<font color=skyblue>I read in a news article today that test were starting to prove that a red-headed person requires 20% more dmediacal drugs that are used in such cases as operations to be put to sleep or relaxed during the ordeal. I knew that red-heads were chemically different than others, but I cannot remember the facts about how so. This is a very interesting find!</font>

I'm gonna open an apothecry in Scotland ! :D MONEY !!! [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

Really remind me not to shoot any tranquilizer darts at a redhead. I didn't know they were chemically different at all. News to me... [img]smile.gif[/img]

i can attest to this, as i am a red head. codiene does ntohign for me, it takes a lot of ibuprofen to kill a headache for me and it takes forever for novacain to take effect. also red head are harder to stick, as in drawing blood and such. we are unique creatures. also the gene for red hair is not on the same chromosome as other hair color genes.

<font color=skyblue>Sorry I left out the link. here it is</font>

My cousin is a red-head, and she's certainly different genetically speaking.

She has 4 kidneys, and they all function. If I remember correctly, she has two "in-line" on both the left and right sides.

wow, i never new red heads were different from brunettes. thats kinda weird really.

that is so cool. is she an organ donar? :D

Actually I've asked her that. ;)

She says they can't be donated. I'm sure I'm not explaining it exactly right, but by working in-line, they are dependant on one another, so she needs them all. Taking out one would disable it's partner.

Thank god for hair dye :D I´m now more of a brunette lol. But I´ve never had this problem since I tan very easily, WHEW *wipes her forehead*. I do know that some people don´t respond to codein but have no clue if this is pigment induced lol. But Ronn, I still don´t get why your friend can´t donate kidneys. I can understand why she wouldn´t be allowed (if that´s the case). But kidneys work separately from eachother, that is if one functions that´s enough. Ah well, not my area of anatomy lol. I prefer to work a tad higher up on the body [img]smile.gif[/img]

Well, as long as they're not gonna turn me into a labrat, I'm cool with it. Makes you proud to be a redhead.

Maybe she told me that she couldn't donate them because she thought I might want one...lol [img]smile.gif[/img]

actually most any man who's been with blondes, brunettes and red heads can tell yout here is a hormonal difference. even i notice it as i have few red headed friends in my life. i simply don;t react well to most of them. of course tho some of thses observations of my own can be and most likely are effected by how osmeone has grown up. so the personality difference in red head compared to other hair colors will vary. and brings up the question of what effects us most, nature or nurture? the norm (as i ahve heard anyway) for red heads is to be un-inhibited in intamate situations, however a red head who has had something tragic happen may not be so free. this sounds like a debate that needs a thread of it's own if anyone wishes to post their veiws.

I haven't met many red heads so I have no idea if they act differently or not. Still isn't it a little strange to think someone will act a certain way because of their *hair* color?

Well now I know I am a freak LOL.
I have mostly brown hair but there are red and blonde streaks that surface in the sunlight...and the more sun I get, the redder the brown turns and the golder the red and blonde gets, but I have none of the characteristics asssociated with redheads beyond perhaps few inhibitions (*which I associate with personality rather than hair-color since I know a few extremely shy red heads).
As for veins, mine are great...must come from the black-haired Apaches of my ancestry LOL but it is true for me personally that I used to require a higher dosage of sedatives and painkillers than "normal" people. Now I can get drunk and pass out of two extra strangth buffered aspirin. It was all just a matter of changing my diet to exclude chemically processed foods and eventually cleansing my system of the unnatural chemicals.

Well, as a classified red-head (my hair is auburn, but gets 'redder' from the sun), I can say it takes a LOT of pain killer for me to find relief. I also can take pain much better than most people, so by the time I need pain killers, I'm in a LOT of pain.

I also can 'hold my liquor' better than most as well.

Maybe it's just a general resistance to any 'drug' whether alcohol or other things.

Needless to say, this means I don't take many pills, I've just learned to live with pain and I 'zen' out to deal with the worst of it. [img]smile.gif[/img]

And I don't drink much. There's not much point in it for me and gets quite expensive when you need great quantities to get the usual desired effect. ;) [img]tongue.gif[/img]

I can tell that you've never been married to one. Different doesn't begin to describe it.

ooOOOoo Attalus, wait til Gala reads THAT!! *LOL* ;)

Okay, Larry, what about me? I have silver, blonde, red and gray hair, which is dyed blonde *L*

I can tell that you've never been married to one. Different doesn't begin to describe it.</font>[/QUOTE]Enlighten us. I'm young could use a bit of extra knowledge about it.

<font color=skyblue>You're my mom!
Well, if you are not...then you have the same attributes. She had red hair when she was a little girl, then it turned silver/grey by the time she was thirty. She dyed it blond, but that has since gone away 50% in her elder age. </font>

When I grow it, I have a dark reddish beard, and a slight reddish tinge to my light brown hair. But I'm no carrot-top.

Iboprofen does nothing to me either.

When I had operations, I'd often be well awake well past when I should've (past the second injection). To kill a headache, especially a migrane, I really have to o/d on the tylenol.... :(

Now I know, I guess.

[ 10-16-2002, 02:09 AM: Message edited by: Yorick ]

I can tell that you've never been married to one. Different doesn't begin to describe it.</font>[/QUOTE]LOLOL! Heeeeeeey! I resemble that remark! [img]tongue.gif[/img] [img]tongue.gif[/img] [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Actually I don't think most of the people in this thread that I've seen are true redheads (except for Grojlach :D ). A true redhead isn't slightly reddish or strawberry blond or auburn or something... A carrot-top, like Yorick put it, is the only one with actual RED hair, I think... I have a red cast to my blonde hair sometimes but that doesn't make me "a little red-headed". Lots of hair colours have a reddish glow or tinge to them in certain light or certain whether, but most of them are not actually RED (or orange, more appropriately :D ).

Well, TAO, I'm not worried, since <font color=lavender>Galadria</font> refuses to come to Gen Discussion any more. Anyway, she's a blonde.
DM, I'm sure that you are nothing like my first wife, but I have a deviated septum from a broken nose, and the bills from a couple of trips to the ER (don't ask) to show for being married to her.
Yorick, don't take too much Tylenol (Acetoaminophen), it will fry your liver, and I'm not kidding, for once. ;)

Well! In that case, I DON'T resemble THAT! [img]redface.gif[/img]

I thought you were referring to the 'fiery' temperament, but I'm not a violent person, just 'difficult' sometimes. ;) [img]tongue.gif[/img]

And Mel, just so you will know about my comments here - I WAS a 'carrot top' when I was young. ;) As I've aged (and probably as a result of numerous chemical treatment (perms, colorings, etc.)), it has darkened over the years. So my color is not brown with a little red in it, it's red with some darker reds in it. [img]smile.gif[/img] BTW: *hugs* Been a while since we interacted here. [img]smile.gif[/img]

I can tell that you've never been married to one. Different doesn't begin to describe it.</font>[/QUOTE]I can second that

I can personally certify that RevRuby is a *natural* redhead ;)

thanx morgie!

actually to tell a red head one does not look at her head. i am not a carrot top (i don;t have bright orange hair and freckles all over) but i can guarentee i am a natural red head. my father was born red and is now blonde (very "dirty") but has ared mustasche he still shows red headed attributes as well. but in anycase, as far as girlies go and red hair it's not what's on their head that counts.

[ 10-16-2002, 11:15 AM: Message edited by: RevRuby ]

Oh! TMI!!!!!!!!!
*runs from the thread screaming*

Too much information!! :D :D

I wouldn't touch that one with a ten foot pole. *Gets out an eleven-foot pole.* Nope, not that, either. :D