Smart kids more likely to use drugs later in lifeFollow

he must have drunk a lot during his basketball career.

It is good to escape from time to time. Some nice beer, a few friends, and NO WORK *********

I was hospitalized for alcohol poisoning my sophomore year. The actual poisoning part was not fun...I remember a vague feeling that I was about to die, and helplessness because I wasn't able to move my body or talk. Friends brought me to the hospital when they saw that I was keeled over, completely pale and clammy, apparently.

What followed was a 48 hour massive hangover. Waking up in a hospital, with no idea how you got there, sucks. Sucks doubly when you realize that you've got a catheter in you. I had nausea like I had a huge stomach virus, and the room spun for two straight days.

It was a pretty good lesson.

Edited, Nov 19th 2011 11:53am by Eske

I still drink. Mostly just beer now, as it's much easier to regulate.

I've never had a hangover. I've awakened still drunk, I've awakened a little fuzzy on the events of the night before, but I've never had the symptoms you all are describing.

All that was a long time ago, though. A big night out these days is a couple of beers.

I remember some of my best hangovers from back in the day. When I was a teenager working at McDonalds, a bunch of us from the crew would go over to one of the manager's house and we'd drink till like four, then wake up two hours later and head back to the store with the opening crew. I would usually eat a sausage egg and cheese muffin and drink, in series, coffee, Sprite, water and apple juice.

Well, the beer is in a really pretty chalice.

"Ahg, why is my liver failing"

It's like you know my every innermost secret.

Spot on. So long as you don't have stomach issues or are on viagra then aspirin is fairly harmless.

Really? Any idea why?

Tinnitus is a known side effect of aspirin use.

Honestly, unless you have some extra need for taking some kind of medication, just drink the 2 cups of water before bed and this should prevent a hangover. Taking vitamins wont hurt, of course, but it's really the dehydration which causes the headache, and empty stomach which causes other symptoms of a hangover. Drinking water should prevent or at least seriously diminish any hangover symptoms.

It used to be a subject of much amusement back when I worked at a convenience store to read the instructions on those packets of "hangover cures" we used to sell. They were basically a bag of (expensive) vitamins, with the instructions saying to take them with 2 cups of water before going to bed after drinking. Um... Just drink the water and save yourself the $3.