Re: OT: Pharmaceutical Side Effects

My policy is to trust my own experience in deciding what helps and what hurts.

Doesn't matter how many degrees someone else has, or how wonderful their professional reputation is -- they don't know -beans- about YOUR individual, idiosyncratic system, and if they don't listen and respond to your own evaluation of the effects of something they've advised you to take, then they are not to be trusted as a prescriber, IMO.

Deirdre

no, not at all... just hope MS Pnats or whatever it's going by goes away again. I'd like it to be permanent good bye, but she/it's too much of a perv to do that....

If you've given up caffeine and still can't sleep, have you thought of the effects of the computer screen? Bright lights can interfere with your sleep cycle. You might try not using the computer after sunset. That could be harder to give up than caffeine. :^)

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or two off from some heavy brain-changers, like cocaine.<

My internist warned me that he's heard of it having adverse effects on memory. I have definitely cut back on my Diet Coke habit, but need to give it up entirely.

Carol in SLC (My stuff -

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I'm allergic to NS and saccharine. I recently tried Splenda and got sick from that too. I used to do fine with cyclamates though, doesn't that just figure! I read a while back that they finally were cleared of the bad rap they got in the 70's but the reputation is still there so nobody's using it. Guess I'll stick to water and unsweetened iced tea.

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 12:15:27 -0400, Karen_AZ wrote (in message ):

Be glad that cyclamates aren't around any more. I was in the Netherlands a few years ago, and their Diet Coke was sweetened with cyclamates. OMG.

Talk about foul! I had to spit out the mouthful I had, and pour the rest of that very, very expensive Diet Coke down the nearest drain.

When in Europe, I buy my Diet Cokes at the drink mart or drink bottled water.

Kathy N-V

I agree, Sarajane. And now there are so many alternatives to soft drinks that have Nutrasweet and other faux sweeteners. (I usually drink water) ~~ Sooz

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If bubbly drinks are something hard to give up, try switching to one of the brands sweetened with sucralose (Splenda) instead of aspartame (Nutrasweet). RC makes a line of fruit flavors as well as cola, and Hansen has a sugar-free line as well. Very tasty, and not as potentially dangerous.

Deirdre

There is a nice, refreshing alternative to sugar laden sodas or artificially sweetened stuff. My sis put me on to it. Take a bottle of tonic water or club soda and mix it with frozen fruit juice concentrate. Voila! No cane sugar, no funky weird substitute to worry about! Just putting my two cents in Diana, the cola addict

And there is a great use for bananas that get bruised if you're not going to make bread. Freeze them, no matter how black, and then add milk, a little vanilla and sugar for a banana milkshake without the ice cream. Yum yum! Sometimes I add pineapple or whatever other fruit is available. Excellent low-fat treat!

Those of you who get migraines, remember that bananas can cause them. (I know

-- I was shocked too.)

~~ Sooz

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I can get them from bananas if I eat too much. I think that they have one of the B vitamins in them? There is a B vitamin that gives me migraines if i have too much of it, too...I'm thinking B-12, but I'm not certain, it's been a long time since I had B specific supplements.

Wouldnt it make a great festive drink if we took bits of pretty fruit and froze it in cubes? Marachino cherrys in ice...in a tall frosty glass.. little paper umbrella... Diana

For those who get migraines. Take note: bananas are a frequently over-looked source of migraines. Barbara Dream Master

"Do not spoil what you have, by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for."

LOLOLOLOLOLOL -- Carol (who is now officially on vacation and may never see this post) has put up with many, many sleepless nights out of me. Since I used to work at her house.

Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right.." -- Counting Crows

froze it in cubes? Marachino cherrys in ice...in a tall frosty glass.. little paper umbrella...<

ROFL, the first time I EVER got drunk was from eating the frozen strawberries from a pure grain punch. I didn't want to drink but the berries looked so good. My guy laughingly told me later that there was more alcohol in the fruit (absorbed while it thawed) than in the punch itself. Bam!

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