At the most basic level, what mechanism is makes your head hurt?
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I can tell you what used to give me brutal headaches … drinking soda. I don’t even know if it’s all sodas, or just coke.
So I love Coca Cola, it’s great. And at work, we got free soda. At different companies, one just had cases of soda. One had a soda machine that didn’t take money, and my latest office has a soda fountain machine.
So I would drink a lot of coke. I also drank a lot of coffee. I would get MASSIVE headaches and my solution was “I should drink more coffee or coke because this must be a caffeine withdrawal thing”. But it didn’t always work to alleviate the headache. Only one thing actually helped … Excedrin pain killers. It’s a mix of caffeine, asprin and acetaminophen. It works.
Anyway, I don’t know how I figured it out, but coffee drinking and stopping (I didn’t drink coffee on weekends) didn’t seem to actually be the cause of the headaches. However, I did notice that not drinking coke (and other sodas) made the almost weekly headaches go away. So I stopped drinking all soda and have avoided headaches. I then later switched to decaff and I don’t think it’s the absense of caffeine that triggered them either. It’s probably not the sugar either.
Whatever it is, what works for me is not drinking soda. So I don’t.
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