by ScoobySnax 23 Replies latest jw friends
Whatever you drink, always have a glass of water to drink with your drink.
Hangovers are caused by dehydration. And though most other remedies that people come up with can help some, as in food or another drink. But as a preventative measure always hydrate before, during and after drinking.
Puternut
I find that avoiding cheap liquor and beer results in fewer headaches - the cheaper kinds tend to really make me sick. The higher quality, the less severe the penalties. The extra ten dollars is worth not wishing I was dead over!
But drinking water and taking aspirin before bed really help me out. Even just a couple of glasses, and then again when I get up in the middle of the night to pee.
Coffee, cigarettes, Mountain Dew, and a nap in the warm help me, too.
But when I wake up and all my preventatives have failed, then a really hot shower, as hot as I can stand it, for like ten minutes... and then suddenly turn off all the hot water so you get that icy blast for as long as you can stand it. Your blood vessels shrink all through your body, including the ones in your head. Also drains the sinuses. Robert Heinlein recommended this cure in a couple of his books, and I think that old drunk knew whereof he spoke!
CZAR
Take a gravol (motion sickness pill) before you pass out...........it'll help you sleep longer and can help with the nausea. The headache is apparently a combination of withdrawal and dehydration, so if you drink a glass of water inbetween each glass of booze, you won't feel nearly as bad the next morning.
The old water thing does stop you getting as bad a hangover but it also stops you getting drunk. Best cure, force yourself to eat something just before you pass out however little you want it. If you were too drunk to do that then puking helps.
If you were too drunk to void then next morning i find lying in bed all day helps, with movies and pizza. I try to avoid that less healthy option and force myself to multivit and a light breakfast followed by a walk to the local pool and then a long lesiurely swim, which is also amusing because every single person in that pool seems to go into superfocus and makes the whole experience undeniably less boring!
did i mention also that 3 orgasm8 are brilliant too for clearing the head - must be that rush of oxygen to the brain.
Haven't found a cure yet. But generally I just want to eat -- Food soaking up all the alcohol makes me feel better. I was dehydrated for two whole days last time. I drank a ton of water, but it made me feel sicker and I wasn't peeing it out. So I guess my response is: Food and Tylenol.
Purza
If I think I've had too much to drink, I will drink a lot of water before I go to bed. It doesn't make you have to get up to go to the bathroom either, because you are dehydrated.
I haven't tried this, but one of my sons says you need to have another drink...........he does a bloody Mary, and swears the hangover is gone, almost immediately.
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