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Theyāre all fucking terrible these days.
Being sick early doors helps out no end.
Lots of coffee and then spicy food once everthingās settled down a bit.
Godspeed NV!
I find coconut water (from the coconut, not from container) is the best hangover cure EVER
can not stand them at all anymore.
First terrible one: underage, after not getting any alcohol through the usual means, we had to raid a mateās nanās store cupboard. We found some weird and strong spirit. I spent the next day retching and boking up only green bile until about 6pm.
Worst was after the Bangface festival when, two days in, I got to the stage where I thought I would never feel normal again. Phoned NHS Direct and everything.
Best was on the morning of my cousinās wedding when I was still very drunk and had to get a taxi with my sister (in the same boat as me) and mother (not impressed) where I insisted the driver played drum ānā bass. I can confirm that being hungover at a wedding is brilliant because there is a lot more to drink to deal with it.
another time, the day after a wedding I got a lift with (a now ex) girlfriend. My body was making all sorts of loud a strange noises (not guffs) as I fought it (pretending that I didnāt have a hang over) to stop it boking all over the back seat. That was a tough drive.
- Food that isnāt all greasy shit. Tempting to be lazy when you have a hangover but I find itās better to have a balanced day with fruit and veg.
- Tablets that contain Paracetomal, Aspirin, Caffeine.
- Some mates swear by Dioralyte but I found it does nothing for me.
Main thing that annoys me is the troubled sleep alcohol forces on you. When Iāve been drinking I can only ever sleep for around 4 hours during the night. No idea how to deal with that.
My worst hangovers are all Megabus related. Itās not a place you want to be in that state.
Worst was in uni in Cardiff: went to Clwb, drank SA all night, danced all night, went home, collapsed on my bed without any water, woke up the next morning feeling like Iād contracted meningitis or something.
These days, if Iām hungover Iāll either be in work or in charge of children, so the only cure is to drink plenty of water, take some paracetamol, have a shower and tough it out until about 7pm. Then do nothing in front of the TV all evening and go to bed at 10.
Yes. I can deal with the nausea / headache early on by eating well, drinking water and taking painkillers. Itās that gnawing tiredness that lingers all day - thatās as bad as anything.
Iāve ended up in this awful spot where if I drink 4 - 6 beers Iāll generally feel AWFUL and sick in the morning, but if I drink 10 - 14 beers Iāll wake up feeling drunk thus fine (not to mention Iāve just drunk a liver-pickling amount of beer)ā¦ but then will feel anxious and restless for DAYS. I donāt enjoy drinking less than 4 drinks, what do I do?
I should probably quit shouldnāt I
Worst was cheap red wine/sangria followed by whatever the fuck I had at the union after. Only time Iāve ever been so hungover I could barely move. Had to get measured for a rental kilt at 12 the next day, then went back home and started throwing up. Had a very posh birthday party to attend that evening (hence the kilt), and me and my two other suffering mates sat in the darkest corner we could find and nursed a single drink all night until it was acceptable to leave. Awful.
These days I manage alright if I stick to spirits. Itās beer that absolutely ruins my guts/arsehole the next day. I can just about cope with the other symptoms.
Different types depending on what Iāve drunk. Usually drink eber to be honest so just feel sludgey the next day. Itās the tiredness that ruins me though. If Iāve been out, Iāll usually only get a max of 6 hours sleep, which when itās booze sleep doesnāt help. Wake up the next day just drained
I get the troubled sleep thing too. Wake up at 6 and canāt turn back in. So annoying because a) harr harr you drank loads what do you mean you canāt sleep and b) it feels like a long snooze would knock the most unpleasant after-effects out.
worst was the big MDMA/vodka hangover of 2012. was really anxious and sick for like a week after that.
Iām usually ok, some painkillers and distracting myself by doing something mindless like cleaning the house usually do the trick. Probably because I worked in cafes and restaurants in my youth, and so would always have to do loads of cleaning/food prep on a saturday morning, so I think itās like an autopilot thing.
Only terrible one I can remember in recent years was a friend had a Christmas party, and brought out a big bottle of Becherovka. Itās a czech drink thatās like a nicer JƤgermeister. Good with ginger ale as a mixer. Turns out me and the host were the only people who liked it, so we somehow drank the whole litre ourselves, and wished we were dead for the next two days.
(The last time I had a bottle of Becherovka myself at home, I accidentally knocked it off the shelf and spilled it all over the kitchen floor. I cleaned up and washed the floor, and went away for three days. When I came back, it still smelt like Santa had been on the lash- a weird mix of stale booze pub smell + gingerbread spices)
Had a work party once where I drank four 9% beers then two bottles of wine. Spent the whole of the next day hurling every 20 minutes on the dot - couldnāt even keep water down or move really. It was AWFUL.
Normally forget to take paracetamol before bed so tend to find eggs in the morning works out. Also watching Airplane and Wayneās World on repeat under a duvet.
I like it. Maybe thereās something wrong with me. Maybe Iām secretly Czech. People in Dresden thought I was Czech because I have a noticeable Austrian accent in German, and kept wanting to practice their tourist Czech on me, and being disappointed when I couldnāt help them.
Unicum is even worse. That stuff is terrible. Good bottle though.
Do you speak German? They have a hilarious accent there that sounds like a Brummie speaking German, but with all the k/g and b/p sounds swapped. Germans think itās funny too. Like I was there to do some school workshops, and had a load of biscuits from the UK because the school requested a ātea partyā. The kids were raving about the āGustard Greensā.
I was really impressed by Dresden, especially Dresden Neustadt, just a really nice feel to the place, lots of space. I went to a photo exhibition of a guy who lived there in the 80s in the DDR days who took loads of photos of his life and neighbours. http://www.neustadt-ticker.de/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/1991-10-01-kohlenkipp-starke.jpg
Also love that Everyday Life in the DDR museum in Radebeul just outside Dresden. Although the food in the cafe is worryingly historically authentic too.
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Only cure for me is rest. Sleep it off as long as possible. The fewer hours of sleep I have the worse I am.
Junk food, cups of sugary tea and lying on the couch watching sitcoms also help.
Always sick on the night. Never puked during a hangover.
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A heavy impromptu night of scrumpy, then up at 9am to drive to some fucking Santa steam train ride. I was white as a sheet and felt rotten, freezing cold with no access to food or water. Considered getting off and running away, my daughter wasnāt even 1 - she wouldnāt remember or even care.
Reading Festival '01 - arrived early, worked my way through most of a crate of Stella, went to bed. Woke up still pissed and walked into town to buy more Stella, concerned I wouldnāt have enough for the festival and there wouldnāt be time to buy more. Brought it back, had a can as an eye-opener and my stomach just rejected it entirely. I couldnāt eat or drink booze that night or the next.
Christmas Day, aged 19/20. We used to have a family tradition of going to a restaurant on Christmas Eve, but it was getting to the age where all our mates would have a night in the local pub instead. Loads of people would meet up who moved away for work or Uni so it was a nice reunion. The year before I missed most of it, so ducked out of the family dinner. My Mum was not happy at all, but I went off and got shitfaced in the pub. This coincided with me having a laptop and wifi for the first time, so basically spent until about 5am afterwards online looking at grot. Eventually woke up to the overwhelming smell of turkey about 11, felt like utter horseshit. Starter was a prawn cocktail, I threw that back up before the turkey. During the meal I had some wine which sorted me right out, by Christmas pudding I was having a great time.
I find I can handle hangovers alright these days, since having kids you are forced to get up early so often that adding in 10 pints of Guinness to the equation doesnāt really matter. Hangover cure is to get up if you feel restless, eat something, drink plenty, shower and sort yourself out, have a quick trip out (paper / food) then go back home and have a nap. Then early evening have a few drinks, you should be fine.