On 8/10/2010 3:05 AM, Tim Cook wrote:
> On 2010-08-10 04:20, Invisible wrote:
>> This is where things get really weird. I ate a bunch of painkillers over
>> an hour ago, and they still haven't had any effect. But as soon as I
>> started eating food, within literally *minutes* my headache almost
>> completely vanished. WTF is *that* about?!
>>
>> Any unsubstantiated theories? Wild speculation? Baseless diagnosis?
>
> Sounds like the migraines I get that are triggered by (and corrected by
> fixing) my poor sleep/eating habits. They can also be triggered by
> sudden change in caffeine level in body.
>
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> Tim Cook
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That was my first thought too. Though, mine are "usually" triggered by 
not drinking enough. Its notable that a) they can seem to fade, a bit, 
after eating, especially if you didn't eat enough, and that accelerated 
the problem, b) drinking water to rehydrate does **nothing** to stave it 
off, and c) at least in my case, it can seem fairly bad, but not 
horribly so, until I actually have to try to rest any, and then 
*everything* drives me up the wall.

The prevention of these tends to be a) acetometiphin (I think its 
called, and in Tylonol?) + caffeine. The caffeine effects blood flow in 
the brain, so if you decrease intake, it takes a bit for your brain to 
re-adjust. Basically, you end up creating one of the conditions that 
**helps** create a migraine by going off it (oh, joy lol). Not sure what 
the other does, but both are needed to deal with it. The **problem** is, 
this combination will only work, and this has been tested medically, if 
you take one *before* you get any symptoms at all, or *just as* you 
start to notice the preliminary symptoms (which in my case is a stiff 
neck and ache in the nerves there). If you take it after you have the 
headache, it does absolutely nothing for you.

Given how easy it is, on my job, to dehydrate, I have made it a habit of 
taking one before work, every day I work more than 4 hours. Its been 
months since I had one. Where, before, I could get one 1-2 times a month.

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