Posted by John Olinyk on November 23, 1998 at 23:27:48:
In Reply to: Clusters and Chocolate posted by Harris on November 23, 1998 at 17:34:41:
I've had the opposite effect... with chocolate and with caffeine.
Since reading about how someone on this site has had some success aborting or lessening the severity of their CH's with caffeine, I have been doing the same. If I feel a CH coming on, I will chug some cola or other caffeinated beverage, and it seems to help (that's unless they were false alarms). Furthermore, while my diet prohibits frequent indulgence in such a fatty food as chocolate, I have had quite a bit these last few days, and have not noticed any CH's that were markedly brought on by the chocolate itself.
Then again, as I've said, I don't appear to have a particularly severe case of CH. Not that I'm complaining, mind you.
The caffeine use might be working due to a placebo effect. But I'd rather have that than have it not work at all!
John