Heads Up on Delayed Onset Headache

Happy Birthday.

Your head is killing you. You puke... nothing. You are out of synch with yourself. You are tired. You just wanna go back to sleep. Good luck with that. Every sound or flash of light just pounds on you. And you get real dizzy when you close your eyes.

You are hung over.

So what happened? You remember the folks yelling at you. You remember blowing out the candles on a cake. You remember the ice cream. You remember the two big pieces of cake. You remember that you got thirsty, so you drank...a sweetened ice tea, you think. Wait, you had a birthday celebration last night. But no booze?

How did that happen? How did you manage to get a HUMONGOUS ‘just-wanna-die’ hangover without drinking yourself under a table?

When you drink an alky drink, your body turns the ethanol (alcohol) into acetic acid. Through the breakdown of glucose, aka glycolysis, acetic acid produces acetyl CoA which reduces your blood sugar level. When your blood sugar level goes down enough you can get a headache, you can feel like puking, you can feel like crap [From crapulent, sick from gluttony, from Late Latin crapulentus, very drunk, from Latin crapula, intoxication, from Greek kraipale]

When you eat or drink sugar, your body breaks down the sugar to make glucose which breaks down into carbon dioxide and water; and energy is released. Once that energy is released, your blood sugar goes down. If you eat too much sugar, you can increase your blood sugar level way up, and when the level crashes you can get sick from gluttony and feel like crap.

You got this delayed onset headache syndrome from the sugar in the cake, and in the ice cream, and in the ice tea.

Bear in mind that your results from blood sugar changes may vary from those of other folks. Some folks can drink huge amounts of alcohol and not experience a delayed onset headache. Other folks can get sick right away from drinking. And there are other folks in between. The same considerations apply with sugar consumption.

The pain associated with a hangover is a result of your body's effort to cope with the systemic overload of sugar or ethanol.

If you are diabetic, you get to manage your blood sugar level. If you are not diabetic, you get to reduce or retime your consumption of sugar or ethanol. Or, you can continue to consume at your current level and live with the pain.

So, you can get a hangover from too much sugar or alcohol. Alcohol and sugar use can lead to blood sugar level decline; such decline can lead to delayed onset headaches.

4.20.2010

Update from Dr Raeburn Forbes MD(Hons) FRCP Ed FRCP Lond
Consultant Neurologist

Dear Doc
Thanks for your enquiry to http://www.severe-headache-expert.com. I am sorry that it has taken me so long to respond, but the amount of interest has been impressive and I still feel I should respond to everyone in person.
Before I go any further, please remember that this information should be shared with your own doctor, as it is not a substitute for proper medical care.
I suspect that the most likely reason for someone having headaches associated by large intakes of sugars is migraine.  Many people with migraine experience cravings for foods (often carbs) in the hours before a migraine develops.  This then makes them think (quite reasonably) that there symptoms are secondary to the sugary food.  In fact the ingestion of this sugary food is simply an indication that a migraine is due.
Would you please discuss this possibility with your own doctor?  If this is migraine then some simple measures such as regular, quality sleep, eating healthy food regularly (enough to avoid feeling really hungry), keeping hydrated, minimising stress, keeping a healthy weight and regular gentle exercise may be all that you need to do.  There are also many effective treatments for the pain of migraine and also severeal preventative treatments - but these all work best when you try to look after yourself physically and mentally to the best of your abilities.

Regarding hangover headaches - avoiding alcohol is the only proven measure, but there are others - search hangover treatments on the website.

8.13.2010

The Slaughter of the Willing

Government employees have lied to us right from the very beginning.  The lie that hostilities between people in different groups benefits at least one of the groups is a particularly odious example.  People indoctrinate children within prisons called schools to believe that government officials grant to them their rights and government employees defend their freedoms by dying.

Coming on the heels of the shooting spree at Ft Hood in Texas, local Veterans Day Celebrations in honour of government employees were telling examples of the immense disconnect between the rationale for their behaviours and the reality of their results.

Designated folks spoke about service, including human sacrifice to the purported benefit of protected people.  Folks told stories about bravery, and courage, and discipline, and on and on.  Speakers wearing costumes festooned with ribbons extolled killing other people at the direction of their masters as defending listeners’ freedoms. 

People living within the boundaries of the American Empire currently have less freedom than previously.  With the passage of legislation regulating health care, U S Constitutional restrictions on government actions will be gone. 

Poverty has increased from War on Poverty.  Drug use increased from War on Drugs.  Terror increased from War on Terrorism. 

But freedom, that light whose protection justifies war, has dimmed.  You can be snatched away, coercively interrogated, crippled, and even killed with no recourse to you.  You do not even have to pick a pocket or break somebody’s leg to be a target.  There are plenty of government employees who are willing to target you, to pick your pocket and/or break your leg at your expense.   

You are responsible for your safety.  You may delegate such responsibility at your expense to a willing agent.  You are still ultimately answerable for your agent’s actions on your behalf, and you are still ultimately responsible for your safety.  Unless you are a willing agent to whom another delegated the responsibility for his safety you have no standing to defend anyone else.

This means that you have no business going, in the name of eradicating certain behaviour, to faraway lands to kill folks who just happened to be unlucky enough to be in the area of your hostile actions.  Hostilities against behaviour become hostilities against folks.  These folks are just like you. 

3 January 2010

MacJoke, May 2000

A computer savvy Mack driver

Booted up his Mac computer

Listened to ‘Mack the Knife’,

While he danced the Macarena

Got a Mac Attack

So had some macaroons

Then, macaroni and cheese

Felt so bad after all these cheesy jokes

He killed himself with his Mac 10 

The 1993 Adelanto Children’s Crusade

They waited, row after rainbow-hued row, looking like futuristic knights, in their riding gear, under a camouflage-patterned desert sky with black, grey, and white clouds, as a brisk breeze blew away the dirty white smoke that plumed from the exhaust pipes of their machines.

Amid the snarls of engines warming up, two yellow-helmeted racers on white Yamahas at the end of the front row held a hasty shouted conference.  Their hands sketched in the air the turns and twists of the race course ahead.  They appeared to be ten to twelve years old.

In the middle of the row, an eleven-year-old rider on a yellow Suzuki adjusted a strap on her white shoulder-padded skeletal chest-and-back protector.  She rubbed a red-gloved hand along her white-and-red Cordora pants tucked into mid-calf-high riding boots.   She wore a long-sleeved red jersey under her armour.  Her shiny brown hair flowed from under her white-and-red helmet down to the middle of her chest and back.

The warriors turned their eyes to the starting banner, an orange cloth rectangle with the words ‘Desert Vipers’ printed in black block letters on it.  A pair of burly clean-shaven club members wearing bright orange windbreakers, red t-shirts, and red baseball caps held the banner aloft with two poles.

The banner fell forward.  The row of riders roared down the town street like greyhounds chasing a rabbit.  Around the first corner they ripped, racing out to the shrubbed desert.

One row at a time, the rest of the platoon followed.  One fellow’s red Honda reared up on its back wheel.  He flung his body over the handlebar, easing off of the throttle.  The bike trembled for just a second.  The front wheel came down and the racer sped on his way.

A yellow-helmeted warrior with green elbow pads stood on the foot pegs of a white Yamaha with a red seat as he raced over an elevated dirt-and-wood bridge with orange guardrails.  A white-and-red helmeted knight riding a black-seated Suzuki followed hot on the Yamaha’s wheel.  Bikes and riders flew off the end of the bridge, landing just beyond the bottom of its ramp.

Yammy zipped over a trio of small hills, soared off the last one, and slammed to earth on his front wheel.  Right behind, Suzi sailed over all three berms and hit the dirt on her rear wheel. 

Handlebar to handlebar, both bikes zoomed through a wide right-handed curve, their masters extending onto the dirt track booted right feet.  


A roostertail of dirt followed Suzi as she roared past Yammy along a straightaway.

The sharp oily odor of exhaust smoke mingled with the mellow smell of freshly turned soil as the combatants snaked through an ess, leaning their mounts deep into the curves.

Straightening out, they jammed through the tunnel under the bridge.  The riders abruptly slowed and putted through a chute of hay bales to the start line for another go-around.

This is fact-based fiction.

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Subversive Degenerate Drug Fiends Circumvent Drug Testing 1987.04.24

There is a scourge upon this land of ours, a major threat to the American way of life, a most dangerous menace to the domestic tranquility of our beloved Republic. I am referring to the monumental struggle between the upright members of our communities and the degenerate drug fiends who wish to live their lives unfettered by the multitude of regulations essential to the imposition of an ordered society. Attempts to control the dope fiends have led, among other things, to the development to drug tests in order to detect them. The dope addicts have, in return, devised methods of camouflaging or even obliterating evidence of their habits.

Our wise and benevolent government, led by such upstanding leaders as Nancy Reagan and Edwin Meese, has proposed testing all Americans for drug use. But the courts have blocked efforts by the government to test at random, citing something called the Fourth and Fifth Amendments of the U S Constitution. So the all-knowing corporations, which are not bound by such constraints, must step in to make all Americans conform to the desires of our betters, in order for us to remain free from choice. Dope fiends and other subversives oppose efforts by the Establishment to test for drug use on the grounds that first, personal use of the job is no one’s business; second, drug screens are prone to false positives, up to 60% in some cases; and third drug screens indicate usage, but do not measure impairment. Of course, all right-thinking Americans understand that, first, no one has a right to privacy; second, in the war against free choice, some sacrifices are necessary, so if some people are mistakenly identified as drug users, they can take consolation in the fact that progress is being made in the fight to eradicate drug use, besides, anyone who test positive in a drug test is probably a subversive any way and should be terminated; and third, it does not matter whether a drug user is impaired or not, the important consideration is the use of drugs.

This report will list some of the drug tests available to drug testers. Then methods used to beat drug screens will be discussed.

Currently, catching drug users involves a drug screen, the first step of which is the collection of urine. If the collected sample tests positive, a comprehensive test is used to confirm the suspect’s usage of drugs. Generally, the drug screens are easier to beat than the comprehensive tests. If the sample tests negative, no additional test is done.

The various drug tests available to the guardians of decency and morality include different types of thin-layer chromatography (TLC), enzyme immunoassay (EIA), radioimmunoassay (RIA), and computer-assisted gas-chromatography/mass-spectrometry (GS/MS). The first two are more often used as drug screens, the latter two as comprehensive tests.

In order to avoid being caught, dope fiends may use various methods to circumvent the testing process. These include substitution, contamination, dilution, and cleansing.

Drug addicts may substitute clean urine for their own. This is very effective if the collection process is not closely monitored. Frequently, a subversive will use a collection bag, easily obtained at any medical supply source. The bag is hidden, sometimes under an armpit, where it can be squeezed at the right time, with the hose strategically positioned and secured in place. Underwear which will obscure the viewing of the collection of the sample is worn. The drug addicts will often practice using this method before taking the drug test. This method can be combated by surprise collection or by requiring the removal of clothing prior to sample collection.

A drug fiend may contaminate the sample after or even during collection. Sometimes, an acid or alkali will be added to the urine sample by means of a medicine dropper or hypodermic syringe. However, if the PH of the sample is checked prior to testing the contamination might become obvious. Another method of contamination is the addition of table salt. This method can cause the sample to register negative. An alternative method is to use a saline solution. Salt contamination is almost impossible to detect. Dope fiends have been caught when they added too much salt to their sample because the salt that does not dissolve sinks to the bottom of the collection vessel and becomes visible. Again, many experienced subversives practice prior to utilizing contamination methods.

Some dope fiends drink large quantities of liquids such as water, fruit juice, Kool-Aid, apple juice, vinegar, or alcoholic beverages. Water and fruit juices not only dilute the urine, they also acidify it to the point that the excretion of THC metabolites is reduced extensively. Vinegar also acidifies urine. In fact, some subversives will drink four to eight ounces daily. Large scale consumption of alcoholic beverages not only dilutes urine, but also allegedly cleanses the excretory system of all traces of outlawed substances. All of the above methods result in increased urine output. Additionally, the alcohol method causes many subversives to suffer liver and brain damage resulting from extensive alcohol consumption. Serves them right, too.

A few dope fiends use something called Golden Seal Root, available in many health food stores, themselves hotspots of subversion. A half teaspoon of this stuff is boiled in one pint of water. The dopers drink about a cup a day for a week, and then break for another week before repeating the process. Urine excreted by someone on this regimen will generally test negative for the presence of THC. Some users experience digestive or nervous upsets, or both.

As the war to replace freedom of choice with freedom from choice continues, more tests will be needed and developed. But drug fiends will be discovering methods to beat those tests. So, more reports will be written and made available. Until then, remember:

Decent Americans, Teach Every

Responsible American Patriotic Endeavors!

Warning: this essay contains Swiftian Analytical Logic Elements (SALEs).  Readers who are deficient in SALEs acumen may be offended. 

Reader indiscretion is not advised. 

This essay is for entertainment only. 

It has not been evaluated by any Federal agency, nor is it intended to diagnose, prevent, treat, or cure any condition.

Your One Right

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