Caffeine Headaches.......... How do you deal..?

[ackbob 0]

My Surgeon and my Dietician want me completely off of caffeine by the time of surgery - I am probably 3 months out from surgery - and I am trying to wean myself off already..... I typically have 2 cups of coffee and a diet soda or regular soda every day.... without the coffee I am blinded by the headaches by 11am and having the soda is not touching the headaches at all............ how are others dealing with loss of caffeine or did your doctors not require that........?

[Rachel412 116]

My doctor required it, but I didn't actually do it until a few days before surgery Don't tell! The headaches did go away after a few days. Do it now, before surgery so you don't have a raging headache when you're in the hospital. Trust me!

[AlienBandit 10]

My doctor doesn't have a problem with bandsters drinking caffine, he actually has a coffee machine on the recovery floor

As for the headaches, I would try to slowly reduce your caffine amount and maybe try to take more Vitamins etc. I say this because I started getting headaches at the hospital after surgeries when I didnt have a coffee in the morning ( it is a habit to have benefiber and at least 2 coffees in the morning). One of the other patients suggested I continue to drink a coffee in the morning even at the hospital and that helped with my headaches but then it turned out that it was actually low Iron that was causing the headaches.

Now I take an Iron pill in the morning, and I haven't had a coffee in over a week!

[stateofzen 46]

I was going to be a smartass and suggest drinking coffee (that's how I get rid of caffeine headaches), but I realize that would just be cruel

It seems like you have two options-- just white knuckle through the next week or so and they should go away, or wean more slowly in the morning-- do half-caf, then quarter caf, then no caf in your coffee in a gradual decline over a couple of weeks.

[Cindy C 150]

Do you see a chiropractor? I know a lot of people don't believe in chiropractic but then again a lot of people don't believe in lap band either. As strange as it may seem, when I get a headache I go straight to his office and have him adjust my neck. The headache is gone before his hands are off of my neck. EVERY TIME!!! An upper back adjustment also alleviates the shoulder blade pain from the gas after surgery.

[sandy1 1]

Poor you! Caffeine headaches are the worst.

I was never told to get off coffee. I do not add anything to mine so there are no unwanted calories!

Sorry wish I could help.