in a heap for two days.

    Only thing that made me feel slightly better was plenty of water, two pain killers and sleep.

    Not worth the hassle TBH.

    Little tip for you drunks ;) if your p!ss is not clear, ie green, dark green or whatever fcuking other colour, lob two pints of water into you as it is a clear sign of dehydration. And keep drinking it until itis


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭mistersifter


    my tactics:

    1. before starting to drink have lucozade sport to stock up on electrolytes/salts.

    2. stay off spirits. I just go for a low-ish alcohol beer. Makes a huge difference.

    3. drink a couple of glasses of water throughout the night after every few drinks.

    4. Don't go to sleep while at your most pissed. Have more lucozade and sober up as much as possible before hitting the scratcher.


    Whenever I do this, I don't get a headache or nausea the next day. The only element of the hangover that remains is the tiredness which can be dealt with by a power nap during the day.


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    You're all wrong, more pints and a feed is the only cure. Back into the pub about noon the next day, struggle over the first pint for an hour or so. Another 5 or so to sort you out over the course of the day. If the pub serves pizza even better.


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