Love your healthy organic coffee? Ever forget to drink coffee because you are too busy or for whatever reason? Did you feel irritable, unable to concentrate, experience stomach or joint pain and have a headache? If so you might have had a caffeine withdrawal headache. People drink one and a half eight ounce cups of coffee a day take in about 235 mg of caffeine. If someone with this coffee intake stops drinking coffee they may experience a caffeine withdrawal headache and other symptoms as quickly as 12 hours after their last cup. Research tells us that fifty percent of people who stop drinking coffee experience a caffeine withdrawal headache for around two days.

Saturdays When No One Makes Coffee

A friend of mine was a heavy coffee drinker who consumed about ten six ounce cups a day. He only drank coffee at work where someone made coffee in the break room five days a week. He worked Saturdays until mid-day and always left work complaining of a headache. When he arrived at work on Mondays he complained of a terrible headache all weekend. The complaining stopped by mid-morning. A reportedly thorough neurologic workup failed to reveal a reason for his headaches and my friend was pleased to find out that testing failed to show a brain tumor. Then a new employee came on the scene who was also a coffee drinker and who didn’t mind making coffee on Saturdays. The fact that my friend quit complaining about headaches upon leaving work on Saturdays led us to think about the coffee. Someone suggested to my friend that maybe he could have a cup of coffee, even instant, on Sundays, and the headaches went away. We drink coffee because we like it. Along the way regular and organic coffee antioxidants provide a wide range of health benefits such as a reduction of the incidence of Type II Diabetes. But what about the headaches when we neglect our favorite brew?

Research Shows

Medical researchers from Johns Hopkins and the University of Vermont Medical College studied what happens with abstinence after regular coffee intake. They looked at brain waves with EEG’s, blood flow in the brain with ultrasound, and symptoms as reported by test subjects. They published their results in the journal Psychopharmacology.

The results were as follows:

• Increased blood flow velocity in the brain
• EEG changes, an increased theta rhythm
• Increased complains of fatigue

So, it is apparent that symptoms of caffeine withdrawal are not imagined even if they are all in the head.

Does A Cup Of Coffee Help A Headache?

If you are suffering from a caffeine withdrawal headache a cup of coffee is, in fact, the treatment of choice. But other headaches also seem to be helped by adding caffeine to the remedy. Many over-the-counter and prescribed headache medications contain caffeine. The addition of caffeine appears to speed up absorption of the pain medication and seems to help reduce headaches as well. The next time that you have a headache, think back to when you last had a cup of coffee. If your last cup of Panama Mountain Grown Organic Coffee was more than twelve hours ago you may want to grind a few beans a make a cup.