I stayed home from work today. I went to bed last night feeling awful, but the worst part is the headaches I've been having since Tuesday night. I only sleep for about 2 hours at a time before the pain in my temples awakens me.
I'm pretty sure they are caused by caffeine withdrawal, as I drink a lot of tea and over the weekend in Austin I drank A-LOT of tea. The timing lines up: this is day 3 without any caffeine and my head is POUND-ing.
My Chinese Medicine training taught me that withdrawal headaches are often dehydration headaches, as tea and other caffeinated beverages are a diuretic. This knowledge guiding me, I've been trying to drink lots of water--but failing miserably. It makes me feel nauseous, it tastes bad, and I have this fear of having to get up to use the restroom a million times a night.
Tonight, then, head pounding, I started Googling what I can do; to verify my dehydration theory; to see if my pain matches what WebMD or About.com says.
Bingo! I struck gold!
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| Source: http://headaches.about.com/od/headaches101/a/Dealing-With-A-Dehydration-Headache.htm |
In all of my pain, I hadn't thought to drink Gatorade! And guess what?!?! There was a full bottle of Fruit Punch in my fridge! I'm almost finished with it. I dare say my headache is slightly better. I'll keep the water going, take some Tylenol and go to bed.
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| Almost gone! |
Oh, by the way, WebMD lists caffeine addiction as a myth. I disagree.
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