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Someone told me that differant blood types have differant tastes and give differant levels of energy ?
also, is it true or false that you can only feed according to your own blood type, for example if your a- and your donor is 0+ its going to make you sick in the long run, because if this is true, it might explain why I tend to get sick feeling sometimes. One person told me it could even cause death! Luckily my donor is my spouse, but he does have a differant blood type from me. I hope someone with more knowledge about this can help me answer these questions!  love!

i've occasionally heard that vampires claim that they can taste/smell the difference between blood types, but most vampires scoff at the idea. the blood type should not influence compatibility when drinking it, as it all gets digested. there is a danger is when mixing blood, i.e. when injecting it, but that shouldn't be an issue in normal practice.

it is not surprising that you feel a bit queasy after drinking blood, it has strong emetic qualities. not everybody is affected by it, but by far most people are, including vampires.

It's been my experience that the individual person, not their blood type, causes a difference in the taste.
It's possible that if you consumed someone's blood their antigens (which initiate an immune response and clotting) could interfere with yours and cause death. For this to happen, it would require you to have a open wound on the inside of your digestive system, and probably a pretty large one. However, I'm not a doctor nor an expert on blood drinking, so there might be something I've overlooked.
Hope I helped a little.  :)

That makes a lot of sense to me from an outside perspective.

I agree with talus it does make sence from an outside perspective I am very carful with who I chose and who agrees to help me.

The different taste in the blood may be the different nutrients that person has inside their body, like someone with high Iron in their blood might taste more metallic etc.  With what was said earlier, the blood type difference can only harm you if it is injected or transfused, but I dont think that's your problem.  The truth is that a body can only digest a certain amount of blood before it literally makes you vomit.  I'd say just slow down with the blood a bit, spread it out throughout the day instead of drinking it all at one time.  Keep it refridgerated if you must.  That's all the advice I have on this subject.

This could be a very interesting scientific study.The taste of blood. I have heard that some of us can in fact tell blood types but I not for sure if indeed it is blood types of what is in the blood that makes it different.I know that different people taste different but why is still not quite for sure.I could be what they have eaten.It might even possible that people's blood taste different because people have different essences like people smell different. For instance a mother know exactly how there children smell and lovers know how there loved one smells, this maybe the case with blood. Like I said this could be a very interesting study.

All I know is I haven't the foggiest clue lol. I've only ever drank from one donor so my experience is limited

I really just depends on what they eat, what they eat defines their blood taste, I have really high Iron so I am really metallic.  i like a metallic taste.

Yes your diet has a lot to do with the taste but your blood type also plays apart in it to like if you A and you have alot of iron it would differ from O with alot of iron. at least thats what i've been told.

same.

but i can say that i am blood type A-. :)

......wow I have no idea what my Blood Type is.....Holy Crap that's just awful

how is it awful? o_0

it's being informed. :P

unless you mean that you don't know yours? they tell you when you donate blood.

I don't know mine either, I've never donated blood, but I've thought of buying the cheap typing kit off thinkgeek.  Just for curiosity's sake.

HAH is there anything you CAN'T buy on Thinkgeek?

yeah, a USB pregnancy test.

though, they did offer it on april 1 a few years back.... ;)

See you could buy it at one time lol. Its like Santas Goodie bag that site is. I love it

i wish you didn't remind me of it's existance. ;--;

do you shop on woot.com ever?  or diamondshark.com? or steepandcheap.com?

>.<

my life is wrecked because of those sites....

woot.com a few times. never heard of the others.  Sorry to bring up bad memories lol

I'm a big fan of shirt.woot.com.  They have polluted my closet with T-shirts that were so clever I had to buy them, but I can't wear in public because nobody else gets the topic.

I bought a shirt on thinkgeek.com that has a picture of Jesus throwing up the DevilHorns and underneath it says Jesus is F'ing Metal....Beautiful shirt taken from a Penny Arcade comic

i don't know my blood type either my mom doesn't even know it kinda sucks.

same here same here same here!!

i have the bunny one, where the one bunny is eating meat and the others are nomming on carrots.  the title was "hay guys you gotta try this!"

it is my FAVORITE!

i also have the monkey king shirt, the glow-in-the-dark constellation shirt (called "pterodactyl with a machine gun"), one with a dinosaur with a baseball bat about to hit the asteroid, i have this red flower outline thing, i have this AWESOME buddhist/hindu flower eyes thing shirt that i ADORE (that looks fabulous with my purple scarf and purple sunglasses ;) ), and i have the raven (the first... stanza or two, is it? in the shape of a raven? <3 <3 <3), and--

i'm going to stop.  but shirt.woot used to be great.  then they had like a month of crap shirts so i stopped browsing.  i like my shirts to have thought in them as well as being clever and funny, not to just be clever and funny for the sake of being clever and funny. :/

I have the Grim Optimism one, the one with the astronaut fish called "something I must do" and The air pirateship one ccalled we rule the sky or something, it shows a pirate ship hijacking an airplane, I once made the mistake of wearing it to the airpost.  BAD IDEA!

I have one that shows an Elephant holding a knife in his trunk and under it says "Elephants never forget....and the never forgive!"

Yeah, I have O neg, so I have the Red Cross calling me BEGGING me to give blood.....again.  Worst experience of my life.

hahahahahahah, which one was the grim optimism again? i remember seeing that on the reckoning a lot back in the day.


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH xD

Alas I don't know why some people have bad experiences giving blood. I love it

it wasnt so much the act of giving blood, it was the aftermath.

I dont think so.

I just got really really tired for a few days and couldnt do anything like lifting or dance or anything without becoming dizzy and almost passing out.

I'm sorry but this topic has me thinking of True Blood. I feel like pretty soon someone is gonna say how great it is to have A+ mixed with a little O- and a shot of AB just for shits and giggles.

A- here, selling quarts at low low prices! PM for details, but hurry! this deal won't last long! :o

I'd buy me some of that

ile bite....how much? =p

yes.....the price deffinantly important..... to buy or not to buy.  ???  ;D

Price not important. I'll take it since it's Beloved's

that sounds good lol

well, my only reserve is that its no good stored...fresh is the only way..so its not a buisness you can really cater to....though i suppose we could get a couple donors together and have a blood drive...=p

I'm game!

Shit, I'm down!

your down? *revives SilverRose with (X)*

No I meant that I'm down with the idea of the blood drive thing.


What does the (X) mean?

I can call my cousins in georgia and have them do it. We really should.