OT: Oh. So THAT'S why I've been such a cranky ho!

Yes there are certain food triggers, too...and i have a lot of them. Aged cheese, dark chocolate, tree nuts, red wine, and a couple other things i can't recall off the top of my head. However...interestingly enough, i've discovered that if i take half a benadryl it really diffuses the effects. I know not everyone can take that stuff, but it works for me. Heck, i take benadryl several times a week anyway, so it's not a huge problem for me. Chocolate is a weird animal, though....it actually helps ease my mom's headaches...but I honestly think it's the caffine in it. Double edged sword and all that.

Good for you! My brother and my dad are both the stoic type..drives me bonkers, and it nearly kills them sometimes. THis year it was my brother coming down with bilateral pneumonia, which had him in the hospital for over a week. He pushes himself way too hard, so they had to keep him in longer so he wouldn't relapse.

I know my body, i know when something's wrong and if the pain is out of the ordinary (that sounds weird, but it fits my situation at the moment...LOL) then I will go straight away. I figure, better to be safe than dead. Ok, that sounded morbid, but i think you know what i mean...LOL.

The more I hear, the more I think people just have to become very good noticers and detectives when it comes to their individual, idiosyncratic responses to things. What is a trigger and what might be helping is something you discover gradually, over time, by paying attention and testing your educated guesses.

Deirdre

Yep, exactly.

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Jalynne" :

]if i take half ]a benadryl it really diffuses the effects.

Sudafed is the only thing that helps me.

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

LOL, depends on your definition of new. I started here in May, I think. I have another group I've been active in for four years. Over there, you're pretty much a newbie for the first six months :)

Anyway, when I feel like I don't have all the pieces of a conversation (like not knowing what's already been discussed here about migraine) then I do feel a little new still. But it's nice of you to think and say otherwise!

Laura

She -does- have meds that help a lot, and she has learned to take them in full doses at the first sign. She used to wait too long, and take too little... but she has learned from experience. But ... that's another thread ... ;-) (IOW, she's been 2 x 4ed often enough to pick herself up from the heap sooner and do what helps...)

Deirdre

All of us have a lot we don't know. We pick up on what interests us most, which is perfectly reasonable.

Since I'm not able to work, the people here are like co-workers to me. I may or may not have a seperate friendship with people here. I may or may not share interests. I don't read about birds, and only vaguely follow details of bead making. I try not to comment about military stuff because I believe in serious self defense and also serious pacifism. I always listen to Sarajane's to talk about natural remedies, etc.

There are so many paths here to follow, and so little time compared to the number of posts and variety of interests.

So relax and enjoy as much or as little as you want.

Tina

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.comnospam (Kaytee) :

]Ah, but it's discriminatory not to give both male and female service members ]access to the same sort of training. And, discrimination is against the law. ]The completion of training makes you quailfied for advancements in many cases, ]so denying somebody a chance at training effectively prevents them from being ]promoted. And, then, there's the "talk" that "Someday", women will have the ]same billeting assignment rotations as men, so they have to be prepared to fill ]them....

and it actually works to their [women's] advantage. when the possibilities open up - they already have the necessary training. it wasn't that long ago that women were not allowed to fly in combat. that has changed. if those pilots hadn't already had all the necessary training, it could have been used as an excuse to not make the spots available.

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

I understand all that. DH is in the Navy, third generation. What I meant about the training had nothing to do with gender, actually. DH got some training a couple years ago that he'll never use...it's useless, and the government wasted the money to send him there. That's the type of thing I get frustrated about.

I know what the statistics are, I know what the reasonings are, I know about the screening, etc. I don't think it's necessarily fair or right, but if they're not gonna authorize it, there's not a whole lot we can do about it. I got the info i shared from a submariner who has been in the Navy for nearly 20 years and has seen all the changes that have gone on and been proposed during that time. He would like to see an all female crew, but he doubts it's ever going to happen because of the "old boy's club".

I was just making conversation, didn't mean for it to turn into a debate...so i'll back away now.

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from MargieK :

]Been having them since I was 9 and not one doctor has attributed it to ]allergies. Of course that doesn't mean they're not, just not ]diagnosed.

interesting. of course, my MDs never put it together will allergies, either. but if my migraines all start with my sinuses, there has to be a trigger there somewhere. as long as i stay dosed on the Sudafed [which doesn't require a prescription or an MD] i can keep them from becoming full blown migraines. also, when the hot compresses on the sinus areas helped, that started me in that direction.

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

I don't think I've ever had a true migrane, unless severe headaches count as migranes, but I find that ibuprofen works on my severe headaches (which I couldn't take during pregnancy when I did have some severe headaches in early pregnancy - I had to make do with paracetemol(sp?)). It's the only thing that DH can take for any pain that he doesn't react to, yep he reacts to paracetemol!

I've tried using heat but it just makes me more nauseous. I have vomited from time to time from the migraines. You can imagine the pain of hanging your head over a toilet! blech I didn't always have sinus problems, developed those in the last few years, think I'll try the sudafed. Don't you become immune to it after a while?

-- Margie

Stopping at Shipwrecked, eh?? What a subtle bribe! LOL I hope you and Deidre do meet. I need somebody to give you a real hug till the day I can do it myself. And Deidre, you gotta meet this lady. Ok..shes weird, in a nice way, but fun! It could be the start of a beautiful friendship. :-) Diana

When DH gets a migraine he stops at Subway and gets a chicken sandwich packed to the gunwales with jalepeno peppers. It seems to help tho the sandwich preparers do look at him oddly. Diana

Well, :-P on that! What a doofusy attitude. If you say you have a headache, you have a headache! Whether you're six or sixty-six.

Deirdre

THIS I heartily believe. Lots of pain is triggered or exacerbated by stress and physical tension... like the sort that goes with anxiety.

Deirdre