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ok, i'm getting serious bastard hangovers, even if i'm not really drunk at all, i get a bad hangover. the question is this: which alcoholic drinks have the least hangover effex the next day?

― gareth, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hangovers are a bastard, they have stolen half my life.

Clear drinks are better than brown drinks, vodka being the clearest of them all, is the best of them all. (There's one called SKYY or something which was specifically made for hangover reduction.) Also try to avoid excess sugary drinks (the girly drinks that everyone things are so weak are killers because of the sugar). The other trick is to try and keep hydrated by drinking a glass of booze then a glass of vodka, which Suzy swore would keep me OK, but it didn't work as I neglected the water after the second bottle of vodka.

― Kate the Saint, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yeh, its the dehyrdration that gets me. if only i could remember to drink some water

― gareth, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Drink at least one pint of water when you finish drinking - usually does the trick for me.

― Paul Strange, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

White wine. I drank a bottle of white wine a night for four nights in a row two weeks ago and suffered no ill effects at all, despite supplementing the wine with non-trivial amounts of either whisky or gin on each occasion. Flatmate reckons this might be because my mechanism has gone entirely, but I really don't want to consider that possibility.

Other low-hangover drinks: gin + tonic, seabreezes, straight vodka, martinis(not vermouth).

High hangover drinks: shit lager (hence inability to do anything on Sundays post Strange Fruit), port, sherry, margaritas.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If you drink heavily every single night then you're body will learn to cope and you'll stop getting hangovers altogether after about 2 years. It worked for me.

― scott, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Unfortunately your liver will then give up on you.

― Paul Strange, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The main reason I became so fond of rum and coke (dark rum not girlie Bacardi) was that we once had a monster drinking sesh, topped it off with r & c's and the next day I felt fine. I have been trying to emulate this ever since, i.e. finishing off with r & c. It doesn't work. The water thing is the best and sensiblest idea but when I am drunk being sensible is the last thing on my mind.

― Emma, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In college, I used to be very good about having some analgesic (ie, Advil, Tylenol, aspirin, ets) and a big glass of water before crawling into bed and was rarely plagued by the hangover demon.

I fell out of this habit and now am prone to getting the worst hangovers on Earth, bad to the point where death is preferable and I don't drink nearly as much as I used to.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've only suffered a couple of times, happily, but I've only very rarely gotten fully merry. I have a feeling this overall amount is about to spike sharply upward, though. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think one of the preventative measures you can take is not to mix your drinks. Take my weekend as an example. Friday: lager + Midori + vodka + butterscotch schnapps + Baileys = brain cramps and hot flushes all the way to Suzy's roof. Saturday: 2 pints of Bloody Mary + more vodka later = feeling fresh as an Alpine spring. I also subscribe to Paul's pint of water before bed theory. I have a friend who insists on taking a couple of paracetamol with the water, but I'm not keen on mixing analgesics with booze (see vomit thread).

― Madchen, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Even a giant pop robot can't help you.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I get hangovers irregardless of what i drink.

― anthony, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I recon fruit juice just the thing. I like to grab some orange juice or something a few times during a night. More bars should have juicing facilities in them. Those strawberry belinis at the party I recon woirk well for avoiding the dreaded hangover, (strawberries, prosecco and cranberry juice (for colour)).

Despite drinking like a fish on both saturday I managed to avoid a hangover, just immenese sleaziness in the morning and feeling majorly dumb. (We managed to liberate the car this evening)

― Ed, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Chugging V-8 or tomato juice before bed helps a lot. Gatorade should work too. Part of it is dehydration, part of it is replenishing electrolytes/vitamins/minerals. Sky vodka is supposed to be formulated not to cause hangovers, right?

― Kris, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Irn Bru is suppose to be a good hangover cure. A good fry up swimmming in grease is also good too, baked beans a plus. As for nonhangover inducing drinks, they all are but as my mum says don't mix 'em.

― Billy Dods, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i always find that when i drink expensive beer i can't get hungover. trouble is i'm unemployed so i can't afford expensive beer.

best hangover cure: cup of tea with loads of sugar (at least three teaspoons).

― lady die, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

man, none of you know the tried and truest secret of all: wake up, smoke a bowl and go back to bed for another two hours. THEN, and only then can you truly wake up, which is when you start in on the scotch and waters for the rest of the day. Another trick I learned from my Grandmother on Christmas morning is to simply never stop...she had a gin martini goin' at 10 a.m. before the kids could even get up and after the presents.

― bastard, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"The other trick is to try and keep hydrated by drinking a glass of booze then a glass of vodka" Kate? What? this is supposed to cure a hangover? I reccomend Sapporro beer and just NOT DRINKING TOO MUCH YOU LUSHES!

― Mike Hanley, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have never really understood hangovers, over people seem to get totally crippled by them, splitting headaches and nausea. i tend to feel a bit extra sleepy and maybe a touch weak but this is usually due to the fact that when I go out drinking I rarely eat that much.

I think it is important to build up hangover resistance by drinking at every available opportunity.

― Pete, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can I see this in action when I'm there, Pete? Can I force drinks down your throat if you stop?

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

I'm resurrecting this thread as I have a fucking terrible hangover from only a medium sized drinking session. Even my usual cure (beans on toast, lucozade and cold and flu tablets) hasn't worked. Why is it that sometimes I can drink loads and be fine and then there are times (like last night) where I have a reasonable but not excessive amount I can be spazzing all day? I even drank a pint of water before going to bed!

― cabbage, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What you need to do is go for a pint at lunchtime. You'll cruise through the rest of the day then.

― Ronan, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pull the 'dodgy pint' card, chris. Was it in the notorious home of hangovers, the Village?

― Nick, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It was indeed the Village. On the London Prides with a couple of cheeky large Malt Whiskys (Dalwhinnies iirc) That place is a hotbed of dodgy pints. Sodding disco music all night too, I reckon that must have turned the beer bad.

― cabbage, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mind you, we did then go through a bottle of red wine upon our return so I suppose that may be the reason for my malady. But also I did it the right way ie. beer before wine, but I feel less than fine.

― cabbage, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hangover update:

It's now 3pm and I still feel like crap, the hot sweats have just started and my stomach appears to hate me.

I am, officially, a wuss.

― chris, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Behold the ravages of age.........................

― Ronan, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

are you sure you aren't going down w. this flu-ey thing me and richard have? Powerboosted obviously by Neo-Jazz Age style bouzing...

― mark s, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is Theraflu available in the UK? That usually works well for me when nothing else works.

― Nicole, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't know Mark but I'll be using it as an excuse, mainly to delude myself that as I approach thirty I'm not too old to bouze like I did when I was a taxdodger.

Cold and flu tablets usually do the trick for me but not this time alas.

― chris, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I once asked a QUALIFIED REAL MEDICAL DOCTOR why I was getting soul- destroying hangovers infested with the horrors every time I went out drinking. (Note: I asked over a couple of pints, not in a consultation-style scenario). He said it *just does* get worse as you get older but also advised - if you can manage it - not only drinking water before going to bed but also eating something carbohydrate-y too. Toast will do it. Spotting a main chance, I asked him if chips would be OK. He said yes, and since then I have gloried in telling people that I have been prescribed chips by a proper doctor.

His advice was good, although I don't use it now, as (tragically) I am OFF THE BOUZE for the forseeable. Watch the breweries consolidate as they try to cope with the drop in income. Sober life is rubbish, no question.

― Tim, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tim, you have my deepest sympathy, I can imagine gnarled landlords all over London wringing their hands in anguish.

I remembered that I polished off a bag of prawn crackers between pub and home, obviously not carbohydrated enough though. Funnily enough I think I may have had a very similar conversation with, quite possibly, the same doctor, was it Sean?

― chris, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bread before drinking, if you can eat cheese it goes great with beer as well as the usual suspect. Water N coffee in the morning.

― Mr Noodles, Friday, 21 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ten months pass...

A friend of mine told me if you are getting nasty hangovers and not drinking that much, as he had been , you should do a liver cleanse and that will help a lot (10 days without drinking alcohol or coffee and taking detox supplements) I am trying it right now currently on my fifth day was getting hangovers after say 3 beers see how it goes.. also drink water and take vitamin B6 before bed that night are my cures. Also sticking to good vodka will help. John

― John, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

eight years pass...

Do you think it's a problem to start frequently 'craving' a drink in the evening? I just opened a bottle of wine solely so I could have a drink, because there wasn't really much else in the house. Never done that before. OTOH I rarely drink heavily.

― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Thursday, 20 January 2011 03:47 (fifteen years ago)

if it's the first time you've done something like that, you may have just had a craving.

do you typically have a drink every night?

― call all destroyer, Thursday, 20 January 2011 03:57 (fifteen years ago)

Not every night. Maybe 4x a week.

― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Thursday, 20 January 2011 04:02 (fifteen years ago)

If I have a hangover tomorrow I will be offended.

― Can your monkey do the Bot? (seandalai), Friday, 21 January 2011 02:19 (fifteen years ago)

Could it be boredom Hurting? I've had a bottle of wine or a few beers just to pass the evening. It's nice to have something to sip while watching a film/tv or just surfin the net.

― not_goodwin, Friday, 21 January 2011 02:48 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, probably just boredom. I don't have alcoholism in my immediate family, although I do have some addictive tendencies. And I have a tolerance, which I've heard can be a sign. Drinking a glass now fwiw, but I don't see myself having more than one tonight.

― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Friday, 21 January 2011 02:50 (fifteen years ago)

Don't think you've anything to worry about. I think the tolerance thing can come and go, obviously if you drink regularly,you will build a tolerance even if its a couple of drinks a night. When I've not drank for a while and go have a few, I can really notice the difference.

As for opening a bottle of wine solely so you could have a drink, why else would you open a bottle of wine :)

I hope it's a nice red btw.

― not_goodwin, Friday, 21 January 2011 02:59 (fifteen years ago)

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