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For those of you who suffer from them... or alternately, how do you avoid getting one to begin with?

I skip tequila which helps enormously. LOLOLOL Try to drink water before bed too. But honestly, I almost always have a headache in the morning. Blah.

I have no idea why, but I've never been prone to hangovers. (I try to drink extra water just as a general rule, but I don't think I can credit it to that. I think it's just the way my body works.)

It is funny I think. I mean people say, drink this or don't drink that but honestly what works for one person may not for someone else.

Yeah, I mean the classic morning-after cliche is someone being really groggy and slow and I tend to wake up bright and early the next morning, like I'm just wired backwards.

very true. Tequila will always make me sick (forget the hangover, sick pretty immediately) and my theory is because it's the first type of alcohol I overdid it on and got horrendously ill, messing up a very nice bar bathroom (after which I immediately fled out of embarrassment lol). But I know some people who tequila is their go-to because it doesn't make them sick at all. Bodies are weird!

So true! If it doesn't make me nauseous, it DEFINITELY makes me thirsty AF and gives me a massive headache. And that's from like one margarita. Never again.

I try to drink some water in between the alcohol. Ideally it's a glass of water per glass of alcohol but that doesn't always happen.

It definitely helps! Though it hinders drunk writing if one doesn't get very drunk. LOL

It's also mostly something I do when I'm out and about and need to catch a bus home. :)

Never had one. No one in my maternal bloodline has ever had one.

It's a mystery!

That is truly awesome.

Monster energy drink + water before bed cures my hangovers before they start. I'm an RN who used to work ER & Monster has everything we used to put in the "banana bags" we hung for the drunks with the misfortune of being in ER. (Also once their blood level of alcohol comes back, if it's over the legal limit - 0.08 - we cannot legally discharge them until it goes down below the legal limit... there is a standard calculation that one loses 0.025 per hour once one stops drinking, which is 0.10 alcohol per every 4 hours.)

Anyhoo, banana bags are so called because after we injected the IV vitamins (thiamine, folic acid, + multivitamin), the bag turns yellow because of the B vitamins. Point is, Monster (or the Aldi equivalent, Gridlock) gas everything we put in the banana bags. Of course it has other stuff too, like caffeine, taurine, ginseng... that's just a bonus. The main thing is then vitamins; those are depleted by drinking.

So once I figured that out, drinking one or two Monsters before bed with equal amounts of water, always cured my hangovers before I got them. I hate hangovers too, so this is what I typically bring to any event where I know I'll be drinking, & likely to excess. Haven't had a hangover with drinking since - unless I forgot my Monsters.

Feel free to substitute any energy drink you prefer for Monster - as long as it's got at least the thiamine & folic acid. They often have B12 (cobolamin) to, which helps as well. Those are the main ones you want for hangover prevention. And drink extra water with 'em.

That's actually super interesting and maybe even helpful. LOL I'm not sure everyone can drink caffein before bed and sleep successfully but I'm absolutely going to give this a try.

Well, it always works for me, & I've been doing it for about 17 years.

It only happened because I had to work night shift in the ER (no seniority) from 7pm-7am & my friend & I began drinking Monster to stay awake.

One night when it slowed down around 3:30am, I was staring at the can of Monster & read the ingredients again & in a moment of clarity, I was like, "Hey, wait - this is like A BANANA BAG IN A CAN!!"

And the idea was born... because sometimes after really bad nights at work, we would go to 7am cop bars to drink after we got off work, but I would have to drive home & wouldn't want to be drunk drunkity drunk for the drive home. So I'd drink Monsters as my last drinks, & I found I was never hung over those days.

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You have reminded me to take my "daily" vitamin (that I forget to take more than half the time).

I've never tried an energy drink at bedtime, but I often start the day with them. I wonder if that's part of why I've never been prone to hangovers?

Entirely possible! Although usually I imagine you'd have the hangover BEFORE you drank the morning energy drink, if you were going to get a hangover. But maybe you're just not hangover prone - good genes, I guess? 🙂

I'm thinking that by having an energy drink a few hours before I started drinking booze that I might be heading things off at the start. (Or again, I'm just weirdly not prone to hangovers.)

Well, that's a good thing then, right? Hell, I still need reminders to take my stuff on schedule.

You could also probably use those caffeine free energy drinks that are just liquid B vitamins in a little one shot bottle. I often see them at truck stops. Plus drink one glass of water per little bottle of B vitamins you drink, to prevent dehydration from excess drinking.

I just think of the caffeine, taurine, & ginseng as a bonus. 🙂

But you're right, not everyone can drink caffeine & then sleep... that is highly genetic... & it is in my genes. My mom drank coffee all day & night. She could have coffee at 9pm & go to sleep an hour later... & actually sleep. Snore, even.🙂

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I can drink a lot of caffeine and it barely registers while my husband and daughter won't be able to sleep at all. So bizarre!

Both my kids are college-ish age so I know a fair few people who will be getting this info. :D Thanks again!

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