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Decided yesterday, after having a two-day headache, that I'd go cold turkey off caffeine as it is a potential contributing factors to chronic headache/migraine.* I was fully prepared for an excruciating migraine last night as caffeine withdrawal set in, as it has in the past.
I woke up feeling better than I had in days. Huh. I've had a low headache creep in over the course of the day, naturally, so I'm now back to the point I was previously but at least I can look forward to a definite end for this. :)
I also had a wild hair to go cold turkey of OTC painkillers also, as overuse of them is another big cause of chronic headache and migraine, but that resolve lasted about three hours. XD I'll do them next. The basic idea is to get off both of those for a while and see if my headache patterns change. That'll be info I can take in to the doc. I want to eventually be able to consume both occasionally, but not to the extent I've been doing lately. I don't think I'm dependent on the OTC painkillers, but considering the consequences, it's better to bust the habit right now, before it gets to be a problem.
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* For a variety of reasons slowly cutting down is Not An Option: primarily that it's always failed in the past, and secondarily that it takes a couple of days of feeling like hell and stretches them to a couple of weeks of feeling like slightly less hell.
I woke up feeling better than I had in days. Huh. I've had a low headache creep in over the course of the day, naturally, so I'm now back to the point I was previously but at least I can look forward to a definite end for this. :)
I also had a wild hair to go cold turkey of OTC painkillers also, as overuse of them is another big cause of chronic headache and migraine, but that resolve lasted about three hours. XD I'll do them next. The basic idea is to get off both of those for a while and see if my headache patterns change. That'll be info I can take in to the doc. I want to eventually be able to consume both occasionally, but not to the extent I've been doing lately. I don't think I'm dependent on the OTC painkillers, but considering the consequences, it's better to bust the habit right now, before it gets to be a problem.
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* For a variety of reasons slowly cutting down is Not An Option: primarily that it's always failed in the past, and secondarily that it takes a couple of days of feeling like hell and stretches them to a couple of weeks of feeling like slightly less hell.
