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Hoppy CH.com Alumnus Offline LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE Posts: 1890 Perth WA Gender:	Nitrates and Alcohol. Oct 21^st, 2013 at 7:53pm Nitrates in food and alcohol are known CH triggers in some sufferers. My is. Do nitrates or alcohol trigger a cycle of CH's or only trigger an attack when your in a cycle. Hoppy.
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Emjay CH.com Junior Offline I Love CH.com! Posts: 78	Re: Nitrates and Alcohol. Reply #1 - Oct 21^st, 2013 at 8:15pm For me, nitrates are only an issue when in cycle. I do not drink alcohol so I can't speak to that. Makes me glad that my two months cluster-free are July and August so that I can enjoy hot dogs and baseball lol
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Guiseppi CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline San Diego to Florida 05-16-2011 Posts: 12063 SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA USA Gender:	Re: Nitrates and Alcohol. Reply #2 - Oct 21^st, 2013 at 10:10pm Haven't pegged nitrates as a trigger, but alcohol a definite trigger. Alcohol will trigger an attack in cycle, but will NOT start a cycle.....(Thank God for small favors!!!) Joe
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Tiffany.S CH.com Junior Offline I Love CH.com! Posts: 47 La Paz, Bolivia Gender:	Re: Nitrates and Alcohol. Reply #3 - Oct 22^nd, 2013 at 12:37am Alcohol in my case, will not trigger an attack when NOT in cycle, when in cycle...it will trigger it. One glass of ANYTHING will trigger it in 10-15 minutes :/ those have been the only CH I have ever had being awake. So no alcohol for me! Mine are mostly at night, about 1-2 hours after I go to sleep
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Mike NZ CH.com Hall of Famer Offline Oxygen rocks! D3 too! Posts: 3785 Auckland, New Zealand Gender:	Re: Nitrates and Alcohol. Reply #4 - Oct 22^nd, 2013 at 4:08am No obvious link with either to my CHs (or migraines), so I'm one of the lucky ones who can still enjoy a good beer or single malt.
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Mike Bernardo CH.com Veteran Offline I Love CH.com! Posts: 231 Chesterfield, NJ Gender:	Re: Nitrates and Alcohol. Reply #5 - Oct 22^nd, 2013 at 1:21pm I'm chronic, so I guess I'm technically always "in cycle". It's hit or miss as to whether either trigger a hit. I've had a 6 oz. glass of wine trigger a hit, and other times had a few glasses and nothing. I think it also depends on the type of wine, whether I was dehydrated, etc.
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Re: Nitrates and Alcohol.
Reply #6 - Oct 22^nd, 2013 at 5:11pm

When not in cycle, I can drink alcohol just fine. As for it being a trigger while in cycle, I don't have a clue. I've just taken everyone's word for it here on CH.com. Not sure I have the balls to "test" it out, to be honest. Shocked

I usually end up waiting a decent amount of time after my last attack of the cycle before I even think about a frosty beverage of the alcoholic persuasion.

One clusterhead's cure is another clusterhead's trigger.

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Hoppy CH.com Alumnus Offline LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE Posts: 1890 Perth WA Gender:	Re: Nitrates and Alcohol. Reply #7 - Nov 4^th, 2013 at 12:16am Hi All, Thanks for your replies. It looks like we are all on the same page here, myself included. All but one lucky bugger. Hoppy.
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