This story about 10 years ago, said Dr. Derek Roskell (Derek Roskell) from Hospitals John Radcliffe in Oxford. He published the story of his own migraines. This was his comment on the article about headache in BMJ.
Dr. Roskell many years suffered from migraines, which for some reason attacked it exclusively on Saturday. It was so predictable that the doctor's wife decided that they had marital problems.
Derek Roskell worked as a pathologist, so called on neurologists and general practitioners. Those prescribed treatment, achieved a certain effect, but the headache returned.
Dr. Roskell used to find out the exact cause of the disease and decided to talk with their colleagues pathologists. He correctly assumed that if people work in the same conditions, and then a headache they may be similar.
It turned out that they drink with colleagues at work a lot of coffee. But then home Dr Roskell only drank decaffeinated coffee or fruit juice. Everything pointed to the fact that the headache was associated with the cancellation of caffeine.
Caffeine has analgesic effect. That is why it is added to various complicated headache tablets. That is why caffeine provoke headaches when refuse from complex tablets.
Even 100 mg of caffeine a day is enough to when taken regularly can develop a dependency.
Interestingly, in the case of alcohol withdrawal symptoms appear after 10 days of regular intake, and caffeine for only three days. Three days in a row for coffee, and may have a headache.
In the case of Derek Roskell nothing happened. The doctor took it a rule to drink in a day a couple of cups of strong tea or coffee. Migraine never returned, and his family, as he was joking, did not think he hates them.
And I still could not understand why I have a headache on Saturday. It turned out that some sleep on the weekend, you can skip the next morning dose of caffeine. That's the story.
Maybe a cup of tea?
