Why does coffee give one a headache especially after 8 cups drunk in succssesion!


Question: I take about 8 cups of coffee non stop as soon as I get up from bed around 5a.m. while I doing my computer routine. I don't really get up to stir 8 cups. I use a mug and a mug of mine can carry two cups of coffee. The coffee maker is set to make the 8 cups with two heapfull of coffee grounds. At around 11 a.m. my headache starts and it is very bad and goes on the whole day. The pain is from my eyesucket, both temples and to the top of my head down my nape. I notice that if I lessen my intake of coffee I don't get the headches.

So what happens? that I get headaches?


Answers: I take about 8 cups of coffee non stop as soon as I get up from bed around 5a.m. while I doing my computer routine. I don't really get up to stir 8 cups. I use a mug and a mug of mine can carry two cups of coffee. The coffee maker is set to make the 8 cups with two heapfull of coffee grounds. At around 11 a.m. my headache starts and it is very bad and goes on the whole day. The pain is from my eyesucket, both temples and to the top of my head down my nape. I notice that if I lessen my intake of coffee I don't get the headches.

So what happens? that I get headaches?

Technically, caffeine is a drug... and like anything else, it can be "overdosed"... what you are doing is overdosing on caffeine... this very commonly causes headaches in the same way alcohol causes hang-overs

An easy way to fix this would be to drink your coffee slower, so your 8 cups lasts you a whole day rather than just until 11am - this will give your body more time to metabolize the large quantities of caffeine...

Or you can slowly ween yourself down to a lower amount of coffee... drink just 3 mugs of coffee for a few days, then cut it down to 2 mugs of coffee a day for a few days... etc. until you've noticed that your headaches have subsided

However, just like any type of drug dependence, your body is used to having that quantity of caffeine, so you can go through withdraws when trying to cut down on your intake - for caffeine, withdraw symptoms are usually headaches (i know, wierd huh) and sometimes a little shaking in your hands

I would suggest cutting down on your intake or at least spanning out the amount of time it takes you to consume that much caffeine.

Good luck!

caffeine dehydrates you, and that can cause a headache.

you drink so much caffeine in the early morning and you crash if you stop..ween down how much coffee you drink in the morning

It could be a couple of things. First, caffine dehydrates you so if you are drinking that much then that could be a possible cause. Second, if you are taking in that much caffine at once in the morning, then you quit giving your body caffine later in the day, it acts almost like a cigarette smoker not smoking. You get a headache and get real jittery and cranky. Thats your body telling you it needs something.





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