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You know those headaches where you're scared to move because when you do it sends your head pounding? And you can't see straight, everything seems skewed or 2-dimensional? And no painkiller will help until I've taken twice the max dosage of someone twice my size?
Today I discovered that two cups of coffee, taken slowly while doing something else that doesn't take clear eyesight (or much heavy concentration) like playing low-key bridge makes them go away.
Coffee can (and does in my case) increase your blood pressure, but you want to decrease it for migraines, don't you? Or is it something else? I wouldn't be surprised if the occasional migraine I get was due to low blood pressure; I'm convinced that that's why I sometimes feel ill for no reason (puking also elevates my blood pressure, and the highest reading I've ever had was 100/70, some hours after being very ill; usually it's around 90/60).
Is this a normal reaction? I know this wasn't a coffee addict headache because I didn't get the shakes as I usually do, and the pain was in a different area of the head.
Mind you I also rode my bike for 30 minutes (slowly) along rather pitted roads to get to bridge, and that may also have had something to do with it, although it didn't feel like it...
Today I discovered that two cups of coffee, taken slowly while doing something else that doesn't take clear eyesight (or much heavy concentration) like playing low-key bridge makes them go away.
Coffee can (and does in my case) increase your blood pressure, but you want to decrease it for migraines, don't you? Or is it something else? I wouldn't be surprised if the occasional migraine I get was due to low blood pressure; I'm convinced that that's why I sometimes feel ill for no reason (puking also elevates my blood pressure, and the highest reading I've ever had was 100/70, some hours after being very ill; usually it's around 90/60).
Is this a normal reaction? I know this wasn't a coffee addict headache because I didn't get the shakes as I usually do, and the pain was in a different area of the head.
Mind you I also rode my bike for 30 minutes (slowly) along rather pitted roads to get to bridge, and that may also have had something to do with it, although it didn't feel like it...
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