Holiday Tea-son! I drank several cups of this yesterday, but didn’t have a chance to review it since I was on the phone at the time. I finished off the sampler I snagged from Meowster’s cupboard destash, so thank you Meowster! Cocomint seems a rather holiday-season flavor combo, doesn’t it? Plus, I’m having a terrible migraine today from the snow front moving out last night (I knew the exact hour the barometric pressure changed… I should’ve been a meteorologist, seriously) but am having to buck it up and work all day today because all my coworkers are taking the week off. The mint at least calms the migraine-nausea.
This tea mainly has a minty aroma, though steeped up, I do get some sweeter chocolately notes coming through. The flavor is mostly a brisk, peppermint flavor, but there is a more subtle sweet cocoa note. The base feels pretty clean, but I don’t really taste any green tea notes against the flavor; there is a rather sharp peppermint flavor that does taste a little sweet and artificial compared to mint leaf, but I don’t mind it, and it isn’t causing me that metallic/coating reaction that I get from some of Adagio’s flavoring agents. Feeling a little sharp or possibly a little stronger than it needs to be is the most I can say for it. Mostly, it’s pretty nice, especially compared to a lot of Adagio flavored teas that have been outright misses for me.
Not my favorite chocolate-mint tea, but entirely servicable.
Flavors: Artificial, Cocoa, Mint, Peppermint, Sweet
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I too am often plagued by migraines, and recently they’ve been getting worse. I’ve even been considering getting a piercing to try to ward them off! Hope you’re okay.
I’ve had chronic migraine for nearly 20 years. It’s gotten worse over the years, but I get anywhere from 8-15 migraines a month (an average of 3 a week) so I’m quite used to it. I’ve tried just about everything over the years, Nattie (though I never did the daith piercings because the research showed that, at best, they only ever provided about 3 months top of relief in some people, which to me wasn’t worth a body alteration; even one I could remove, heh).
I’ve currently started the new anti-CGRP medications (I’m on Aimovig), which is the best preventative I’ve tried thus far. I’m not sure what their status is in other countries, I know in the US the main battle at the moment is getting insurance to approve them for most people (but our healthcare system is notoriously bad). It’s an auto-injector you use once a month, and the medication is a sort of anti-bodies that bind to certain receptors in the brain to try to prevent the onset of migraines, and cause migraines to be less severe and have a shorter duration.
I’m still having the migraine, but it certainly hasn’t gotten as severe as usual; the new Aimovig has really improved severity/duration for me when my triptan rescue drug fails. As far as prevention, I’d say I’m an “average” responder, getting a reduction of 2-4 migraines a month.
Mine aren’t nearly as bad, I usually get 1 or 2 a month but lately it’s been 2-3 a week. One of the most recent ones was so bad I thought my head was splitting open or something more serious was wrong. I have never felt pain like it. I’ve never heard of Aimovig and don’t know if we have that or something similar over here, but I will ask my doctor. I might still get the daith since I like the look of it, so if it helps my migraines even for a little while I’ll see it as a plus lol.
I’m not sure if Ajovy and Emgality have made it to other countries yet (the other CGRP-inhibitors) but Aimovig appears to have been liscenced in the UK now: https://www.nationalmigrainecentre.org.uk/new-migraine-drug-aimovig-now-licensed-in-the-uk/
Ah thank you!!
I too am often plagued by migraines, and recently they’ve been getting worse. I’ve even been considering getting a piercing to try to ward them off! Hope you’re okay.
I’ve had chronic migraine for nearly 20 years. It’s gotten worse over the years, but I get anywhere from 8-15 migraines a month (an average of 3 a week) so I’m quite used to it. I’ve tried just about everything over the years, Nattie (though I never did the daith piercings because the research showed that, at best, they only ever provided about 3 months top of relief in some people, which to me wasn’t worth a body alteration; even one I could remove, heh).
I’ve currently started the new anti-CGRP medications (I’m on Aimovig), which is the best preventative I’ve tried thus far. I’m not sure what their status is in other countries, I know in the US the main battle at the moment is getting insurance to approve them for most people (but our healthcare system is notoriously bad). It’s an auto-injector you use once a month, and the medication is a sort of anti-bodies that bind to certain receptors in the brain to try to prevent the onset of migraines, and cause migraines to be less severe and have a shorter duration.
I’m still having the migraine, but it certainly hasn’t gotten as severe as usual; the new Aimovig has really improved severity/duration for me when my triptan rescue drug fails. As far as prevention, I’d say I’m an “average” responder, getting a reduction of 2-4 migraines a month.
Mine aren’t nearly as bad, I usually get 1 or 2 a month but lately it’s been 2-3 a week. One of the most recent ones was so bad I thought my head was splitting open or something more serious was wrong. I have never felt pain like it. I’ve never heard of Aimovig and don’t know if we have that or something similar over here, but I will ask my doctor. I might still get the daith since I like the look of it, so if it helps my migraines even for a little while I’ll see it as a plus lol.
I’m not sure if Ajovy and Emgality have made it to other countries yet (the other CGRP-inhibitors) but Aimovig appears to have been liscenced in the UK now: https://www.nationalmigrainecentre.org.uk/new-migraine-drug-aimovig-now-licensed-in-the-uk/
Ah thank you!!