Drinking H2O after alcohol

AKIRA · 11-06-2007, 02:36 PM

This has always been a ponderment of mine and the best way to ask this question is to map out my usual course of events.

1. Drink 1-2 cups of water.
2. Go out.
3. Piss right when I arrive.
4. Drink alcohol for hours.
5. Piss every 20 minutes after the first hour.
6. Get home safely and sip water.
7. Pissing at this point has slowed down to once an hour.
8. Drink about half a gallon of water.
9. Go to sleep.
10. Get up to piss twice throughout the night.
11. Wake up dehydrated.

I thought it was kind of odd that when I stopped drinking alcohol entirely, this would be my most dehydrated state. Which is why I drink more water at this point, however, in the morning I feel as if I didnt drink water at all the whole night....

I am thinking about how its gotta be a alcohol:water ratio, but the quantity of water I drink is pretty high, yet I still feel the same if I drink water before I go to bed vs. no water before bedtime.

Shit, sometimes Ill have a water in between drinks.

PreMier · 11-06-2007, 03:39 PM

its 2:1 water to alcohol if i recall.

Goodfella9783 · 11-06-2007, 03:44 PM

I've always heard that you're supposed to drink water in between alcoholic drinks rather than a lot only before and after boozing. Tough as hell to do once you get going.

AKIRA · 11-06-2007, 04:04 PM

Sure is, which is why its not normally done, however, I have done it and got the same results.

On the contrary, sometimes Ill go out and drink beyond belief and wake up feeling great. Now that is some shit I REALLY dont understand.

soxmuscle · 11-06-2007, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by AKIRA

On the contrary, sometimes Ill go out and drink beyond belief and wake up feeling great. Now that is some shit I REALLY dont understand.

This boggles my mind as well. I'll go out and get hammered one night and wake up the next morning feeling like a million bucks, and then some other night I'll sip on a few casuals, have a couple mixed drinks and call it a day and I'll feel miserable.

Hmm...

Namo · 11-06-2007, 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by soxmuscle

This boggles my mind as well. I'll go out and get hammered one night and wake up the next morning feeling like a million bucks, and then some other night I'll sip on a few casuals, have a couple mixed drinks and call it a day and I'll feel miserable.

Hmm...

Same here... I have tried experimenting with just about everything I can think of. Drinking water before and after, drinking water in between, eating a huge meal before bed..... nothing seems to be consistent. I do find however, beer seems to have the least impact on me the next day, so if I stick to beer and skip the cocktails and shots, I tend to be fine. Although there are still exceptions, where I still feel awful just from beer.

Gotta love those times when you get hammered, drink like a fish, and by some miracle wake up feeling perfectly fine....

vortrit · 11-06-2007, 08:09 PM

If I do go out and drink I generally seem to feel better the next day if I take a lot of water in on the day I'm drinking.

Goodfella9783 · 11-06-2007, 08:16 PM

What about popping a few aspirins before bed? I've always heard this is a huge help but I'm usually too cocked to remember to do it.

vortrit · 11-06-2007, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Goodfella9783

What about popping a few aspirins before bed? I've always heard this is a huge help but I'm usually too cocked to remember to do it.

I've heard that too, but I've never tried it.

AKIRA · 11-06-2007, 09:11 PM

I have tried the asprin, amongst other methods, but I really wanted to know the story with water. Afterall, alcohol dehydrates you! Water should combat it! But in the scenario I described in the first post, it would seem that I went in hydrated, came out dehydrated, then rehydrated, but became dehydrated again.

vortrit · 11-06-2007, 09:19 PM

1-2 cups of water before you go out don't seem like much. If I am planning to go out I try to take in a massive amount of water that day, and probably a couple of bottles before I go out.

AKIRA · 11-06-2007, 09:22 PM

Thats 1-2 cups right before I leave. This doesnt include the regular fluid intake throughout the day. However, I dont include that cuz of possible sodium and caffeine intakes.

vortrit · 11-06-2007, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by AKIRA

Thats 1-2 cups right before I leave. This doesnt include the regular fluid intake throughout the day. However, I dont include that cuz of possible sodium and caffeine intakes.

Right on. Makes sense. I know I'd really have a hard time drinking water once I get started on the beer. I usually end up waking up in the middle of the night feeling somewhat dehydrated and end up chugging down some water, but that's just me.

fufu · 11-06-2007, 10:10 PM

You can drink all the water you want, but you have to wait till ADH regulation gets back on track. That can depend on alot of things.

MeatZatk · 11-06-2007, 11:31 PM

Whenever I get insanely drunk, my wife (who happens to be a nurse) hooks up an IV in my arm and pumps me full of salene. I wake up feeling pretty good. She literally is a lifesaver!

goob · 11-07-2007, 10:00 AM

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Originally Posted by AKIRA

1. Drink 1-2 cups of water.
2. Go out.
3. Piss right when I arrive.
4. Drink alcohol for hours.
5. Piss every 20 minutes after the first hour.
6. Get home safely and sip water.
7. Pissing at this point has slowed down to once an hour.
8. Drink about half a gallon of water.
9. Go to sleep.
10. Get up to piss twice throughout the night.
11. Wake up dehydrated.

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Holy shit, that's almost exactly the same as me, to each point. Except that I usually don't wake up during the night, and still after drinking 1/2 gallon+ of water when I get home, still wake up heavily dehydrated.

AKIRA · 11-07-2007, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by MeatZatk

Whenever I get insanely drunk, my wife (who happens to be a nurse) hooks up an IV in my arm and pumps me full of salene. I wake up feeling pretty good. She literally is a lifesaver!

My friends GF does that too.

Lucky fucks.

goandykid · 11-07-2007, 05:27 PM

Don't break the seal so quickly. Wait to piss. I wont drink water until I get home, but I'll chug a large amount. Then I'll go and get 3-4 water bottles and put them next to me on my nightstand for when I wake up. I always feel fine with that schedule, the only time I get hangovers is with Jack or Hurricanes, neither are somehthing I drink on the reg

Uthinkso · 11-07-2007, 06:31 PM

When I go out on the town I follow your regimine almost to a tee AKIRA, but the change is before bed. When I am heading out I grab a Powerade OPTION, its their low carb/low sugar version. I slam the 24oz bottle right before bed. Its never steered me wrong yet, and before the low carb stuff it was regular powerade.

Uthinkso · 11-07-2007, 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by AKIRA

My friends GF does that too.

Lucky fucks.

With my group I'd be concerned what was in the IV bag. I don't need the Nikki Sixx/ Tommy Lee vodka IV bag

AKIRA · 11-07-2007, 07:29 PM

I am about to go out now. Hanging out with some new folks (never drank with them) and I am drinking my water. I already had a protein shake earlier with 2.5 cups of skim milk. I know, not the same, but it made me piss Amoco Ultimate (its clear) and now I am drinking water on top of it.

I wasnt planning on getting stinking drunk, but if I have a good time...and possibly lucky, it might be a long night of drinks.

Wish me luck tonight (and tomorrow morning).

rmcfar · 11-07-2007, 10:50 PM

theres nothing you can do about it. when you drink alcohol it drives all the water out of your body (ergo the clear urine after a few drinks). your best bet would be to make sure you hydrate before and after but at the end of the day you will get dehydrated if you are drinking.

personally i drink vodka, water, lime's. still taste's pretty good, you get nice and crushed at a reasonable price, avoid all the sugar and b.s, and it seems the hang over isn't quite as bad.

Pr0blemChild21 · 11-08-2007, 12:57 AM

Yea its rediculous with me i feel so dehydrated every morning i wake up not just after a night of drinking. i am more dehydrated however after a night of drinking even after consuming a couple bottles of water before i call it a night. this raises concern for me because i just bought my first supply of creatine (CL Green Bulge). My roomate whos on green magnitude says that every morning he's so dehydrated that he wakes up with chapped lips. i just wonder how badly i will get when i start taking my creatine and on top of that going out and drinking everyweekend..... anything that can help me supress my dehydration?

RexStunnahH · 11-08-2007, 12:59 AM

If I mix drinks,like if Im drinking beer and have some hardliquor,I will have a mad hangover......I tried taking aspirins after a night of drinking with a huge cup of water.....and it helps sometimes.

goandykid · 11-08-2007, 02:42 AM

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Originally Posted by RexStunnahH

If I mix drinks,like if Im drinking beer and have some hardliquor,I will have a mad hangover......I tried taking aspirins after a night of drinking with a huge cup of water.....and it helps sometimes.

Liquor before beer and you're in the clear,
but beer before liquor and you'll get even sicker

rmcfar · 11-08-2007, 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by goandykid

Liquor before beer and you're in the clear,
but beer before liquor and you'll get even sicker

ive put that saying to the test many times. and trust me you can get sick both ways!!!

AKIRA · 11-08-2007, 11:40 AM

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11-06-2007, 02:36 PM	#1
AKIRA I am Rollo Tomassee.. Elite Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Outside the box Posts: 8,026 Photos: 3	Drinking H2O after alcohol This has always been a ponderment of mine and the best way to ask this question is to map out my usual course of events. 1. Drink 1-2 cups of water. 2. Go out. 3. Piss right when I arrive. 4. Drink alcohol for hours. 5. Piss every 20 minutes after the first hour. 6. Get home safely and sip water. 7. Pissing at this point has slowed down to once an hour. 8. Drink about half a gallon of water. 9. Go to sleep. 10. Get up to piss twice throughout the night. 11. Wake up dehydrated. I thought it was kind of odd that when I stopped drinking alcohol entirely, this would be my most dehydrated state. Which is why I drink more water at this point, however, in the morning I feel as if I didnt drink water at all the whole night.... I am thinking about how its gotta be a alcohol:water ratio, but the quantity of water I drink is pretty high, yet I still feel the same if I drink water before I go to bed vs. no water before bedtime. Shit, sometimes Ill have a water in between drinks.
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11-06-2007, 04:04 PM	#4
AKIRA I am Rollo Tomassee.. Elite Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Outside the box Posts: 8,026 Photos: 3	Sure is, which is why its not normally done, however, I have done it and got the same results. On the contrary, sometimes Ill go out and drink beyond belief and wake up feeling great. Now that is some shit I REALLY dont understand.
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vortrit Bulk. Cut. Repeat. Elite Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Missouri, USA Posts: 2,652 Blog Entries: 1 Photos: 5	If I do go out and drink I generally seem to feel better the next day if I take a lot of water in on the day I'm drinking.
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11-06-2007, 09:11 PM	#10
AKIRA I am Rollo Tomassee.. Elite Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Outside the box Posts: 8,026 Photos: 3	I have tried the asprin, amongst other methods, but I really wanted to know the story with water. Afterall, alcohol dehydrates you! Water should combat it! But in the scenario I described in the first post, it would seem that I went in hydrated, came out dehydrated, then rehydrated, but became dehydrated again.
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Goodfella9783 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 4,168	I've always heard that you're supposed to drink water in between alcoholic drinks rather than a lot only before and after boozing. Tough as hell to do once you get going.

11-06-2007, 08:16 PM	#8
Goodfella9783 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 4,168	What about popping a few aspirins before bed? I've always heard this is a huge help but I'm usually too cocked to remember to do it.

11-06-2007, 09:19 PM	#11
vortrit Bulk. Cut. Repeat. Elite Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Missouri, USA Posts: 2,652 Blog Entries: 1 Photos: 5	1-2 cups of water before you go out don't seem like much. If I am planning to go out I try to take in a massive amount of water that day, and probably a couple of bottles before I go out.
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11-06-2007, 09:22 PM	#12
AKIRA I am Rollo Tomassee.. Elite Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Outside the box Posts: 8,026 Photos: 3	Thats 1-2 cups right before I leave. This doesnt include the regular fluid intake throughout the day. However, I dont include that cuz of possible sodium and caffeine intakes.
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fufu fiendish thingy Elite Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 16,525 Photos: 7	You can drink all the water you want, but you have to wait till ADH regulation gets back on track. That can depend on alot of things.
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11-07-2007, 05:27 PM	#18
goandykid Registered User Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 4,379	Don't break the seal so quickly. Wait to piss. I wont drink water until I get home, but I'll chug a large amount. Then I'll go and get 3-4 water bottles and put them next to me on my nightstand for when I wake up. I always feel fine with that schedule, the only time I get hangovers is with Jack or Hurricanes, neither are somehthing I drink on the reg
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11-07-2007, 07:29 PM	#21
AKIRA I am Rollo Tomassee.. Elite Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Outside the box Posts: 8,026 Photos: 3	I am about to go out now. Hanging out with some new folks (never drank with them) and I am drinking my water. I already had a protein shake earlier with 2.5 cups of skim milk. I know, not the same, but it made me piss Amoco Ultimate (its clear) and now I am drinking water on top of it. I wasnt planning on getting stinking drunk, but if I have a good time...and possibly lucky, it might be a long night of drinks. Wish me luck tonight (and tomorrow morning).
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11-07-2007, 10:50 PM	#22
rmcfar i love cutting Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 266	theres nothing you can do about it. when you drink alcohol it drives all the water out of your body (ergo the clear urine after a few drinks). your best bet would be to make sure you hydrate before and after but at the end of the day you will get dehydrated if you are drinking. personally i drink vodka, water, lime's. still taste's pretty good, you get nice and crushed at a reasonable price, avoid all the sugar and b.s, and it seems the hang over isn't quite as bad.
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11-08-2007, 12:57 AM	#23
Pr0blemChild21 newb Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: STRONG ISLAND Posts: 42	Yea its rediculous with me i feel so dehydrated every morning i wake up not just after a night of drinking. i am more dehydrated however after a night of drinking even after consuming a couple bottles of water before i call it a night. this raises concern for me because i just bought my first supply of creatine (CL Green Bulge). My roomate whos on green magnitude says that every morning he's so dehydrated that he wakes up with chapped lips. i just wonder how badly i will get when i start taking my creatine and on top of that going out and drinking everyweekend..... anything that can help me supress my dehydration?
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11-08-2007, 11:40 AM	#27
AKIRA I am Rollo Tomassee.. Elite Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Outside the box Posts: 8,026 Photos: 3	I didnt get laid last night. Hell, I did