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A special kind of hangover
ANTVGM64
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Howdy, so, as a college student I tend to embibe a good deal of beer, booze, and marijuana on Saturday Nights.
Here's the odd part: I have a prettty good drinking tolerance. Only once in my life have I gotten sick from drinking while awake. Instead, typically, I'll wake up the next morning and feel alright. Take the worlds most massive dump, and a headache will come on.
Typically this continues until I throw up two or three times, and then I feel better, whiped out, but better. anyway, I guess what my question is: Is this a typical hangover?
Second: I know there are some folk remedies for hangovers, anyone have some good ones, as I'm currently at work and would very much not like to turn this rug a nice shade of beige.
Here's the odd part: I have a prettty good drinking tolerance. Only once in my life have I gotten sick from drinking while awake. Instead, typically, I'll wake up the next morning and feel alright. Take the worlds most massive dump, and a headache will come on.
Typically this continues until I throw up two or three times, and then I feel better, whiped out, but better. anyway, I guess what my question is: Is this a typical hangover?
Second: I know there are some folk remedies for hangovers, anyone have some good ones, as I'm currently at work and would very much not like to turn this rug a nice shade of beige.
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As for remedies, drink a lot of water. Like chug two glasses right now
Remedies for a hangover that work: throwing up. Drinking water.
It's a personal battle.
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And I also find, that even though its the last thing you want to do, get up and get moving. Even just walking around. Get that blood pumping.
And eat stuff.
Ibuprofen is good for the pain.
As for the next day, caffeine will help, as will water, but these are usually temporary fixes, because time is really one of the only things that will get rid of the hangover.
Sometimes, also, getting sick will help. If you feel the need to throw up before you go to bed, do. This is your body trying to get rid of the excess alcohol that has not been digested. This seems to reduce the hangover for some people.
But be warned when its over that hang over comes roaring back something fierce. You have never seen joy so quickly turn to pain.
But the 20-30 minutes prior to that the hang over is all but forgotten about.
To be clear, fatty foods are good for prevention as they line the stomach, slowing the absorption of alcohol and giving your body time to process the byproducts. This means it'll take you longer to get drunk but increase the chances of surviving the following morning sans-hangover. Obviously, this only works if you eat fatty food before drinking.
Fatty foods are, however, worse than useless as a remedy. If anything, they will only irritate a fragile stomach and give you nothing good to combat the hangover with. Lighter foods such as an OJ, apple and banana smoothy which will replenish vitamins, potassium and electrolytes are going to be a better remedy. Afterwards, ear a boiled egg, which not only gives you energy but also contains cysteine which can help break-down hangover inducing toxins, and some wholegrain toast for energy and to give your stomach something to cuddle up to.
Water is probably the best prevention and remedy though - drink plenty of water whilst drinking alcohol (ideally one glass of water for every drink), drink a good pint or so of water before going to bed to prevent dehydration while you sleep and and have plenty on hand the following morning to help recovery. Gatorade, containing water, sodium, sugar, potassium, phosphate, and a small dose of vitamin C, is a super alternative to water as it not only rehydrates but also replenish/boosts a bunch of stuff that will help combat the hangover whilst not containing caffeine and being non-carbonated which are two things you're better off avoiding.
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Not so sure about this...I've had greasy ass breakfasts at IHOP and Dennys after a major hangover, and it always makes me feel better. YMMV?
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Really, the main thing to combat a hangover is drinking mostly water throughout the day, maybe some Gatorade. Also, I've found popping a Vitamin B-100 pill helps a little bit, too.
Vitamin E, too. Maybe a mutlivitamin?
Otherwise I have had hang overs like yours before wake up feelin great but a few hours in everything goes to hell in hand bag, couple pukes later all is well.
Gatorade is the best thing to compare this drink too, except I think this other product works better if I could sell it to the states I would market it as a hang over cure.
Just experiment to see what suits you in terms of hangover remedy. I get wasted and wake up the next morning feeling fine after a nice long shower. Yours certainly isn't the oddest batch of symptoms I've heard.
This is why I like that Auquafina Plus+ stuff so much. It's wonderous, tastes good, hydrates well, and it chock-full of vitamins and whatnot.
It might make you feel better, but it's essentially just depriving you of fluids which will probably exacerbate your hangover the next morning.
So yeah, Gatorade.
Or Powerade, because fuck Pepsi Cola.
It's coincidental. It may have given you a boost for a while, but if there's still shit in your system and you're still dehydrated then you'll end up feeling like shit again eventually. It's possible that what you do after eating the breakfast helped you recover before that high wore off, such as rehydrating etc.
There's nothing inherent to greasy fatty food that can help you once you have a hangover. The energy from the breakfast and the goodness in the eggs may have helped some, if you drank a lot of OJ or water with it that would be helping also, but the rest of the fatty stodge is just giving your body more shit to deal with that it doesn't need right then and just potentially leads to you feeling worse. There are better ways to get what you need without also consuming the stuff you don't need.
Every time I drink water before sleeping, I end up having a much less serious hangover.
I have to say that eating a fast food-like breakfast has always, always helped me.
It's nothing about the fat I'm certain, but a nice tasty, fast meal helps get the body energized to begin it's reorganization.
I don't really view it as something your body has to deal with. It'll break it down just like it would any other food. It's just not all that healthy. That's a long term risk, which probably isn't your concern if you have a fucking awful hangover.
As I said before though, getting an energy boost and cysteine is great, but there are more optimal methods of getting them than a fry-up - eg smoothie and a boiled egg.
- Eat something. Not too much since I'll have to sleep at some point. Usually just some noodles, rice or cereal.
- I try to stay awake for about an hour, put on a DVD, chill out whilst taking my time over a couple of glasses of water.
- Go to bed, after taking some health salts, with a pint of water.
- If I feel still feel rough in the morning I take some more health salts and have eggs and toast for breakfast. Paracetamol if I have a headache and then just drink water and fruit juice for the rest of the day.
if you can't stomache the aweful taste of McD's though, stick to water and tylenol and the such
The next day: Get out of bed. Take a shower. Go and get some fast food (but not too much), and drink lots and lots of water/Gatorade.
drink moderately
I swear that adding salt to the water will help with that. But then again 3 liters is way too much, as you discovered.
works wonders.
edit: subway soup + green tea and people watching on a patio all afternoon works wonders, too.