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Discussion and anecdotes about the Asian Flush/Flush/Glow/Red Face (turning red when drinking alcohol), including using H2 blockers (e.g. Tagamet, Pepsid, Zantac) and other products to combat its effects. Hosted by Eric Cheng on http://echeng.com
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Jan 11, 2005: On December 3, 2003, I posted
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NAC sustain doesn't seem to work for me, Famotidine works better
I've come up with a theory that the reason we think it gets us more drunk when taking famotidine is that we are so impressed with the fact that we can drink more and not go red, we actually drink faster which we are not used to causing us to feel more drunk?
My theory anyway
Hey, quick update. Had 3 pepcidtwo 10mg chewables on friday about an hr before drinking on an empty stomache. Drunk quicker than my mates which is a 1st (I have never drunk quickly because of the flush) and was only slightly pink for a little while and then it went away completely! No hot feeling in the face, normally I can hear my heart beat in my brain but that was inexistant. The only thing I had a headache at about 6 in the morning after being up all night but the other symptoms were gone.
I now have some of those tabs which are just 20mg famotidine so they will be better I reckon. Will try at the weekend
Would this be a safer way than pepsid or the like?
Hello All
I am 1/4 Japanese and suffer from the dreaded flush. The redness isn't too much of a problem it's the hot feeling I get in the face and kneck, the shortness of breath and the pounding headaches I get after.
I tried pecidtwo because I live in the uk the first time I tried it I took 2 10mg tabs about 2 hrs before drinking. I then had quite a large meal and took another 1 about 30 mins before I started. I drank 2 pints of lager shandy which may not sound like a lot but I drank them in quick succession and if I had drank them like that normally I would have been red. I wasn't red at all and the hot feeling in the face wasn't there. I had to drive home so I didn't continue the experiment furthur.
The second time I had 4 tabs 1.5 hours before drinking on an empty stomach, I had a quick drink of vodka and lemonade which would normally make me red and I was only slightly pink, I did have a little shortness of breath and my eyes were slightly bloodshot but other symptoms were gone and I could drink more that night without getting the pounding headaches like I normally do.
I dont think I get the flush as much as others because if I drink slowly I can have many drinks without turning red it's when I drink fast is when it happens, now I have pepcid I dont need to worry.
Does anyone know of any other product I can get in the uk which contains only famotidine? and more of it
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