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Water = migraines? Anonymous
Evening /fit/.

So in an attempt to slowly start to be more healthy and active, I've started with something relatively small: drinking more water. Normally, I drink a small cup or two of water a day, in addition to a soda with dinner, but I've been trying to bump it up to four or five cups of water a day.

I started getting horrible migraines. The only difference that I've noticed on the days that I get the migraines is that those are the days that I tried to drink more water. Before anyone asks, the water I've been drinking is the type that's in those water coolers (Clearwater and Mountain Spring, etc.), not tap water.

After looking around, I haven't found anything that relates to this, because water is supposed to get rid of headaches. Does anyone know what could be causing this or if it's all just in my head?

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>> Anonymous
The headaches are possibly withdrawal symptoms from addictions to sugar, caffeine, or artificial sweeteners.

Try a bit of ibuprofen and stick with it. If it persists, see someone with an M.D.
>> Anonymous
>>245731
agreed. also soda with dinner is a bad bad idea.

Just try a week with no soda, and if you can do it don't go back to it.
>> Anonymous
To>>245738:

I know the soda is a bad idea. But a change from water is absolutely wonderful. I did go about 4 or 5 days without a soda, but like I said, since I was drinking more water at that time as well, I was getting migraines (at the time, I thought it was caffeine withdrawals, but when I went back to drinking a soda with dinner, I was still getting the headaches on the days that I would drink more than 2 glasses of water).

Maybe I should just follow>>245731advice and pop the ibuprofens until it'll either go away on its own or I can finally learn to cope in some way.
>> Anonymous
You should just drink water when you're thirsty, not because you're forcing yourself to. Water isn't special; it's just not loaded with sugar, fat, etc.

Anyway, I am 95% sure it is simply withdrawal. The same thing happened to me when I quit drinking soda in favor of water. Even on days when I would let myself have a can, I'd still sometimes get a migraine. Just stick with it. Caffeine isn't nearly as bad as tobacco, for instance, so you should be free of withdrawal symptoms in no time.
>> Anonymous
Yeah, just because you had ONE soda and the migraine is still there really means nothing, caffeine withdrawals can go on for as long as it takes, and by drinking one you're just going to prolong that addiction
>> Anonymous
Cut out the soda completely.
>> Anonymous
or you could just switch to black coffee or tea-no sugar, no problem. and you don't get the migraines
>> Anonymous
Tap Water isn't bad for you.