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[telophase]

Day 4 of no caffeine, Day 5 of low-grade headache.* Work at home day, and I'm resorting to our bag of frozen lima beans, which has been used for icing various and sundry injuries and ouchies.** Doesn't help overall, but the pain is less when the frozen bag of beans is on my head than when it's off, so I'll take what I can get.




* As some of my migraines are hormone-induced, this was probably not the week to do this experiment but OH WELL.

** If you're unaware, a bag of frozen vegetables is awesome for icing injuries, because the individually-frozen pieces can wrap around the afflicted body part. Obviously, they end up partially defrosted and if you re-use it, they freeze and defrost and you don't want to eat them afterward. I sacrificed my lima beans (Toby was quite happy to sacrifice them), and we scribbled on the front with black marker so we know which bag is the one Not To Be Eaten.

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[sub_divided]

But once they've unfrozen, wouldn't they refree into one big, unfriendly lump?

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[movingfinger]

No, you just whack them a few times and they re-granulate, as it were.

[sub_divided]

...You know what, I'm just going to give up on typing today.

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

My most successful attempt to go off caffeine was after my surgery. I just didn't drink it for several days, due to being drugged to the gills. Otherwise, it always gives me massive headaches. Many sympathies!!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

The very first Worst Headache In My Life was due to a combination of running out of soda, having a couple of drinks of Amaretto, and playing Civ III for 14 hours straight. I woke up in terrible pain, nauseated, and scared to death. I eventually realized I hadn't had caffeine in about 24 hours, and went and made a cup of tea, and sips of it dulled the headache down enough I could go to sleep. And not having caffeine at various points since then have triggered migraines before. I was expecting a horrendous one, not this low-grade stuff which is horrible in a completely different way. XD

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Isn't there an OTC pain med for headaches which actually includes a whack of caffeine with the aspirin? I recall picking something up, reading the ingredients part of its label, and setting it back on the shelf thinking "Shouldn't this say with caffeine?" but I don't recall the brand.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Excedrin. My dad swore by it for headaches.

[catseye2001.livejournal.com]

Another really good frozen pain-relief bag is a bag filled with 3/4 cup of water, and 1/4 cup of rubbing alcohol. The rubbing alcohol keeps the water from freezing solid, so you get a bag of soft ice, just a little more solid than a snow cone. It wraps around whatever part of you is hurting...
I used to get terrible migraines every month. People who don't get headaches like that don't realize how miserable they make you. I used to have one coworker who had them, and took off a day of work if they came up on a weekday, and four coworkers who thought a headache was a pathetic reason not to come to work (as a bank teller--staring at tiny numbers on a screen, counting money, and dealing with people all day long).

[naitachal666.livejournal.com]

We used to have a bag of 'general purpose' peas for just such things. Although, it was mostly used on my dad every time he'd come in the door with a new bump, bruise, bite or lump, Lol. We live on a horse ranch,so there's some inherent injury there, plus he's always doing things like falling through barns and flipping tractors in the creek(that was a close one!), etc. But I still remember the time we duct taped that poor old bag of peas to one of our stallion's noses after he got a bad bee sting, lol.

[chibipoe.livejournal.com]

I commend you, honestly. I went cold-turkey on giving up caffeine. The 24 hour mark resulted in a blinding migraine in which I truly wanted to die. I eventually managed to fall asleep and I have been good since. Over 2 weeks now and sticking to it. :) I feel quite a bit better.