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How does one get rid of the nauseating feeling that just wants to make u vomit and wretch!!! ugh, My head is pounding, my back and legs hurt for some reason. I feel like I was hit by a bus.
I'm not a frequent drinker, so when I do "throw a few back" I'm literally physically in pain the next day, it is awful!!!!
Waking-up with "a hanger" used to be pretty much a way of life for me, as I drank heavily for years. I've been sober for a bit over seven years now so i don't have to deal with 'em anymore, but I'm an expert on them! LOL.
The primary reason for the anguish of a hangover is dehydration and also the massive drop in your blood sugar level, since booze is loaded with sugar.
Hence: the best cure for a hanger is to drink something sweet: fruit juice is best. Drink lots of it, if you can stomach it.
But: you can do a "pre-emptive strike" if you want to avoid the morning hangover by drinking three or four glasses of water at night after your drinking bout, before you go to bed.
When you drink hard liquor, drink only name brands. They have less impurities in them than do the cheap rot-gut.
Never mix "the gain with the grape", i.e. beer with hard liquor.
Wine makes for a particularly nasty hangover, since it has a ton of sugar in it in the form of fructose.
To be honest, I always found the very best hangover cure to be "hair of the dog that bit ya." But, while this is effective, it can lead to another drinking episode--if you're like I was--and hence, yet another risk of facing the morning hangover all over again. But if you can control yourself and drink one, say, bloodymary (with tabasco & V8!) or screwdriver in the a.m. and then quit, and get some more food and non-alcoholic fluid in ya, you can beat the hanger!
Lastly: I purposely avoided giving you the obviously most logical way to beat a hanger: "just don't drink" for a reason. And that is, that back when I drank and would ask about hangover cures and someone said that, I always felt like putting their head through a wall. LOL.
great advice drummerboy.
The very worst hangover's I ever had, were from cheap wine, and Schnaaps, stay away from that stuff, if you're prone to over-indulge.
great advice drummerboy.
The very worst hangover's I ever had, were from cheap wine, and Schnaaps, stay away from that stuff, if you're prone to over-indulge.
Yeah, Schnapps can be truly evil the next morning.
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Well, they say to alternate your drinks with glasses of water or to at least drink water along with your drinks. Granted, if what you're looking for is to get drunk, this may defeat the purpose.
Drink a lot of water before bed. I agree with both the aspirin and alka seltzer and B Vitamin suggestions.
Never mix your booze. Stick with one thing for the night. It makes a huge difference. When I used to drink, I only drank red wine. Never got a hangover expect maybe once a year at the most and that's stretching it. Sort of made it easier to throw back a few on maybe a few more occasions than I should have. My advice is to absolutely stay away from hard liquor. I never touched the stuff except when much younger. I drank beer and wine (although beer rarely) and that was it. I might have had a margarita once every year or two and that was it.
As to once you're stuck with it, well, some swear by Menudo (tripe soup). Well, I would never bring myself to eat that. But I tell ya, there is nothing like a big, fat somewhat greasy carne asada burrito to cure you. I suppose anything greasy would do the same (or did for me when I was younger and did mix alcohols or drink the hard stuff on occasion - but we're talking many moons ago).
You can't be serious. Tobasco and greasy burrito's for somebody that is already sick to their stomach?
No, nice tall vanilla milkshake or what Drummerboy suggested.
Actually, when I was young and I did drink, I was a waitress at a restaurant that had good homemade soups, and the beef vegetable soup used to make me feel a lot better. For one thing the broth was probably good for rehydrating me.
How does one get rid of the nauseating feeling that just wants to make u vomit and wretch!!! ugh, My head is pounding, my back and legs hurt for some reason. I feel like I was hit by a bus.
I'm not a frequent drinker, so when I do "throw a few back" I'm literally physically in pain the next day, it is awful!!!!
Before you go to bed drink at least 16 ounces of water and take two aspirin (not ibuprofen, not acetaminiphen, no Advil, not Excederine).
ASPIRIN.
Then when you wake up in the morning drink another glass of water and take two more aspirin.
Should I tell you all that I've never had a hangover? Even the times that I mixed multiple drinks (one night: fuzzy navel, white Russian, Cape Cod, beer, sex on the beach, kamikaze, and cherries in grain alcohol) or drank a bottle of champagne by myself.
However, I am one who needs to drink water or some other non-alcoholic drink in between alcoholic drinks, and I also nibble throughout.
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Even the times that I mixed multiple drinks (one night: fuzzy navel, white Russian, Cape Cod, beer, sex on the beach, kamikaze, and cherries in grain alcohol) or drank a bottle of champagne by myself.
