Conference back40::soapbox

    
    
    	Once you have a hangover you're pretty much sunk. I don't drink
    much at all anymore, but when I did I used to try and eat alot while I
    was drinking and then consume large amounts of water, aspirin, and
    vitamin C before retiring for the evening. Usually woke up feeling
    respectable, tho' not as good as if I didn't drink at all.
    
    
    jim

Lots of things; see Dave Yeomans' guide to hangover cures in the EF94
archive... here's a few things I've tried myself:

Things from the Chemist, eg Resolve (paracetamol & glucose mix)
	Can sometimes give a temporary respite from being hungover,
	but isn't a proper remedy.  A *real* hangover will be back
	with a vengeance in a few hours...

Lucozade
	Limited help with the headache, but stops you wanting to
	puke up.  Makes you feel a bit more alive.

Black coffee
	Increases the headache tenfold, but wakes you up.

Water (lots of)
	Decreases the feelings of dehydration, but only makes you
	feel slightly better.

Paracetamol/Aspirin
	Gets rid of the headache, but you still know it's there, so
	what's the point?

Orange juice (fresh)
	Makes you feel slightly better

Full English breakfast (greasy bacon, greasy sausages, greasy fried
bread, greasy eggs, mushy beans, black pudding, brown sauce, mushrooms)
	Strangely enough, although this is probably the last thing
	a person could face in the morning, it works wonders on a
	hangover.  Thorougly recommended (as long as someone else
	cooks it, that is)

Chicken soup
	Don't bother.

`Hair of the dog'
	Don't bother with this, either.

Don't drink the night before.
	Oh, be serious.

Go back to sleep.
	Sometimes works, sometimes makes you feel worse.  Take your
	chances!

Er, that's about all I can think of right now.

Chris.

    
    Just don't stop drinking.  Works for me 8^).

    <----- she's my hero, she really is.

    
    8^)
    
    "So, what are you doing this weekend?"
    
    "I'm going out and avoiding a hangover.  Wanna come?"

    I'm a man, of course I do. 8^)
    
    Oh, you mean go out, oh, well, yes ok.

    again

    Hmmmmm....

    Well, I don't think this is anything to be concerned about, but if this
    cough persists, I believe I will have to make a house call.

    
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    {cough}
    
    {wheeze}
    
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    {sigh}
    

    I'll be there by breakfast. Have a pot of coffee on.

    
    All I have currently is chocolate-raspberry-peach-lemon-butter-pecan-
    almond-guy-ding coffee, is that all right?
    

    um.... sure, that might help your cough a bit. I, I guess.

    
    No no, the coffee is for YOU, Dr.Richardson!
    
    Honestly 8^).

    
     2 tabs of Tylenol Extra Strength and plenty of water.
     Always works for me..............
    
    
    Norm
    

Another allegedly tried and tested method (but not by me) is to drink
a pint of milk before embarking on a lager frenzy, and drink a pint
of water afterwards.  The idea being that the milk lines the stomach,
and the water prevents dehydration.  Of course that may be total bollocks.

Chris.

    
    Is that the special Chicago-area Extra Strength Tylenol?  I imagine
    that WOULD end a hangover.

Wot's tylenol, then?  Is it legal?

Chris.

>Wot's tylenol, then?  Is it legal?

a brand name for acetaminophin

    
    In Canada, we can get Acetaminophen with Codeine and Caffeine over 
    the counter.  Perfect hangover cure!  :^)
    

    none this weeknd... i wonder what went wrong?
    
    Chip

    Tylenol et al supposedly can compound the damage alcohol causes to the
    liver (?).  The best cure is moderation the night before.  I wish I
    could always be so level headed though.  
    
    Brian

    -1 oh sure... it's easy when you haven't had anything to drink :-)
    
         Chip

    For me, lots and lots of water. Try and water log yourself, but your
    brain soaks it all up like a sponge. 4 large glasses of water before
    you go to bed and no headache. Works for me.

    Down a fistful of brewer's yeast tablets and take a hit on the oxygen
    line in the cockpit of the F-86 you're crew for.

    As far as I know there are only two cures for a hang over:
    1) nice shot of oxygen
    
    2) Death
    
    :-)
    Dan
    

    Spicy food, AKA col;orado chili-cheese omelette with hasbrowns. 
    Smother the hashbrowns in as much alsa as I can stand.  Follow this up
    with a spoon full of liquid b vitamins.  Take a nap after breakfast.

    Prevention is the key. I was given this by an ex-VP of a large bank. He
    said it was survival training. I have had several oppertunities to
    verify this, and as far as I can tell, it is **the** answer.
    
    1. Before going to bed drink 2 large glasses of water (I know, you have
    heard this one before). It acts like a biological alarm clock, and
    wakes you in the middle of the night.
    
    2. When you wake up in the middle of the night, take an ALKA-SELTZER.
    
    3. Wake up a fresh as a daisy in the morning (or if really bad, take
    another ALKA-SELTZER).
    
     I have only had to take the second ALKA-SELTZER once, and on that day,
    I should have been dead, not hung over.
    
    
    							Derek.
    

    ...always found it best to stay unconcious until it's time to "geet up n'
    go drinkin' agin'"
    
    
    ....by the way death doesn't work!...Some goody two shoed doc i'll go
    and do sumthin heroic and return you back to the livin'...then you
    gotta hang-over and large welts from the electric shock paddles you
    godda explain.
    
    
    
    TRM

    In the fifties we tried the large meal before thing, did'nt work.
    
    
    In the sixties tried vitimine B, did'nt work.
    
    
    In the seventies tried rationing (1 drink an hour) did'nt work.
    
    
    In the eighties switched from rum to beer.
    
    
    Last 20 years hangover free. :-)
    
    
    
    
    joan

    I have a wicked hangover today !!! One that I am very proud of. It is
    to celebrate Englands VICTORY over the aussies in the Rugby!!!! It is 
    also to commiserate Englands loss to Brazil in the football.... It is
    also to celebrtate Queenslands slaughter of the Blues in the the Rugby. 

    This will no doubt be hard on Happy Harry.
    
    
    I am glad I said that.

    Hair of the dog if you`re macho enough.
    
    Other than that,sleep.
    

    <----
    
    What in the H*|| is "Hair of the dog"
    
    :*/
    
    Dan

    
    "Hair of the dog (that bit you)".
    
    In other words, have another drink.

    Oh, 
    
    "thanks, I needed that"
    
    :-)
    Dan

    that'd be a lot bald dogs runnin' 'round here!

	Hey Martin, if you spent less time on making a hangover, you could use
that time, and the recovery period time, to look for a new apartment..... maybe
it's a matter of priorities.... :-)

    I gots one now, that gives me even more time for making hangovers!
    
    :*)

     Where's the medicinal uses for marijuana note? :-)

    
    .41
    
    A breakfast of hash browns?

2.375 doobies of East Tenn asskicker 1/4 - 3/8 " in diameter you'll be so high
you won't notice it.  Not that I would know personally of course ;-}

Mikey

    Unless you're Bill Clinton.

    Kneel at the foot of the great  white  porcelain  alter.
    
    chant...
    ooohhhhmmmmm
    ohhhhmmmm
    
    (this will get the stomach flowing...) 
    
    now PRAY!!!!
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

<---- been talking to Martin again??? :-)

    your first prayer will be so satisfying to
    the soul that you will want to pray more and
    more...
    
    
    Unless you have no soul, in which case you have the
    dry heaves....
    

    I don't pray in front of toilets, I like to do it outside in the fresh
    air !!!!!
    
    HH

    Open car windows, at 60 MPH works best.  :)
    
    ...Tom

    
    	re: .49
    
    	yeah, but it makes a mess when you puke....
    
    

    
    <------
    
    Is that the god you call on that giant white telephone???
    

    
    >    <------
        
    >    Is that the god you call on that giant white telephone???
        
    
His Name is RALPH I think!

    
    I thought it was 
    
    BARF, BARF SIMPSON.....
    
    course I could be wrong