Caffeine

Vicki,

Interesting thought. I've had coffee every day for almost a year now. I'm not sure that it's causing a rebound. I know that if I don't have a cup, it's not that my head is worse but I just feel sluggish. Often times I can feel like total garbage and then have a cup and feel some better - things don't go away but they aren't as bad.

I guess I could try cutting it out for a week and see what happens. Rather scary thought but if I'm inadvertently making it worse, it would be good to know. Just don't want to torture myself either way.

Becky

Vicki- That is an interesting thought. I'm not interested at this time on trying it since my migraines are "mostly" controlled. If I was getting them everyday I definitely would give it a shot. May anyway at some point. Thanks for sharing.

If I have more than one cup of coffee a day it gives me a headache and makes me agitated.

However, sometimes I find that one cup of coffee or a glass of coke stops a threatening migraine from materialising.

I've also found that sometimes a glass of red wine does the same thing.

Maybe it has something to do with regulating your metabolism?

I'm not a medical person so that's purely hypothetical.

Well I have been desparate to try and find something that could be causing my migraines so for about 2-3 months I completely cut out all caffeine. No tea, coke, chocolate or anything. I read all labels and made sure that there was no caffeine in what I was eating. Didn't seem to help. Still had terrible everyday pain. I went back to having it when I wanted. Still can't tell a difference in the pain with or without it.