Hangovers are proof that God has a sense of humor. A very sick and twisted sense of humor. Hopefully on my judgment day when St. Peter or whoever is showing me all the bad things I’ve done, he’ll give me credit for all the epic hangovers I’ve endured.
When I was younger I used to view hangovers as punishment, hence the reason that I used to make bargains with the Almighty that if he would just make me feel better I would never drink again. If I had a dollar for every time I tried that route I could probably put a stripper through at least one semester of college.
As I got older and wiser I knew that after a hard night of drinking that began with a bottle Jack Daniels and ended with Jose Cuervo, I would be met not with punishment, but rather a challenge. I knew I was going to feel like a big bag of shit. The only question was for how long and how big of a bag. How do I get rid of the infamous hangover?
Over the years I’ve tried just about every technique, snake oil and just plain retarded idea you can imagine to not only get rid of, but prevent a hangover. So today I’ve decided to share some of the best and worst hangover remedies I’ve come across through the years. Read that last sentence again very carefully. I’m only going to talk about hangover remedies that I have personally tried. I know some ass hat is going to come up with some crazy shit in the comments section like “You didn’t talk about drinking the pee of a lactating Alpaca while sticking a carrot up your ass.” I know I didn’t. Because I’ve never tried that. I don’t have any carrots. Or “The only thing that gets rid of a hangover is time.” Yes, this is true. But letting something run its course isn’t curing it. How about next time you get cancer you just give it some time. Tell me how that works out.
So lets get on with the show.
What is a hangover? Put simply it is you being really dehydrated. It takes tons of water to filter alcohol out of your body after a night of drinking Boone’s Farm from the bottle. So the best hangover cures are the ones that hydrate your body as quickly as possible. I’m not going to include water in this list because any dumbass knows you should drink as much water as possible when your sick in any way.
64 oz of lemon lime prevention
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. That being said this is probably the best hangover cure I know of and is my current go-to move. If you know you’re going to make like a nail tonight and get hammered, be sure to swing by the store and pick up a 64 oz. lemon-lime Gatorade before hand. The trick is to drink the entire bottle before you go to bed. Don’t put it into the fridge either. It’s impossible to drink 64 ounces of 40 degree Gatorade in one sitting. Instead just leave it on the counter, or better yet on your pillow so you don’t stumble into your room and forget to drink it. The high-fructose corn syrup used to sweeten the Gatorade also counteracts the chemical in your brain that tells you your full and will allow you to drink the entire bottle. And why lemon-lime Gatorade? Because if you’re a puker it won’t stain anything.
The Waffle House
This is another prevention one. If you didn’t have enough sense to eat before you went out drinking you should definitely eat before you pass out. No food in the belly means low blood sugar when you wake up that in turn means you go from bad hangover to really bad hangover. And lets face it, it’s much better to have something to throw up rather than dry heave until your asshole hurts. And why the Waffle House? The waffle house is kind of like Las Vegas. They welcome a drunk who has no concept of money or sticking to a budget. I’ve personally dropped more than $50 for food I didn’t eat on more than one occasion.
General Tso’s Chicken
This one is in case you didn’t follow the Waffle House advice. As mentioned before, low blood sugar will magnify a hangover. Genereal Tso’s is like jet fuel to your body. The pork fried rice has enough carbs to kill a horse on Adkins. The chicken itself has tons of protein and sugar which will make you feel like a million bucks. (I have no scientific reason for this. It just does.) And talk about energy! At 1700 calories, the average General Tso’s combo has enough calories to last your anorexic girlfriend a week
Ride that donkey
If you played your cards right last night, there’s a good chance there’s something sleeping next to you that resembles a girl, and she most likely feels like she was run over by the same truck that you were. What you both need is a good ol’ shot of endorphins. The temporary high produced by the endorphins released during sex will be the pick me up you need to get your ass out of bed. Just make sure you wake her up first.
Weed
I can handle the headache. It’s the nausea that kills me with a hangover. In case you don’t know it, Cannabis is prescribed to cancer patients in some states as a cure for nausea. Now I know that if you’re the type of drinker you say you are, chances are you have a friend who’s a pot head. Snag a doobie from him and stick it in a safe place (freezer) for the next time you have one of those nausea hangovers. You can wake up, take a few hits, and then eat your General Tso’s. Be warned: Don’t get too high. Being high and hungover is not fun.
Hair of the dog
This is probably the most well known cure. It’s also the dumbest unless you don’t have anything productive to do the rest of the day. I mean seriously, if you wake up and start drinking again you’re just adding fuel to the fire. Sure you’ll feel better because you’re drunk again. As soon as you stop drinking you’re back to square one again. So avoid this tactic unless you plan on drinking and watching football all day anyway.
The pick me up concoction
I learned this one working the Sunday brunch shift at Applebee’s, so listen up food servers and bartenders. take a coffee cup and fill half full with coffee. Add about 5 packets of sugar and stir. As soon as you’re done stirring go to the soda fountain and fill the cup the rest of the way with coke. You have to drink the entire thing immediately or it will foam all over the place. One of these every hour or so will help you get through the shift without slapping the shit out of the lady who keeps asking for condiments one by one
Go to the gym
Ok. You’re hungover. Why? Because your body is full of toxins. It’s time to evict those dirty little bastards. Make your way to the gym and find an open treadmill. Pick a moderate pace and you’ll start sweating almost instantly. 20 minutes should have you feeling like a champ. Oh, DO NOT FORGET TO BRING A WATER BOTTLE AND DRINK IT WHILE YOU RUN. As funny as it would look, you don’t want to pass out from dehydration on a treadmill.
So there you have it. The 8 best hangover cures I know of. If you know of any good ones I should try then by all means outline them in the comments section. I’ll do my best to try each one and review it in a “user submitted hangover cures” post.
October 23rd, 2008 at 11:41 am
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October 23rd, 2008 at 3:19 pm
64 oz seems like a lot, I mean A LOT of liquid to dump down my trap after drinking all night.
October 24th, 2008 at 10:49 am
For my a good amount of orange juice seems to ease off the pain the morning after. Not sure what it would do for prevention tho
October 24th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Who ‘wants’ to exercise after drinking all night? Not me, although it truly does make you feel better if you drink lots of water while doing it. For the same effect however, get to a sauna. Nothing beats it!
October 24th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
One night I was getting absolutely trashed with a few friends on about seventeen different drinks. My friends and I had eaten some pizza beforehand and we all woke up (separately) the next morning in top form. We’d met up with some other friends who had less than half of what my group had consumed in alcohol and much less in food (and none of it was pizza, I bet). They all woke up hungover as hell. The difference is in the pizza. The carb-loaded pizza. So if you’re not down with The General then get some pizza!
October 25th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Big greasy breakfast. Lots of grease. And salt. With plenty of water. Excellent hangover cure.
October 26th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
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October 26th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
I agree with Willy, when I’m hungover (Happens to many damn times) I just go crazy with my breakfast and make like 6 eggs with salami, sweet peppers, onion, pees or whatever I have around, but I always make it greasy as a waffle house meal, works every time.
October 27th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Tanning bed and a Bojangles 2 piece meal with mashed potatoes
October 28th, 2008 at 12:21 am
There are some stupid cures on here. Tanning bed?! For a hangover, you can’t do much more than drinking water during the binge’r and taking vitamin B12 throughout the night.. Then the next day, drink lots of water and eat fibrous food and exercise or hit up the sauna. It can’t hurt to smoke a joint either.
October 28th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Actually, hair of the dog is a good cure. One of the main causes of a hangover is that, while drinks are mainly ethanol, they also contain methanol. The body metabolizes ethanol much easier than it metabolizes methanol. The nasty effects of a hangover are the side effects of metabolizing methanol. So, having a drink in the morning provides some fresh ethanol for your body to metabolize, giving you more time to wake up and get rehydrated before dealing with the effects of metabolizing methanol.
October 28th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Pedeolyte and water. chug about a half a bottle of pedeolyte and as much water as you can. hangovers come from dehydration mostly. it is stripper approved and road tested so trust me, as a guy who works at 7am for seven days a week most of the year, it is a life saver.
October 28th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
i just smoke lots of weed… lol… and drink lots of gatorade… amd eat some bacon and eggs yummy shit!!!!
October 28th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
i usually dont get hangovers after drinking…fortunately, but a cool shower and a cold coke does it for me.
October 29th, 2008 at 12:09 am
I actually agree with hitting the tanning bed. You might feel like shit for the 20 minutes you’re in there, but you sweat out everything.
My other cure for the nausea is opening a coke the night before and drinking it the next morning. Dr.’s prescribe coke syrup for kids who have upset stomachs (you can get the plain coke syrup over the counter now too) and drinking a flat coke the next morning will fix it in no time.
October 29th, 2008 at 7:51 am
I sometimes use the hair of the dog that bit you one.
Here is a good prevention one. Take a multivitamin before you start drinking. Then take another multivitamin and asprin before you go to bed.
Alka Seltzer upon waking also seems to help.
October 29th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Hangovers are not only caused by dehydration, but also vitamin deficiencies. So, another good way to strike a hangover preemptively is to take an all-a-day vitamin or eat a banana, due to it’s potassium concentration, before a night of drinking.
October 29th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Personally, i don’t go out of my way to try to prevent hangovers because fortunately the ones that i do get are never that bad. I had a pretty bad one today, and i usually try to go to the gym at some point to sweat it out and generally feel better. However, today i forgot my water and did almost pass out. Its definitely something to watch if you are trying it. Also, a hangover is massive dehydration, and caffeine dehydrates the body, ive never tried this method but i feel like once you stop using this tactic, or your body develops a tolerance for it, You will actually feel worse.
October 29th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
i’m glad weed was included in that list. full on supporter of that method!
October 29th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Have to say, as someone who used to manage a bunch of teenagers in the summer who would often try to get out of working in the hot sun, 2 b-12 tablets, 2 aleves (for me it works better than aspirin), and gatorade have always killed the hangover. McDonald’s greasy breakfasts help, too. Might have to try some of the other cures on here, though…
October 29th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
“Be warned: Don’t get too high”
impossible
October 29th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
if i get high and drunk, it seems to kill any possible hangover the next day. however, if i dont want to smoke then i pop 2 vitamin supplements 2 advil or tylenol and a shit ton of water before bed. this works pretty good.
October 29th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
There is NO BETTER HANGOVER CURE on the planet. Simply strap on an oxygen bottle for a few minutes. Take a few really deep breaths and your hangover will be gone within a few minutes. Quick & simple.
October 30th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
I have found out that a good preventative measure is when you know you are about to stop for the night drink about 2 liters of cranberry juice before you pass out. managed to not get hung over after a 1/3 of a gallon of scotch a bottle of vodka and a few beers.
October 30th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
so i have tried the 64 ounzes of gatorade trick twice and have since peed the bed twice. not the best idea on the list
October 31st, 2008 at 3:47 am
you fuckin nailed it, the only thing i disagree with is that god does not have a sense of humor, if god exists he is a sado macochist for inventing hangovers
October 31st, 2008 at 5:00 am
Before I go out, planning to get drunk, I take a vitamin b complex and a milk thistle supplement and eat a banana. I keep a couple around for the morning. I drink a shit load of water (and piss a bunch) while out. This seams to work pretty well. I also like drinking that lemon flavored Propel shit on my way to work in the morning,
October 31st, 2008 at 11:19 am
Re your pick-me-up - can also do a big cup of coffee mixed with a packet of hot cocoa mix - makes a tasty sweet concoction that goes down easy and keeps you chuggin away all day.
November 1st, 2008 at 3:37 am
You didn’t talk about drinking the pee of a lactating Alpaca while sticking a carrot up your ass.
November 1st, 2008 at 8:41 am
When you wake up and have your shower, when you’re ready to get out, make it as hot as you can stand, ’til you can’t take it anymore, then shift to cold in about three or four gradual steps. Cold should be so cold you feel like you can’t take it anymore. At that point, turn it off and get out. Won’t cure you on its own but definitely helps
November 1st, 2008 at 9:40 pm
u can throw out 7 of those tips. only 1 works. and its marijuana. only hangover cure that should be considered.
November 2nd, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Ibuprofen……. b4 you go to bed!!!
November 2nd, 2008 at 5:54 pm
after a night of hefty drinking i always wake up early for some reason… usually cause i have to piss like a race horse… so i take a pepcid complete, 4-6 ibuprofen (depending on how bad it is) and drink as much water or gatorade as i can handle before i go lay back down in bed… if i can fall asleep for even like another hour or two i usually wake up and feel like i can atleast accomplish something with the day instead of laying around on the couch feeling like crap..
November 2nd, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Wake up and down the world’s coldest Coca Cola (no other soda seems to work as good…the closest has been maybe RC) and 3 aspirin, tylenol or advil.
take a little 15 re-nap, and you will wake up feeling like nothing ever happened….with the exception of seeing the lipstick on your zipper.
November 2nd, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Alka Seltzer Cold, Gatorade Frost…and…..
EXCEDRIN MIGRAINE!!! (TYLENOL, IBUPROFEN, AND CAFFEINE…IN A PIIIIILLLLL)
November 2nd, 2008 at 8:48 pm
A Multi-Vitamin, and a 32 oz vitamin water, any flavor but my preferred is xxx, will always get rid of the hangover. Eating something really greasy in the morning helps, as does getting a lot of sleep.
November 3rd, 2008 at 12:33 am
i like jello snacks, especially ones with fruit in them.
November 3rd, 2008 at 2:02 pm
i have a boss that swears by chugging a can of tomato juice then making yourself throw up. even though throwing up makes you feel better anyway
November 3rd, 2008 at 2:13 pm
find a mexican restaurant and order yourself a big bowl of menudo.
What is menudo?? If you havent puked yet before eating youll
probably puke just by reading what goes into a bowl of menudo. Needless
to say its loaded with fat and it will cure your hangover. You can also
find it in canned in the mexican section of your local grocery store.
So, if youll excuse me I need to go find me some menudo right away…..
November 3rd, 2008 at 8:22 pm
take 6 MEMORY-FX pills (made by the COld-FX) people with water. works like a charm. and its natural (ginseng)
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:55 pm
A green bell pepper is the best thing ever. Just eat it like an apple, its surprisingly refreshing and tastes somewhat like the white part of a watermelon (Rhine). But when hungover it is a must!
November 4th, 2008 at 12:49 am
Every time I drink, before I go to bed I take a hangover cocktail. A couple of aspirin, a multi vitamin and a couple of Tums. And yes, drink as much water as you can. Of course, if you’re vomiting, wait until you’re done to take your hangover cocktail. If you wake up in the middle of the night for whatever reason, usually to pee, drink more water! Sometimes I’m still really tired the next day, but I’m not nauseous and I don’t have a headache and that’s all that matters.
November 4th, 2008 at 1:36 am
As gross as it sounds, the cure is…..pickle juice, hair of the dog and lots of water. If you do not hydrate well before going to bed the previous night, this combo will hook you up. There is something about the pickle juice that helps level your electrolytes better than anything else (including gatoraid) a good 4-6 oz does the trick, hair of the dog makes you feel better while you rehydrate with lots of water. Tried and True. Be a new man within an hour.
November 4th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Try the classic glasgow remedy, a full bottle of “irn bru” it has to be a glass bottle. Don’t know why it just tastes better, followed by bacon and potatoe scone fried then eat in a roll. After that take a walk and pick up some sugary snacks from the baker, do’nuts, yum yums or even an individual trifle!! After that you will be able to either start drinking again or go to work. Know which one i prefer!!!
November 4th, 2008 at 11:59 am
smoke weed before you get smashed you wont get a hangover
November 4th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Sorry, but Powerade is the same as Gatorade, but has Vitamin B complexes in it, and alcohol depletes your vitamin Bs. Powerade works way better than Gatorade.
November 4th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
vicodin/odwalla blueberry B monster
November 5th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Hair of the dog is a bit of a dodgy one. I’ve tried it twice and it only worked once. The other time I tried it I was throwing up for a good five minutes. I just drink a couple of cartons of apple juice and eat something starchy, like a baked potato. Taking a shower/bath also helps, as do a couple of ibuprofen.
November 5th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
peanut butter, honey, and banana sandwich. the peanut butter and banana have th vitamins and nutrients you need, honey the sugar, and the bread will help soak shit up.
or, as my aunt told me when i went off to collage:
big mac and diet coke. it’s hard as fuck to get through, but damn it works.
add water and a nice big bong rip to either of these and you’re golden
November 6th, 2008 at 4:49 am
The weed does good. Smoke before and after you get drunk. Glad to see this in the list.
November 6th, 2008 at 8:54 am
POCARI SWEAT is the best cure for hangover. it’s a japanese drink, taste close to lemons.
November 6th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Sushi is a very good hangover cure, not oily, good source of carbs and protein, omega 3 etc.
Valium works perfectly.
November 7th, 2008 at 8:45 am
I’ve found that smoking weed before you go to bed when you’re hammered is a sure fire hangover preventative.
November 7th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Water - there is nothing better for your body than good clean water. Drink plenty of water throughout the day before you consume alcohol. This keeps the body hydrated and prepares it to remove toxins.
An hour before consuming alcohol have a medium sized meal with a good bit of calories. This makes the body heat up from burning the calories and gets the body ready to process the alcohol. This also tends to hold a portion of the alcohol intake from saturating the body.
Continue to drink water throughout the day after. And have a small meal with high protein, low calorie, and good fiber to fuel the body and give it the means to cleanse itself of toxins.
Then any exercise that gets your heart pumping and blood flowing. This will jump start the body to naturally start flushing those nasty toxins and send the water to the parts of the body that needs it the most.
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” - Ben Franklin
November 7th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
popsicles, Mr.Freezies, and gatorade
November 7th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
When you get home…
Step 1
Find a huge glass and fill it with water and drink all of it.
Step 2
Refill glass and place beside bed
Step 3
Find painkiller like advil and place beside bed
Step 4
Set your alarm for 2-3 hours before you want to get up
Step 5
Take a piss and go to bed
Step 6
Wake up to your alarm at 5 am and drink the water and take an advil (piss if needed)
Step 7
Set alarm for 8 am - Go back to bed
Step 8
Wake up at 8 am fully recovered from a night of heavy drinking.
November 8th, 2008 at 12:49 am
“Thiamin is also required for metabolism of alcohol by microsomal detoxification when intakes are high.” says a study from Northwestern University. So, drinking fluids to keep hydrated (something like gatorade with electrolytes in it) and eating something with thiamin and/or taking a multivitamin/B-vitamin complex before and after drinking are the way to go. The website I referenced lists foods and drinks that are good sources of thiamin. I’ve actually put it into practice after one of my college professors told us about it in my nutrition & metabolism class I took three years ago, and it works wonders for me. I’m a light-weight that gets sick easily from drinking too much, but as long as I follow this system of thiamin-rich foods and rehydrating fluids, I can avoid the physiologically negative side effects of drinking.
Sorry for the repeat post, I messed up my html coding on the first post. :)
November 8th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Saunas can do wonders for the system after a long night of drinking… Again, just keep the water intake movin’ and groovin’ innit
November 9th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
ANOTHER BEER !!
November 10th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
i think all of them are good ideas….and make since,,,about the weed one…i myself am an avid stoner….who also takes aderall for adhd….i just got back on my adderall so my food intake is less than my normal 6-7 full meals a day…i woke up hung over yesterday….which was from getting drunk the day b4 to cure a hangover…so i ate little sat…woke up sunday hungover, had a bit of potato soup…got ready for work, and took part in my normal smoke session…i had barely hit the pipe 4 or 5 times when everything around me started sounding off in the distance, my vision got blurry and dark, and my hear beats elevated to an all time high….this has happened befor the first time i smoked bc i over did it….but this time that suffocation almost seizure like feeling lasted over 3 houirs and when i came to i had this entinse tension headace….you think this is from the weed, the aderall, the hangover, all of them or a more serious problem,
November 11th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Here’s my sure-fire hangover cure:
Eat something with carbs before you fall asleep, even if it’s 2 handfuls of pretzels.
In the morning, take 2 Tums, 1 large glass water, 2 advil.
Pain will be a minimum and the rest can be taken care of with a waffle, bacon and coffee, though my favorite is iced cappuccino.
November 11th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
McD’s orange drink, don’t know why it works. Don’t care either
November 12th, 2008 at 9:29 am
If you live in scotland; a glass bottle of irn-bru annd some rowies
November 12th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
whats the best OR whats the best combination…. HELP
November 12th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
i learned from a bartender friend while surfing couches in norcal the end all cure
that has saved me many a shitty workdays and surf sessions
and most poeple (myself included) are prone to write this off at first
but if you try it once youll keep it onhand at all times
pedialyte
trust me, any supermarket carries it, if the thickness is too much cut it with water
November 13th, 2008 at 1:13 am
one word. Gabapentin.
November 13th, 2008 at 8:02 am
Weed is perfect for any shit hangover after a night of booze. A nice fat joint will do the trick all through the day, a couple of deep drags as many hours apart is cool. Perfect if you work as a static security guard or the like. LOL
November 13th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
I find Gatorade and weed are all I need to get myself through a hangover. Of course I try to drink as much water as possible before a night of drinking but the Gatorade either the night before or the morning after does the trick. A nice big bong load really hits the spot after a night out. :)
November 13th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
I find that everybody has his own hangover cure. It’s fascinating to me. I think that there are two great methods.
Prevention: Drink a glass of water for each drink that you consume duting your evening.
And, if you can’t manage that one: Fill a short glass with soda water. Add 5-10 dashes of Angostura bitters, squeeze the juice of 1 lemon, and 5-10 dashes of table salt. You’ll be feeling better in no time.
November 13th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
The latter being chugged the next morning, of course.
November 14th, 2008 at 2:46 am
McDonald’s still the best cure ever!!!!!!!!
mmmmmmmmmmmm greasy food!
November 14th, 2008 at 2:50 am
If you can remember, honey is a great preventative measure; enzymes in the honey help break down remaining alcohol in your system to help keep you from getting “drunker” after you hit the hay.
November 14th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Cheeseburgers, 7-Up or Sprite, PowerAde, sweet tea, those crunchy donuts you buy at the convenience store, and Xanax always helps me.
November 15th, 2008 at 1:15 am
I wholeheartedly agree with the Gatorade thing. Whoever said something about multi-vitamins has obviously never thrown one up. Aside from tater tots and popcorn, vitamins are the worst thing I’ve ever gotten sick on. It gives me shivers just thinking about it.
As someone who absolutely can’t take any kind of pain pills or anything like that when I’m sick (it comes directly back up) and also can’t smoke pot (allergic to THC… Yes, I hate my life.) I just try to chug a shitload of Gatorade before bed and if I do wake up hungover, I take as hot a shower or bath (depending on how easy it is for me to stand) I can manage. Not only is it refreshing to sweat away all that alcohol, it’s that much more refreshing to be immediately clean of it.
We used to hit this all-night diner after a night of drinking for ultimate cheese fries and ranch dressing… But, they closed. :(
Anyway - good article. Most of those seem pretty feasible. I like the Pedialyte idea also that someone posted. I’ll have to try that. I bet most of these methods would work for relief when you’re just sick too.
November 15th, 2008 at 10:17 am
If you know your gonna be tying one on that day…..go to the local drugstore and purchase some over the counter chaser pills. These work incredibly.
November 15th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
When I had my hang-over I didnt eat anything all-day cus i just couln’t. and then in the afternoon I ate pineapple orange juice through the day and Chickensoup cup a soup! then I felt better!
November 15th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
First, i’d like to say, awesome post man. very useful.
I’ve found that if you take a multivitamin, like centrum or something of that sort before going to sleep, it really kills hangovers almost completely. i don’t know the science behind it, but a friend told me, and its been my cure ever since.
cheers.
November 15th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
weed works
100%
November 15th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
a protein shake the morning after is the best thing for me, doesn’t kill the headache but the does remove the gut rot, perfect for before work
November 15th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
andrews liver salts in the UK definately do the job on a stomach- it actually says on the back ‘for symptomns of over-indulgence.’ On top of that smoke up before you leave the house, find a nice cozy greasy spoon where the staff are sympathetic and chug 2 cans of freezing cold coke and a sweet brew, and munch down on hash browns mixed with baked beans- it’s the ultimate cure.
November 16th, 2008 at 1:35 am
@Danny
Sorry but “while drinks are mainly ethanol, they also contain methanol. The body metabolizes ethanol much easier than it metabolizes methanol.” is wrong…if you drink methanol, the liver metabolizes it to formaldehyde (the stuff they use in high school biology labs to preserve frogs and other animals in jars) which in small amounts will cause blindness and in larger amounts death! That is much worse than a hangover…acetaldehyde is one of the main chemicals that causes hangovers. The liver converts ethanol in the drinks to acetaldehyde.
November 16th, 2008 at 2:05 am
A greasy meal or trip to Jack n the Box always works!
November 16th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
another good trick…. rockstar and bitters.
November 16th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Weed is the hangover cure-all. You drink two glasses of water (24 oz or more at least) and load a bowl into the piece before bed. Wake up, drink some more water, hit that bowl, hold it in and roll back into bed, wake up one hour later and feel fucking great!
November 16th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
i always try to drink as much water as i can before i start drinking and get a lot of juices also either or it as he says all about hydration so i always like to get a headstart
November 17th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
i never drink
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November 18th, 2008 at 3:48 am
my current favorite is a multi vitamin before bed with a bottle of smart water which has electrolites added, then when you wake up drink a can of the new red bull cola that just recently came out, i don’t know what it is about the red bull cola but it seriously helps, its all natural and there is something in it that just does the trick, i’ve told all of my friends about it and they agree that it really does work!
November 18th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
The best hangover remedy that I’ve found is hangover prevention. Before you go to bed, take 4 Super B complex, and a big ol’ glass of water/juice/gatorade/etc.. that’s right, 4. Vitamin B is similar to Vitamin C in that you just piss out what your body can’t use, so be prepared for some *orange* pee in the morning.
Believe me when I tell you that this works.
Super B complex.
Try it. you’ll thank me.
November 19th, 2008 at 4:03 am
jamba juice wheatgrass is a miracle hangover cure, as well!!!!
and it’s easy and only about $2 . . .
November 19th, 2008 at 4:52 am
I’m surprised no one has mentioned V-8 juice (I know that tomato juice was mentioned once). Seriously. It doesn’t have to be a lot of V-8 juice either… maybe 8 oz. The vitamins in the vegetables replenish your body, and there’s just something satisfying about the salty drink after the straight shots or the frou-frou girly-drinks. :D
Obviously, drink water too. This is just in addition.
Happy drinking, folks!!
November 23rd, 2008 at 10:47 am
I don’t know about the rest of you, but if you don’t like the one about “Riding the Donkey” to cure your hangover, you really need to get a life, lol. I just wish that there was always a girl with me to do this with. If it doesn’t cure your hangover, who the hell cares, you just got laid again, and now worry about your hangover, and try some of this other stuff, hehee.
Drink up, and Ride that Donkey, lol.
November 26th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Chic-fil-a’s breakfast…especially the bagel sandwich… i swear, helps my hangover EVERY time!
November 26th, 2008 at 4:09 am
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DO NOT TAKE ANY PAINKILLERS.
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If you want to get hammered, do not take painkillers. They will kill every organ you hold dear (yes, even THAT one) when combined with liquor.
Honestly, I have been hung over only a handful of times, and more than once I have gotten far too drunk to fall asleep.
The trick is only this. Do not dehydrate. It causes a headache, the worst type of headache, that one which boarders on migraine. Stay away from sweet drinks. Vomit if you feel the need as so you do not die in your sleep.
Most of all, don’t over sleep. Wake up drunk, in five to six hours from when you passed out. It may be hard, but do it. Get a shower, drink alot of water and eat fatty, high in sugars and complex carbohydrates.
The nutritional deficit caused by posioning yourself is what destroys your body and mind the next day. By not oversleeping, you are attacking the problem before the symptoms become unbearable. You may even find you have an extra step in your stride, as being half cocked at eight am isn’t half bad. Just remember to re-fucking-fuel. Gorge, and drink water, juice and coffee, en mass.
And again, DO NOT TAKE ANY PAINKILLERS.
December 1st, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Brilliant advice, Sir. All of it good. Don’t know how easy it is to get Gatorade in the UK, but i’m sure i’ve seen it around. Blue stuff is it?
Only one point on which I disagree; “Being high and hungover is not fun”
I think it’s fucking ace. But then I only tend to get completely shitfaced when I know I can just lay around smoking the following day. Under no circumstances attempt to finish that spliff in the ashtray if you have to go to work. You will not make it to work. Fact.
My personal favourite is Irn Bru, a drink manufactured in Scotland from “Iron Girders”. Although the source is debatable it was blatently produced for no other purpose than hangover cure. Once, on a messy holiday on a remote Scottish island I drove the 20 miles to the nearest shop and bought all the Irn Bru they had. At the counter the old lady said to me “somebody’s planning a heavy night!” It’s Scotland’s best kept secret. Try it!
December 5th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Multivitamin Juice. - An entire Litre of it. it will save your life.
Me n my band went inter railing last summer for two weeks, and we literally drank profusely everyday and night without relent. Amidst this, we also managed to visit 5 major cities in europe, (Paris, Amstersdam, Berlin, Prague, Bruges (lol)).
The trick thaqt saved us is hsgendass blueberry slushy and blue powerade. Know back some of this shit before bed and when you wake up, youl be happay as larry. oh and i recently discovered drinking honey and lemon and hot water before bed on a drunken night out, is just as good as any hangover cure!
Peace.
Denis
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December 10th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
One nice cure I have been introduced to has been the almighty ruben sandwich. when I wake up at the wee hour of 12pm after a night of drinking my friends and I head for our favorite resturaunt and order up this delightful meal with waffle fries. We dont understand it but it makes us feel better.
December 10th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Hm… I rarely get a hangover after drinking, so I don’t have much to say on the topic. I mean, I don’t really care for hard liquor too much. When I started drinking in High School, I only got drunk off of hard liquor. I couldn’t stand the taste of beer and I can put liquor away like it’s water. But, since I came to college, mostly because liquor is expensive, and because I do some dumb shit when I’m drinking… My last experience with liquor was at a kegger my friend was throwing. I was already pretty drunk from the beer, and then someone shows up with several bottles of liquor. Next thing I know, I’m chugging Captain Morgan’s rum like there’s gold at the bottom of the cup. Then the world started spinning, I threw up, and I passed out. I’ll just stick to beer from now on.
Anyways, I have been hungover a few times, and the only thing that really works for me is weed. Like you said, marijuana is prescribed to ease nausea in cancer and AIDs patients. It is also prescribed as a pain-reliever (one of the best that there is). I smoke a little weed when I’m hungover, and everything settles down, and I generally just take a nap or something.
Anyways, that’s just my two cents.
December 11th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
I have actually done the gatorade on the pillow thing, and the piss the bed thing. I find I usually don’t feel the hard effects of a hangover until I eat, usually I’m still pretty hammered when I wake up. Lot’s of water and lot’s of weed usually does it for me, and it increases your appetite so it’s easier to eat. But I could never just take a few small drags. James, why do you suggest that being high and hungover is not fun? It’s more fun than being not high and hungover…
December 11th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
whenyou get home after a night of drinking. cook a massive breakfast and leave it out. chug a glass of cream and a glass of lime juice, the cream to make you smarter and the lime so yu’ll make a wierd face. go to bed. in the morning, get up and throw the breakfast away cuz it will be bad, and clean up the entire house
December 12th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
the one i have used every fourth of july is similar to like 3 of these and pretty much a combo we start at like 6 am with a few mamosas (for all you idiots out there that’s campaign and orange juice) then we smoke about an Oz. mind you this is usually between 10 of us as its the morning after a huge party. then we go to the metro which is a local breakfast joint in Plymouth MA. i definitely recommend it, and eat the greasiest shit they have (home fries fried eggs etc) Then we go back to the party which runs the 3rd into the 4th of July, and find the one poor bastard with his shoes on and fuck with him bad.
Ps for all you thinking its weird that we party it up on the 3rd and leave on the fourth, its not in Plymouth residents are aloud fireworks on the 3rd not the 4th and the town has a huge bonfire on the beach
December 13th, 2008 at 11:21 am
One of the best cures I found was Pepto. Not the liquid, I wouldn’t even try drinking that shit with a hangover, but the pills. Cures the upset stomach and helps a lot with the headache too. For prevention, I always try to drink 2 or 3 glasses of something non-alcoholic before I pass out. It works wonders.
December 13th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Another genius method is oral hydration salts, specifically designed for extreme dehydration. Much more potent than Gatorade. Next time you walk by a GNC, pick up a box of these things. They come in individual sachets in a bunch of flavors. I recommend Lemon-Lime, because it doesn’t taste like ass like the rest of them. They’re dirt cheap too. Drink one sachet in a ten ounce glass of water before bed. Or, do it in the morning, and after about twenty minutes, you’ll feel a hell of a lot better.
December 13th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
puking up spicy bloody marys is like the worst fucking thing ever. Not relevant, just sayin.
December 17th, 2008 at 10:55 am
In my expirience, vitamin C pills work the best. Just take one right before you start getting wasted (it’s better to take one just before you pass out, but you’ll probably be to drunk to remember).
December 18th, 2008 at 2:57 am
as for me i take aspirin coke & eat banana this really help.
December 18th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
I would definitely have to say Alkaseltzer Morning Relief/Wake-up Call, a glass of 2% milk, and a couple Excederin Migraine. Works every time. The alkaseltzer gets rid of the fuzzy headed feeling and light/movement sensitivity. Milk (at least for me) gets rid of the nausea, and Excedrin rids the headache.
December 19th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Advil Cold and sinus(the real stuff with ephedrine) Any caffeine pill ( I prefer stacker 2s)Washed down with a 32 ounce Gatorade laced with alka seltzer. Optional add fried tofu with thai peanut sauce and a couple of multi vitamins.
December 20th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
a mcdonalds double cheeseburger (plain)
December 27th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
This has been a simple trick has never failed me once: a slice or two of bread before bed. The carbs help maintain obviously, but it also seems to “sop up” the residual alcohol in your stomach, perhaps giving your body just enough breathing room to process all that alcohol. Probably a crock scienctifically, but what’s the harm of snacking on a slice of bread eh? Seems to calm nausea as well…
Water, or anything besides alcohol, should be a given (before and/or after a night drinking) - cotton-mouth is a dirty bastard, combat it on all fronts. A slice of bread and some gatorade will do the trick; maybe an aspirin or something in the morning (although i’ve not really needed it)
!!***CAUTION***!!
I read through some of the responses here - be warned: DO NOT TAKE TYLENOL (ACETEMECTAPHIN), ASPIRIN, or even IBUPROFUEN before going to bed when your smashed. Alcohol + OTC pain relievers = TOXIC!!! (granted I’m unsure about ibuprofuen and aspirin, but better safe than sorry. Additionally, the half-life of iburofuen is about 2 hours per 200mg- residual preventative effects the next morning are unlikely. Also Aspirin is a blood thinner, so is alcohol - you do the math.)
20/20 did a spread on it - some 5,000 people die from alcohol+ACETEMECTAPHEN consumption every year trying to prevent the hang-over - DON’T DO IT!!! The next morning is alot safer, provided the next morning isn’t in under 4-5 hours, let your blood-alcohol levels drop first.