# favorite hangover cures **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 10, 2000, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-hangover-cures/14648 "2000-03-10T19:21:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-hangover-cures/14648/1 "2000-03-10T19:21:00Z")
Okay, im sitting at my desk at work and my head feels about the size of my 21 inch monitor. My two favorite methods of dealing with a hangover, Oxygen tank, and ruby red grapefruit juice, arn’t available(stupid 7-11 ordering clerk), so anybody have any suggestions? This has to be stuff that I can find in my fairly small convieniece store in my building, so no eye-of-newt type cures. thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![PurpleCrackwhore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-hangover-cures/14648/2 "2000-03-10T19:23:00Z")
Someone told me gatorade works… but since I don’t get hangovers, I don’t really know. * * * I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature! ---
**Author:** ![Nu\_Vo\_Da\_Da](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/97f17d/32.png) [@Nu\_Vo\_Da\_Da](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nu_Vo_Da_Da)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-hangover-cures/14648/3 "2000-03-10T19:39:00Z")
Well, best thing you can do at this point is take some vitamins, and drink some water. The best way to cure a hangover, though, is to drink a glass or two of water before you go to sleep, and then sleep till maybe 4 or 5 in the afternoon. That method pretty much ensures a mild, or nonexistent, hangover. I’ve heard bloody marys are good as well, though I don’t really know about that. ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-hangover-cures/14648/4 "2000-03-10T19:42:00Z")
Screw that, have a few beers at lunch. No more hangover, I swear. ---
**Author:** ![H8\_2\_W8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c77e96/32.png) [@H8\_2\_W8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/H8_2_W8)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-hangover-cures/14648/5 "2000-03-10T19:44:00Z")
Pretty much agree with Nu Vu. My suggestions: 1. Drink 2 glasses water going to bed, 2 more glasses as soon as you get up, then aspirin/tylenol and caffeine, lots of caffeine. Excedrine Migraine combine these three ingredients, so I think that would be a good option. 2. Just stay drunk! ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-hangover-cures/14648/6 "2000-03-10T19:46:00Z")
Vitamins, or more specifically, Vitamin B-12, Excedrin, Lots of fluids, I usually go with Gatorade, Pepsi or water. And I usually find moving around a bit helps. If you lie or sit around all day it just makes you feel worse. * * * I’ll buy that for a dollar. ---
**Author:** ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-hangover-cures/14648/7 "2000-03-10T19:57:00Z")
I go with Democritus. It’s been a while, but my house mates in England and I got into this habit of celebrating each others birthday for two consecutive days. Day one is just a normal boozy night out. The fun starts at 9am the next day when the birthday victim is awoken with fresh cold lager on his face, the can of which he then chugs. Berr for breakfast…mmmmm. The feeling of being heavily hungover and blind drunk at 11am is very, very weird. ---
**Author:** ![drollman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f04885/32.png) [@drollman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drollman)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-hangover-cures/14648/8 "2000-03-10T20:03:00Z")
I find two aspirins (Tylenol, Advil, what ever) and a HUGE glass fo V-8 juice will usually do the trick. If there’ no V-8, try Clamato, but for regular tomoato juice, it’s just too thick to get down the gullet. * * * My fate keeps getting in the way of my destiny. ---
**Author:** ![Gazoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce73a5/32.png) [@Gazoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazoo)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-hangover-cures/14648/9 "2000-03-10T20:10:00Z")
Water, vitamins, and Excedrin before going to bed is the best for me. If you forgot that, a bottle of gatorade and about 4-5 Excedrin should help. (I’ve found Vicadin to be very useful as well…) * * * “In this life you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.” -Elwood P. Dowd in “Harvey” ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-hangover-cures/14648/10 "2000-03-10T20:12:00Z")
Andy, are you looking for any more roomies? You sound like my kind of partier! Shit-faced by noon? Hell yeah! > [@](#): > > Vitamins, or more specifically, Vitamin B-12 For a while I had access to injectable B-12 (IM). Without a doubt, the best hangover cure ever. I’ve tried oral vitamins without much success. * * * “So, for once in my life, let me get what I want. Lord knows, it would be the first time.” ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Gretchen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Miss\_Gretchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Gretchen)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-hangover-cures/14648/11 "2000-03-10T20:18:00Z")
I’m with the water-drinking folk. I’ve yet to have a hangover after many vodka soaked evenings. Better yet, if possible, eat a piece of fruit with the water before you go to bed. (unless you’re so drunk that you’ll just throw up)Ideally, it’ll be fruit that it really juicy - like oranges. Bananas also work - maybe the potassium keeps your fluids level? I don’t really know. Avoid caffiene - it dehydrates you, and a hangover is mostly dehydration. It’s just throwing gasoline on the fire, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-hangover-cures/14648/12 "2000-03-10T20:24:00Z")
Demo, let’s go, bars are open, what the hell we waitin’ for?? A good way to avoid the tedium of drinking the profoundly non-alcoholic water before bed when pissed up is to go to your local curry house at 2am and order chicken madras. Not the hottest curry, but delicious, and you’ll be gulping water down like your life, or job, depended on it. So why was I four hours late for work today? Oops. ---
**Author:** ![Dirty\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Dirty\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Devil)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-hangover-cures/14648/13 "2000-03-10T20:28:00Z")
A big, fat bong hit is usually your best bet when you’re hungover. OK, so maybe it’s _my_ best bet when _I’m_ hungover. Alright, alright, maybe it’s my best bet anytime. (Sorry, I’ll go away now.) (And shut up, Demo, I don’t need to hear from you. ;)) * * * Free beer is ALWAYS a good thing. - Falcon ---
**Author:** ![Bucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Bucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bucky)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-hangover-cures/14648/14 "2000-03-10T20:53:00Z")
B complex vitamins and carbon help (carbon pills hard to find, but cabbage is loaded with it–I like saurkraut juice, but it’s not for everyone). Very spicy food seems to help–Bloody Marys can be made spicy, of course. A bottle of lemon sour soda is nice. Alternating the shower from as hot as I can take it to as cold as I can stand sometimes cures the whole hangover completely! Booze will help in the short term. In the long run, it increases your chances of being an alcoholic, but… Bucky * * * Oh, well. We can always make more killbots. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-hangover-cures/14648/15 "2000-03-10T21:02:00Z")
> [@](#): > > A big, fat bong hit is usually your best bet when you’re hungover. I’ll back up DD on this one, assuming you don’t have anything to do for a few hours. It definately takes the edge off of a hangover. On the flip side of that, if I smoke weed in the morning (hangover or not) I’m pretty much worthless for the rest of the day. * * * “My Accountz Reeceevable Posse don’t call me Tha Troubleshoota for nothin’. Suckas think I be chillin’, but I gots to represent at all times, 'cuz ain’t nobody else reeceeve accountz right but ME.” --Herbert Kornfeld ---
**Author:** ![Kiki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kiki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiki)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2000, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-hangover-cures/14648/16 "2000-03-11T00:51:00Z")
I take two Tylenol and drink a Coke or Dr Pepper before going to bed. Drinking water before going to bed helps to rehydrate your body but I don’t recommend drinking water in the morning. If I drink water in the morning it makes me feel drunk again. The only other thing I can think of to avoid a hangover sex. But sex is pretty much a cure for everything. If you can have sex before you go to sleep (or pass out, whichever applies) you won’t feel as shitty in the morning, hungover or not. 🙂 * * * That John Denver’s full of shit man! ---
**Author:** ![Kiki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kiki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiki)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2000, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-hangover-cures/14648/17 "2000-03-11T00:53:00Z")
I take two Tylenol and drink a Coke or Dr Pepper before going to bed. Drinking water before going to bed helps to rehydrate your body but I don’t recommend drinking water in the morning. If I drink water in the morning it makes me feel drunk again. The only other thing I can think of to avoid a hangover sex. But sex is pretty much a cure for everything. If you can have sex before you go to sleep (or pass out, whichever applies) you won’t feel as shitty in the morning, hungover or not. 🙂 * * * That John Denver’s full of shit man! ---
**Author:** ![kinoons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kinoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kinoons)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2000, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-hangover-cures/14648/18 "2000-03-11T01:19:00Z")
I am a personal believer in Oxygen, and 2000cc’s of NS or LR through an IV route. Guarenteed to heal all that gives hangovers * * * Kinooning it up for 20 years and counting ---
**Author:** ![kinoons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kinoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kinoons)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2000, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-hangover-cures/14648/19 "2000-03-11T01:21:00Z")
I am a personal believer in Oxygen, and 2000cc’s of NS or LR through an IV route. Guarenteed to heal all that gives hangovers * * * Kinooning it up for 20 years and counting ---
**Author:** ![inertia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d07c76/32.png) [@inertia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inertia)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2000, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-hangover-cures/14648/20 "2000-03-11T01:33:00Z")
Water before sleepy time. Water after sleepy time. Caffeine. Sugar helps with glucose level. And the bestest most number 1 thing is: a soft-boiled egg or two. I have to stay away from Gatorade 'cause I’m allergic to Yellow no. 5. It gives me a headache far worse than the hangover. =( [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-hangover-cures/14648.md?page=2)