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03:08:2006 Entry: "Ann : Drinking"
Drinking
No, I can't drink anymore Not because I'm an alcoholic. Not because I got a DUI or other ticket. Not because it interacts with medication. Not because it makes me a nasty drunk. None of those things have ever happened to me. It's because it hurts. Literally. It started happening a few years ago very randomly. Every once in a rare while I would get a pain in my jaw right under my ear. It was a very sharp pain, not a muscle pain, but more like a tingling nerve pain. But it didn't happen all the time, and at first it was a bearable hurt. Eventually, it started happening a little more frequently with a little severer pain. But I figured when it happened I was also having spicy Mexican food. Maybe it had something to do with that. It didn't happen when I had a beer at home. But eventually it started even happening with the beers. And what once took an hour or more and a whole big Margarita to take effect now happened after smaller and smaller doses. Now even after a very small serving of wine (less than a wine glass full) it will happen. It happens whether I eat food or not with it. It happens with every kind of alcohol. Beer, wine, liquor. Well, ain't this just the pits? It's not like I'm a bad drunk or abuse liquor. I just want a drink with a meal when I go out every once in a while, or to share a beer at home with Stan every once in a while. I'm such a minimal or modest drinker and I can't even enjoy that. It really sucks. Next time I go to the doctor, they'll inevitably ask me how much liquor I drink a week. Each year my answer has been getting smaller and smaller. Now I'll tell them "none." And I won't feel good about that because studies have shown moderate drinking is actually better for you than no alcohol at all. I'll tell them about my jaw pain under my ears, and it'll be like the old joke: "Doc, it hurts when I do this." "Then don't do it."
3 Comments
We need to try a few more varieties of alcohol products - but no cleaning products.
Posted by Stan @ 03:08:2006:07:14 PM CST
That sucks. Drinking gives my mom headaches. That is wierd!
Posted by Dawn @ 03:09:2006:09:37 AM CST
I only get actual headaches from cheap beer. But this is something different altogether, and I can't even find anything googling that sounds anything like it. It must be unique to me.
Posted by Ann @ 03:09:2006:10:05 AM CST
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