We all know it's going to happen at least every once and a while and we all know that drinking a few glasses of water before going to bed can prevent it. But what happens when you are so sloshed you can't competently pour yourself some water and gulp it down? Welcome to a hangover. There are varying types of hangovers with varying degrees of intensity and the first step is to determine which kind of hangover you have.
1. I feel like I could sleep for 3 days and still be tired, my mind is moving at 1/2 speed and I have a bit of a headache.
2. The room is spinning every now and again and I feel like I am going to- Bluaaaaaaahhhh!
3. I have a massive headache that feels like a stampede of elephants just forged a trail across my scull and I have the green apple splatters from hell. Not sure eating something would feel so great.
Of course there are combinations of the three types that can be experienced but it is very important to note the symptoms listed above; which ones you have and which ones you don't. Because the cure will need to be adjusted accordingly. I would suggest listing your symptoms in order of most bothersome or severe to get a good picture of what you're going to be accomplishing.
***Find a comfortable place to sit for a while and pour yourself 3 glasses of LUKEWARM water. The reason for the temperature is that cold water will shock your stomach and likely make you take a visit to hail the porcelain goddess. Another important note is that the water you drink should not be gulped down for the reason mentioned before. Sip the water slowly until you have consumed it all.
***OK at this point your stomach should be feeling a lot better and you can now start to put more than water into it. That does NOT mean move to the coffee. Contrary to common belief, coffee is one of the last things you want to drink after waking up from a heavy night of drinking. Caffeine is rough on your stomach and it is a diuretic which means you will be dehydrating yourself and you did enough of that the night before. No no, it is time to introduce valuable nutrients and vitamins to restore what your body used up processing the alcohol. Buy yourself some multivitamins and ibuprofen (If the diarrhea is getting to you, grab some anti-diarrheal too). Take these with water of course. The anti-inflammatory (ibuprofen) will start work on your headache and body aches which, by the way, are due to the dehydration/awkward drunk sleeping position.
***The pills are down its time to move to something with a little more substance. Vitamins are great but they aren't enough to refuel your body. You need to load up on fats and proteins to replenish the body. I suggest eating a huge cheeseburger, skip the fries and the milkshake, and and replace them with eggs and a glass of water. It is likely that after finishing this meal that you will feel like you just got shot with an elephant tranquilizer, I urge you not to respond to the siren's song of your bed and instead make that pot of coffee you wanted earlier. Your body by now should be well hydrated and you can handle the coffee on top of all that burger.
At this point you should have conquered all of your hangover symptoms and should feel pretty normal again, if not, you must have been drinking Everclear jell-0 shooters and absinthe. Talk about a hangover from hell! But that is for another blog.
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