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(Message started by: gpolma on Sep 3^rd, 2004, 6:32pm)

Title: Alcohol
Post by gpolma on Sep 3^rd, 2004, 6:32pm

I'm curious - alcohol, even several drinks, does not trigger a CH for me during a cycle. How common is that?

Title: Re: Alcohol
Post by FZfan on Sep 3^rd, 2004, 7:16pm

uncommon, but not unheard of.

Several folks on here can drink in cycle. I am not one of them.

Title: Re: Alcohol
Post by Giovanni on Sep 3^rd, 2004, 7:19pm

You're lucky. I can even smell alcohol when in cycle without getting a headache :P

Title: Re: Alcohol
Post by don on Sep 3^rd, 2004, 11:01pm

Overall it seems alcohol is a sure fire trigger for episodics but not so much for chronics.

Damn chronics.

Chronics suck.

Title: Re: Alcohol
Post by ArCane on Sep 4^th, 2004, 2:24am

The beast loves alcohol. It gives him strength. One time I tryed to see if i could get drunk enough to pass out and not have pain. I was wrong, WAY wrong. Your lucky gpolma.

Title: Re: Alcohol
Post by clarence on Sep 4^th, 2004, 4:45am

Any alcohol really messes me up when I am in cycle. Can't even take communion at church.

Casey

Title: Re: Alcohol
Post by synergy on Sep 4^th, 2004, 5:09am

Marc managed to have a drink the other night - drink in one hand and 02 mask in the other!!

Title: Re: Alcohol
Post by IndianaJohn on Sep 4^th, 2004, 8:15am

One sip off of one beer will give me a kip 10 every time when I'm in cycle.

Out of cycle no problem. On the up side, I don't develope a tolerance so I'm a cheap drunk...lol...

Title: Re: Alcohol
Post by Biker on Sep 4^th, 2004, 8:23am

Alochol makes my head hurt. Glad it does not trigger your headaches.

Title: Re: Alcohol
Post by Giuliano on Sep 4^th, 2004, 12:09pm

It hurt me just when I knew It was a trigger ,but before as far as i remind there was no sudden link.
Once in cluster off ,short sheadows.

Giuly

Title: Re: Alcohol
Post by ex_pat_asia on Sep 4^th, 2004, 3:34pm

Alcohol triggers me in cycle of course, but sometimes does, sometimes doesn't out of cycle. Volume and what I am drinking is a factor. Red wine, beer, and schnapps, are sure fire triggers (while out of cycle) if I don't mask beforehand with cafergot which is effective.

MSG, any time, in anything, triggers 100%, no matter what I might take to try to mask it.

Title: Re: Alcohol
Post by gpolma on Sep 4^th, 2004, 3:52pm

ex pat asia - I feel for you on the out of cycle thing. I was a wine collector for years before the onset of CH a few years ago, and that would have really compounded my misery.

Title: Re: Alcohol
Post by nani on Sep 4^th, 2004, 10:41pm

I'm a chronic and alcohol has no effect either way.

Title: Re: Alcohol
Post by Superpain on Sep 5^th, 2004, 6:31am

In cycle I usually get hurt real bad after any alcohol, but sometimes you've got live life and throw caution to the wind.
But I must admit I only adopted that idea after I found O2 and imitrex. ;)