Favourite hangover cure...

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Best cure for a hangover?

Anyone have advice? I normally take Alcodol, works very well.. used to use KGB but seems I need to take more than normal for it to work..

Any secret recipe's? :) :)
 
Pronutro with loads of milk and tons of sugar before you go to bed. In the morning the same with lots of water. As much as you can drink!

Sorts it out in no time...

THE BEST option is 1 litre of luke warm water with 2 table spoons full of salt and 4 table spoons full of sugar... If you puke it is also good, but if you can keep it in, you should feel 100% in about 45 minutes. It replaces the electrolites and other minerals that get used by the body to save the body from damage by alcohol...
 
I got this stuff phosoforte, it works very well.

Alcohol is the best cure for hangover though but all it is doing is delaying it
 
Stop drinking :D

When I was drinking, I found the best cure was to force yourself to eat a big breakfast, no matter how you felt - within reason, if your in such a bad way that your hurling chunks, you should probably be in hospital.

If it's just a head hangover, then a greasy fry-up with plenty of orange is good - avoid coffee at all costs, as your body is already dehydrated and adding a diaretic into the mix isn't a good idea.

If you've also got a stomach over, sorry for you !

But the best thing to do is to analyse why you got a hangover in the first place.
If you stick to the same drink all night, you won't have a bad hangover, but add just one different drink into the mix and your stuffed.
 
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Hey - I'm one month and counting stone cold sober. Best thing I've done in years, don't miss drinking at all + now my lunch/supper bills are 1/10th what they used to be and I don't wake up thinking "Oh my God, what did I say last night ?"

Instead, I wake up thinking "Oh my God, what didn't I say last night ?" :D

Gonna give myself another month of sobriety and take it from there - see how my health checks out.

I'd say that 23 years of drinking is enough for anyone ...
 
best cure is prevention,
drinking lots of water during the festivities will avoid all problems.
Ofcourse drinking water when your drink is so much more tempting gives rise to a whole different problem... :P
Just be a man and take the pain! lol
 
I second the 'stop drinking' option.
You're putting a poison into your body - and the after effects are from the poison not
being able to be processed at suitable speeds to be flushed out of your body.
Its a toxic overdose. (Which is misguidedly called 'a hangover'.)

Either you build up a sufficient tolerance to the poison, by using it every day
(and thus risking addiction - alcoholism) or don't touch it in the first place.

And a dependence on alcohol, unlike many other drugs, is doubly difficult to deal with - given that you dont see big signs everywhere saying USE COCAINE! or HEROIN - THE TASTE OF SOUTH AFRICA etc etc

But you DO see them for alcohol.

Alcohol is a drug - and if you use it, and need to use it on every social occasion - you're a drug addict. Sorry, but that's the truth :P

Call me old fashioned, but anything which has such a negative effect from using, just isn't worth it - regardless of the feeling during it, and regardless of the false advertising trying to make you think that this poison is 'acceptable'..
 
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By LG :Its a toxic overdose. (Which is misguidedly called 'a hangover'.)

Never thought of it that way..!
Makes more sense then, to stop overdosing.
 
LoneGunman said:
I second the 'stop drinking' option.
You're putting a poison into your body - and the after effects are from the poison not
being able to be processed at suitable speeds to be flushed out of your body.
Its a toxic overdose. (Which is misguidedly called 'a hangover'.)

Either you build up a sufficient tolerance to the poison, by using it every day
(and thus risking addiction - alcoholism) or don't touch it in the first place.

And a dependence on alcohol, unlike many other drugs, is doubly difficult to deal with - given that you dont see big signs everywhere saying USE COCAINE! or HEROIN - THE TASTE OF SOUTH AFRICA etc etc

But you DO see them for alcohol.

Alcohol is a drug - and if you use it, and need to use it on every social occasion - you're a drug addict. Sorry, but that's the truth :P

Call me old fashioned, but anything which has such a negative effect from using, just isn't worth it - regardless of the feeling during it, and regardless of the false advertising trying to make you think that this poison is 'acceptable'..
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Try telling me that a few years back and I would've found 100 excuses, ranging from "Mankind has been drinking for thousands of years, so it's part of our culture" all the way through to "but a glass of red wine a day is good for you"

LONG RAMBLE EDITED OUT : Nobody wants to read my sad story. I don't drink anymore, nuff sed.
 
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ic said:
That's about the same as saying that looking at all your TelkoDemonopoly bills, and how bankrupt you are after paying them, will cure a hangover - more likely to drive you to drink again, which now that I think of it will temporarily cure that hangover, looks like GuRu is onto something [maybe force-feed that laxative to the anally-retentive management @ TelkoDemonopoly]...:D
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Imagine the loos at Telkom HQ and the strange noises rushing down the hallway if this could happen... Couple that with the grunts and swearing and you can easily have one of the most funny video or audio clips ever should somebody find a way of recording it...

"Ooooh aaaaaah, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr [PLONK PLONK SPURT SPURT SQUIRT]!!!!"

"Toilet paper.... TOILET PAPER!!!! WHO USED UP ALL THE TOILET PAPER??!!!!???"
 
MansoN said:
"Everything" in moderation.
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that's it in a nutshell, but it's a hard thing to achieve.

I've gone from drinking too much, to eating too much pasta and chocolate - damn ! :D - at least it costs less.

But like smoking, in my new found sobriety, I ain't gonna chirp on anyones case about it - no point.

I've had many discussions about the pros and cons over the years, usually over a few bottles of wine and have always come back, finally, to the feeling that like much of modern life, drinking is more often than not, rubbish.

A glass of wine or a shot of whiskey once in a while is fine, but the way booze is advertised and how much of modern life seems to revolve around it is often alarming.

The first few glasses are always great - that soft fuzzy feeling, warmth, good humour. It's the ones that follow after that are problematical.

There's a definite truth that booze can loosen up tongues and lead to great conversation, but more often than not the balance is tipped in the favour of more booze and chaos ensues.

Have you ever arrived late for a supper or lunch where everyone is drunk and you are sober ?
It's really very sad to see how drunk people behave.

Then the misconception that great artists are often drinkers - the misconception being that it makes their art better. It doesn't, it just makes them burn faster and thus burn-out. Possibly having such a raging talent leads to the need to temper it.

As for wine, beer or whiskey connoisseurs, I've yet to meet a knowledgable enthusiast who is a big drinker.

Yep, everything in moderation.
 
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ic said:
Just wondering if the drive-in was Veldskoen? - I did much the same with my circle of friends - we would walk-in [through the broken wall at the back] to Veldskoen drive-in with enough booze to get totally sloshed - helped a lot during winter...:D
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Close enough - it was actually The Willows drive-in !

We used to sneak in through the hole in the fence, or occassionaly pay R1 to get it :D
 
I find this works for me, before going to be about 3 beer glasses of water (cold, hot, tap doesn't matter). each glass should also have in about 3 tea spoons of sugar and a splash of lemon juice. take a panado with the last glass.
 
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