Caffeine and Warning Symptoms of Migraine – Video Information

It’s a paradox that migraine is said to be caused by coffee / caffeine, yet many pain-killers recommended to be taken for migraine headaches contain caffeine!

I will confess that sometimes I use this fact to my own ends, because if I sense the warning signs of an imminent migraine I will go and have a coffee, instead of taking a pain-killer (which isn’t needed as the migraine hasn’t developed). More times than not, the migraine will not develop. So I tend to regard a coffee as being in my low or no-cost “prevent migraine” tool-box.

It’s also true that, several years ago when I worked in a high-stress computing job (what’s changed!) I would typically be drinking strong and probably over-brewed coffee almost the entire day. And that was the period of my life when my migraines were at their worst.

Now that I largely restrict my coffees to one a day and the occasional “migraine prevention coffee” I rarely suffer. I guess it just comes back to the old saying “moderation in everything”.

Below is a video on the subject by Dr David Hill, a graduate of the University of North Carolina Internal Medicine and Pediatrics.

And in case it leaves you wondering, I’m guessing (nothing if not honest) that my therapeutic mug of coffee would qualify as Dr Hill’s “brief dose of caffeine”!