A Conversation for Hangover Cures

Advice to you poor bastards who get hangovers as given to me at random by a friend's mother at one thirty last Monday morning.

Post 1

Odradek (she who lurks, green Lifesaver-like)

I take no responsibility for this information, as I have never tried it out, myself. My metabolism is such that I do not get drunk, let alone hungover, and so I sit with my limeade and enviously glare at all you lucky sods gifted with the ability to blot out the Ungodly Pain of Existence by knocking back a couple. At any rate.
Big Macs.
This is what I have been told.
Consume one and it ought to cancel out the aftereffects. Perhaps it's the chemical reaction of the various and sundry preservatives in the bread. Perhaps the Bovine Growth Hormone and antibiotic cocktail the meat of the patties has been laced with provides some sort of autoimmune-repressing effect that allows you to weather the storm of esther-metabolizement more easily. Who can say. But the woman's an Herbalist, and whatnot, and gave me all manner of weird tinctures and lotions and pills and whatnot after my hideous flaying at the HFStival last Sunday (nip over to the journal to see an explanation, if you're that bored) so I guess she knows.
Failing that, I saw on I think it was Oprah, or some talkshow (I swear), that honey also makes a good cure. That and drinking your own urine. But take that as you see fit.


Advice to you poor bastards who get hangovers as given to me at random by a friend's mother at one thirty last Monday morning.

Post 2

Sheriff Fatman

Big Macs work, as does Fish & Chips from a chippy.


Advice to you poor bastards who get hangovers as given to me at random by a friend's mother at one thirty last Monday morning.

Post 3

JT

Not to mention Sausage McMuffin's with Cheese. I think it's the High salt/fat ratio that helps you rehydrate and get some fuel in you.


Advice to you poor bastards who get hangovers as given to me at random by a friend's mother at one thirty last Monday morning.

Post 4

genfinch ((1*3)-1-1)*(6*7)=42

The best way not to get hungover in the first place is not to go to bed until you´re sober. I don´t know why it works, but I think your metabolism works differently when you´re asleep. I´ve had it explained to me like this: When you´re sleeping, your metabolism switches itself off, and then, trying to cope with all the alcohol and the wide range of poisons you have in you is nearly impossible for it. When you´re awake, on the other hand, your body is better able to recover from the shock you gave it in your nightly session. This invariably worked with me, though I find it hard, most of the times I get drunk, to stay awake so long. (Since it might be anything from two to ten hours till you´re completely sober)


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Fat Freddie

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Advice to you poor bastards who get hangovers as given to me at random by a friend's mother at one thirty last Monday morning.

Post 6

Asim

I'm much the same -- takes a LOT to get me seriously drunk ("Hey, pass me that there bottle of EverClear, eh? And you might want to step off with that cigar..."), and I get serious munchies after I hit a certain level of drinking. Maybe my body's automatically conpensating for the effects?


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