Rehydration

[TrueBias]

Drinking water. It is a bitch. And bitches dont make sense, whether drunk or sober.

When you are thirsty, this is a sign that youre already dehydrated. Your brain is sending hormones to tell you to drink some water. How much water is needed? How long does it take to rehydrate after you found a garden hose?

Or.

Youre drunk and some asshole tells you to drink a shit load of water before you go to bed. Ok, but you remember last time you did this you, pissed all night (in toilet or in bed), pissed clear, and were still hung over in the morning, pissing orange/yellow...

This wonderment comes from hangovers, but I believe the answer to it can also be partly discovered from just being thirsty when sober.

If a hangover (headaches, nausea, anxiety, grogginess, etc) is caused from dehydration, then how much water is needed to recover? Or is it time of rehydrating that is important? In other words, if you drink too fast, you piss it out before it becomes effective. God knows, when I am drunk, I spend so much time drinking water after the booze, then spend extra time pissing, but I am still in pain in the morning.

However..

When I am working out and actually tearing up the fucking squat rack with some hilarious leg movements that would make the mighty Odin raise an eye brow, I can drink plenty of fluids, sweat like a mofo, yet still have to piss like a race horse, clear or not, but I am not sick like a dog afterward.

 

[Da Speeit]

I like Water and Green Tea.

I sweat when I run.

That's all i have to contribute to this thread

 

[TrueBias]

Follow up..

Ive drank a shit load of water before going to bed after a night of drinking and been in pain in the morning, as stated, but Ive also done the same routine with a vit B complex pill and still been in pain in the morning.

With all this fucking water going in, along with vit B pills, what the hell is the point of a hangover?

If it is truly dehydration, how long does it take for the body to absorb water for use rather than piss?

 

[uncommon]

dude i think you are onto something

 

[Roxxo]

If you drink too much water too quickly you will just pee it most of it out before actually getting completely rehydrated as you can only absorb so much at one time.

 

[TrueBias]

If you drink too much water too quickly you will just pee it most of it out before actually getting completely rehydrated as you can only absorb so much at one time.

So none of it, NONE is absorbed? Some of it has to go to work and help fix some stuff.

 

[tightrope]

You can only absorb about 1L of water per hour. Also you need to make sure you are getting electrolyes

 

[Roxxo]

You can only absorb about 1L of water per hour. Also you need to make sure you are getting electrolyes

Indeed. If you drink a lot of water and don't add back some electrolytes, chiefly sodium, you could end up with an electrolyte imbalance which has the same symptoms as a hangover...or makes your brain swell and kills you...

 

[Blood Python]

I heard once that once you are at a certain point of drunkenness that your body won't really absorb the water due to the diuretic effects of alcohol.

"Alcohol also reduces the production of a hormone called vasopressin, which tells your kidneys to reabsorb water rather than flush it out through the bladder. With the body's natural signal switched off the bladder is free to fill up with fluid."

http://www.drinkaware.co.uk/check-the-facts/health-effects-of-alcohol/effects-on-the-body/why-does-alcohol-make-you-pee-more

Anyway, I feel better pretty fast after a drunk night by drinking some coconut water or pedialyte. Banana's help me feel better too.

 

[Departed]

The toxic effects of some of the byproducts in the alcohol (congeners) cause a lot of the symptoms of a hangover. Generally, the darker the liquid, the more impurities that exist. You may also be sensitive to compounds in certain drinks (sulphites in some wines, increased yeast in weissbiers for example).

Your best bet is to pre-hydrate, drink water intermittently instead of slamming it before bed. When you wake up take a B vitamin complex, a pint of bartenders friend* and some form of energy (food if you can eat, glucose drinks etc).

Bartender's friend:

Pint of soda water or sparkling mineral water (think this is club soda in the US?)
Half a lime squeezed
Shot of lime cordial
Few dashes of Angostura bitters
Handful of ice.

The water/salt combo rehydrates. The effervescent settles your stomach. The lime provides Vit C and sugar. The 44% abv of the bitters helps stop your liver producing the nasty shit that makes you feel like death. The ice, well because you don't want to drink that shit at room temp.

 

[Kuvasz]

I find that drinking before I go to bed helps a lot - drinking water while drinking is what generally really saves me though.

I drink an electrolyte mix (Hydralyte or something) that I get for free from work. I imagine it would be incredibly easy to make some for about 1/100 of the price using salt, potassium citrate, glucose and flavouring though.

I try to drink a litre before I hit the hay, then another 500mL everytime I get up to take a leak.

 

[TrueBias]

So thats the ticket eh? Elctrolytes and sodium.

I forgot that a few drunken nights ago, I drank water with salt dashed in. Or was it in the morning...

Anyway, Ive also done the drinking water during drinking, but again, how much is enough?

The bartenders thing is a good addition, thank you. Id bet it worked cuz putting that contraption together every time would suck.

 

[CardonaLJ**]

a drink a bottle of water and pop either an advil or a tylenol pm bf i crash from drinking. shit works. i wake up groggy but no hangover.

 

[Tankeray]

I like water.

 

[Rex Kwon Do]

I drink a ton of water. It started years ago when I was running like crazy and it took an inhuman amount of water just to keep up with what I was losing. When I stopped running so much, though, my body didn't adjust and I still have to drink like mad or else I'll feel like shit and my urine will be dark as hell. Or maybe I have a disease. Fuck it.

 

[TruthBeTold]

Drinking water. It is a bitch. And bitches dont make sense, whether drunk or sober.

When you are thirsty, this is a sign that youre already dehydrated. Your brain is sending hormones to tell you to drink some water. How much water is needed? How long does it take to rehydrate after you found a garden hose?

Or.

Youre drunk and some asshole tells you to drink a shit load of water before you go to bed. Ok, but you remember last time you did this you, pissed all night (in toilet or in bed), pissed clear, and were still hung over in the morning, pissing orange/yellow...

This wonderment comes from hangovers, but I believe the answer to it can also be partly discovered from just being thirsty when sober.

If a hangover (headaches, nausea, anxiety, grogginess, etc) is caused from dehydration, then how much water is needed to recover? Or is it time of rehydrating that is important? In other words, if you drink too fast, you piss it out before it becomes effective. God knows, when I am drunk, I spend so much time drinking water after the booze, then spend extra time pissing, but I am still in pain in the morning.

However..

When I am working out and actually tearing up the fucking squat rack with some hilarious leg movements that would make the mighty Odin raise an eye brow, I can drink plenty of fluids, sweat like a mofo, yet still have to piss like a race horse, clear or not, but I am not sick like a dog afterward.

You feel like shit after getting drunk because you got drunk. You don't feel like shit when done working out because you didn't get drunk.

It's science.

 

[Diktaattori]

You feel like shit after getting drunk because you got drunk. You don't feel like shit when done working out because you didn't get drunk.

It's science.