If the hangover preceded the binge, alcoholism would be considered a virtue and not a vice.
Gregory Bateson, anthropologist/psychologist

Unfortunately, it doesn't.  The hangover is your body's way of getting back at you for having too much drunken fun the night before.  Too many beers, too many shots, too much booze, and not enough brains.  Your head feels like you went twelve rounds with Lennox Lewis and your mouth tastes like several small animals used it as a toilet.  Your stomach is trying out for Cirque du Soleil and every time you move, you feel like someone beat you with a shovel.

Now some people will tell you that the best way to avoid a hangover is to not get drunk, but they're the same people who believe in Bigfoot and wear tinfoil on their heads to ward off alien mind-reading ray-guns, you know, whackjobs.  What I am trying to compile here are some home hangover remedies, along with attempts to debunk others.  You're gonna drink regardless of the outcome, you might as well wake up not feeling like a bag of smashed assholes.

RUSH LIMBAUGH READS THE HANGOVER PAGE!  Listen to the soundbite HERE!
(You know... Rush Limbaugh... big fat American neo-con radio host... you've seen pictures... well, actually, if you're lucky, you HAVEN'T seen pictures... the phrase "he has a face for radio" must've been born the day he was...)

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Chaser
http://www.chaseronline.com

You've seen the ads. They claim "freedom from hangovers." But the burning question is: does the shit work?

You can buy it in the four caplet minipack ($2.99 at GNC on W. 3rd and Broadway), or the bottle of ...? caplets for $24.99. Nah, I opted for two four-packs, enough for a good drunk. And one experiment.

INGREDIENTS / DIRECTIONS

Each two caplet dose contains 615mg of activated calcium carbonate and 345mg of vegetable carbon.

The recommend dose is two caplets (a) every two to three hours, or (b) five to six drinks. That's six STANDARD DRINKS. A half-liter of vodka in a glass is not one drink. That would be... uh... eleven drinks. I think. Anyway...

The most crucial part of any true experiment is to control as many factors as possible. Take diet pills. Yes, if I take two whatevers three times a day, they say I'll lose weight. They also say I should diet and exercise. Well, if I cut my daily caloric intake to 1200 and cycle an hour a day, do I really need to take this shit?

I didn't do anything different during the day. I had the obligatory protien shake for breakfast, and a five o'clock lunch of salmon, black beans, grilled tofu (tastes ok with BBQ all over it), mixed veggies, jack cheese. Three corn tortillas. Introducing any more may skew the results. More food slows the absorption process.

POTENTIAL INFLUENCES ON RESULTS:

Until yesterday, I was taking both Liquid Clenbutrx and Lipolean, which are for fat metabolism (you try losing 53 pounds on your own body chemistry). The downside to stopping is the crash from caffeine. Or, the sudden lack thereof.

Also, I'm not feeling all that hot. I attributed it yesterday to poor sleep and a hangover, but neither excuse works today. It is possible - and since I'm ready to leave for vacation, it's VERY possible - I'm coming down with something.

However, let's assume that these two abnormalities affect how drunk I get (which Chaser claims no control over) and not how I feel in the morning.

Drinking began at 10:50 pm. As directed, I took two Chasers with my first drink. To be on the safe side, I popped two more after five, not six. The drinking panned out like this:

10:50 drink one = five ounces of vodka (3.33 drinks)

11:25 drink two = same as #1 - second dose of Chaser consumed after half of drink (equaling five "standard" drinks)

Midnight drink three = again, the same.

Drink Four came at 1:15.  I drank about half of that, started to gag on the cranberry juice.  Another two Chasers.

At 2:45ish, I left work and headed to BVs, where I did two shots over the course of an hour.  And drank water.  And stunk at Golden Tee.

I have no idea what time I got home.  Four?  Four-thirty?  I know what time I woke up, though.  11:30 a.m.  And I know what I woke up with.

A hangover.

Bottom line, boys and girls:  SAVE YOU MONEY - CHASER DOESN'T WORK.

XO³

You may have seen this stuff recently.  It is big in clubs.  The theory is that you take one packet mixed in with a beverage (ie. water) before you drink, and one when you finish drinking, and you'll feel like a million bucks in the morning.  When mixed in a liquid it looks like Dawn dishwashing liquid and tastes, well, like Dawn dishwashing liquid.

I ran several field tests with XO³, you know, research.  It's not that I wanted to get drunk, I was testing the veracity of the claims.  In four studies using myself as a guinea pig (how unselfish of me), I ended up with a hangover three times.  First attempt, I think it worked.  Second time, hangover.  So, on the third trial, in addition to the before and after dose, I took one during the night.  Result:  hangover.  On the fourth and final experiment, I took two spaced during the drunk as well as the start and finish.  Result:  hangover.

Conclusion:  XO³ may work as a hangover cure, but not if you drink more than a few beers.

Zetox

This is a product under development in England (as of July 2002).  The article from BBC News follows:

A hangover cure based on volcanic dust may soon be on the shop shelves, according to a UK company.
A West Sussex firm wants to start clinical trials of the mineral.

It claims the pills, which can already be bought over the internet, absorb toxins from alcohol "like Velcro".

Global Health Products (GHP) wants to sell the product in chemists and health food shops.

It is trying to raise £300,000 from investors to market the supplement, known as Zetox.

Morning after

The company says the mineral has been used as a traditional detoxifying agent for filtering water, purifying animal feed and treating victims of nuclear contamination from Chernobyl.

It already sells the product on its website as a supplement "to naturally detoxify the body".

Dr Kenneth Maule, the man who developed it, claims six capsules of Zetox will enable you to drink four or five pints without getting a headache.

The pills have to be taken before a night out and according to one volunteer, Gary Lock, it works.

"It removes nearly all of the alcohol from his system so there's no alcohol left in his body to give him a hangover," Paul King of GHP told the BBC.

Trials needed

Hangovers are caused by chemicals produced when alcohol is broken down by the body.

Alcohol is also a diuretic, causing dehydration and the familiar headaches and nausea.

Dr Guy Ratcliffe of the UK Medical Council on Alcohol said the substance sounded "potentially promising".

He told BBC News Online: "If this chemical soaks up, as it suggests, the chemicals that are associated with a hangover, I can understand the potential that this sort of chemical might produce for the future."

But he said formal clinical trials were needed to compare the effects of the product with that of a placebo.

And there are fears that the tablets will encourage people to binge drink.

Medical researcher Robert Patton said heavy drinking is known to cause heart, liver and other health problems.

"The pills won't sort those out," he told the BBC. "It may stop the pain of a hangover the morning after."

Now, the use of carbon to filter the system has been used before (see home remedies, below).  However, note this line:

Dr Kenneth Maule, the man who developed it, claims six capsules of Zetox will enable you to drink four or five pints without getting a headache.

Four or five pints?  That's just the beginning of the night!  I'd have to swallow Krakatoa every time I go out drinking!

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One I have heard from several different people is Pedialyte, the stuff you give babies.  The electrolyte load helps to balance out your system.

The other, if you are from Canada or know someone who can get the stuff for you, is called 222.  It's an over-the-counter aspirin in the land of Labatt's with codeine (8 mg. per tablet) and caffeine.  Bad one?  Pop three or four, and within an hour, you are as fresh as a daisy.  This one I KNOW works.  For a while.  Until the codeine wears off.

HOME REMEDIES

What can you find in the comfort of your own castle to stop or reduce the effects?  Well, the easiest ones are water and aspirin.  Alcohol is a diuretic, causing dehydration.  Many people I know swear by drinking a lot of water before hitting the sack.  While the aspirin will alleviate the headache and some of the body aches, we drunks know that there are more problems associated with the hangover.  Me personally, it's the general feeling of malaise and the wish that a large meteor would fall from the sky and crush me, ending the pain.

I have read that eating burnt toast helps.  Again, this is the carbon flush theory, on a smaller scale.  How much toast is another question.  After last Sunday night, I probably would have had to eat about two loaves of burnt toast.

And of course, there is the "hair of the dog" theory.  I had someone explain it to me like this once:  imagine your body as a pendulum.  When it is straight down, you're sober.  When you drink, the pendulum swings to the right.  As the booze wears off, the pendulum swings the other way.  A cocktail the next morning helps move the pendulum back to the middle.  The most popular is the Bloody Mary, which also gives you a vitamin boost from the tomato juice.

Here are some of the remedies that visitors to the site have sent in:

• Over the last few drunks, I have found the hangover is generally reduced if I do the following:  I will stop at the corner and get a hero (pastrami, turkey, and Meunster personally, but you can sub your own cold cut combo).  Down it.  The whole thing.  Next, drink two good glasses of water.  Now go to sleep.  When you get up in the morning, take a couple of some ephedra-laced diet pills.  The ephedra will boost your metabolism, and fat Baltimore Orioles pitcher deaths aside, it will, if taken properly, give you a good shot of energy (could be all the caffeine you just dumped in your system).  I've had some legendary drunks that the next-day effects were minimized by the above remedy.

• Try using an IV with about 2000ml of saline solution (2 big bags) the next morning. Of course you have to be sober enough to get the catheter in the vein or have a friend that is trained in the art as well.

• a blowjob

• Sudafed

• Run very cold water in your mouth - do NOT swallow it - and take two aspirin the next day

• Take a B-Complex vitamin before you drink

• Hard nasty sex

• "drink shit loads of water be before you go to bed ( if you can ) this doesn't completely get rid of your hangover but will certainly make it less severe, also before a night out eat plenty of carbohydrates eg, bread and pasta."

• "Eat a fresh dog turd, straight off the street! Always sorts me out!" (Not too sure I'm ready for that... although the way my mouth has tasted the next day, it couldn't make it any worse...)

• "Baking soda and water, people. save the aspirin for the morning right after a big greasy breakfast. but, before the night is done, mix plenty of baking soda and water, and 'bottoms up.'"

• Drink plenty of Gatorade or Powerade before you pass out.

• If you live near a firehouse, ask one of the firemen if you can get a few hits off an O² canister - the oxygen supposedly helps immensely.

• "I read in muscle fitness that eggs are the only food in our diet that contain and replenish the enzymes that detoxify the body. So it was suggested that loading up on them before passing out would power load, (4-6 eggs any way you like them), the system to process the alcohol. I have given it a shot and it has made a some difference but I wouldn’t suggest it if you have a guest of the female persuasion over, stick with the Gator or PowerAde, for obvious reasons."

• "BHT---THE PERSERVATIVE USED IN CEREAL BOXES.  TAKE (DONT KNOW HOW MUCH) BEFORE INBIBING ALONG WITH A COUPLE OF B COMPLEX.DRINK WATER BEFORE,DURING,AND AFTER............"

• "Beat off or Smoke Pot before u go to sleep."

• "Honey, and plenty of it. Use it on your "burnt" toast, or mix it with some warm water or tea. It's suppose to break down the alcohol left in your body and flush it out of your system. I recommend drinking it with plenty of water. It works!"

• "Irn Bru - an orange coloured soft drink from Scotland (Outsells Coke). Basically a mixture of a shit load of sugar, lots of things that make kids hyper and plenty of chemicals you probably don't want to know about - Big G"

• Alka Seltzer with a large glass of water before bed.

• "alka seltzer AM relief.... its bubbles, caffiene and aspirin in a glass of water. actually works well for the not too severe hangovers if you can stomach the taste.  Another one that works for me, take two Advil before going to bed with a glass of water, the problem with this is that i am usually not aware enough to remember to take the Advil just before i pass out."

• "drink two boilermakers"  (a boilermaker is a shot of bourbon dropped into a beer)

• http://hangoverhelper.com/Pages/how_it_works.html
  I tried this product and it worked.. I used it only 2 times though.
  My roommate swore by it.
  Had fun messin around your site - nice job!
  paul

• The ol' stand-by sent in:  "Have a bloody mary, the tomato juice will help replenish your body and the alcohol will most likely give you a little buzz, therefore you forget how bad that headache is as well as it will keep you up for a little while longer so your metabolism will speed up continue to get rid of the alcohol from the night before."

• "Get a blow job and then watch plenty of football. I have found this works best if you get another blow job during half time."

• "If you want to feel better than usual when you wake up, the best bet is to go outside and puke up all you can. then go inside, take a shower and brush your teeth. have 2 cups of water and 2 cups of coffee. you will feel horrible now since you just vomited and you already feel really full. go to bed and when you wake up jerk off. you already feel good but why not."

• I don't know what this person meant, but it must mean something to someone:  "if you have either a cumbass or a bathead available i find this to be a very agreeable hangover cure. if not then try pies cakes or sausage rolls. i recommend our local bakers across from somerfield and sue ryder(who does a lovely series of shirts)"

• "poop"

• "Take two caplets of the Premenstrual Formule. I use the ones that are supplied at work in the medicine cabnet. Try and see YOU CAN'T HURT ANY WORST THEN WHAT YOU ARE ALREADY ARE FEELING ANYWAYS
  REALLY WORKS TJ S."

• "Go to bed late enough that when you wake up, it's far enough along in the day that the next round of drinking can begin. A couple drinks in, eat something wholesome, like Wendy's or steak. Then continue drinking. Repeat until responsibility or the law catches up with you. Pay bail, continue repeating."

• Sugar

• "This will work no matter how bad yer hangover is or how much you've drank...even if you feel sick, you still must eat this...Scrambled eggs (two or three) Bacon (four or five pieces) two pieces of toast with butter and cinnamon...one 16 oz bottle of water and one full glass of orange juice...this will work, but you have to eat it all to get enough nutrients and whatnot...bon appetit'"

• "take alka-seltzer morning relief right when you wake up... even though it tastes like hell, it will settle your stomach down and make your headache go away, and plus, you feel drunk again for a few hours after you take it!!"

• Go to 7-Eleven and have a Slurpee, ideally 32 oz. or more. Drink the whole thing as fast as you can. The subsequent brain freeze will shock you out of the hangover.
  --Steve the 7-Eleven Clerk

• Get your girl to give you ANAL sex, that should get your mind off the hangover!!! shame it gets less and less effective the more u do it!!! (ps the remedie doesnt work on GAY MEN !!!) good luck XXXXXX

• wake up, walk around, glass of water in one hand, cigarette in the other. finish both. back to bed, nock one off, get up, cool shower, brush your teeth, and you'll be as right as rain

• Alka seltzer! Advil! Gator aid! What a limp wristed load of crap! Just drink till daylight, stop by the biker clubhouse on your way home, kick the dog wave your dick at the ho,s, knock over the row of bikes on your way out and the soon to follow hell bent for leather sprint for survival will cure any concern for minor problems like headach, diareah,ETC. Try it, it works. No shit!(well, sometimes you shit during the sprint but that dosent even slow you down)!
  Sincerley,...
  the miester

• Wake up and BLAZE UP A FAT RASTAFARI JOINT, the marijuana for some reason settles my stomach, makes me hungry and im able to eat alot and feel better!

• Take a few Mini Thins with ephedra and caffeine or straight ephedra pills.

• Two Alleve & Plenty of water before going to sleep/passing out. The alleve are much stronger than advil/tylenol etc. Next morning, a hot shower and a glass of V8 get me through and feeling great.

• The stimulant Dexadrine will not only allow you to drink a seemingly endless amount, if you take it when you have a hangover you will feel better in about a 1/2 hour to 45 minutes. I don't know what the downside is though, the stuff is a little too effective when it comes to drinking and hangovers

• Piss the ole man off bad enough that he leaves the house. Who wants to hear him bitching about all his friends you hit on last night anyway. Right? You have a hangover for christ's sake! You don't need to hear that shit! Then it's bon bons, bed, and a full charged battery for the rest of the day. Who cares if you feel better. You have chocolate, peace and quiet, a soft bed and a dildo. Life is good. :)

• it's all actually very simple. many of the unfortunate affects are caused by acetaldehyde which produces the general malaise, headache, and a number of other things...cysteine counters this, you can find it at most health supplement stores. do this and the hangover fairy won't visit you:
  1. Take 2 aspirins
  2. Take 200mg cysteine (available at specialty food stores)
  3. Take 600mg vitamin C
  4. Take 1 tablet vitamin B-complex
  5. Mix the following ingredients together in a blender:
  
  
  1 banana
  1 small can V-8
  6 large strawberries
  2 tablespoons honey
  1 cup orange juice
  1-2 cups milk (or soy milk), to desired consistency
  ¼ tsp. salt
  dash of nutmeg
  6. consume
  this came from soyouwanna.com they have lotsa cool stuff. not as much cool stuff as kenny though. the law of diminishing returns applies here, use for emergencies.

• The Breakfast of Champions -- Gin and Wheaties

• The probability of this making you puke rainbow colours is high, but it'll make you feel better if you can keep the fucker down. Ingredients: two tbsps olive oil (extra virgin, naturally), two tbsps ketchup, yolk of one raw egg, one tsp ginger, one tsp nutmeg, one (I prefer two) shot(s) of vodka, top up with orange juice. Down it. Can't beat it.
  
  Rob.
  
  PS. Your site it the best thing to ever happen to the 'net, with the obvious exception of all the hardcore bestiality pictures.

• I can't take the credit for this one, it came from the TV series 'Red Dwarf' (in the UK): The triple fried egg, chilli, chutney sandwich. A variation on the popular egg banjo, this is a serious mountain of food containing some truly interesting and surprising flavour combinations and if you can only prepare one meal due to the shakes this should be it. For chutney I usually use Branston sandwich pickle and for chilli sauce I use HP (brown) sauce beefed up with Dave's Insanity Sauce - nothing cuts through 'carpet mouth' quite like it. To wash that all down I like a good pint or two of tea (definitely NOT coffee as it will dehydrate.) If you can get it down (and keep it down) it will set you up for the day. Makes a cracking breakfast without a hangover too. Enjoy, NotPaddy™

• A spliff before retiring and some hand-to-glans combat on waking.

• Drink A LOT of water before you goto bed, and drink a lot of orange juice when you wake up. Then procede to smoke some high quality marijuana, it will medically relive your symptoms of a hangover.

• Hangover? Never had one.Just down a pineapple shake on your way home.

• Take the Chaser Anti-Hangover pills while drinking - I've field tested nearly a whole bottle of them and they're GREAT. They make you a bit thirstier than normal, so pound some extra water the night before as well. Oh, and don't forget to get a blowjob - that is second best.

• Stop at Dunkin Donuts on your way home from the bar/club and order a large regular iced coffee and a plain bagel with plain cream cheese and stand (don't sit) around the parking lot with your friends(wave hi to your bouncer friends you made that night as they stop for their coffee on their way home) until you are sober enough to drive home. Haven't had a hangover since this ritual. Hi Michele! :-) (obviously written by a female - guys don't make "bouncer friends")

• Mexicans know a bit about hangovers, this is what I have learned from their rich culture. The two requirements are as follows:
  
  A. Menudo. As long as you don't have a problem with eating a big hot bowl of a cow's stomach lining, this will hook you up.
  
  B. Michelada. This is simply lime juice, salt, hot sauce (I think Valentina or Cholula work best...I wouldn't recommend tobasco), and beer (XX Amber is a good choice). Mix all that shit together and serve it on the rocks. Trust me...it grows on you.
  
  Have a bowl of Menudo and a few Michelada and you are ready to take on the world once again. Cheers.

• go swiming and drink again but before going to bed take 2 alka seltzer and sleep as much as you can, drink two big glasses of water have sex, have fun, it works for me, gay sex is good too..

• this has always worked for me....drink 2 large glass' of water and eat a couple pickles (don't ask me why, it just works) before you go to bed. then set your alarm a couple hours earlier(if you have to work), take a couple advil and down a glass of water, go back to sleep. when you wake up a couple hours later, zero pain :) enjoy

• check out the ru-21 pill, i had a $200 bar tab the other day and i felt fine the next morning. well except the fact that i spent $200 at the bar.. ouch

• I come from a long line of heavy drinkers, so I rarely get headaches. (I can only think of 2 off the top of my head, and one was the first time I drank, and the second was a 8am to 3am booze fest) I've found that Campbell's chunky soups seem to help settle the stoumach. Especially the bakded potato one's. Drink on kindred spirits! -Big V

• a little line of the bolivian marching powder will eliminate anything remotely resembling a hangover... or sadness... or fatigue.

• Sobazone-Australian product released Nov 30th 2003 Western Australia www.sobazone.com 5 years of research 2 years of drinking more than my wife/doctor liked but 2 years without a hangover 1500 trials the only failures are when you chuck on your pillow  (I've had more than one person write me about this - can someone send me a few of the fuckers?  I've never seen it here in the USofA)

• Mexicans do know their shit about hangovers. Have a beer the next morning with some Clamato in it if you can stand it. Cheers

• Russians swear by this method. I haven’t had the stomach to try it, but this is a well-known cure for the hangover. It will give you a little buzz the next day. They say when you wake up to have a shot of the same thing you had the night before. So, if you were drinking vodka the night before, get up and have a shot of vodka. This may sounds like the most obscure thing to do after a night of binging, but it’s the only way to forget about a hangover. Many, many people have told me the same thing.  (yes, this is the "hair of the dog" method, which doesn't work if the mere smell of alcohol the next day makes you retch)

• Sleep it off, man! I usually sleep right through my hangovers. If that doesn't work, take ibuprofen for a headache and drink water or anything non alcoholic, non carbonated, and non caffeinated to get hydrated. Coffee can make you feel better though, but drink plenty of water or juice with it. If you're really messed up the next morning, consider trying to replace your electrolytes with gatorade, honey, or something to help replace your sugars. When you're hungover, the body craves sweets and fattening foods, which will of course make you feel better, but you might be concerned about your weight. Finally, consider what you're drinking the night before. A night of wine boozing can lead to a particularly nasty hangover. Some drinks cause milder hangovers. Mixing drinks probably increase the intensity of your morning zombieness. I would also say that drinking water in between alcohol the night before is probably the best pre sleep cure.

• Pedialyte and Tylenol!

• I FOUND A CURE!!! It may seem really gross, but it really works! I read about it in an Austrailian magazine, but never believed it until I tried it! Eat one packet of Ketchup and one packet of Mustard and wash it down with plenty of water. Some ingredients in those little condiments are proven to detoxify the toxins in alcohol. I recommend brushing your teeth afterwards, but I have been using it for 1 month now, and I go to one of the biggest party universites around. It REALLY Works!

• This is always my thing.. Typically works on all hangovers for me except tequila and well vodka (or most well drinks, I typically drink vodka). I notice that when I wake up after a heavy night of drinking I'm a little stuffed up from most likely an allergy to the toxins.
  
  2 Dayquil caps (nyquil if you don't have to work), 2 pepto bismol tabs, red bull, and Odwalla Superfood. Typically my first hour at work sucks until everything kicks in, but overall this replinishes alot of vitamins, takes care of headache, allergies etc associated with a cold, pepto's for any nausea and of course the caffeine and b vitamins in redbull.
  
  I have yet to try chaser or sober up or another one I can't currently find again right now, and I plan to test them extensively for all our benefit ;)

• The head pain from a hangover is caused by a loss of water in your brain ( your brain can lose 10% of its mass froma really big binge) the pain of the hangover is caused by your brain reactivating after all the water loss. THis means the best way to prevent a hangover is to drink tons of water before you go to bed.

• drink 2 pints of water before you go to bed, also when u r midway through your drinking session ask the barman/women for a pint of water. Drink this without your friends noticing otherwise they will call you a poof, if you have 15 alcoholic drinks try to drink at least 4 pints of water during the evening. If you wake up feeling like you would like to detach your head from your body and throw it under a car empty a sachet of relsove extra into a glass add water and down it in one.

• The Ultimate Hangover cure is to eat a box of apple jacks before you passout.

• ru-21 I've tested, used several times...no hangover

• Rule of thumb is one glass of water before bed for every beer/cocktail/shot you had that night. Fuck my thumb, I've never had that much room left for water, if I remember at all. I usually stick my head under the tap (water, not beer) and drink until I think I'll explode. Then I have to get up and piss all night, but I try to drink more water after each trip to the pisser. Your body reacts to being drunk in much the same way it would if you were wandering through the desert. Then, on the morning after, Hershey's Strawberry Quik and gut-bomb Mexican food, followed by Alka-Seltzer. Mmmmm.

• If your a girl, you should stop at my house on your way home and guzzle some goo!! It will work,....really. If it dosent work the first time, try again!! If it still dosent work,...well,...third times the charm!! I would not lie to you!!
  Sincerely,... The miester

• 1 darvon, 2 lotromin, 1 seasickness pill, 1 caffeine, NO tylenol, some antacid tabs (calcium carbonate), Pepsi or Coke.

• I've always found that waking up the next morning drunk was the best thing. Even after the effects of the booze wore off I felt fine. The trick is to drink just enough to be fucked up the next morning, but not so much as to not wake up at all.

• While Tylenol or any other pain reliever may help a hangover now, taking those while drinking alcohol DESTROYS your liver. Even more so than just drinking. I know, I'm a medical student learning about how drugs are metabolized. TYLENOL + ALCOHOL = BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD!!!

• Listen to the rockstars...
  Wake up the next morning and go to your local "Greesy Spoon" style diner. Order a big plate of whatever you want to eat and get some food in your gut. Then drink liberal amounts of Pedialyte. Oh yeah, powdered asprin kicks ass too.

• I have found that the only thing that alleviates my hangovers are to drink plenty of water the night of drinking and to have Pedialyte onhand for before bed and when I awaken. Oh yes, no matter what, I always have a 20 ounce Coke Classic around. It settles my stomache. There is no substitution for water. Drink lots of water. Wear a diaper if you have to.

• PEDIALYTE is simply The Best answer for dehydration. Water and/or Gatorade just cannot get it done. For fun I tried using PEDIALYTE as a mixer with vodka, but it sucked (too sweet and ultimately..uh,too gay to be haulin around). I will be stocking PEDIALYTE all summer.

• Simply take three advil and drink two glasses of water right before you pass out. Sounds simple? Try remembering to do anything this complicated when its 3am and youre hammered. Works every time though.

• A couple pills of "Ecstasy"

• takeBUZZ - new to the UK - better than RU-21 because you only take 2 tabs before going out whereas RU-21 you have to take 1 tab after every drink (who can remember to take that?!)

• Use Emergen-C drink mix, it is loaded with vitamins, you will feel top of the world in less than an hour. Or go to Smoothie King and get a Power Punch Plus, the nutrient mix will fix you right up, and its DELICIOUS!!

• Fok... all of the above work, I have a friend who works at the local fire station, he provided me with an O2 tank, I take chasers and also lots of burned toast.Take multivitamins, get blowjobs and have nasty sex, take the hair out of the afghan dog with same poison I had da night before, prep a pedyalite and stoli clamato cocktail, bought everything adviced here, took it.. more sex.. skipped the cranberry in my last stoli, ate da mezcal worm along with a fresh egg right out of the hen's ass along with fresh squeezed navel oranges,and a splash of colombians waker upper,and later fer good measure 3 valiums...cranked Pink Floyd, grabbed my Sratocaster and played while still listening to the sound of the blender with all the goodies in it and ice going for next mix, then downed it, next week... I had a nasty hangover... It is nice to feel that sonbitch... Ready fer da next one

• Chug lots of water (about 64 oz) the night before, right before you pass out. After pissing like a race horse the next morning, get your ass onto a treadmill or something like that for however long it takes you to do a mile's worth of running. Then 50 pushups and 50 situps. Run another mile. Then chug another 32 oz. of water and eat steak and a fried potato for breakfast.

• Look, its this simple, when you get trashed you can do one of two things; both of which involve a breakfast beer. The first thing yuo can do (if your hangover is mild), you just go and get a beer when you wake up. It usually has a similar effect of a decompression chamber for nitrogen sickness. It restores the balance in your body slowly. If you've just had a 3 day bender and can barely walk when you wake up, you have to start your day with a beer (Make no plans as this will kill most of the day); and then slowly work your way up to drunkenness; but dont plaster yourself. This method relies on you not getting as trashed. After you get drunk (a slight buzz probably is the best bet while you still can count how many beers you've had) you stay awake and work the buzz away either by hanging out (this can take a couple of hours), or by doing some push-ups and sit-ups and drinking water. These activities force water and therefore alcohol out of your body.This works faster than just hanging out to kill the buzz, but it still takes up a good part of the day to get buzzed and then work it off. These are surefire and simple things to kill a hangover using the basis of working it off slowly. The best cure for the day after the hangove is a good nights sleep.

• drink 12 ounces of pickle juice in 1 gulp

• ONE OF THE BEST HANGOVER REMEDY'S IS EAT AFTER THE CLUB/PARTY WHATEVER. WHATABURGER WORKS WELL SOMETHING REAL FATTENING, SALTY, ETC. TAKE TWO EXTRA STRENGTH TYLENOLS WITH A GLASS OF WATER, SOME REAL GOOD SOLID SEX FOR AT LEAST AN HOUR, HOT SHOWER WHEN YOU WAKE
  UP. ~ASH

• This is the best thing I have tried, works great if after a hard night of drinking you have CLASS the next morning. Pretty much it is toss a chopped up banana, a few ice cubes, 2 spoonfulls of applesauce, 1c milk, 1c OJ, and 2 scoops of low carb protein powder (Carb Solution in Vanilla from Wal-Mart is what I recommend) in a blender, blend till smooth and drink up the morning after, this is great because you can even take it with you and not be late to class!!

• Don't SMOKE. Well thats very hard to do when you're FUCKING DRINKING! But they say smokers suffer EVEN more from hangovers.

• you people are all shitheads and i dont think you realise how wrong you all are. none of you bullshit remedies work. the only thing that can cure a hangover is time. just lie down or whatever and dont try and force water or any ecess fluids into your system, (this will flood you insides). see. you people suck. and anyway hangovers arent that bad. you know youve had a great night and all youre doing is having a bad morning. get over it

• The doctors in the ER give me some IV drug that calms the naseua, a morphine drip (a placebo perhaps) and then valium for about a day and a half. I know the valium is real because I always have weird dreams during the short bouts of sleep I have. Bottom line, to cure what I call a hangover and the doctors refer to (in my case) as accute alcohol poisioning - MARRY A DOCTOR who can keep these things on hand! They work eventually...

• eat two or three banana's, i heard that the booze depletes potassium, 600mg of advil and tons of water..all before you go to bed.. Kyle Gates

• only proven preventive hangover technique i know of.. Bread product before drinking (sandwich, pizza, etc..) , then same thing after drinking but add much gatorade or water this time. Also working out regularly will decrease crappy feeling when drinking night comes

• One thing I forgot: caffeine. Alcohol expands your arteries, resulting in a situation, where you can feel your heartbeat in your head. This akes the headache far worse. Caffeine makes your arteries smaller.

• 1. The alcohol in drinks reduces the production of ADH (Anti Dehuration
  Hormone) witch normally warns your kidneys when there's not enough water in your blood. This makes your kidneys produce big amounts of weak urine. (ever wondered why you have to piss after every beer)This causes a (mild) dehydration. (look up the symptoms of dehydration)
  
  2. When alcohol is neutralized its first transformed into a toxic. (I only
  know the dutch name) then its neutralized in the liver, but when you drink to fast the liver can’t keep up.
  
  3. the rest of the hangover is caused by the chemicals that are in some
  drinks.
  
  4. your brains consist largely out of fat. You know what happens to fat when
  you apply alcohol? It dissolves. (your actually liquefying your brains(although only small parts of it))
  
  And now the cure. To cure the effects of dehydration you can of cause drink a few litres of water before going to sleep. It is impossible to drink enough dough, because your stomach can’t contain enough water. So drink as much as possible and take an aspirin. The aspirin will make you blood thinner, so it will travel trough the smallest arteries more easily. Your headache is notably less.
  
  This is the biggest part of you hangover and luckily the easiest to cure.
  
  For the fast breakdown of toxic substances eat some vitamin tablets. It’s not perfect, but its the best you can do.
  
  To allow your brains to recover (as far as possible, some brain cells have tragically died for the cause) eat a fat breakfast/lunch/supper, depending on how late it got. If possible eat fat fish such as herring or eal, (This is not the most appealing food when you have a hangover but it works)
  
  Hope this will allow people everywhere to become much more drunk, without fear of a hangover.
  
  T2
  Student laboratory techniques

• rub one out...eat some sliders (white castle) drink 2 waters and have 4 ibuprofin...all in that order. TRUST ME...

• A nice big syringe filled with heroin and baby blood will fix you right as rain.

• Take a B-complex vitamin before you go out drinking, pound two Power/Gatorades before you pass out, and take four Advil (NOT TYLENOL -- can cause liver failure) when you wake up.

• The best way to prevent a hangover is of cause a shot of wisky the next day. All this bullshit about tablets and all other kind of bullshit is a waste of time and money, save your cash and go get a bottle of wisky instead. one or two shots of wisky will remove the headake in a few minutes.
  
  A blowjob before going to bed seems like a good thing also, but will it really remove the headake the next day? I dont think so, and football? what a jackass came up with that theory?
  
  No guys, and ladies, either you have to drink like a lady to prevent feeling bad the next day or take my advise, a few shots of strong liquer is the magic cure. Believe me, it WORKS...

• wack off 3 times, swallow ur shoot when u wack off, give urself a rim job with ur thumb, suck your thumb when you are done. you wont have a hangover when you wake up but you will have that bad taste in your mouth.

• The Shit to drink is 2 or 3 aspirins crushed and mixed with Gatorade followed by a Rockstar Energy drink! Then take a big healthy crap. After 8 years of drinking in the USMC e-clubs this has never failed me. I used to drink Mountain Dew before there was Rockstar, but Rockstar works better, FULL of Vitamin B. Eat something greasy and salty the night before. (And I don't mean the ho you picked up from the club.) Burgers and fries.

• I have tested this remedy over and over and it seems to work every time although before I did this I really wasnt prone to hangovers too often so I would like someone else to test it out.. Take 2 Vitamin B pills, and 2 vitamin B complex pills with 2 glasses of water just before bed. And no hangover....

• a xanax always works for me. takes away that jittery feeling that comes with the hangover

• Chasers does NOT work. It makes you poop horribly. Do I need to say more? If you don't post this, no one will know this is one of the definte side effects. Chasers: Good luck and use at your own risk.

• The only remedy. Basic yet it works. One drink, one 8 oz glass of water. Period. Ten drinks. Ten 8oz glasses of water.  And no, not ten 8oz glasses of water at 3am after you're done drinking. Consistency. That's the key. It won't ruin your buzz.

• the best remedy ive came up with so far is to wake up pop 2 pepto, eat a bagel with cream cheese, chug down a gaterade, chug down orange juice and pop some diet pills. It definitly helps me get through class. keep popping pepto and diet pills all day until u feel better. Drink alot of water too.

• Half a bottle of NyQuil or Tylenol Cold and Flu before bed. Keep that shit in stock, you don't want to be looking for that shit all fucked up.

• 1000 cc's of 0.9% NS IV Bolus, during infusion Phenergan (initial dose) 6.25 mg IV or Zofran 4 mg IV if drug allergy to Phenergan. It will help you sleep it off and resusitate your body's needed fluids.

• I recently tried this stuff called Mona Vie (made from the ACAI berry) - Take once ounce before you go to bed and another when you get up - It seems to work - I have tried it twice now with good results - AND I AM A PUSSY when it comes to hangovers - Hate to admit it, but I AM!! The drink seems to help with the "shakes".

• Those individually wrapped hot sausages they sell at gas stations. The hotter the better.

• There is something about greasy food that cures hangovers. I usually go to the local greasy spoon and order what is locally called a "slinger". It's a bed of hash-browns served with the following ingredients piled on: 2 spicey sausage patties, 3 scrambled eggs, 2 large scoops of chili, chedder cheese and chopped onions. It's a heart attack on a plate, but it works.

• 2 tacos from Jack in the box, 2 tylenol and a large glass of water. Also, I recently tried chaser and it does give you bad shits but I'd much rather have nasty shit then a pounding headache.

• check out www.tasteafterhours.com - I tried this hangover relief drink at one of their promos @ the Horny Toad in the Lake of the Ozarks and it really works. I drank one bottle before I went to bed @3am and I was up and ready to go @ 8am the next day and I was feeling like a champ. From what two of the owners, Tom & Eric, told me, they are bringing this product to market right now in limited areas.

• Tomatoes in any form are hangover dynamite. Anything with tomato paste in it will help, so will tomato juice if you can stomach it. Get up, drink or eat something heavy on tomato, guzzle as much water as you can stand, and go to sleep for another two hours. Takes some planning and a somewhat elastic timeframe, but it works against even the worst hangovers!

• Cranberry Extract!  I swear to God, and I found this by accident but have tested it too many times to count in the last few weeks. Before you go to bed, take 800mg of Cranberry Extract with a glass of milk or anything really.  You can find it along with other supplements in your grocery store, the brand doesn't matter, and it's in tablet form.  There are no side-effects, because it's just cranberry (like cranberry juice, just condensed).  Try it, and let me know, because it rocks. I don't know WHY it rocks, but it does!

• The ultimate cure is pooping! Whatever it takes. Maybe it's sourkrout, maybe its green or red chile in the southwest, maybe it's coffee. Whatever it is that works on you to make you poop, that's the answer.  Consider this - Alcohol is a poison to your system. Even after it's digested, it's still a poison to your system. The best cure is to get the "poison" out of your body, no matter what it's form. Until the "poison" is "purged" from your body, you'll feel like crap. So, lots of fiber, green or red chile (in the SW), sourkrout, coffee, maybe even laxatives, whatever it takes to make you POOP ALOT ! That is the ultimate cure.

• In Kenya there are 24hour Chicken joints. The only time you can afford to eat the chicken there is at night when drunk and dont give a shit about nothing. The chicken is partially grilled. When you place your order it is deeped in a deep-fryer full of black oil(Probably recyled for two months). Once browned and dried, they cut it up to pieces and salt it up. It's quite tasty and you can do like a whole chicken on your own.