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Green or black tea with lemon and a tablespoon of molasses. Then pop a b vitamin complex if you got it. Tea has a bit of caffeine, molasses has about the same amount of potassium as a Gatorade or Pedialyte, and the b vitamin should help wake you up similar to a red bull. Lemon is for taste so optional. Then just drink water as normal to hydrate.
Not exactly a cure, but helps. I also add a powdered calcium+magnesium supplement, but that's something I wouldn't expect you'd have on hand.
Edit: disregard the bit about red bull as it's unintentionally misleading on my part. My understanding is b vitamins are good for you so they should help you feel somewhat better when you're hungover. I don't know enough about b vitamins to explain better than that. If anyone can confirm or refute that with more concrete details please feel free.
I actually have all of these vitamins and supplements (and teas) on hand! Thank you! :)
You're welcome. I hope it helps, it does for me when I'm hurting from the night before.
The lemon can also help with bloating which is definitely a side effect of a night of drinking for some people
Oh cool, I didn't know that. I just like lemons.
Lemons are delicious! I love lemon cucumber water. Sounds like an odd combo but it’s very refreshing.
Pho is the answer.
Spiced up Pho and a cold Coca-Cola. Does the trick every time.
My mom swears by “spicy food and a Coke” 😂
I add that if spicy cannot be procured then greasy food and a Coke will also do the trick.
If by Coke you mean cocaine, then yes I totally agree it’ll take the edge off.
I seek out a Chinese food restaurant, and get a bowl of hot and sour soup.
Fountain Coke from McDonald's. Theirs is legit different/better than everywhere else.
It's because they use real beef tallow.
Because McDonald's doesn't turn down the syrup to cut costs. I worked at Boston Market & my boss was CONSTANTLY turning the damn coke syrup down & making it taste nasty
It's all about straw diameter.
I've heard it's because they receive them in metal canisters to preserve the flavoring.
For me it’s a bowl of Menudo and a Mexican coke. Or any Mexican soda (although coke is better since caffeine helps)
I had a pho place I used to go to when I lived in florida, I’ve since moved, and every hangover reminds me I cannot get the pho I need.
It took me marrying into a Vietnamese family to figure it out. Now at 40 I've got this shit on lock. Pho and coke, or Dr Pepper either works for me.
100% my cure for anything. Feels like a warm mom hug
I make a very spiced up Ramen. I’d eat it at work. One day one of my coworkers commented on a group chat how spicy Ramen was great for a hangover. At that point I started eating it every day so my hangover days would not stand out. I plan.
In my book, Pho is the answer to everything. The perfect dish.
Pho is the ambrosia of the gods, and pedialyte (or the equivalent) is the rest of the cure.
Agreed. Need to get a bowl.
Pho is always the answer after a night a drinking. It should never be questioned, honestly
The only answer.
Percocet
... molly, Percocets
chase a check
Xanax
Finally someone said it.
Find a Vietnamese restaurant that makes good pho and get a bowl with sliced round steak and shrimp with extra rice noodles and put in as much sriracha sauce as you can tolerate. By the time you're done and consume as much broth as your stomach can handle, take a nice hot shower, slam a Gatorade and take a nap.
Smoke a bowl first for the force multiplier
And masturbate before passing out
These are the best answers you can get, besides swim in a lake. But who has a convenient backyard lake when you are too hungover too drive or it's winter.
Oh swim in a lake is tops. I’m a northern Minnesota gal at heart
Oh the feeling of hoping in a ice cold lake at 7am hungover. Brainerd/bemidji are the only times I have.
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Hahaha! My go to!
That dopamine!
Gatorade, weed, Advil. It'll cure what ails ya.
Whoa whoa whoa. You can dip the meat in sriracha and hoisin, but leave the broth be. The broth is magic. Please respect
I feel like a truly awful hangover is one where you physically cannot eat anything.
Time is the only cure for those, haha. And a nice, long nap. 'Round about 4PM is when things finally start to feel somewhat normal.
That sounds lovely, but what if I have to work?
You are duly fucked if you have to work. Drink coffee and put a face on it.
100% Agreed!! It's pho, vindaloo or haejang guk for me.
A good spicy Tom yum will also do in a pinch.
sound advice. i always throw in a multi vitamin too.
I completely agree with this besides the heavy amount of spice. The acidity from scotch and vodka doesn’t mix well with spice (for me!). The rest of this is 100% on point
Pho definitely works well for hangovers. All that salt keeps you holding water.
While I completely agree this can murder even the worst hangover, it’ll take up 3 hours or so of your day. Which isn’t always an option
Yeah, this one is a whole dedication to that day
Pickle juice
I drink that because it’s delicious and I’ve convinced myself it helps my middle-of-the-night foot cramps.
Hey… get checked for gout. Seriously you’re kinda describing very mild gout. It gets worse with age and my god you do not want it to get worse!
My boyfriend was told he had gout from a ton of doctors a few years back. When he finally went to a foot specialist, it was planters fasciitis. When I first started having symptoms of restless leg syndrome, it felt like foot cramps.
Aka, do get it checked out, but there are other things that it can be.
You get foot cramps from drinking? Is this a thing?
Alcohol causes dehydration and dehydration causes muscle cramps. This absolutely is a thing. Pickle juice helps because it’s high in sodium, sodium helps you retain water to fight dehydration.
Could be because I get similar things like my eye twitches. Could be the stress that it puts on your body.
Eye twitches are low vitamin B which can be due to mal absorption from chronic drinking. But B12 fixed my eye twitches.
I’ve had eye twitches from too much zinc.
Alcohol is a diuretic, meaning it makes you have to urinate more often than usual. Sometimes so to the point that you displace an unequal amount of water to your intake. Dehydration can lead to cramps. So while not foot specific, it totally can!
As someone who drinks too much and works too hard yes. There are mornings my calves and feet cramp so bad I whine like a kicked puppy trying to get out of bed.
Pickle juice will stop a cramp in its tracks.
it does. Also get some Magnesium foot lotion or take Mg Glycinate
My friend adores pickle juice. I ran out of pickles last week and was about to pour the juice down the drain. My good friend saw and said “no I’ll drink that.” Dude poured it into a cup like a soda and drank it. At a party he once did pickle shots where he chased liquor with pickle juice. I love the man, but I about lost my breakfast when I saw him do that.
I’m a bartender and pickle backs are very popular to Chase vodka, Jamison’s, and tequila with.
Pickle juice is not only pretty common, but one of the best chasers for shots. The burn completely vanishes with it
Your friend sounds like my soulmate
For me it’s 4 Advil liqui-gels, 2 Excedrin, 2 Pedialyte, and Menudo.
So I thought you meant do these things and listen to Puerto Rican boy band, Menudo. Turns out Menudo is also a soup and makes more sense in this situation.
I find that Ricky Martin-era Menudo works best.
I laughed too hard at this comment
For me it's two BC Powders, orange Gatorade and a greasy cheeseburger. :D
All that and a Mcdonalds coke
Pickle Backs
This is mine!
I am probably gonna get my Latino card taken away because everyone is expecting me to say Menudo but Matzo ball soup is where it's at.
Matzo ball soup will cure a hangover plus several other reflections.
This is true. I once ate matzo ball soup and I couldn't see myself in a mirror for 2 days.
LOL. Stupid Google speech to text. But I'm leaving that as it is because it's funny.
Once you get past a certain age, there is no cure. When I was 21, I could drink all night with my friends until 4am, sleep for three hours, and go to work tired, but nothing a Gatorade and a breakfast burrito wouldn’t fix. Now when I get hangovers, I get a migraine, vomit until the last drop of stomach acid comes out, and dry heave for the rest of the day. Getting old fucking sucks.
Agreed. I thought I’d be wiser, but I’m still just as dumb and my knees hurt.
I'm 22 and I'm already like this
I was violently hungover this past Saturday. I was dry heaving so hard that I pissed out of my ass onto the floor. I’m so glad that day is over.
Have you tried curling up on the floor in the fetal position and frantically bargaining with your diety of choice?
It's never worked for me but I keep trying it.
Hair of the dog
Unfortunately this is the best cure for a hangover, and tomorrows hangover, and the next days hangover, and uh oh you’re an alcoholic.
Yes I am.
🍻 let’s start a club or something
We can call it AA - Alcohol Advocates
How do you feel about frilly toothpicks?!
I'm for em!
Is this Mitch Hedberg? Mandatory for the club.
The application process is submitting a photo of yourself when you were younger.
I'm for'em!
Same bro. I was real surprised it took so long to find this answer. The first word that popped in my head was vodka. The second was orange juice would probably be the best morning mixer, but beer as a chaser if the headache is that bad.
"I'm afraid that if I stop drinking now the cumulative hangover will kill me." -Archer -Michael Scott
In all seriousness, this is the right answer. It took me SO LONG to come around to the idea of having one shot of hard alcohol when hungover. When I finally did it, it was like a miracle. I had tried all the food stuff, water, coconut juice, etc etc, and finally I bought a bottle of fernet because it’s super herby and was “used as a hangover remedy” (it’s alcohol). It worked almost immediately. Vodka, whiskey, whatever. One shot or swig and 20 - 60 minutes later you’re good to go. Maybe an ibuprofen.
This is the start of a bad thing, though. Trust me
If you get drunk often, yes. If you accidentally overdo it one night and use it as a quick hangover cure it's fine.
Functioning...✌️
This works if you have superb self control and only have the hair instead of the whole dog again
I had that control pre lockdown. Now I have nothing.
In for a penny, in for a pound
The only sure fire remedy
I feel like I scrolled way too far to see this.
Vodka + grapefruit - yessir. A 'Salty Dog,' if your electrolytes are low.
Yup, even just chug a light beer. Be surprised by how much better you feel. Great when on vacation. Doesn't really work w responsibilities.
Bloody Mary is my go to. Vitamins, Salt, Alcohol. Best way to feeling better.
Preventative: Every drink is paired with 8oz of water. A hangover is largely dehydration.
Edit: More recent studies show that dehydration isn’t actually the main cause of a hangover. The metabolites from alcohol are the biggest problem.
Thank you to u/UniqueName2 and others for pointing this out in the comments!
I feel like you need a little sugar or simple carbs before passing out too. Not cheesecake, but a little fruit or juice. I think something about metabolizing the alcohol lowers your blood sugar into that weird state where you can't sleep well.
This is the main reason I don't drink much anymore. I sleep like shit and I feel like my mind is racing in the middle of the night.
Add some fiber to slow down the hangover diarrhea
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Menudo
God, I thought they broke up in the 80s.
I second this heavily..especially with some lemon or lime
I’ll add posole also with as much spice as you can handle. Sweat that hangover out but also plenty of fluids.
Weed
Had to scroll way too far for this. Literally every other answer is nonsense and weed is the one true hangover cure. More alcohol generally works as well but is one of the more slippier slopes to consider in life.
Weed and Dramamine always do it for me
Coconut water + weed brings me back to life
Edibles specifically
Disagree. I love edibles but a hangover calls for immediate relief and shouldn’t go through the same system that’s already upset
When I wake up hungover I immedeately spring out of bed and do a sort of Maori War dance thing. Just plow past it.
Mexican Coca Cola
A cold Irn Bru
Aye but none of that sugarless shite.
They make diet irn bru?
Cold irn bru and a lorne bacon egg roll
A cold shower, Adderall, a cold glass of water, and bacon. YMMV.
Yep, been clean 20 yrs but nothing beats a hangover like amphetamine with an opiate chaser... but then you've got a bigger problem
Same. Used adderall to stay productive and hide my alcoholism for years. Finally clean from both and life is amazing.
energy drink, go on a run, shit your brains out, crank one out, nap naked, wake up feeling like a real adult
In the morning I puke if I have to and then run until I have to poop. The whole time I'm running I don't feel hungover. Usually takes 15-30 minutes and then I'm great. Sometimes I'm too tired so I just walk with purpose, that works ok too.
Hands down weed
Macdonalds and Pedialyte
The best way to get rid of a hangover is to prevent it in the first place.
Drink two cups of water and eat before you sleep
True but if you can prevent a hangover by drinking a couple of glasses of water and some food? Then you are just not drinking enough.
Trust me I drink enough,
I think I speak on behalf of this sub when I say you need to drink more to be medically ok.
This is The Way.
Drink water as you're drinking alcohol. I try to go for at least one cup or water for every two or three drinks and then take a Tylenol right before I pass out. Works for me for any level of drinking, up to and beyond 'completely shit faced'.
Isn't that bad for the liver? Like really bad?
It’s for sure bad. Acetaminophen and alcohol destroy your liver. So many people confuse Advil (ibuprofen) and Tylenol (acetaminophen). Advil is okay, Tylenol is not.
Blowfish is my go to, but Alka Seltzer and Liquid IV have helped me too.
There is no remedy or "miracle cure" but by taking a couple aspirin, drinking plenty of water, eating some food, taking a hot shower and getting some sleep, you'll feel better before you know it.
My go to when I’m feeling like “I’m never drinking again” kinda hangover is. Go to the bagel store and get a bacon egg and cheese and a Gatorade. Struggle to eat but make a good attempt. Go back to sleep. Wake up and shower and I’m usually pretty good after that. The secondary sleep after the food does wonders.
Lots of coconut water.
Pho or ramen always make me feel better!! 🍜
Xanax... Sleep through it.
I have always found that copious amounts of marijuana does the trick.
Drink a big glass of water. By the time you get up the 3rd time to pee, take 3-4 excedrin migraine pills.
I’ve never had a hangover when i do this.
Just do NOT take any pills before you go to bed. Your liver needs the rest before you take anything.
Tomatoes. Of any type (sauce, juice, soup, raw, etc). It boosts liver function and triggers enzymes to breakdown alcohol and tomatoes contain a lot of water. Feel better!
Greasy breakfast, 1/2 a joint and 2 Advil.
If this doesn’t work, see a doctor.
I usually take a really hot shower and then drink ice water
NAC before drinking. Heavy dose of trace minerals, magnesium, and or salt lake sea salt the morning after.
Liquid IV before I go to bed. Coffee and weed in the morning with eggs, and another liquid IV or a gatorade
Kratom, caffeine, advil, water
Booze. Sorry, but it works.
Yep. Mimosas are the real cure. Unfortunately you will have to eventually pay the Piper.
The pills from shark tank, "cheers restore". My wife buys them. I can drink way to much whiskey on a school night and be fine. Trick is you gotta remember to take 3 or 4 of them before bed with water. It really works!
I usually eat greasy foods. If my partner is hungover bad the next day, he'll have a drink. He likes to drink beer so he'll have one singular beer to get rid of that feeling and than stops drinking.
Pickle Juice. Has to be dill. Kosher dill, Polish dill. Hell, even Halal dill. aslong as its dill pickle juice. Drink that shit and the hangover go bye bye.
phó and/or menudo and ibuprofen
Drink a V8. The veggie one
Mine was blueberry pancakes, bacon and lots of OJ and coffee at the Candlewick diner in NJ.
But strangely, I actually made the front page of the newspaper for my spicy bloody Mary as a hangover cure when I was a bartender back in the 90's. God, I'm so old.
I took advice from a pro once. Used it to far late in life. Drink a glass of water between drinks. And one glass before bed. Never been hungover or had a headache since
You know what THC stands for right? The Hangover cure
Pedialyte, weed, and greasy food
The little satchels of electrolytes (ORS or oraal rehydration salts) that you can buy for when you have diarrhoea. Since they are extremely effective at rehydration they counter a big part of the hangover
B1 and potassium.
Hair of the dog that bit you.
Parihuela (Peruvian mixed seafood soup). Idk but that broth is magic for wine hangovers
Menudo (Greasy, spicy tripe soup). The first time I tried it, very hungover, I thought I was going to blow chunks, but ate it to not be rude to my Mexican host. Next hangover I craved it.
Charcoal pill, bunch of water, and something greasy w lots of carbs to eat.
Crack a Pedialyte popsicle into chunks, put it in a glass. Pour a ginger ale over it. Use this drink to pop two aspirin. Go to work.
I drink top shelf spirits, stay hydrated, and I haven't had a hangover in 30 years. Last one was from champagne, and there was NO getting over that hangover, after 5 bottles of it. I'd always heard that a champagne hangover was the worst that there was, and they weren't fucking lying!
Pedialyte
Sunshine and a walk
Full greasy breakfast
I don't think there is one, you can however try to prevent yourself from getting one by drinking plenty of water while drinking alcohol and getting some food and a multivitamin before going to sleep.
Smoke pot instead of drinking
My experience, ( and I was a Drinker for 25 years, now recovering) is that until you’re 35, anything works; paracetamol, oj, fried breakfast, gallon of coffee. Once you’re older, nothing works, hangover becomes intractable; time and hydration only serve to stop you wishing you were dead.
Coffee, bread, tums, spicy food, water nap more coffee, bed
Soda, fioricet and Mac and cheese.
Advil, Double shot black espresso, as hot a shower as you can take.
Yea man, one drink will help get that terrible feeling out of your mouth. Try and sweat as much as possible, nap, plenty of water.
N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC) supplement when you’re going to bed or when you wake up. Also Tylenol, water, and vitamin B.
i'd say a warm soup to rinse your body
A former drinker I know claims that in his heavy drinking days he would peel an orange, part it in quarters, and load up as much sugar as he could onto the quarters.
Hydrocodone
Puking always solves it for me. When I drink too much and I know I’m gonna have a hangover, I’ll puke and by time I wake up, I’m hangover free… might be triggering for some but it’s always worked for me. I don’t force myself to puke, I usually drink a lot at once so it ends up catching up to me and I get that same feeling I get when I always have to puke, I just done fight it, I let myself puke for 3-5 minutes and by morning, it’s like I never drank!
Breakfast beer
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