Guest guest Posted May 10, 2007 Report Share Posted May 10, 2007 Dear a A caffeine and alcohol intravenous infusion has been found to be a good treatment for recalcitrant headaches. The researcher who published the article was at great pains to state that it did not work orally. To borrow a Tonyism "Bull----" If I have a worsening of my headache after lunch, a strong coffee with a good slug of single malt scotch will take the edge off. The downside is I keep looking for a second. LOL I don't know if it is different for others but as I seem to be responding to Diamox, my best guess is that I have high pressure. R [infections] If caffeine helps Matt and all, If caffeine relieved my headache would that mean I have low brain pressure? a Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 10, 2007 Report Share Posted May 10, 2007 Caffeinne sometimes relieves migraines, and in my case, I believe they're related to high pressure, so I don't think it would mean that. penny a Carnes <pj7@...> wrote: Matt and all, If caffeine relieved my headache would that mean I have low brain pressure? a Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 10, 2007 Report Share Posted May 10, 2007 I find caffeine can sometimes help headaches that I attribute to bruxism. (That attribution is due to association with jaw pain, etc). What happens downstream of the bruxism to produce the headache, I don't know. It could involve high CSF pressure. > Matt and all, > If caffeine relieved my headache would that mean I have low brain pressure? > > a > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 11, 2007 Report Share Posted May 11, 2007 a I did a quick, non-biased PubMed search using the words " caffeine " , " intracranial " , and " pressure " and came up with two that suggests that caffeine might help a low pressure headache: http://tinyurl.com/22dn6e http://tinyurl.com/2g8h98 but I would think that the vasoconstricting effects in the CNS of caffeine might also partially relieve an ICH headache insofar as reducing blood volume would relieve a bit of pressure. I'd think that might aggravate fatigue though. I'm guessing that whatever efficacy caffeine might have for ICH might depend on how high the particular person's pressure is. I think there are some patients who have headaches that aren't even relieved with narcotics. The PTC/ICH forums are full of people who know what works or doesn't, both for high pressure, and low pressure headaches. If you're still waiting for membership in the MSN ICH site, you may want to just try and log in. I think this is the same username and password as for the hotmail account you're required to have. I waited about 2 weeks for an email confirming my membership and never got one. You may have to just try and log on. Matt > > Matt and all, > If caffeine relieved my headache would that mean I have low brain pressure? > > a > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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