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Donette,

I'm very happy to hear that your headache vanished. Hopefully it was nothing more than mild dehydration. If nothing else, it is one of the potential causes of a headache that you can remedy relatively simply without needing aspirin, NSAIDS, or something more powerful.

My father is one to not realize that he is starting to get dehydrated. He drinks coffee, wine, and maybe 8oz of water a day. My brother-in-law calls him the camel because he (71 years old) can work outside in the intense Georgia heat and seemingly need very little to drink. When I do hear him complain of a headache (which is relatively infrequently), I sternly encourage him to drink and rehydrate before reaching for the OTC pain relievers. It seems to work roughly 80% of the time. I just hope he never finds himself in any sort of renal crisis.

Personally, I've always been one to want to drink plenty of fluids. Once my colon was removed, I became extremely vigilant about my fluid intake and electrolyte balance since it became so easy to dehydrate. One trip to the hospital for fluids after my initial surgery was enough for me.

I still have the facial pain. A couple of doctors have called it a facial neuralgia (trigeminal nerve), one has called it cranial neuritis, another simply called it facial pain (duh!). It's origin is somehow mysterious, and could be AS related, but I personally don't think it is due to other funky neurological stuff going on. It may be part of the same disease process/underlying cause as AS, but I'm not real convinced that it is a direct result of my body's AS related infrastructure changes. No doctor has advocated AS as the cause either.

Yes, I am pretty much miserable no matter what.

Yes, I miss the hummus dearly. However, I don't miss the pain and stiffness that it generated.

Drink up! Keep posting good LDN stories for the forum too!