I've been getting daily headaches and I thought for sure that they were the chronic kind caused by taking daily Tylenol, Excedrin, what have you. I've had them before, so I've been weaning myself off of the fore-mentioned for the last two days. Before that I started drinking more water or juice, thinking that I was also dehydrated. I hate drinking plain water, so I've been adding those little packages of mix in with them.
Well, I was wrong.
You see on top of taking the Tylenol or Excedrin, no I didn't take them together, but on top of one or the other, and sometimes ibuprofen, I would take a caffeine pill, the generic version sold at Walmart, called Stay Awake. Well, as it turned out when I had a headache today and yesterday, I took one of those rather then a pain reliever and my headache went away. So I have concluded that it was more the caffeine pills than the pain relievers. So now, not only will I try to wean myself from the pain killers, but from the caffeine pills too. What a bummer.
The doctor told me a few months ago to cut down on the caffeine and I did. I quit drinking coffee, unless we went out and even tea, or drinking the decaffeinated stuff, and pop with caffeine, but I didn't cut out the pills. I only took them once, maybe twice a day, so I didn't think that they would matter. Well, at looking at the contents, one of those little buggers has 200mg of caffeine. I don't know how much a cup of coffee has, but I'm sure it's less than that.
I already know that I have OCD to some degree and I guess that may make it easier for me to become addicted to things; I don't know, scientists are still out on that; but I do stay away from alcohol for the most part, because of that and because of the medication I'm on. I also know that caffeine is a drug, but I never had a problem with it before. Now I guess I've developed one. :(
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