A B##tad behind the eyes!

[Topless Skateboarding Nun]

Ok, I’m sat here this morning nursing a pretty bad hangover, the room is still spinning and my stomach feels like a washing machine. Not to mention the clamp someone seems to have put around my head.

Now I’m in the process of “curing” this beast with my own personal method, usually this would not have to be implemented as I would downed a pint of water before hitting the sack and take another pint of water with 2x co-codamol with me, for that 5AM spinning wake searing thirst moment. This did not take place as I don’t even remember getting home. It now occurs to me that during the festi I won’t have all these lovely facilities immediately available should this horrible situation arise again.

So, knowledge is needed! What’s your Festi hangover cure....how do you tame the beast?

[ukslim]

So, knowledge is needed! What’s your Festi hangover cure....how do you tame the beast?

[Red_Eye_Jedi]

Wake up: Coffe, line of speed, spliff and off you go.

[LittlemissC]

Fried egg roll - extra salt

Irn Bru (or orange lucozade if not available)

2x Ibuprofen 2x Paracetamol

sleep.........................................much better!

then - hair of the dog (large glass of alcohol) and your recovery is complete.

[joethehose]

Berroca, 1st thing usually sorts me out :-)

[Sawdusty surfer]

i'm ashamed to say i'm a bit of an expert on this subject.

Before you start drinking have a couple of bottles of water by your bed. drink as much as poss before sleep. It might mean you wake up in the night for a wee, but that gives you the opportunity to neck even more water. if is after 4am also take 2 nurofen plus. (ibuprofen+codine , most effective pain killers over the counter)

take 2 more for breakfast. hair of dog also adds to the overall relief.

[brillohound]

hair of dog also adds to the overall relief.

[stuartbert two hats]

One recovery method I used involved going to the curry goat stall near Jazzworld and pouring as much Scotch Bonnet sauce as I could take onto the food. I blew my hangover out of my nose. Felt really detoxifying. Note that wasn't a purely booze induced hangover.

Tried it again the next day. Didn't work, went back to bed.

Edited June 5, 2010 by stuartbert two hats

[saratink]

is berocca good? x

[Phil-itfc]

Boring but stunningly effective: Alka Seltzer.

Standard if you want to go back to sleep (which is a good idea)

XS if not, cos it has loads of caffeine.

Not Resolve. Resolve makes you vomit.

[gnrchick8]

Hi, only one thing I swear by and it's prevention not cure. Milkthistle vitamins from boots (not the cheap tesco version, they're rubbish). They don't tell you what they do on the box, but I think they work by cleansing your liver while you drink.

Take one before you start drinking then one at the end of the night and honestly not a hangover in sight

best discovery I've had in years, I'd never do a festival without them

[TokiDoki]

Personally if it's a really bad hangover there is nothing that really sorts it out other than many hours of sleep/rest. Two years ago I wasted the whole of Thursday lying in the tent groaning!

I've found Alka Seltzer good in the past, I also take Berocca but i'm not sure if it does anything much.

Eat some good if you can stomach it and carry on drinking water.

I always drink loads of water (at least 2/3 pints) before going to bed.

The headache is the worst part for me, nothing seems to shift it.

[twig14]

To get back to reality, 2 Nurofen, a vitamin C tablet dissolved in water, and a sausage cob.

If however the intention is to get yourself back into drinking again ASAP. then 1 part Jagermeister to 4 parts Red Bull, and repeat.

[Scott McNab]

+ 1 for the Irn Bru shout.

[Lucanesque]

Drink loads of water until you're fit to burst. Pass out. Wake up busting for a piss. Piss* Drink more water, take 2 x paracetamol, 2 x ibuprofen, and call me in the morning.

For the killer headache I take a migraine tab (sumatriptan), there's probably some fine print that says something like "don't ever take on top of alcohol" so don't try it home kids... must go and read the fine print some time

Milk thistle sounds interesting - time for a google.

*not in sleeping bag

[Aragorn]

Ok, I'm sat here this morning nursing a pretty bad hangover, the room is still spinning and my stomach feels like a washing machine. Not to mention the clamp someone seems to have put around my head.

Now I'm in the process of "curing" this beast with my own personal method, usually this would not have to be implemented as I would downed a pint of water before hitting the sack and take another pint of water with 2x co-codamol with me, for that 5AM spinning wake searing thirst moment. This did not take place as I don't even remember getting home. It now occurs to me that during the festi I won't have all these lovely facilities immediately available should this horrible situation arise again.

So, knowledge is needed! What's your Festi hangover cure....how do you tame the beast?

[parkgrange]

Hi, only one thing I swear by and it's prevention not cure. Milkthistle vitamins from boots (not the cheap tesco version, they're rubbish). They don't tell you what they do on the box, but I think they work by cleansing your liver while you drink.

Take one before you start drinking then one at the end of the night and honestly not a hangover in sight

best discovery I've had in years, I'd never do a festival without them

[TJ2304]

Take 2 IMMODIUM (or any supermarket brand) tablets before going to bed Works a treat every time

I know it sounds mad but it replenish your fluids which causes most hangovers

I use Tesco's brand just as good & less than a quid

Also saves u getting the runs at festie double sorted

[4AssedMonkey]

A bloke I know (not well - drinking buddy of a drinking buddy so we've got smashed together a couple of times) who is a pharmacist swears that you should take 8 Nurofen before bed and another 8 in the morning and plenty of water. He tells me that the active ingredients of Nurofen stop your vital organs from dehydrating so you get no whirly stomach, no headache and are therefore unlikely to vomit. People call him George the Sponge for his legendary capability for beer absorbtion and he swears by this.

I did ask him about liver damage, to which he said "it's 2:30am, we're on about our 12th drink of the night, plus shots, so are you really that concerned?" Fair point I suppose.

[Rachie]

EH?

[lillypip]

A bloke I know (not well - drinking buddy of a drinking buddy so we've got smashed together a couple of times) who is a pharmacist swears that you should take 8 Nurofen before bed and another 8 in the morning and plenty of water. He tells me that the active ingredients of Nurofen stop your vital organs from dehydrating so you get no whirly stomach, no headache and are therefore unlikely to vomit. People call him George the Sponge for his legendary capability for beer absorbtion and he swears by this.

I did ask him about liver damage, to which he said "it's 2:30am, we're on about our 12th drink of the night, plus shots, so are you really that concerned?" Fair point I suppose.

[Ponyegg]

My personal hang-over remedy:

Drink 1pt water with 1 sachet of diarylte in it before going to bed.

Wake up, take 2 ibuprofen +1 dicloflex (for my gout)

1pt of cold ribena or other squash

1/2pt banana milshake

Bacon/egg sarnie or full irsh/english/scottish breakfast

Coffee to taste

[4AssedMonkey]

My personal hang-over remedy:

Drink 1pt water with 1 sachet of diarylte in it before going to bed.

Wake up, take 2 ibuprofen +1 dicloflex (for my gout)

1pt of cold ribena or other squash

1/2pt banana milshake

Bacon/egg sarnie or full irsh/english/scottish breakfast

Coffee to taste

Barf up

Edited June 5, 2010 by 4AssedMonkey

[Ponyegg]

Take 2 IMMODIUM (or any supermarket brand) tablets before going to bed Works a treat every time

I know it sounds mad but it replenish your fluids which causes most hangovers

I use Tesco's brand just as good & less than a quid

Also saves u getting the runs at festie double sorted

[**claire**]

Berocca.

And then a chocolate milkshake after lunch.