Ohdrat
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You mean you don't drink the elixir of permanent youf as prescribed by Charles Kennedy?
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Migraines & Alcohol
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Violetta
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That\'s old age for you, m\'dear
But speaking of migraines - don't often suffer these days, but when I do I now use a drug called Zomig Rapimelt. It's miraculous. Just melts on the tongue, even in the "can't even keep water down" phase and the whole thing starts to resolve almost immediately. Within half an hour I'm generally back on my feet. Not absolutely fit, but certainly headache and sickness free and able to go about my normal business.
It's a prescription drug, of course, and pretty strong stuff. I don't think they would want you to use it very often. I think it is contra-indicated for some people - especially with heart or kidney problems. But in an emergency, when you really, really can't afford to be ill (a day off work can lose me a lot of money) it's a godsend. I would recommend any migrainous types to talk to their doctors about this and similar drugs.
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But speaking of migraines - don't often suffer these days, but when I do I now use a drug called Zomig Rapimelt. It's miraculous. Just melts on the tongue, even in the "can't even keep water down" phase and the whole thing starts to resolve almost immediately. Within half an hour I'm generally back on my feet. Not absolutely fit, but certainly headache and sickness free and able to go about my normal business.
It's a prescription drug, of course, and pretty strong stuff. I don't think they would want you to use it very often. I think it is contra-indicated for some people - especially with heart or kidney problems. But in an emergency, when you really, really can't afford to be ill (a day off work can lose me a lot of money) it's a godsend. I would recommend any migrainous types to talk to their doctors about this and similar drugs.
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Richard_Blake
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Good tip on Shiraz grape. I gather also that the cheaper wines are sometimes or usually treated with some kind of sulphur/sulphate stuff to stabilise them or kill the yeast.
Heineken pils affects me badly, although I'm fine with the other Dutch pilsners, and British beers (real ales, anyway).
Migraine and Boozehead are different phenomena, surely, although I find the latter can bring on the former - in my case probably old-neck-injury-induced, and the chiropractor has greatly reduced the frequency.
Have been told - I stand to be corrected - that alcohol destroys the B-vitamins, which we're a touch short of anyway once we get older, and this makes the headaches worse. If I'm not too drunk to remember it, a glass of water and a B-complex before final collapse does seem to help the next morning. Might just be the water , though... Is it true that alcohol dehydrates, as well?
In long ago days when getting blotto was the sole purpose of going out, the recipe was a raw egg whipped in a glass of milk before starting. Don't think I could face that anymore! Or an automatic bloody mary the next morning...
(Should she be capitalised?)
Richard
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Heineken pils affects me badly, although I'm fine with the other Dutch pilsners, and British beers (real ales, anyway).
Migraine and Boozehead are different phenomena, surely, although I find the latter can bring on the former - in my case probably old-neck-injury-induced, and the chiropractor has greatly reduced the frequency.
Have been told - I stand to be corrected - that alcohol destroys the B-vitamins, which we're a touch short of anyway once we get older, and this makes the headaches worse. If I'm not too drunk to remember it, a glass of water and a B-complex before final collapse does seem to help the next morning. Might just be the water , though... Is it true that alcohol dehydrates, as well?
In long ago days when getting blotto was the sole purpose of going out, the recipe was a raw egg whipped in a glass of milk before starting. Don't think I could face that anymore! Or an automatic bloody mary the next morning...
(Should she be capitalised?)
Richard
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Twister_Ken
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dehydration
> Is it true that alcohol dehydrates, as well<
To quote "If I'd known how thirsty I was going to be this morning, I'd have had more to drink last night."
In my younger days, it was always a pint of milk before kick-off and back home to a pint of water pepped up with two alka seltzer before the pit-hit.
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> Is it true that alcohol dehydrates, as well<
To quote "If I'd known how thirsty I was going to be this morning, I'd have had more to drink last night."
In my younger days, it was always a pint of milk before kick-off and back home to a pint of water pepped up with two alka seltzer before the pit-hit.
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Richard_Blake
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Re: slightly daunting fizz
I'd forgotten the seltzers! Improved the morning-after breath too, I was told.
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I'd forgotten the seltzers! Improved the morning-after breath too, I was told.
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ianwright
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This might not be much help, but since I had a stroke ten years ago I no longer get hangovers or migranes. In adittion to which, as I walk with a pronounced stagger they can't tell I'm drunk untill I pass out.
Or try chewing tobbaco and Woods rum.
IanW
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Or try chewing tobbaco and Woods rum.
IanW
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LadyInBed
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That will be it Jimi!
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That will be it Jimi!
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