Not sure if this was in a previous thread, but what is the best cure for a hangover? I drank heavily back in college and I get these nasty hangovers whenever I drink, due to my body's inability to process alcohol. Do those pills from the vitamin shop, which supposedly if you take before drinking actually work and reduce the feeling the next day? Any suggestions will be helpful.......
as weird as this may sound like, no matter how hammered i am the night before, i never get any hangovers. just lucky i guess. but what my cousin does is drink a lot of water before he goes to sleep and he brings a big bottle of water next to him just in case. and he would always drink coffee the next morning.
For me, if I take a Motrin and drink a few cups of water before I go to sleep, I'll be okay in the morning. Eating is a good idea too.
A hangover is pretty much your body telling you its dehydrated. So try and drink a glass of water for every glass of alcohol you consume. Yes you'll want to run to the bathroom every few minutes because of this, but this method has never failed me yet. However on the chance you do get a hangover in the morning after, I've heard sipping on some alcohol when you wake up helps relieve it. The supposed logic behind it is, since your body is craving to be hydrated, your first intuition is to start drinking lots of water. However drinking lots of water when hungover makes you feel sick. Instead you ease your body onto a liquid like alcohol that dehydrates first so your body can adjust then you start drinking water when your body feels adjusted again. Think of it like scuba diving. If you were to swim to the ocean floor, your body would feel an immense amount of surface pressure. However you don't want to rush immediately to the surface for air because your body needs to adjust gradually to each varying degree of surface pressure before reaching the surface. Decompression sickness or the bends pretty much.
Are you talking about those pills you take before you drink and then you dont get a hangover? Ive seen them at CVS.
Dehydration is only part of it. You feel bad because of the by product of alcohol breakdown is a toxic metabolite. Drinking water dilutes it out. In addition, the eye opener thing is true because when you drink alcohol in the morning, it shifts the reaction to the other side, reducing the amount of toxic metabolite in your system.
I've always found that a good, long miserable exercise session (with copious sweat) followed by rehydration works wonders.
This stuff is, apparently, like an outrageous amount of B vitamin and nothing else. I bartended a few private events a few years ago sponsored by these guys and another anti-hangover pill/energy drink (seriously. They had us mix it with vodka, it was disgusting). Anyway, we were shocked at how much B vitamin was in it. I'm no doctah, but that stuff couldn't have been good for your body. Not that getting wasted is, but I'd stay away from that junk if I were you. I have noticed that if I take my multi-V late in the day, for that normal allotment of B-vitamin, it helps if I were to drink that night. And the water, etc. Coffee doesn't help, it just makes you alert and awake as coffee usually does, but dehydrates you more.
As the hangover strikes And I turn on the tap But the water's too loud And I'm caged by the fact That the battle's not lost Is it the hair of the dog Or the Baa of a Lamb In a sheepish attempt To be half of the man That I might be or was --from "When the Hangover Strikes" by Squeeze No seriously; a tablespoon of honey; magnesium; gatorade; greasy food; salad; sugar and most importantly: http://www.remogeneralstore.com/online/product.cfm?pk=15
I tried those a few times and they actually did work. But you have to take it with your first drink for best results. It seems to be some kind of charcoal-based stuff. I don't know exactly, but it works. Well, it worked for me atleast. Drink water though, with or without the Chasers.
