Navaho Gunleg

So after this, I have been reading more on the condition called Cluster Headaches, and the more I read, the more I recognise. Initially I couldn’t remember being woken up by these headaches, but I have. The memories of more days in agony came back. I even remember the day I had such a headache and my girlfriend thought I had a dilated pupil.

After reading about Red Bull and coffee (and other high-caffeine drinks) being possible ways to stop or prevent an attack, I have reason to suspect that my heavy coffee drinking might have played a role, though:

What if my constant coffee-drinking has always prevented the condition from getting noticed?

So as a means of experiment, I doubled my coffee-intake yesterday (I must say, it has been a while feeling that “caffeine-buzz” which I felt after only 4 mugs), to see what would happen that evening. I had one moment that I felt a headache coming up at which moment I took another mug of coffee.

I kept an eye on the clock and 20 o’clock passed without any headache at all. That seems quite promising, although it’s difficult to say whether the coffee is really helping, I might have had no painful headaches that day anyway.

(And of course, it’s still not sure that I really suffer from cluster-headaches, it could just as well be some weird coincidence.)

Today, as part of my little experiment, I’m dropping back to just 3 mugs again to see what happens.