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Originally posted by Trev
Strange because chocolate gives me migrains 
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Sorry, Vid...hijack doth continue, I meant to comment on this....
Trev...chocolate gives a lot of people migraines. It's one of the standard "triggers" to look for. With some people, certain foods trigger migraines. With others, the caffiene in the chocolate, as well as I'm sure the emotional and psychological boost chocolate gives, eases the pain.
One can go into massive "headache treatment studies," suffer through them all, and come out with "we have no idea why you have headaches." I did that long ago. I had every test known to science at the time - some of which were downright unpleasant, too - and the end result was a shoulder shrug by the doctor. I had a massive list of things I *didn't* have (which was comforting) but they didn't find one reason for me to be having such horrific headaches. And of course, since they found no cause, they found no cure.
Luckily, the headaches are sporadic, so the last thing I need is another daily medication "just in case." I've got quite enough of those, thank you very much. I figure that when they hit, I gather my coping skills together and carry on.
Oddly - and this is documented - Chihuahuas are among the breeds of dogs that know when something bad is either about to happen or happening. I had one of my seizures not too long ago and Dingo came firing over to monitor me. (My seizures are very quiet and triggered by anxiety attacks. I don't lose consciousness and I can hear, but I can't move, see or speak. If I don't topple out of my chair, one would think I'd fallen asleep.) For a long time afterward, Dingo sat peering intently into my eyes as if she could see something inside me. She knows when I have a headache, too, or if my pain level is high. She rockets up into my lap and does the "intent stare" thing.
They've trained dogs to be companions to epileptics, because the dogs get the warning signal and can guide the epileptic to a safe place to have a seizure.
Dogs also can sense the "aura" and all the preliminary bullshit that happens with migraines.
So can cats, but unfortunately, what cats do to an "injury" is lick it. Few things are more horrible than having a migraine and a well-meaning cat on your head licking your hair. Mattie does that and so does Del. They hold my head down with two firm paws (and claws) and lick until I want to die. But...as they say...Love Hurts.
I now return you to lots of happy sex talk....