― C J, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― Chris, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― katie, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)
in the morning, two fried eggs on two slices of toast/marmite, topped with chilli sauce.
― whatever, Sunday, 13 January 2008 14:02 (seventeen years ago)
There is no cure.
― Billy Dods, Sunday, 13 January 2008 14:29 (seventeen years ago)
Celestial Seasonings Detox AM Tea should be called Hangover Tea. Tastes pretty good and has a bunch of liver cleansing herbs (milk thistle, dandelion, red clover) and it gets rid of my headache.
― the higgs, Sunday, 13 January 2008 18:34 (seventeen years ago)
pot noodle, lucozade, melon, and marmite toast.
― Thomas, Sunday, 13 January 2008 21:32 (seventeen years ago)
The fuck did I do
― Ecomigrant gnomics (darraghmac), Friday, 8 April 2016 10:41 (nine years ago)
i ask myself the same question but i kind of know
― disco Polo (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 April 2016 10:47 (nine years ago)
on long train journeys there are few forms of amusement
― disco Polo (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 April 2016 10:49 (nine years ago)
Srsly I've never had it like this ogod
― Ecomigrant gnomics (darraghmac), Friday, 8 April 2016 11:10 (nine years ago)
i was going back to the pub but there's no way
― disco Polo (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 April 2016 11:30 (nine years ago)
My wife's away. I've been drinking vaguely moderately for what seems like ages. I'll see you guys here tomorrow morning.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Friday, 8 April 2016 11:40 (nine years ago)
it's a date
― disco Polo (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 April 2016 11:43 (nine years ago)
I'm not making any plans tbh
― never had it so ogod (darraghmac), Friday, 8 April 2016 11:52 (nine years ago)
When I have a really stinko, deathly hangover I do 40 minutes on the exercise bike and sweat so profusely it seems medically impossible. Of course it definitely ain't a cure but it makes me feel like a slightly more respectable class of alcoholic.
― calzino, Friday, 8 April 2016 11:58 (nine years ago)
It's a good call but it presumes I can.make it up the ladder to the attic and I'm gonna have to say no
― never had it so ogod (darraghmac), Friday, 8 April 2016 11:59 (nine years ago)
i went out for a good long walk for an hour or more and i was no better at the end of it i assure you
― disco Polo (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 April 2016 12:04 (nine years ago)
i can actually remember and rank the worst hangovers of my life.
one was in san sebastien in a pension, puking into a metal bin and listening to steven gerrard slipping against chelsea.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Friday, 8 April 2016 12:06 (nine years ago)
chief football writer in donostia
i've had some bad ones for sure but i wouldn't say there are any true standouts.
the most recent one i remember was at a bachelor party last fall. after a night of pretty serious drinking we went for a 5 mile hike for which i was dressed too warmly. it turned out to be 2.5 miles straight uphill (and then back), and by the summit i had sweat out all the booze.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 8 April 2016 12:43 (nine years ago)
My worst hangover ever was achieved with the help of former denizens of these parts lauren p and ddb. The next day lp and I texted each other between bouts of vomiting and I think she actually had to get on a plane? God rest her soul.
― If authoritarianism is Romania's ironing board, then (in orbit), Friday, 8 April 2016 12:48 (nine years ago)
the medical efficacy of cannabis in the treatment of hangovers should be enough to reclassify it in the US imho
― art, Friday, 8 April 2016 12:51 (nine years ago)
uggh god no
― disco Polo (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 April 2016 12:52 (nine years ago)
srsly
― Kevin Ageusia Smith (wins), Friday, 8 April 2016 12:54 (nine years ago)
that was upsetting for me to read
if your hangover doesn't take a stomach form i guess i can understand, but just a little has gone a long way towards bringing me back from the edge of the void in the past.
― art, Friday, 8 April 2016 12:56 (nine years ago)
like don't go hit a gravity bong or consume a bag full of medical grade edibles im talking like just enough to make a cat hungry
― art, Friday, 8 April 2016 12:57 (nine years ago)
can't face a regular roll-up never mind a joint, but tbh me and weed have had an amicable separation for a few years now
― disco Polo (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 April 2016 12:58 (nine years ago)
My hangover certainly does take a stomach form! I don't agree with weed at the best of times tho, I'm sure some ppl would say the same about beer as a stomach settler but it's worked for me at times
― Kevin Ageusia Smith (wins), Friday, 8 April 2016 12:59 (nine years ago)
The answer is probably dioralyte tbh
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Friday, 8 April 2016 13:00 (nine years ago)
I think dehydration plays less of a role than people assume
― Kevin Ageusia Smith (wins), Friday, 8 April 2016 13:01 (nine years ago)
the recent Horizon doc about how alcohol fucks you up said that dehydration was nothing to do with the hangover
― disco Polo (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 April 2016 13:02 (nine years ago)
basically one of the by-products of yr liver breaking down alcohol is some poisonous shit that will make you feel rough depending on yr level of tolerance etc
― disco Polo (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 April 2016 13:03 (nine years ago)
the self-loathing and panic attacks i guess i just bring to the table by myself - not that i'm too bad with them today
that's reasonable for sure. it definitely shouldn't be your first foray or return from a long hiatus, but if you and weed are occasional companions in my experience it has been a life saver. that having been said my hangover always hits my guts the hardest so anything with palliative effects to that end help
apologies to those i may have churned at the wrong time, i sometimes forget that weed really disagrees w some
― art, Friday, 8 April 2016 13:05 (nine years ago)
xps to various affected parties.
Didn't see it but that makes perfect sense to me, it's more about yr stomach lining being eaten away & ur whole immune system rebellion at the acetaldehyde & shit you've flooded it with xp
― Kevin Ageusia Smith (wins), Friday, 8 April 2016 13:05 (nine years ago)
How you feelin deems
― Kevin Ageusia Smith (wins), Friday, 8 April 2016 13:06 (nine years ago)
no worries art btw
― disco Polo (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 April 2016 13:23 (nine years ago)
I feel shit every morning when I wake up, and that's without drinking, so I may as well drink.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Friday, 8 April 2016 13:31 (nine years ago)
i definitely agree w/ art, weed is the best hangover cure for me but still it is only part of a regimen
― marcos, Friday, 8 April 2016 13:56 (nine years ago)
that regimen includes:
1) sleep as much as i can, this can be very hard though, i don't sleep well when i'm drunk2) a glass of water2) a large mug of miso3) greasy, salty breakfast - couple of fried eggs maybe w/ some hot sauce, something spicy will release pain-relieving endorphins iirc4) coffee (at this point this is a lot of fluids in the list so i emphasize do not drink them all too fast bc you might end up w/ a fishbowl belly5) some fresh air6) little bit of yoga7) kombucha - it has a very low alcohol content so i feel like it has a similar effect of having a beer but w/ much less alcohol8) weed
― marcos, Friday, 8 April 2016 14:01 (nine years ago)
9) oh plus some ibuprofen10) i also keep a glass of saltwater in the bathroom for gargling - if i've burned out my throat in a loud bar it can help
― marcos, Friday, 8 April 2016 14:04 (nine years ago)
whether or not dehydration is a factor in hangovers, drinking a shit ton of water before, during and after does seem to help. maybe just in slowing down the alcohol consumption, or liver rinsing, or who knows what.
morning after i used to get up early, drink a fucking huge glass of juice or water and go right back to bed. do the same when i next woke, chased with a fistful of miscellaneous vitamin pills. more sleep if possible, otherwise, hair of the dog (bloody mary, ideally), bong hit, wait a while, eat some gross food.
― Keks + Nuss (contenderizer), Friday, 8 April 2016 14:06 (nine years ago)
For me, it used to be sunshine and a walk. Then a big greasy salty breakfast once the stomach is settled.
My current drinking habits don't include binges - more a small and steady stream, with good buzz maintenance - so I don't really find myself hung over these days.
Not sure I ever used weed as a hangover cure specifically, but in my weedier periods I did appreciate pot as a nice change from drinking. Sometimes just the change is all one needs.
― up jump the bougie (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 8 April 2016 14:07 (nine years ago)
two paracetamol before bed works amazingly well as a preventative ime. do any of you do that?
i try not to make it a regular thing as i have a vague memory of pharmasister explaining how awful it is for you. but it works so well if you've had a few too many on a worknight or whatever.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Friday, 8 April 2016 14:07 (nine years ago)
food, water, and sleep
And yes hangover stonage is the best
― lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 8 April 2016 21:40 (nine years ago)
im 31 and have been drinking heavily for almost 20 years. if i have a proper skinful - either a prodigious amount of beer, or a just a plentiful amount of spirits or wine, or some combination, i absolutely cannot function with the hangover that ensures. i vom like crazy, stay in bed til nighttime, can barely stagger to the kitchen for some water etc. generally moderate my intake nowadays, and try to stick to beers. ten pints of lager over a long night will get me steaming out my nut but provided I've eaten, i pace myself, and drink some water im usually fine the next day.
hangover cure was always a large bottle of irn bru, and a packet of salt and vinegar mccoys
― trickle-down ergonomics (jim in glasgow), Friday, 8 April 2016 22:33 (nine years ago)
acetaminophen helps, but of course is terrible for the liver on top of the terrible for the liver thing you've just done
― trickle-down ergonomics (jim in glasgow), Friday, 8 April 2016 22:37 (nine years ago)
do they still sell irn bru at superstore
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 8 April 2016 22:38 (nine years ago)
Back in my drinking days, I used to buy GT's kombucha by the boxlot. The bottom shelf of my fridge was always well-stocked. Also kept a bottle of Angostura Bitters on hand for the particularly bad days. It served me well until THC introduced itself.
― Austin, Friday, 8 April 2016 22:38 (nine years ago)
Is naproxen better or worse for your liver than acetaminophen/paracetamol?
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Friday, 8 April 2016 22:40 (nine years ago)
My new hangover cure might just be the boring but foolproof one I think
― never had it so ogod (darraghmac), Friday, 8 April 2016 22:51 (nine years ago)
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, April 8, 2016 3:38 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
not sure!
they sell irn bru at a couple of corner stores on main street in vancouver, both owned by the same people. snackland and hasty market.
― trickle-down ergonomics (jim in glasgow), Friday, 8 April 2016 22:52 (nine years ago)
ha still remember hasty market
mt pleasant was my hood for a long time
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 8 April 2016 22:55 (nine years ago)
When I was an electrician I used to turn up for work in some fucking shocking states. Once I got tasked with going up a wobbly tower scaffold, that was as tall as they are allowed to be by HSE rules, to fix the canopy of a giganto chandelier to the domed ceiling of a huge Anglican Monastry. There was a point where I looked down and felt like James Stewart in Vertigo and I had about 20 people below all watching me, including my boss and so-called workmates and the site manager twat, who couldn't stand me. Sometimes I think hangovers actually helped me get through times like that better than if I was sober.
― calzino, Friday, 8 April 2016 22:56 (nine years ago)
xp. my hood for last 3 years. talking of hangovers I think im going to go drink in jonathan rogers park in like an hour wooo
― trickle-down ergonomics (jim in glasgow), Friday, 8 April 2016 23:01 (nine years ago)
nice!
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 8 April 2016 23:05 (nine years ago)
I've always heard that acetaminophen (Tylenol) can be mega-bad for you if you're also an alcohol enthusiast. As I am most definitely an alcohol enthusiast, I take ibuprofen (Advil) instead.
― up jump the bougie (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 8 April 2016 23:17 (nine years ago)
For some reason ibuprofen doesn't seem to do shit for me, which is why I was wondering about naproxen which does work. It seems to only be OTC for period pains in the UK but we just get buckets of the stuff from the US.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Friday, 8 April 2016 23:25 (nine years ago)
When I was an electrician I used to turn up for work in some fucking shocking states.
lol
― JoeStork, Friday, 8 April 2016 23:37 (nine years ago)
send help today guys
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 9 April 2016 09:16 (nine years ago)
I think one thing that really works for me is if I stay up an hour after I stop drinking and feel myself sober up a little. I miss the sleep but the pain in my stomach isn't nearly as bad when I do that
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 9 April 2016 09:18 (nine years ago)
I'm going to give palak masoor dhal a go now to see if it lives up to its reputation.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Saturday, 9 April 2016 09:21 (nine years ago)
used to take metoclopramide for nausea, which worked wonders. tbh never got the whole greasy food thing, my digestive system is struggling enough as it is
― Kevin Ageusia Smith (wins), Saturday, 9 April 2016 09:28 (nine years ago)
i think darragh's prevention strategy may have merit. peace be with you, hungover people.
― disco Polo (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 9 April 2016 09:55 (nine years ago)
a darkness falls softly on the far wall of my kitchen. There are bells calling outside. Soon, all too soon, there will be porridge and recriminations. A threelegged ass brays in the garden. What wisdom could such a creature gift me, were my ears but sufficient asslike.
― all i gotta do is akh nachivly (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 December 2010 14:49 (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Classic hangover regret post
― never had it so ogod (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 April 2016 10:27 (nine years ago)
I used to find Beecham's Resolve the most useful. Used to drink pretty heavily too. Wonder if it contained any of the compounds mentioned previously.Think they may have changed the ingredients over the years and not sure it's still around anyway.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 9 April 2016 12:05 (nine years ago)
I lie in a darkened room listening to all 1 hour 20min of Morton Feldman's Piano and String Quartet. After that either my hangover is cured or I'm ready to slit my wrists.
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 9 April 2016 13:21 (nine years ago)
Ha I've done the same but with lamonte youngs well tuned piano
― Kevin Ageusia Smith (wins), Saturday, 9 April 2016 13:22 (nine years ago)
Methanol is (probably) a large contributor to hangovers because it gets processed into formaldehyde and formic acid. Ethanol turns into nothing so heinous, also gets processed in preference to methanol. So, before your body has fully processed the methanol from dirty beer or wine, imbibe some nice clean gin or vodka, let your body go to work on the ethanol while the methanol gets harmlessly flushed out.
This is the science behind hair of the dog. I always used to try and finish the night with a vodka and coke or two and it worked for me; anecdata obv, plus this was usually on top of only four or five beers, enough for a hangover for me but far away from heavy drinker territory.
― Don't Stop 'Til You Get Eno, Ugh (ledge), Saturday, 9 April 2016 13:57 (nine years ago)
Oh my god is that why a wine drunk feels kinda oogy by the time I get there and a high-quality tequila drunk feels like flying until it drops me off a cliff??
― If authoritarianism is Romania's ironing board, then (in orbit), Saturday, 9 April 2016 14:11 (nine years ago)
Maybe, there are congeners other than methanol which can have an effect; I did read once that the different kinds of drunk you get on different kinds of booze is pretty much purely a psychological effect but perhaps drunk+full of tannins does feel different to drunk+full of methanol, or carbon dioxide, or whatever.
― Don't Stop 'Til You Get Eno, Ugh (ledge), Saturday, 9 April 2016 14:41 (nine years ago)
Tacos
― never had it so ogod (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 April 2016 14:43 (nine years ago)
breakfast tacos are a good hangover breakfast
― marcos, Saturday, 9 April 2016 14:45 (nine years ago)
also it is a completely different beast but i kind of love the weed hangover
pleasantly cloudy & groggy
some residual euphoria there a little
― marcos, Saturday, 9 April 2016 14:46 (nine years ago)
No I meant drunk + full of tacos is the usual mix
― never had it so ogod (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 April 2016 14:46 (nine years ago)
Funny way to spell kebabs.
― Don't Stop 'Til You Get Eno, Ugh (ledge), Saturday, 9 April 2016 14:52 (nine years ago)
Seem to have got away with it. So my hangover cure today was just to not get out of bed til 12.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 9 April 2016 16:14 (nine years ago)
to cure a hangover you need to eat and eat and eat ime
― Treeship, Saturday, 9 April 2016 18:18 (nine years ago)
pizza, french fries, fizzy drinks
i don't understand the science of it
I remember once staring with disappointment and nausea at a full English breakfast that seemed like a good idea when I ordered it.
― Don't Stop 'Til You Get Eno, Ugh (ledge), Saturday, 9 April 2016 18:23 (nine years ago)
I'm going to give palak masoor dhal a go now to see if it lives up to its reputation.― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Saturday, April 9, 2016 11:21 AM (9 hours ago)
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Saturday, April 9, 2016 11:21 AM (9 hours ago)
Ended up with Dal Makhani in the end but it did wonders.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Saturday, 9 April 2016 18:31 (nine years ago)
I looked into it with my Scholar-fu, there are few approaches that fare well in clinical trials. Here's the most useful review:
C Verster J and Penning R, 2010. Treatment and prevention of alcohol hangover. Current drug abuse reviews, 3(2), pp.103-109.
Promising approaches:
Tolfenamic acid (Clotam) - Rx prostaglandin synthesis inhibitor.Chlormethiazole - Rx sedative, hypnotic, muscle relaxant and anticonvulsant. Killed Keith Moon of The Who.Opuntia ficus indica (Prickly pear cactus extract) - reduced severe hangover risk 50% when taken before drinking session.KSS (Chinese herbal combo of tangerine pith, ginger & brown sugar) - reduced hangover severity when taken before drinking session.PartySmart (amla, Gale of the wind, andrographis, dandelion, date extracts) - reduced rat aldehyde concentrations.
One could mimic Clotam by avoiding food sources of arachidonic acid and loading with eicosapentanoic acid / fish oil for weeks to months before a drinking session. The last three herbal preps suggests upregulating aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 activity with hormetin polyphenols also works. The best studied hormetin that upregulates ALDH2 via Nrf2 is sulforaphane from (preferably raw) broccoli, so perhaps pre-drinking broccoli salads are worth a try. Andrographolides from Andrographis are perhaps the most potent readily available herbal Nrf2 inducers, so might also be worth a n=1 predrinking trial.
In general, it appears the ratio of activity of alcohol dehydrogenase 1 (ADH1) to ALDH2 is responsible for aldehyde concentrations, and most adverse health effects (including more seriously breast, liver and stomach cancers), but its also adversively protective against alcoholism. Anecdotaly, as a 4th generation alcoholic, now in recovery, who drank to blackouts, never experienced hangovers, and has perfect liver enzymes despite a decade of dissolution, I lucked out on the chronic effects but hangovers might have spared a decade of my life.
― Unyielding Dispair Foundation Repair, LLC (Sanpaku), Saturday, 9 April 2016 19:15 (nine years ago)
Not sure coconut water works tbh dmac
― 龜, Saturday, 9 April 2016 19:26 (nine years ago)
kombucha can have a hair of the dog-like effect in my experience
― Treeship, Saturday, 9 April 2016 20:32 (nine years ago)
idk about greasy food specifically, just eat whatever you feel like.
― lute bro (brimstead), Saturday, 9 April 2016 20:33 (nine years ago)
Eat a bacon sandwich.
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 9 April 2016 20:50 (nine years ago)
No, seriously
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 9 April 2016 20:51 (nine years ago)
snort some baking soda
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 10 April 2016 01:45 (nine years ago)
Urgh. Feel like the last week of drinking all conspired to delay the hangovers until today. I've been pissed 4 nights out of 8 and had a few on another night. Time to lay off I think. Even staying in bed til 1pm didn't work.
I went out drinking with an ex-girlfriend last night who broke up with me because she decided she was gay, which was also why she moved to Brighton. Turns out she is actually bi, and now I'm paranoid my wife is going be jealous of me being friends with her again. Not sure how much is rational and how much is my brain fucking with me today.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 16 April 2016 13:10 (nine years ago)
Tfw a guy on yr stag is really uncomfortably insistent you must drink to excess so you eventually agree on the condition he matches u and you pass every second triple vodka to yr group of srs drinker cousins and that guy is passed crowdsurfing style corpselike to his bed at eleven pm and everyone else can enjoy their night
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Saturday, 15 July 2017 23:17 (seven years ago)
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― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Saturday, 15 July 2017 23:18 (seven years ago)
Hair of the dog that bit me, Lloyd. Hair of the dog that bit me.
― calstars, Saturday, 15 July 2017 23:27 (seven years ago)