Clustered Headaches

[PR3D4TOR]

Earl Grey tea contains about 40 mg of caffeine per cup of tea. Are you sure you want to drink a stimulant just before bedtime?

[bortas1]

  sorry to hear that. hope you find something that works to ease the pain.

[Butcher]

Earl Grey tea contains about 40 mg of caffeine per cup of tea. Are you sure you want to drink a stimulant just before bedtime?

Its always helped me avoid headaches at bed time, worse thing ever is a headache in your sleep, problem is it probes until you wake up with a full BLOWN headache going, and its by far the worse thing ever.

Day time headaches you can take mass dose of caffeine and deny the headache, in your sleep there is nothing you can do.

I rarely get them in the middle of the night if I have a cup of grey Earl an hour before bed, I let the caffeine settle and I snooze quite good.

[VonMessa]

Get a chiropractic adjustment from someone that you have researches.

Subluxations and misalignment in the spine can cause a host of medical problems that an present as symptoms of many different problems.  Taking OTC or prescription pain meds only alleviate the symptom and do not address the cause.

A properly aligned spine allows the signals from the nervous system to travel properly.  If you look at a diagram of the nervous system and trace where the major nerves branch off of the spinal cord to the different organs in the body, you can see that each vertebra in the spine corresponds to a few different organs/body systems.

If there is a subluxation (misalignment) at a particular vertebra, it can put pressure on the spinal cord and/or branching nerves, subsequently affecting those organs/systems in a negative fashion.

It is a lot cheaper that the price you were quoted for the drugs, and much easier on your liver.  

[Penguin]

Even the chiropractor is only a temporary fix.  If your spine is always misaligned then you need to do back and core exercise to keep it straight all day, and take a look at a new bed.  Lie down on it shirtless and have your wife see if your spine is out of whack.  If it is, then that would strain your muscles during sleep. 

With the examination complete, move on to the fun part!

-Penguin

[eagl]

I basically have a very strict diet right now, and I take roughly 15 pills every day (herbal aids) - muscle relaxers have been my biggest aid so far, any reason I believe a headache is coming on I pop a relaxer and drink a bit of caffeine (never at night time though).

I would ditch the herbal aids.  My headaches were merely occasional nuisances until I started taking a fish oil supplement, at which time they became more frequent and also gave me visual aura symptoms.  Stopping the fish oil supplements and avoiding fish entirely almost completely eliminated the symptoms.

My point is that you are taking supplements that you do not need.  You can get all the nutrition you need from some very simple foods and *maybe* a single multi-vitamin daily.  You certainly do not need 15 pills each day and that is just complicating things.

Regarding caffeine and smoking...  Yea, the sooner you ditch those the better.  Nicotine acts directly on the brain chemistry in nearly the same way as heroin and some other strong medications.  Most people aren't strongly affected by it but some people's brains really freak out from nicotine.  3 family members of mine were completely and irreversably addicted by nicotine from their very first smoke, while others in my family either smoked and quit fairly easily or tried smoking but stopped because it didn't do anything for them. 

But back to the supplements...  You really don't need them and you never know what a "harmless" supplement might be doing to you.