> Hi all. I am a college freshman, and this past semester, was
> introduced to the wonderful world of drinking. I'd never even really
> had a hangover but for once in the space of about 4 months, and then,
> a week before finals week, I started developing chronic headaches. I
> had them everyday, and chalked them up to stress. After all, I'd
> been drinking every weekend before that(never on a weekday), and
> hadn't had any problems. When I got home on break, I expected my
> problems to disappear, but they didn't. I went to the doctor, and he
> said it was a sinus infection and gave me medicine. For two more
> weeks, the headaches stayed and wouldn't go away. It had now been a
> month. For those two weeks after I came home on break, I had a tiny
> bit to drink during that time, but not anything at all substantial,
> and I was STILL getting headaches daily. I went back to the doctor
> and this time, they cited allergies. I started taking medicine, and
> for two weeks, I had NO headaches. Back at school now, I drank more
> than I did at home. No headaches...then...about three days ago, the
> headaches came back. I'm still on my allergy medicine, but the
> headaches are staying. Someone told me that if I quit drinking, I
> wouldn't have this problem. But like I said, even if I get slightly
> inebriated, I NEVER have woken up with a hangover. So, do you think
> it's possible that these headaches are alcohol related?! I think
> not...I woke up Sunday morning feeling GREAT, and LATER developed a
> headache. Sheesh......HELP!!!!!!!
I'm also a college student, and with all the drinking at that goes on at my
school, I've never heard of anything like that. I doubt it's alcohol related,
but then again I'm not a doctor. This may be the wrong forum to be asking in.
In fact, you're probably better off just asking a real doctor whether it's
alcohol related (rather than just "what's wrong with me").
Also, you probably shouldn't be mixing medicine and alcohol. Pretty bad idea.
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