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No More Ginger

For those of you keeping score...I no longer drink ginger ale. I have not drank ginger ale in a long time. Yesterday I openned a bottle I brought home from the grocery two weeks ago. I poured the refreshing looking ginger ale over ice and drank a cup.

An hour later I poured another cup. I swallowed wrong ( or so I thought) and started coughing. I coughed for 5 minutes. My throat hurt and my face got all red.

So 3 hours later I was slammed with a headache.  Could  it be that I coughed myself into a headache or because ginger has been an ingredient I have been sensitive too and did not know it?
I have always had an aversion to raw ginger smell. Maybe that was my body's way of telling me, "Don't eat it."

I had weird throat and chest pain. As the night progressed and my system process the ginger ale, the burning went from my chest to my stomach to my intestines. I don't know if it is because I have gone gluten-free and the ginger ale is bothering me now or because I have always been sensitive to ginger and did not know it.

Today I am headache free. Further proof to me that the ginger ale was the problem.
Here we go on this journey. I must say YIKES and...dang.

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