The cure..

[idaz]

It might have been brought up here before... but im intressed in what the best cure is for a banging "sheet-metal-worker-in-your-head" kinda hangover..?

The common cure, at least here (in Sweden, that is), a pint of water before you go to bed (and who the hell remember that one?), and then again water, water, water, when you get up in the morning...(read: afternoon.. )

Working as a nurse in intensive care, i know how important minerals and salts are to our bodies, so here's my remedy:

Water IS important, but only like say 2 cups/half a liter every two hours, combined with bananas, tomatoes, cuecumbers, and all veggies and fruits found really, cause they contain what we contain on a cellular level.. that way you minimize headache, anxiety.. and all the shitty feelings.....

[Husker]

While I do agree with your hangover recipe (lot of water, and lot of vital minerals), the best cure I have found, is to toss the commercial crap in the trash, and distill my own, properly cutting out the heads and tails. I would much rather NOT get the hang over in the first place, than try to "cure" it.

H.

[HookLine]

Don't drink too much in the first place. Even the cleanest booze will give you a hangover if you drink enough of it.

[BW Redneck]

Don't drink on an empty stomach. Ever. Starchy and fatty food is best.

My general rule for water is that for every drink you had, drink twice that in water, plus a pint before bed.Most of the hangover symptoms are associated with the dehydration, so the more, the better.

[Butch50]

If you get a hangover, you needed that hangover. We all had, or will have, to go through those in order to learn how to drink. Just think of a hangover as a learning tool. Pain really is the very best of all teachers, with no close second.

Making good cuts, then drinking it in the right amounts spread over the right amount of time, based on your own particular system (size, tolerance, etc) will eliminate hangovers. The only way to learn what the right amount/time is, is to pay attention and have control. It is a different balance/pace for everyone.

Once in awhile one will still sneak up on you, generally when hanging out with the guys and you were drinking to keep up with them, ignoring your own internal balance, not drinking at your own pace. Then when you get hungover, just grin and bear it, rub some dirt on your head, and walk it off.

If you keep on getting hangovers, you aren't learning - pay more attention. Knowing how to drink is part of becoming a better quality person. I consider it a high life skill and don't have much respect for men my age that don't know how to drink, and I have a lot of respect for those that do.

[idaz]

...Wow...
First, thanks for Your advice everyone...
When i were reading your posts it came to me, how different we all are... It seemes like the habit of drinking alcohol, and the acceptance of alcohol as a social thing, depends a lot of where you live..

...Here in Sweden, a fat hang over is as common as washing your car on every sunday morning, and its really socially accepted too.. no one is blaming you if got to work by bus on a sat. or sund. morning, cause you weren't trusting your driving skills, after a night of "having friends over for dinner"...

...Maybe our inheritance(Spelling skills?) from the vikings, who were bingedrinking and eating toxic mushrooms, just to get courage, or get away from everyday life, whos to blame for us going "berserk" nowadays.... dont know, but it is really like that, our bodies tolerate alcohol, but our mind dont tell us when to stop...

... But keep up posting.. its really fun and interresting to know how other deal with it..!..
.../ Mike...

[punkin]

Might be the restrictions you face over there too, mate.

When i visited, you could only buy grog from the gov't run shop in buisness hours and your quantities were limited too i seem to recall.

What i found most interesting was the lack of pubs very scary for an Aussie who's used to a pub on at least two of the four corners of a major interesection.

Also interesting was the habit of the young set of buying a bottle of hooch on fri, drinking it till 11 or 12 fri night, then going to a nightclub for a couple hours and sitting on one drink cause it was so damn expensive




HabitsAreDifferentRoundTheBallPunkin

[idaz]

Punkin: You're dead on right...eccept for the quantities, unless You were visiting sweden during the WWII.. I was told that the logistics, at that time, were a pain in the ***...

Yes, the only way to get it, is through gov't controlled shops with most saturated prices, to collect taxes to keep the healthcare free of charge for all, and thats a good thing!

And because of the price(taxes), people tend to gather around, before the night out, called a preparty, or foreparty, to save a few bucks drinking their own...

And here's a thing: the gov't controlled pharmacy's puting out commercials for curing hangovers...

[goinbroke2]

Did a search and found this thread.
The reason I was looking...was at the dragstrip on the weekend doing Tech Inspector and Sat night got into my "corn extract". I brought a couple of bottles with me and drank a 750ml myself mixed with 7-up.

Next morning I had a hangover!!!

My only explanation to everybody was I must of missed some heads or tails or something. I was bragging that homemade is higher quality and I'm very cautious/picky, that I'm not out for profit like the retailers.

Well I looked like a dickhead didn't I?

Now I've never had a hangover from my stuff before, even after getting "quite" tipsy, so I was/am shocked to find out that you can STILL get a hangover?

Damn...anybody else get hangovers if they drink too much, or did I really just screw something up?

[lawnman 2]

While I do agree with your hangover recipe (lot of water, and lot of vital minerals), the best cure I have found, is to toss the commercial crap in the trash, and distill my own, properly cutting out the heads and tails. I would much rather NOT get the hang over in the first place, than try to "cure" it.

H.

here here ive drank a bottle of my rum and 3 beers one night woke up nxt day all fine and dandy no probs.

[lawnman 2]

Did a search and found this thread.
The reason I was looking...was at the dragstrip on the weekend doing Tech Inspector and Sat night got into my "corn extract". I brought a couple of bottles with me and drank a 750ml myself mixed with 7-up.

Next morning I had a hangover!!!

My only explanation to everybody was I must of missed some heads or tails or something. I was bragging that homemade is higher quality and I'm very cautious/picky, that I'm not out for profit like the retailers.

Well I looked like a dickhead didn't I?

Now I've never had a hangover from my stuff before, even after getting "quite" tipsy, so I was/am shocked to find out that you can STILL get a hangover?

Damn...anybody else get hangovers if they drink too much, or did I really just screw something up?

i must have done something to my brew once i drank 1/2 a bottle of dark navy rum nxt day i was throwing up everything that had gone ndown the throat
and was embarrising as i had a guy with me showing him the ropes for a few days and all i was doing for 4 hrs was throwing up water
dont know what happend but my head wasnt smashing just couldnt keep anthing down

but now i must be amune to it i can drink it to it comes out of my ears mind you bit tipsy and mery but nxt day ALL GOOD

[rad14701]

I've always had an exceptionally high tolerance for alcohol and have rarely ever had a hangover - unless I tried to drink the world dry the night before... I can count the number of times I've gotten sick from drinking on one hand - and I lived in bars almost every night for close to 30 years...

As mentioned in another thread, I credit my tolerance to the fact that I mainly drink shots with water chaser... Mainly drank Rumple Minze and pint glasses of water for many years... Did stints of Jack Daniels and Scotch along the way too, as well as a plethora of other liquors...

I pity my drinking buddies who've thought they could hang in there all night, only to end up totally worthless the entire next day (or two) while I went on with life as if nothing had happened... I credit the consumption of lots of water and eating a good meal before going to bed for keeping me relatively hangover free for all these years...

All that said, I've throttled my drinking back to almost nothing over the past few years... Why...??? Because I've seen far too many people drink themselves to death in my lifetime... It scares me to think that if it weren't for my consciously keeping myself healthy that I could be one of those unfortunate statistics... Maybe that's why I'm more into making booze than drinking it these days...

[guerrila distilla]

i've learnt that the best cure is as rad said, the water chaser. being british, i used to drink copious amounts of lager and shots until i either fell asleep or got carried out the room (we're talking my younger days here, i'm much wiser now ). i'd be guaranteed to start the next morning praying to the porcelain god for a good while .

my partner is polish and the first time i went to poland to meet the family, i was introduced to straight vodka. 5 bottles later between 4 people, i woke up the next morning fresh as a daisy. i realised that allthough i'd drank way past my limit, the fact that there was always a glass of juice/water next to your shot glass made a huge difference. i figured i probably sipped a few litres of juice down with the vodka.

now i only drink my spirits straight, and always have a full glass of juice on the table. try it, you'd be surprised how well it works.

also, there's a good reason why we have the urge to visit the kebab house/pizza shop at 2am after a good session. you're body seems to know what it needs