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(Message started by: bothofus on Sep 5^th, 2006, 4:28am)

Title: Triggers
Post by bothofus on Sep 5^th, 2006, 4:28am

I have skipped all around these boards and every so often read about what might trigger this beast to be released from his shoelace leash.
I haven't been much of a drinker, just 2-3 hard cranberry lemonade drinks a day. 5.9% alcohol, less than a beer right?
Well, I stopped and got 2 nights sleep finally. Still on the depakote, but the alcohol was definitely a trigger, just as I had read here on these boards.
Something a lot of ya'll already knew.
Thanks to all that are here.
Carl

Title: Re: Triggers
Post by inyoureye on Sep 5^th, 2006, 6:26am

Absolutely Carl, I think many will agree that booze is probably the 1 trigger that most of us share with wine being the worst of the culprits.

Weed also does it for me, much more subtle onset than booze but same end result. Blows my mind that pot seems to actually help some folks.

Title: Re: Triggers
Post by vig on Sep 5^th, 2006, 9:04am

on 09/05/06 at 04:28:53, bothofus wrote:

You have just 2-3 drinks a day and you don't consider yourself much of a drinker?

if you drink alcohol every day, you're a drinker.

I'm not saying it's a bad thing (well, it is if you're getting hit because of it and you're not stopping), just picking apart your words.
;;D

Title: Re: Triggers
Post by Margi on Sep 5^th, 2006, 10:02am

on 09/05/06 at 04:28:53, bothofus wrote:

5.9% alcohol, less than a beer right?

You must be drinking imported beer. American beer doesn't have that high an alcohol content.

Sorry, just picking apart your words too. I'll shut up.

Title: Re: Triggers
Post by jmorgan52 on Sep 5^th, 2006, 10:23am

sorry to say this mate, but cranberry lemonade is a girls drink. beer is a mans drink ;;D

Title: Re: Triggers
Post by mynm156 on Sep 5^th, 2006, 7:10pm

I have been able to tolerate clear alcohols. So I have bloody mary's usually when I am drinking. Beer and pretty much anything else hits me

Title: Re: Triggers
Post by thebbz on Sep 5^th, 2006, 10:01pm

Anything that makes me drowsy. [smiley=JAW_DROP.gif]
Stress,fatigue,many more.
jb

Title: Re: Triggers
Post by bothofus on Sep 6^th, 2006, 2:56am

Well, I never have been much for beer, maybe while b-b-qing. The hard cranberry lemonade is real clean tasting and goes down smooth. Actually I think it is marketed as a flavored beer. It is malted. Don't know about the weed, haven't smoked it in 15 or so years.
I don't mind if ya'll pick apart my words, I got a chuckle out of it.
And jmorgan52 "a girls drink" eh? Try it, you'll probably like it.
Well after all that, I had 3 hits last night, still no drinky. 2 @kip 8 and 1 @kip 6. Thats why I stayed up so maybe I won't get hit again, out of the trex for now, will refill today. Tip of the coffee cup to ya'll.
Carl

Title: Re: Triggers
Post by seasonalboomer on Sep 6^th, 2006, 10:32am

Hey Carl,

Good to here you're able to bet another round of trex presciptions. Have you used Oxygen?

It's a nice first line of defense. It cut my need to use trex to only those ragin' bastards that are coming full steam. And, since the little suckers aren't as used to being hit by the trex, they tend to go down quick when they do get stuck with an injection. (That's all my "big beast hunter" theory by the way, "I'm NO DOCTOR")

Good to see you have a sense of humor. For a bunch of folks that suffer from something like CH, it's a funny bunch. If you can laugh about CH, I assure you, you can laugh about anything.

Scott

Title: Re: Triggers
Post by bothofus on Sep 6^th, 2006, 11:27am

I so need to try the oxygen. Money is a little tight right now. I am 99% sure my insurance won't pay for it, but after some reading it doesn't look too expensive.

I've only been back to work for a couple of months after about 2 1/2 months off for a labrynthectomy to correct the vertigo caused by menieniere's (sp) disease in my left ear. On top of losing my mother, my brother-in-law and my uncle all around the same time. Was getting back on my feet when the beast decided otherwise. Not looking for sympathy, just an attempt to better identify myself.

I've got to have some humor, I've had these since I was 17, diagnosed at about 24, before the trex and other new meds. There was A LOT of pain then compared to now. I'm 47 and at least the weapons to fight it have gotten better.

Carl

Title: Re: Triggers
Post by seasonalboomer on Sep 6^th, 2006, 12:03pm

Carl,

All I can tell you is that any time, effort, or money spent on oxygen has been worth it for me. It's far lower cost than Imitrex. My insurance does cover it, so that helps, but I'd pay for it myself if I had to.... it's just that good. It has changed my life and my outlook toward CH.

Scott

Title: Re: Triggers
Post by Sandy_C on Sep 6^th, 2006, 1:02pm

Alcohol??? Oh yeah. Definitely a trigger for me now. When I first started getting CH, I drank my beer, I drank my vodka, it made no difference at all - so I thought. Last cycle, if I so much as smelled beer, I could get hit. On the wagon I went. February through July - not one drop of alcohol. At least now, I can somewhat help to control my hits by avoiding it.

And, on the plus side - I lost 10 lbs.

On the minus side, as soon as my cycle ended, back to the beer and vodka, those 10 lbs came back on, plus another pound or two, or three :-/

Sandy

Title: Re: Triggers
Post by bothofus on Sep 6^th, 2006, 1:04pm

Thanks Scott, I believe everything you say about O2, didn't mean to sound like I didn't.

I'm episodic so I guess I'm hoping they will have there way with me and move on. Mine usually last about 8-10 weeks and it's been about 6 weeks now.

What do you take to prevent them?

Carl