Hey guys,
This website has been great not just for advice, but knowing that there's actually a lot of us out there suffering from this cursed affliction. I tried Pepcid AC for the first time this weekend, and it was not as successful as I thought it'd be, although I didn't follow the book. Usually when I drink, I turn beet red, blood rushes to the head, racing pulse, chills, unbearable nausea (I usually vomit several times), etc. so needless to say, I don't drink often. My friend had Pepcid AC Complete chewables though, so I thought I'd give it a shot. I ate a bit, only took 2 pills (10mg each), and waiting for an hour before drinking. I drank Malibu and mango juice slowlyyy over an hour and what do you know, the redness, blood rushing, and racing pulse come back. However, the chills and nausea stayed away, so that was a small success. Anyway, did the chewables have anything to do with my busted experiment? Since the dosage was only 20mg, maybe it was too weak to make a huge difference. The weirdest thing, was that for the first time, I started breaking out in hives on my chest. I stopped after that one drink because it didn't seem to be doing anything for me, but should I have continued drinking? Any advice? Hopefully I'm not one of the unlucky few who will never be able to drink, even lightly. I just want to be able to have a drink or two at a bar, and not just sip Coke or have to tell the bartender to "go easy on the alcohol" lol.
I'm glad you noticed this too!! I dont drink enough to really test this out, but my personal opinion for this is that the chewables act faster, so you dont have to take them an hour before. I have noticed that when I take them minutes before I don't turn quite as red, but if I take them 30 minutes - 1 hour before they don't work too well. Again... I barely drink so I have no idea if this is the case. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't but I have started to see a time correlation based on when you take the chewables.
Does anyone else have the same issue?