alcohol -- light bulb

[Guest guest]

So a light bulb just went off (on) somwhere in my brain.

I realized that when my Samters started and in all the times it has gotten worse, guess what? I was drinking alcohol.

I was one of those few people who literally never drank alcohol in high school. I didn't drink until college, and by my second semester of college when I first had symptoms of Samters I was drinking fairly regularly and sometimes heavily at college parties. And I was drinking mostly beer, which in later years I stopped because I don't really like it.

I can't believe now, looking back, that it took me so many, many years to correlate my symptoms with alcohol use. But at the time I had never had any health problems, and plus nobody diagnosed me with Samters for years later. It was just asthma, then nasal polyps, then aspirin sensitivity.

Is there anyone here who has always been a teetotaler? I really have to wonder. I realize that there are a few children who have Samters, but I think the numbers are very, very small.

I think the trouble with an illness such as Samters is that sometimes you have immediate reactions to things, other times the reactions may take longer to realize themselves and may not be so apparent. So I really wonder if alcohol use is associated with a development of Samters for some and may contribute to the genesis and/or exacerbation of the illness.

I don't drink anymore at all. My Samters is not completely gone, but it is much, much better and much more controllable.

Just a middle of the night thought.

Lori