[at-l] High Altitudes and Medications

[Sloetoe]

### And don't forget about the wonderful effects of
Viagra for altitude sickness. Very, ah, handy, stuff.
(Seriously. Google "viagra altitude" and print that
for your GP.)

keepingthingsinhandtoe



--- Jim Lynch <jplynch at crosslink.net> wrote:

> Thanks, good first person info; very useful.
> :)
> 
> James P."Jim" Lynch
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gary Ticknor" <garyticknor at starpower.net>
> 
> > Another gout sufferer - my toefelt sympathy. I
> have taken 100mg 
> > allopurinol in Tibet and Nepal and the Altoplano
> and encountered no ill 
> > effects. No long hikes, but many short ones,
> especially in Peru. I had a 
> > fairly constant headache and some nausea in Tibet
> despite diamox, but I 
> > don't ascribe that to the allopurinol.
> >
> > - Greenbriar