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post #1 of 42
5/3/07 at 3:36pm
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I've long learned my lesson about posting about various substance abuses on CHUD, but I'm making an exception today. Last night, I got absolutely trashed and high (for the first time in four years. I almost made a thread about being high while high, too, but didn't. If I can change and you can change, everybody can change.). I felt pretty decent this morning after sleeping for about eight hours, then showered and came into work.

However, the effects of last night, i.e., hangover, just hit me about an hour ago and I'm in the office for another three hours. Plus, I have various writing endeavours that need my attention and focus while I'm here. I need your reccomendations for the best quickie hangover cures out there, stat!
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post #2 of 42
5/3/07 at 3:37pm
Water, water, water, drink lots of water.
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post #3 of 42
5/3/07 at 3:38pm
Angel dust.
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post #4 of 42
5/3/07 at 3:39pm
A bullet cures most ills.

Seriously, much of a hangover is simple dehydration. Drink plenty of water or Gatorade, take a couple of Tylenol, and wait it out.
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post #5 of 42
5/3/07 at 3:39pm
Best cure? Don't drink the night before work.
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post #6 of 42
5/3/07 at 3:40pm
Thread Starter 
Yeah, I'm not even supposed to be in the office today, but I came in to check some stuff and they wrangled me into handling the phones for the afternoon. If I could leave, I would.
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post #7 of 42
5/3/07 at 3:43pm
Pho, Vietnamese noodle soup, is really great for hangovers or just being sick in general. Last year nearly every Saturday afternoon, my friends and I would hit our favorite noodle shop. I think it's probably that you're sitting over a huge bowl of broth as well as drinking it that makes you feel so much better afterwards. I realize that isn't much help while you're at work, soup in general is good although not as effective.
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post #8 of 42
5/3/07 at 3:45pm
I have two hangover cures I swear by (not counting the obvious drinks lot of water or Gatorade to re-hydrate your brain).

BC Headache Powder and a can of Coke - it tastes beyond horrible, but it works. BTW, it must be Coke. I'm not sure why, but I'm a Diet Pepsi guy and it doesn't work as well.

Big Mac extra value meal at McDonalds (with Coke to drink). Usually the only time I eat McDonalds, but for some reason the combination of grease, salt, and Coke works wonders.
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post #9 of 42
5/3/07 at 3:51pm
hookers
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post #10 of 42
5/3/07 at 3:57pm
My grandmother's recipe is: a sprig of parsley, 4 drops of lemon, 3 teaspoons of honey, half an aspirin and an old copy of Cracked, all mixed together and drunk out of a shoe

Failing that: water.
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post #11 of 42
5/3/07 at 3:57pm
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Originally Posted by Brian Wehman
Big Mac extra value meal at McDonalds (with Coke to drink). Usually the only time I eat McDonalds, but for some reason the combination of grease, salt, and Coke works wonders.

I think that would make me vomit.
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post #12 of 42
5/3/07 at 4:01pm
Meat. Something greasy. Then shit like crazy.

Does the job for me. Ideally I'll try to get a nap in there and maybe a Tylenol.
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post #13 of 42
5/3/07 at 4:01pm
Buckets of water. And go out for late-night pancakes after an evening of drinking.

That last part won't help you now.
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post #14 of 42
5/3/07 at 4:04pm
This may be too parochial a suggestion (I'm in the UK), but I always used to swear by pickled onion flavoured Monster Munch (corn based chips) washed down with a can of Irn-Bru (orange soft drink that outsells Coke in Scotland - or at least apocryphally).

Nowadays my favourite cure is the "sickie". Call in, claim a curiously sudden stomach complaint and make like you're going to work from home. Then go straight back to sleep again. It amazes me that I've never been called out when I've done that.
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post #15 of 42
5/3/07 at 4:06pm
All the water is good advice. And get high before drinking, do NOT get high AFTER drinking; no idea why, but that's always a recipe for disaster.

Um, not staring at a computer screen is also probably a good idea. Open a window, lots of oxygen and water will fix you up.
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post #16 of 42
5/3/07 at 4:14pm
Hair of the dog is the only cure.
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post #17 of 42
5/3/07 at 4:35pm
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Originally Posted by Joe LeFors
Hair of the dog is the only cure.
My favorite cure!
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post #18 of 42
5/3/07 at 4:46pm
Definitely preventative, but I find that taking 2 Tylenol and drinking atleast a tall glass of H20 before going to bed usually keeps me from getting a hangover.
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post #19 of 42
5/3/07 at 4:56pm
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Originally Posted by Joe LeFors
Hair of the dog is the only cure.
Yup Red Beer. A light beer and tomato juice. The Vitamin C helps your body while the Alcohol numbs the pain.
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post #20 of 42
5/3/07 at 5:11pm
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Originally Posted by gravedigger
And go out for late-night pancakes after an evening of drinking.
Hell yes!! But it can't be pancakes alone, it's got to be the whole Moon Over My Hammy (insert local equivalent here) action: bacon, sausage, runny sunnyside-up eggs, pancakes, buttered toast, hashbrowns. You'll be too worried about your arteries to even realize you have a hangover. Heck, there was a period in the late 90s, when I had so many late night breakfasts at the local Perkins (while blacked-out) that the waitresses would automatically serve me the usual. This later confused the hell out of me when I walked into the joint sober.
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post #21 of 42
5/3/07 at 5:19pm
Has anyone actually managed to keep themselves in a manageably drunk state for a few days or more to stave off a hangover. I'm pretty sure I managed this over the Christmas Holiday where I essentially started drinking on the 22nd December and didn't stop until the 27th (this involved waking up everyday with a glass of Scotch, but was surprisingly effective at keeping me personable while other people were around)
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post #22 of 42
5/3/07 at 5:23pm
Yup, slept for a couple of hours then drank a cannister of momosa's to wake up. Ended the night with an empty bottle of scotch-whiskey and lost at the Kentucky Derby. Good story.
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post #23 of 42
5/3/07 at 5:35pm
Pedialite believe it or not is good to help replace lost fluids and elctrolytes. You can find it in the baby aisle of most stores. Better than Gatorade even.

A packet of Emergen-C and an Airborne mixed into a bottle of water is also a good addition.

I have found a beer before heading into work helps settle the stomach as well (I know it doesn't help you now; but something to remember for later).

You might pop a couple of stay awakes as well to keep yourself from crashing while at work.

If it is any consolation, I will be in the same boat more than likely Sunday since all my friends are coming in for JazzFest.
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post #24 of 42
5/3/07 at 5:56pm
I had these pills that you were supposed to take WHILE drinking to prevent a hang-over. Eventually, I looked at the expiration date and it was something like June of 2003. So, yeah, I doubt they did anything.
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post #25 of 42
5/3/07 at 6:25pm
Go scuba-diving...I'm fucking serious!!
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post #26 of 42
5/3/07 at 6:29pm
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Originally Posted by DARKMITE8
Definitely preventative, but I find that taking 2 Tylenol and drinking atleast a tall glass of H20 before going to bed usually keeps me from getting a hangover.
This works, but doesn't always cure it. I'm always pissed the next day when I realize I didn't have any water before going to bed.

The best way to get rid of it the next day is to sweat it out. But you better have some motivation...
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post #27 of 42
5/3/07 at 6:45pm
Don't stop drinking.

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Originally Posted by Casey Moore
A packet of Emergen-C and an Airborne mixed into a bottle of water is also a good addition.
I do this but in a beer not water.

Failing that I'll have a Montana breakfast which is a red beer with hot sauce and a raw egg. The extra protein helps fortify your belly and the hot sauce helps you sweat out the risidual booze.
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post #28 of 42
5/3/07 at 6:58pm
Sweating out the booze is key, though you'd have to down a lot of hot sauce to get the sweat going that you really need. If you can, go to the gym and work out as hard as you can for an hour or so. That usually does the trick for me.

As for water and food, I find it works best if you drink a ton of water before I go to bed. Sure, you'll get up to piss a lot, but you'll feel a hell of a lot better than if you hadn't.
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post #29 of 42
5/3/07 at 7:01pm
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Originally Posted by Mad Man Mundt
Don't stop drinking.
Failing that I'll have a Montana breakfast which is a red beer with hot sauce and a raw egg. The extra protein helps fortify your belly and the hot sauce helps you sweat out the risidual booze.
What does the salmonila help with?
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post #30 of 42
5/3/07 at 7:51pm
Commericially purchased eggs are by and large washed in a sanitizing solution within minutes of the laying. Even if they weren't the alcohol in the beer would most likley kill the bacteria. Don't be dense. The only people who really have to worry about salmonella are the elderly, immune deficient and the infirm and anyway, fuck those guys.
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post #31 of 42
5/3/07 at 8:12pm
Alright Rocky, relax I was just kidding

As far as the "keep Drinking" I tried this for about a week once. "Delay, Delay, Delay" was the motto but when the hangover finally came it was a MOTHERFUCKER!
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post #32 of 42
5/3/07 at 8:41pm
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Originally Posted by Spike Marshall
Has anyone actually managed to keep themselves in a manageably drunk state for a few days or more to stave off a hangover. I'm pretty sure I managed this over the Christmas Holiday where I essentially started drinking on the 22nd December and didn't stop until the 27th (this involved waking up everyday with a glass of Scotch, but was surprisingly effective at keeping me personable while other people were around)
On a related note, I never ever get hangovers. Usually when I wake up after a night of drinking, I'll still be drunk. But that's probably related to the fact that I'm good at keeping myself hydrated and I never sleep for more than 5 hours at a time.
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post #33 of 42
5/3/07 at 8:45pm
the best cure for a hangover is another hangover.
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post #34 of 42
5/3/07 at 9:50pm
I once heard Denny's Pancakes can fix a hangover...that is a complete lie.
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post #35 of 42
5/4/07 at 11:45am
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Originally Posted by Kueller
On a related note, I never ever get hangovers.
I'm pretty much the same way, but, on those rare occassions when I do get a hangover, they're real bitches. Or, more likely, I'm just acting like a big baby because I'm not used to it.
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post #36 of 42
5/4/07 at 11:54am
The Hangover Cure



smoke two blunts and call me in the morning.
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post #37 of 42
5/4/07 at 12:22pm
I'm slightly hungover right now. Last night on my way home I stopped at a New York system and got a cheeseburger and two hot weiners all the way, with this thread in mind. It sort of worked, but I can't stop shitting.

One thing to keep in mind about hangovers is that they aren't all completely physical. A lot of it for me, usually, is the depression that comes the next day. Work is the worst place to be when it comes to dealing with that. If you don't have to work, I find that I benefit most just from being outside, whether it's raining or sunny. The outside and lots of water and maybe some tomato juice. Something that doesn't work all that well but is very comforting is staying home and watching favorite movies that I've seen a million times.
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post #38 of 42
5/4/07 at 12:50pm
Holy shit, that's a Cheech & Chong esque sized blunt if I ever saw one.
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post #39 of 42
5/4/07 at 1:17pm
Before you pass out, try and pop a few advil with a glass of water. You'll still be smarting in the morning, but it'll take the edge off.
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post #40 of 42
5/4/07 at 1:18pm
its actually a spliff. and i smoked one bigger when i was in amsterdam last year (with a lil bit of help from my friends).

but seriously, THC is the hangover cure. if i wake up hurting, a lil pinner joint or a couple of g-bong rips and my heart feels like a goddamned lion and i'm ready to face the muthafuckin world.
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post #41 of 42
5/18/07 at 1:59am
Gatorade works well, especially if you drink when you get home from the bar.
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post #42 of 42
5/18/07 at 3:32am
Pizza the next day helps, as long as you take four or five shits.

Also, sitting in the shower until your head hurts no more really does the trick.
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