I have migraines, very debilitating ones due to a fall i had.  

I was given phrophylactic Amitriptyline which helps to prevent the migraines happening.

I was only ever told to have caffiene after a lumbar puncture i had, never to treat my migraines.

Suzi

Many years ago when I suffered occasionally from migraine (was in my case hormone-related, usually triggered off by stress) I read that drinking a strong cup of coffee could reduce the symptoms as during a migraine attack the blood vessels tighten and caffeine widened them.

Ihave had migraines all of my life, and if I don't have caffeine, I get a severe one. I drink a lot of diet drinks, but want to go off of them as much as possible. I can drink tea (unsweeted) with food, but not on an empty stomach. Any suggestions on what I can do instead?

Have you considered checking into the sweetener they put into most diet drinks now-a-days? ASPARTAME is now in a lot of diet drinks.  When I was working at a factory the maintenance guy brought me a paper he got off the internet warning me about it. When I googled it there was like a million pages it seemed. What I read was enough to get me to quit drinking any sugar free drink without checking to see that aspartame wasn't in there.
I googled again :
There are at least 91 symptoms of aspartame poisoning. (the FDA classes death as a symptom... I don't see ... http://www.dorway.com/badnews.html ).

and it's not just aspartame........I gained 60 pounds over the 15 years I used Equal in my coffee... and this formaldehyde-laced fat is still causing me NEW problems.
Aspartame / NutraSweet / Equal / Neotame

 ^Poisoning^, ^Toxicity Reactions^, ^Health Damage^ brought to you by

            Monsanto / NutraSweet / Kelco / Benevia
            ^^^^^^^^   ^^^^^^^^^^   ^^^^^   ^^^^^^^
Google and check some of these out it's kind of scary what they let into our food and drinks now. I just seen where there is supposed to be a chemical in the milk now that causes cancer.. I'm gonna have to check that out   I LOVE milk I'll have to get my own cow.
Take care hun hope you feel better..........Jen

Milk is not good for humans anyway.  Why drink something thats meant for calves.  We don't bottle breast milk and sell it nor do we give it to calves. lambs, goats etc.

Milk is very sticky once it enters the system and leaves traces of itself within the lungs, blood and bowels.

Your right about aspartme, its seen as a very dangerous substance in large quantities and its made from similar stuff that embalmers use for corpses.  Its also highly addictive and some people have real problems when they try to reduce and stop its consumption.

Suzi

Wow Thanks I never knew that about milk, guess I won't be needing a cow after all:) Ya isn't that grand if you let the diet drink get to warm its breakdown products, or metabolites, are even scarier than its components. Phenylalanine decomposes into diketopiperazine (DKP) a known carcinogen. and double jeopardy here because even if products are kept at cooler temperatures they're still not safe. At cold temperatures, methanol will spontaneously give rise to a colorless toxin known as formaldehyde. I think it's sad how they let things pass FDA just for the money, in reality the FDA denied aspartame approval for 8 years and then came along the new  commissioner Arthur Hull Hayes who approved it I bet he has his hand in someones pocket. This is still small potatoes as to some of the things that have been going on in this country.
OOPS talken to much again laters:)