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(Message started by: knifeinskull on Sep 15th, 2006, 8:33pm)
Title: Advill Cold & Sinus ?????
Post by knifeinskull on Sep 15th, 2006, 8:33pm
Hi everyone. I did a search on advill & the only thing that came up was my post from yesterday. I no longer take pills for my C.H. but ten years ago when I started getting them I noticed if I took Advill cold & sinus at the first sign of an attack they wouln't last more than 30 mins. Sometimes they would be gone in less than 15 mins. Now I don't know if its just me but it might be worth a shot to try it AS SOON AS YOU FEEL THE FIRST SIGN OF AN ATTACK. Please note I'm not a doctor by any means. I know some people will try anything to get rid of em.
Title: Re: Advill Cold & Sinus ?????
Post by Tom K on Sep 15th, 2006, 9:35pm

on 09/15/06 at 20:33:36, knifeinskull wrote:
Hi everyone. I did a search on advill & the only thing that came up was my post from yesterday. I no longer take pills for my C.H. but ten years ago when I started getting them I noticed if I took Advill cold & sinus at the first sign of an attack they wouln't last more than 30 mins. Sometimes they would be gone in less than 15 mins. Now I don't know if its just me but it might be worth a shot to try it AS SOON AS YOU FEEL THE FIRST SIGN OF AN ATTACK. Please note I'm not a doctor by any means. I know some people will try anything to get rid of em.


Then you had a full blown sinus infections/headache.  There is no way in hell that a sinus pill is going to be broken down and get through your blood stream in under 20 minutes.
Title: Re: Advill Cold & Sinus ?????
Post by MJ on Sep 15th, 2006, 9:56pm

A few sufferers get relief from the antihistamines found in some cold medications..

You may want to look at getting a prescription for periactin wich is an antihistamine if the cold med works for you a little bit.

The downside of Advil (Ibuprofen) is that it can add rebound headaches to the mix.
Title: Re: Advill Cold & Sinus ?????
Post by Jonny on Sep 15th, 2006, 10:00pm
You dont have CH!!

Edit to add: You did a search on Advil and all you came up with was your post?

There are hundreds of links on Advil, dude!!
Title: Re: Advill Cold & Sinus ?????
Post by MJ on Sep 15th, 2006, 10:18pm

Thanks jonny I never wanted CH in the first place.
Title: Re: Advill Cold & Sinus ?????
Post by Jonny on Sep 15th, 2006, 10:30pm

on 09/15/06 at 22:18:08, MJ wrote:
Thanks jonny I never wanted CH in the first place.


Asprin kills your pain, MR?.....good for you.
Title: Re: Advill Cold & Sinus ?????
Post by MJ on Sep 15th, 2006, 10:41pm

The medication Knife reffered to was advil Cold and Sinus.

I discounted the advil,  but the "pseudophedrine" an antihistamine like drug in the OTC med has helped some in some cases.

Aspirin does even less for CH.
Title: Re: Advill Cold & Sinus ?????
Post by knifeinskull on Sep 16th, 2006, 8:33am
So JONNY I don't suffer from C.H. then you try telling my boss that when I'm sitting in my truck banging my hand agaist the dash or when my girlfriend feels so bad that there is nothing she can do when I'm pacing back & forth & how about as I type this with 1 hand b/c the other is pushing on my left temple!!!! All I am saying is that in helped me in the past. ONE more thing JONNY maybe you should type advill in that search engine 1 more time & see what comes up. Why don't you get back to me after that.
Title: Re: Advill Cold & Sinus ?????
Post by brewcrew on Sep 16th, 2006, 8:39am
Maybe that's the problem: Advil only has one "L."
Title: Re: Advill Cold & Sinus ?????
Post by Melissa on Sep 16th, 2006, 9:24am

on 09/16/06 at 08:33:07, knifeinskull wrote:
So JONNY I don't suffer from C.H. then you try telling my boss that when I'm sitting in my truck banging my hand agaist the dash or when my girlfriend feels so bad that there is nothing she can do when I'm pacing back & forth & how about as I type this with 1 hand b/c the other is pushing on my left temple!!!! All I am saying is that in helped me in the past. ONE more thing JONNY maybe you should type advill in that search engine 1 more time & see what comes up. Why don't you get back to me after that.

For being new here this is a very interesting 4th post...
Title: Re: Advill Cold & Sinus ?????
Post by Karla on Sep 16th, 2006, 11:25am
Try using the search button located in the upper left hand corner of the web page.  Then select ch.com over a world wide web search.  You will find many many posts on ch.  Good luck.
Title: Re: Advill Cold & Sinus ?????
Post by Jonny on Sep 16th, 2006, 12:58pm

on 09/16/06 at 09:24:14, Melissa wrote:
For being new here this is a very interesting 4th post...


Yeah Melly, makes jonny go... Hmmmmmmmm  ;)
Title: Re: Advill Cold & Sinus ?????
Post by vietvet2tours on Sep 16th, 2006, 1:09pm
Another crock-o-bullshit from anytown U.S.A.
Title: Re: Advill Cold & Sinus ?????
Post by BB on Sep 16th, 2006, 5:10pm
Advil Cold and Flu had antihistamine in it, that is the only thing that may help THE PAIN of CH but there is NO MEDICAL WAY that it can ABORT a REAL CH attack.

Remember that CH attack is caused by VASODILATATION of the blood vessels inside the brain, by the release of serotonin which is a vasodilator. Histamine is also released which adds on to the effect of serotonin by causing inflammation, and reducing pain threshold. But the release of histamine ALONE can not cause or trigger a REAL cluster attack.

Remember that ALL medication that is used to abort CH are VASOCONSTRICTOR such as oxygen, triptans, ergotamines and caffeine. Antihistamine alone can not vasoconstrict, thats why it can not abort a CH attack.

Also please note that the OP says that this was his experience 10 years ago. How can he be so sure that those headaches he had 10 years ago were actually CH. During a CH active cycle, one's short term memory is quite badly affected. Can one possibly remember that clearly 10 years ago if the headaches lasted only 15 mins? They could well be something else.

Anyone decides to act on his suggestion please take care.

JMHO.

Annette
Title: Re: Advill Cold & Sinus ?????
Post by Jonny on Sep 16th, 2006, 5:26pm
"Advill" ?......Never heard of it.
Title: Re: Advill Cold & Sinus ?????
Post by BB on Sep 16th, 2006, 6:11pm
Wrong spelling , should be Advil, only 1 L, sorry Jonny.

Advil itself is anti-inflammatory , also known as brufen, ibuprofen, ACT-3, Motrin, Nurofen or Nuprin. By itself it does nothing for the severe pain of a real CH attack.

Advil Cold and Flu contains some anti histamine as explained above.

Annette
Title: Re: Advill Cold & Sinus ?????
Post by Jonny on Sep 16th, 2006, 6:39pm

on 09/16/06 at 18:11:17, BB wrote:
Wrong spelling , should be Advil, only 1 L, sorry Jonny.

Annette


Never be sorry to me, this is why knife dude only came up with his own post on google.....wrong spelling.

Edit to add: Google search on Advil came up with 2,700,000 links

Title: Re: Advill Cold & Sinus ?????
Post by gore2424 on Sep 17th, 2006, 3:49am
many many years ago when first got these headaches all i had was the old sleepy sin-off pills and i drank didnt help me in AM when i awoke was even worse (yeah right huh lol) just my 2 cents worth for now Terry


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