Mom and I are just sitting upstairs and watching "Anderson" on TV. He has a family on whose daughter died because of a caffeine overdose after drinking two cans of Monster Energy Drink over a 24 hour period. There was then a doctor on the show who explained what happened and was very informative and lead to mom and I having an epiphany.
The doctor said how that caffeine can cause tachycardia and vasoconstriction type of problems. This girl also had MVP (which my doctors can never agree if I do have or don't have - apparently it's pretty common anyways). I said something along the lines of "Even if I could drink caffeine, it looks like I shouldn't anyways". Then mom comes up with the theory that it's the caffeine leading to more tachycardia and blood flow issues that cause the bad headaches I get. We always said that I couldn't have anything caffeinated but it was weird because I could have a tea or hot chocolate and I can eat chocolate no problem. But those foods probably have a small dose of caffeine compared with a can of pop. This really really makes sense and answers a bunch of questions. Even the fact that when I get another type of headache eating chocolate actually helps them. That might be because of vasoconstriction causing those type of headaches.
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