The effects of chocolate

At around 1pm I ate one half of a plain chocolate Bounty before I
realised what I was doing. I threw the other half away.

Within 20 minutes I was suffering the worst headache I've had in years.
2 Paracetamol later and I still had it at 4pm. I drove home and took a
double dose of Paracetamol with Ibuprofen at around 6-30pm and still no
effect. The headache is just starting to wear off now. At least it
didn't make me violent this time.

Me and choccie bars just don't get on.

 

"The snacking reflex just went out of control, officer."

 

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You ****! I'd have had that.

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All chocolate or just the cheap shit, mass produced stuff like
Cadbury's?

Tried a milky bar?

 

Whinging Courier says...

All chocolate

They are worse from what I remember.

 

You poor soul. I'd say have a drink but IIRC, that has an unpleasant
effect on you as well.

 

<snip>

I have to ask. How do you eat half a Bounty without realising?



Phenylethylamine or Tyramine are the amines said to cause headaches from
chocolate. Apparently they cause dilation of the blood vessels in the brain,
which then brings on the headaches.

So now you know. )

 

Same here, and I still find myself eating it from time to time too. For
some reason, those little bone shaped chocolates for dogs don't have any
bad effects on me.

 

Loz H says...

Memory problems and the fact that I still have a terrible habit of
buying chocolate even though I can't eat it. Pip and Elly don't seem to
mind, cos it ends up at home uneaten. I love the taste of the stuff,
just can't get on with it.

So I do.

 

Steph says...

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That's enough for me to say I won't ever take them. Anything that makes
me feel like I'm not in control of myself is a no-no.

 

For future reference Syndol:
http://www.mypharmacy.co.uk/medicines/medicines/s/syndol/syndol.htm

works for me. AAMOF 2 of them has me spaced out for the afternoon as I
found out on Saturday (fell over at work and cracked the side of my
face/eye against some wooden Koi vats).

I don't know why these tablets work so much better than other stuff
containing caffiene etc, but I think it's the doxylamine which helps.

God knows what I sold to the customers on Saturday as I have a mental
block, I can't remember driving home either though whether that was the
syndol or the bump to the head I'm not sure.

 

Strange, doesn't alcohol ever have that effect on you?
I do know what you mean though - hence I don't smoke anything other than
tobacco as a rule (unless I'm drunk and then it just makes me sick).
However I did feel as if I'd been drinking after taking these tablets and
drunk enough to make me chill out. "Spaced out" was perhaps not the
right term, but you know that feeling after a few drinks where you could
just lie down and sleep regardless of where you are?

Anyway, I just thought it may be an option if your chocolate headache
hadn't gone by morning. Luckily I don't have that problem when I eat
chocolate - being a stereotypical female I'd be miserable without the
occasional 2kg bar of galaxy. I do get hellish headaches though if I
don't have coffee for a couple of days.

 

I don't even want to know why you tried eating those.... :-\

Martin
Blade

 

That's ruff!

 

Muck wrote:

Dog choccies are not chocolate as chocolate has bad effects on canine
health. Draw your own conclusions....

 

Nurofen Plus is the only thing I've found that works for my migraines. Give
it a go, may help next time. That and passing the chocolate here)

 

Turkey cat biscuits aren't bad.

 

We've got a pet food warehouse near by, they had a bin full of those
chocolate bones. I was hungry, and they looked nice, so I got a bag full.

That reminds me, I must drop by again to get another supply.

 

I used to deliver dried pet foods to shops but before I did I had to put
it all into smaller bags from the sacks it came in by machine. I used to
scoff loads of stuff when the boss wasn't there. Everything from wild
bird nuts to chocci drops but I used to eat the cat biscuits as well. I
drew the line at those 'marro-bone' dog biscuits though.

If they've got any, try the parrot mix, the sunflower seeds are
excellent.

 

I'm not sure I'd eat anything that said marrow bone on it either. You've
got to have some standards.

I'll have a look round when I go there.