Headaches...
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Every day I get out of bed and thank my God, all gods and any gods that I don't get migraines. For those of you that do (my wife included) I truly feel sorry for you as I've seen the havoc those things can wreak and I just don't want that. I've got some type of malady that is similar to a weak cold but is more achy and headaches are included. About 7 days worth of headaches. I'd go see a doctor as I find that alarming except my wife has it (headaches, not migraines included) and my 6 year old son has it (headaches included). My 2 year old has something that's got her all crabby and no doubt she's giving my wife and I headaches and Katie (the infector) is now over her symptoms which of course had me up all night for a few nights a few weeks ago. Anyway, I get like 2 headaches a year and even then 2 is a lot of headaches for me. How many of you get headaches/migraines? Do you get nauseated from them? My wife is completely bed-ridden from hers (migraines) and light, noise, everything hurts. My headaches are normally nothing and I can pretty much just lick the top of an Advil or rub the bottle on my head and they go away. However today my wife and I both have headaches and have tried sugar, Advil, caffeine and anything else we've heard works. The headaches haven't budged an inch and seem to be in total control. I'll fight to the death but I think for now at least the headache has something bigger than anything I can find to use against it...
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Every day I get out of bed and thank my God, all gods and any gods that I don't get migraines. For those of you that do (my wife included) I truly feel sorry for you as I've seen the havoc those things can wreak and I just don't want that. I've got some type of malady that is similar to a weak cold but is more achy and headaches are included. About 7 days worth of headaches. I'd go see a doctor as I find that alarming except my wife has it (headaches, not migraines included) and my 6 year old son has it (headaches included). My 2 year old has something that's got her all crabby and no doubt she's giving my wife and I headaches and Katie (the infector) is now over her symptoms which of course had me up all night for a few nights a few weeks ago. Anyway, I get like 2 headaches a year and even then 2 is a lot of headaches for me. How many of you get headaches/migraines? Do you get nauseated from them? My wife is completely bed-ridden from hers (migraines) and light, noise, everything hurts. My headaches are normally nothing and I can pretty much just lick the top of an Advil or rub the bottle on my head and they go away. However today my wife and I both have headaches and have tried sugar, Advil, caffeine and anything else we've heard works. The headaches haven't budged an inch and seem to be in total control. I'll fight to the death but I think for now at least the headache has something bigger than anything I can find to use against it...
When I was a kid I used to get real severe migraines. Haven't had one in almost 15 years now (*knock on wood*). People who haven't suffered a migraine doesn't know what it entails. It is not a headache. It's a body ache. Everything hurts. Sometimes I puked, sometimes I didn't. It depends on how severe the attack is I suppose. Have you guys tried just resting/sleeping in total darkness and silence? Don't forget to drink water, no matter how much it makes you want to puke. Dehydration just adds to the pain... I suggest you go see a doctor though, especially so since this seems to be the symptoms of a disease, and not migraine.
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When I was a kid I used to get real severe migraines. Haven't had one in almost 15 years now (*knock on wood*). People who haven't suffered a migraine doesn't know what it entails. It is not a headache. It's a body ache. Everything hurts. Sometimes I puked, sometimes I didn't. It depends on how severe the attack is I suppose. Have you guys tried just resting/sleeping in total darkness and silence? Don't forget to drink water, no matter how much it makes you want to puke. Dehydration just adds to the pain... I suggest you go see a doctor though, especially so since this seems to be the symptoms of a disease, and not migraine.
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The headaches are not bad at all. I've had a bad headache (not migraine just headache) and these are not bad. These seem like sinus pressure headaches to me and I will get those a ton if I don't stay on top of my allergy medicines. I think they are totally due to pressure in the sinuses.
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Every day I get out of bed and thank my God, all gods and any gods that I don't get migraines. For those of you that do (my wife included) I truly feel sorry for you as I've seen the havoc those things can wreak and I just don't want that. I've got some type of malady that is similar to a weak cold but is more achy and headaches are included. About 7 days worth of headaches. I'd go see a doctor as I find that alarming except my wife has it (headaches, not migraines included) and my 6 year old son has it (headaches included). My 2 year old has something that's got her all crabby and no doubt she's giving my wife and I headaches and Katie (the infector) is now over her symptoms which of course had me up all night for a few nights a few weeks ago. Anyway, I get like 2 headaches a year and even then 2 is a lot of headaches for me. How many of you get headaches/migraines? Do you get nauseated from them? My wife is completely bed-ridden from hers (migraines) and light, noise, everything hurts. My headaches are normally nothing and I can pretty much just lick the top of an Advil or rub the bottle on my head and they go away. However today my wife and I both have headaches and have tried sugar, Advil, caffeine and anything else we've heard works. The headaches haven't budged an inch and seem to be in total control. I'll fight to the death but I think for now at least the headache has something bigger than anything I can find to use against it...
I had migraines from about age 12 til my 20s. They stopped when I stopped eating MSG. Glutamate is an amino acid. Its primary function has to do with the synapses in the brain. It opens and closes a gate that receives the firing to regulate it. When in its free form it doesn't function correctly, and the gate will stay open and burn out the cells. That's the only thing I changed in my diet. If I get a headache now, I can almost always trace it back to something I ate where I let it slip in. Or its from a hangover. To anyone with migraines I would recommend the experiment of just cutting out this one ingredient and observe the results for a couple of months.
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I had migraines from about age 12 til my 20s. They stopped when I stopped eating MSG. Glutamate is an amino acid. Its primary function has to do with the synapses in the brain. It opens and closes a gate that receives the firing to regulate it. When in its free form it doesn't function correctly, and the gate will stay open and burn out the cells. That's the only thing I changed in my diet. If I get a headache now, I can almost always trace it back to something I ate where I let it slip in. Or its from a hangover. To anyone with migraines I would recommend the experiment of just cutting out this one ingredient and observe the results for a couple of months.
This statement was never false.
Yeah MSG will give my wife headaches (not migraines) and it doesn't even affect me. We always request MSG free food at restaurants.
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Every day I get out of bed and thank my God, all gods and any gods that I don't get migraines. For those of you that do (my wife included) I truly feel sorry for you as I've seen the havoc those things can wreak and I just don't want that. I've got some type of malady that is similar to a weak cold but is more achy and headaches are included. About 7 days worth of headaches. I'd go see a doctor as I find that alarming except my wife has it (headaches, not migraines included) and my 6 year old son has it (headaches included). My 2 year old has something that's got her all crabby and no doubt she's giving my wife and I headaches and Katie (the infector) is now over her symptoms which of course had me up all night for a few nights a few weeks ago. Anyway, I get like 2 headaches a year and even then 2 is a lot of headaches for me. How many of you get headaches/migraines? Do you get nauseated from them? My wife is completely bed-ridden from hers (migraines) and light, noise, everything hurts. My headaches are normally nothing and I can pretty much just lick the top of an Advil or rub the bottle on my head and they go away. However today my wife and I both have headaches and have tried sugar, Advil, caffeine and anything else we've heard works. The headaches haven't budged an inch and seem to be in total control. I'll fight to the death but I think for now at least the headache has something bigger than anything I can find to use against it...
code-frog wrote:
How many of you get headaches/migraines? Do you get nauseated from them? My wife is completely bed-ridden from hers (migraines) and light, noise, everything hurts.
I get migraines, nausea is just part of the package. Lights and sound too. If I recall, those are the defining symptoms that differentiate migraines from cluster and other headaches. The best stuff I have takes two to three tablets, pretty close to a maximum dose. It's called Zomig and only prescription. Its also expensive, if your doctor has samples that makes it easier. It can't be used by pregnant or nursing women, if you plan on having more kids (or don't plan, but end up with them anyhow). It does make your head feel... well... weird. It is hard to explain, not really numb, but very fuzzy at the skull level. But it will kill it in about 2 hours, beats suffering for 24-48hours, but kills driving... so I have to drive home, take the medicine and stay there.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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code-frog wrote:
How many of you get headaches/migraines? Do you get nauseated from them? My wife is completely bed-ridden from hers (migraines) and light, noise, everything hurts.
I get migraines, nausea is just part of the package. Lights and sound too. If I recall, those are the defining symptoms that differentiate migraines from cluster and other headaches. The best stuff I have takes two to three tablets, pretty close to a maximum dose. It's called Zomig and only prescription. Its also expensive, if your doctor has samples that makes it easier. It can't be used by pregnant or nursing women, if you plan on having more kids (or don't plan, but end up with them anyhow). It does make your head feel... well... weird. It is hard to explain, not really numb, but very fuzzy at the skull level. But it will kill it in about 2 hours, beats suffering for 24-48hours, but kills driving... so I have to drive home, take the medicine and stay there.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
My wife's mother has something like that. Prescription only and expensive. Being self-employed our insurance sucks so my wife cannot get the migraine medicine we just can't afford it.
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My wife's mother has something like that. Prescription only and expensive. Being self-employed our insurance sucks so my wife cannot get the migraine medicine we just can't afford it.
code-frog wrote:
Being self-employed our insurance sucks so my wife cannot get the migraine medicine we just can't afford it.
I couldn't either when I first moved here. Recent divorce and all, I was living on pennies back then, and begging for computer parts. My doctor slipped me lots of samples the first year. Most migraines have "triggers" often minor food allergies. If you find out she gets migraines after a second helping of corn, you have better luck than any prescription medicine.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Every day I get out of bed and thank my God, all gods and any gods that I don't get migraines. For those of you that do (my wife included) I truly feel sorry for you as I've seen the havoc those things can wreak and I just don't want that. I've got some type of malady that is similar to a weak cold but is more achy and headaches are included. About 7 days worth of headaches. I'd go see a doctor as I find that alarming except my wife has it (headaches, not migraines included) and my 6 year old son has it (headaches included). My 2 year old has something that's got her all crabby and no doubt she's giving my wife and I headaches and Katie (the infector) is now over her symptoms which of course had me up all night for a few nights a few weeks ago. Anyway, I get like 2 headaches a year and even then 2 is a lot of headaches for me. How many of you get headaches/migraines? Do you get nauseated from them? My wife is completely bed-ridden from hers (migraines) and light, noise, everything hurts. My headaches are normally nothing and I can pretty much just lick the top of an Advil or rub the bottle on my head and they go away. However today my wife and I both have headaches and have tried sugar, Advil, caffeine and anything else we've heard works. The headaches haven't budged an inch and seem to be in total control. I'll fight to the death but I think for now at least the headache has something bigger than anything I can find to use against it...
You've probably gotten a gajillion words of advice on what to do for migraines, so I'll venture one more. About 20 years ago a very dear person to me cured hers totally by adding sea-salt to her diet. You would probably have to google it for how much and if there are any real benifits. Best wishes to you and yours...
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Every day I get out of bed and thank my God, all gods and any gods that I don't get migraines. For those of you that do (my wife included) I truly feel sorry for you as I've seen the havoc those things can wreak and I just don't want that. I've got some type of malady that is similar to a weak cold but is more achy and headaches are included. About 7 days worth of headaches. I'd go see a doctor as I find that alarming except my wife has it (headaches, not migraines included) and my 6 year old son has it (headaches included). My 2 year old has something that's got her all crabby and no doubt she's giving my wife and I headaches and Katie (the infector) is now over her symptoms which of course had me up all night for a few nights a few weeks ago. Anyway, I get like 2 headaches a year and even then 2 is a lot of headaches for me. How many of you get headaches/migraines? Do you get nauseated from them? My wife is completely bed-ridden from hers (migraines) and light, noise, everything hurts. My headaches are normally nothing and I can pretty much just lick the top of an Advil or rub the bottle on my head and they go away. However today my wife and I both have headaches and have tried sugar, Advil, caffeine and anything else we've heard works. The headaches haven't budged an inch and seem to be in total control. I'll fight to the death but I think for now at least the headache has something bigger than anything I can find to use against it...
i was getting about a migraine a week. Not sure if it was a full fledged migraine, never got it diagnosed. But i felt like pukin and had a pretty serious throb in the ole noggin. i quit coffee and tea (still 2-3 cokes/wk, but i don't feel the caffiene.) no headeaches for 1.5 (roughly) weeks now. i REALLY LOOOOOVE coffee, but i really hate headaches like THAT. i've also got high blood pressure, so, gotta say g'bye to that WONDERFUL drug. oh well, at least i feel more rested. but, ehm, i feel like less a programmer :( i can still do it, but only at about 3/4 my previous speed. ...Steve
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Every day I get out of bed and thank my God, all gods and any gods that I don't get migraines. For those of you that do (my wife included) I truly feel sorry for you as I've seen the havoc those things can wreak and I just don't want that. I've got some type of malady that is similar to a weak cold but is more achy and headaches are included. About 7 days worth of headaches. I'd go see a doctor as I find that alarming except my wife has it (headaches, not migraines included) and my 6 year old son has it (headaches included). My 2 year old has something that's got her all crabby and no doubt she's giving my wife and I headaches and Katie (the infector) is now over her symptoms which of course had me up all night for a few nights a few weeks ago. Anyway, I get like 2 headaches a year and even then 2 is a lot of headaches for me. How many of you get headaches/migraines? Do you get nauseated from them? My wife is completely bed-ridden from hers (migraines) and light, noise, everything hurts. My headaches are normally nothing and I can pretty much just lick the top of an Advil or rub the bottle on my head and they go away. However today my wife and I both have headaches and have tried sugar, Advil, caffeine and anything else we've heard works. The headaches haven't budged an inch and seem to be in total control. I'll fight to the death but I think for now at least the headache has something bigger than anything I can find to use against it...
I don't even get two headaches a year. In fact I have never knowingly had a headache and I hope I never do. I don't drink alcohol anymore, but when I did I wouldn't get hangovers either -- I would have to rely on the straight line test to see if I was really sober the morning after. In my case there is obviously some wiring crossed over because I 'miss out' on lots of those sorts of things. For example, I don't feel hunger: I could quite happily starve to death without feeling any discomfort, and sometimes it can be quite a chore to remember to eat. Thirst is fine, it's just hunger that doesn't flag anything up. My doctor believes it was due to some (legal) drugs I took in the past to help with an unrelated problem, which amongst other things caused two weeks of insomnia and shifted my body clock from a 10am rise to a 6am rise (totally screwing up my social life!!) The drugs caused terrible nausea and supposedly that triggered my problem, but IANAD. Fortunately I do still feel pain when I fall over, get hit, etc. That would be a serious disadvantage IMO. Imagine not knowing if you had broken your wrist or cut your leg! Personally I believe all of these things have evolved for good reasons, so despite me not knowing what a headache feels like you are likely the lucky one here. I do feel sorry for you during your headache though. Friends have told (and shown) me that they can be completly debilitating. Just to add another miracle cure to the list: my father used to get bad headaches a lot, but since he started taking anti-inflamatories for his bad joints he rarely gets them at all.
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I had migraines from about age 12 til my 20s. They stopped when I stopped eating MSG. Glutamate is an amino acid. Its primary function has to do with the synapses in the brain. It opens and closes a gate that receives the firing to regulate it. When in its free form it doesn't function correctly, and the gate will stay open and burn out the cells. That's the only thing I changed in my diet. If I get a headache now, I can almost always trace it back to something I ate where I let it slip in. Or its from a hangover. To anyone with migraines I would recommend the experiment of just cutting out this one ingredient and observe the results for a couple of months.
This statement was never false.
I have a co-worker with the same issue. He gets bad headaches the day after anytime he eats MSG and so avoids it like the plague.
Todd Smith
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i was getting about a migraine a week. Not sure if it was a full fledged migraine, never got it diagnosed. But i felt like pukin and had a pretty serious throb in the ole noggin. i quit coffee and tea (still 2-3 cokes/wk, but i don't feel the caffiene.) no headeaches for 1.5 (roughly) weeks now. i REALLY LOOOOOVE coffee, but i really hate headaches like THAT. i've also got high blood pressure, so, gotta say g'bye to that WONDERFUL drug. oh well, at least i feel more rested. but, ehm, i feel like less a programmer :( i can still do it, but only at about 3/4 my previous speed. ...Steve
You can get headaches from lots of coffee and tea if you stop drinking it abruptly (ie consume it like a black hole during the week then skip it on sat & sun and come monday all hell breaks loose). *gulp* *gulp* *gulp*
Todd Smith
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Every day I get out of bed and thank my God, all gods and any gods that I don't get migraines. For those of you that do (my wife included) I truly feel sorry for you as I've seen the havoc those things can wreak and I just don't want that. I've got some type of malady that is similar to a weak cold but is more achy and headaches are included. About 7 days worth of headaches. I'd go see a doctor as I find that alarming except my wife has it (headaches, not migraines included) and my 6 year old son has it (headaches included). My 2 year old has something that's got her all crabby and no doubt she's giving my wife and I headaches and Katie (the infector) is now over her symptoms which of course had me up all night for a few nights a few weeks ago. Anyway, I get like 2 headaches a year and even then 2 is a lot of headaches for me. How many of you get headaches/migraines? Do you get nauseated from them? My wife is completely bed-ridden from hers (migraines) and light, noise, everything hurts. My headaches are normally nothing and I can pretty much just lick the top of an Advil or rub the bottle on my head and they go away. However today my wife and I both have headaches and have tried sugar, Advil, caffeine and anything else we've heard works. The headaches haven't budged an inch and seem to be in total control. I'll fight to the death but I think for now at least the headache has something bigger than anything I can find to use against it...
One of the most annoying things about migraness is that other people seem to think it's a bad headache and will jump in with "Oh I get those too" and it's not worth the bother to try to explain the huge vast grand canyon sized difference between a bad headache and a migrane. My definition of a migrane is that it always starts with flashing lights in the periphery of vision, for my dad he would be reading a book and the print would suddenly be reversed. You can barely put together a coherent string of words. You need to puke badly and of course there is heavy duty pain in the brain. And light of any amount just physically hurts bad. I used to puke, fall asleep for a couple of hours and I was good to go. My dad got some sort of pen thingy that he can fail safe inject no matter how messed up his head is and it apparently helps but it's not perfect. Luckily I haven't gotten any bad ones since I was a teenager, but my dad didn't either until later in life so I guess I have that to look forward to! :)
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Every day I get out of bed and thank my God, all gods and any gods that I don't get migraines. For those of you that do (my wife included) I truly feel sorry for you as I've seen the havoc those things can wreak and I just don't want that. I've got some type of malady that is similar to a weak cold but is more achy and headaches are included. About 7 days worth of headaches. I'd go see a doctor as I find that alarming except my wife has it (headaches, not migraines included) and my 6 year old son has it (headaches included). My 2 year old has something that's got her all crabby and no doubt she's giving my wife and I headaches and Katie (the infector) is now over her symptoms which of course had me up all night for a few nights a few weeks ago. Anyway, I get like 2 headaches a year and even then 2 is a lot of headaches for me. How many of you get headaches/migraines? Do you get nauseated from them? My wife is completely bed-ridden from hers (migraines) and light, noise, everything hurts. My headaches are normally nothing and I can pretty much just lick the top of an Advil or rub the bottle on my head and they go away. However today my wife and I both have headaches and have tried sugar, Advil, caffeine and anything else we've heard works. The headaches haven't budged an inch and seem to be in total control. I'll fight to the death but I think for now at least the headache has something bigger than anything I can find to use against it...
I don't get migraines. As a kid, i'd get headaches due to eye strain - i read a lot. Now, if i have a headache it's usually due to one or more of: dehydration, tension (which in turn has many root causes of its own...), or sinus pressure (generally due to colds or allergies, once in a great while due to more interesting infections). The former are usually solved with fluids and exercise; the latter occasionally calls for Sudafed (which is almost worse).
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Yeah MSG will give my wife headaches (not migraines) and it doesn't even affect me. We always request MSG free food at restaurants.
Yeah, the headaches are just the tip of the iceburg. Funny enough, 60 minutes dedicated an hour long episode to it, and found that it was a leading cause of 160 major illnesses and diseases. Alzheimers being one of them. They tried to ban it in the 70s, but it got back to the shelves thanks to the lobbyists. Nowadays it only gives me a headache if it slips in. But the migraines haven't returned since stopping the steady intake.
This statement was never false.
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I have a co-worker with the same issue. He gets bad headaches the day after anytime he eats MSG and so avoids it like the plague.
Todd Smith
No doubt! It hides in some things also, so any kind of hydrolyzed protein will have trace amounts. It can hide in Autolyzed Yeast Extract, it can hide in Natural Flavors, since technically it isn't artificial. A total pain too, cause its in just about everything packaged on the shelves. Another funny thing is that its found naturally in tomatoes and parmesan cheese, so you won't find it in italian food. Heh.
This statement was never false.
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One of the most annoying things about migraness is that other people seem to think it's a bad headache and will jump in with "Oh I get those too" and it's not worth the bother to try to explain the huge vast grand canyon sized difference between a bad headache and a migrane. My definition of a migrane is that it always starts with flashing lights in the periphery of vision, for my dad he would be reading a book and the print would suddenly be reversed. You can barely put together a coherent string of words. You need to puke badly and of course there is heavy duty pain in the brain. And light of any amount just physically hurts bad. I used to puke, fall asleep for a couple of hours and I was good to go. My dad got some sort of pen thingy that he can fail safe inject no matter how messed up his head is and it apparently helps but it's not perfect. Luckily I haven't gotten any bad ones since I was a teenager, but my dad didn't either until later in life so I guess I have that to look forward to! :)
Strange... a hot shower and my headache is gone. Like I said I normally get 2 a year. My wife though... she gets the skull splitters.
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Yeah, the headaches are just the tip of the iceburg. Funny enough, 60 minutes dedicated an hour long episode to it, and found that it was a leading cause of 160 major illnesses and diseases. Alzheimers being one of them. They tried to ban it in the 70s, but it got back to the shelves thanks to the lobbyists. Nowadays it only gives me a headache if it slips in. But the migraines haven't returned since stopping the steady intake.
This statement was never false.
We might eat one meal a month out. Everything else we eat is at home and we carefully screen every package for MSG or "Natural Flavors". If it's got that or any other suspicious wording it stays on the shelf at the store.
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You can get headaches from lots of coffee and tea if you stop drinking it abruptly (ie consume it like a black hole during the week then skip it on sat & sun and come monday all hell breaks loose). *gulp* *gulp* *gulp*
Todd Smith
Yep. I got down to 2 cups of coffee a week to splurge and 2 cups of tea a day (to survive). I just couldn't STAND not having some sort of caffeine. (It -is- the programmer's nectar, after all) But, well, even just 2 cups a week and the day after the coffee cup right around lunch time, throbbing in the ole noggin that made me worry I was havin a stroke or somethin. Felt like a blood vessel got stopped up or somethin. And the ole nausea. I never actually puked, but man... Motrin made it almost bearable, but it still took a good hour of layin' in the car with my eyes closed to handle it. Eh, I don't need that. I'll stick with exercise as my last remaining drug. At least they can't take THAT away from me. But, oooooooooooooooooo, do i miss coffee :( ...Steve