Oh, I couldn't be allergic to parsnips or okra or anything foul like that; noooooo, I have to have my migraines triggered by caffeine and sulfites. No red wine, no chocolate, no coffee, minimal cured meats... *sob* And I say vampirism isn't a curse. Yeah right. I didn't develop the food sensitivities until after my near death experience. NO CHOCOLATE! Life isn't *fair*... (Extremely dark chocolate tastes delightfully bloody, too - as I found out after taking a little tint bite which made me dizzy and nauseous for the rest of the afternoon...)
I've had my partner taste my blood on a couple of occasions and he said the second time it tasted somehow "richer" than the first time. Don't know what was up with that, though I was feeling more healthy the second time.
You'd want to repeat the experience. Also, based on who i've bit, blood tends to have a fairly strong taste, although everybody has a delightfully unique flavour (one of the most enchanting things about blood, I think) - high-endorphin blood tastes less metallic and so you will get sweet or pungent overtones, like mangoes or tomatoes, whereas blood that isn't pumped up will taste a lot more like copper or/and iron. It's not normal to taste blood that is completely watery. I am sure there are non-vampires who have watery blood, too, but they might have a serious deficiency of some substance or other.
I haven't tested it medically if that's what you mean. At various times I've thought I was anemic, and have had my blood tested, but only once did it turn out to be true. Also I haven't had official testing for low blood sugar, but I have the characteristics of a hypoglycemic.
I've been told my blood sugar is probably low as well, because I get swooning spells when I stand up and am often easily exhausted (and am hypersensitive to sugar when I ingest it); alternatively I've been told I might have abnormally high blood sugar. The doctors say my blood sugar is as normal as can be.
The only time i've ever had anemia was when I was pregnant. Whoa boy was that a good argument for the genetic theory of vampirism. I passed my vampirism on to my baby; I could feel it (there's things that a mother just KNOWS if she is close to her symbiote). The doctor actually recommended abortion because of this (among other factors). I think next time I try to get pregnant, I'm going to get myself well supplemented with protein and milk and vitamins and so on first...
Feeding calms me down, to an extent, but I've also got to be in the right mind-set for it to work.
Same here. The immediate effect might sometimes be a bit of a rush (depending on circumstances) but more often than not, it's a grounding activity, more peaceful than anything else. Freud would probably argue that I had been weaned too early as a baby or something.
And it never works when I am anxiously preoccupied with something else, although enough blood alone will invariably give me at least a slight perk. Nor does it work very well during daytime. I'm still wondering about that one. I think strong sunlight short-circuits my ability to receive energy or something - it's too much of a good thing, perhaps. I used to love sunlight when I was a little girl, but the older I got, the more I avoided it because it stressed me out.
The cat scratched my boyfriend up something nasty today when he was trying to give her a pill, and he offered to let me feed from the scratches but I didn't because I was too upset. When I am upset I don't get the benefit from the blood and it doesn't even taste like anything to me - _his_ blood, doesn't taste like anything to me, just like _my_ blood normally doesn't.
Now that's interesting. Other people's blood always tastes better to me than my own blood, regardless of what mood i am in...