Happy F'ing Thursday lol

[The Epic]

Woke up with a huge migraine, but after some Excedrine and a little bit of cool water applied to my neck and head area I feel much better which is good because I have to help the wife with some photo deadlines this afternoon so I have a feeling my migraine will be returning.

I am going to try my hardest to catch up on my porn as it seems my one and a half years I've been doing it is finally starting to pay off for me since conversions and sales have improved greatly compared to before. Although now it's trying to find the time to keep up with it that is the hard part.

Hope everyone has a great day.

[cd34]

Originally Posted by The Epic

Woke up with a huge migraine, but after some Excedrine

If you look at Excederin versus Extra Strength Tylenol, you'll find that the difference is that Excedrin is 250mg aspirin, 250mg acetaminophen and 65mg caffeine and Tylenol is 500mg acetaminophen but no aspirin or caffeine. Caffeine is used to speed digestion, which is why Excedrin appears to help quicker, but, for me, I find the acetaminophen to be the ingredient that helps the most. Since I drink Diet Coke, I get caffeine from that. Just throwing that data point out. Wife bought Excedrin, but, at my current rate, I'll be through that bottle soon.

Updated (and broke) one of my WordPress plugins adding Pinterest support, thanks to a board member for pointing out my error, pushed version 0.4 up.

Other than that, typical day shoveling bits.

Hope everyone has a good Thursday.

[RedCherry]

Morning all,

Working on some 3d this morning and getting ready to start some free sites building. Yesterday I ended up spending the morning setting up this 3D set and then we ran around all afternoon and I didn't get my usual done. Plan on getting it all done today.

Have a great day all!

We had a hot water heater burst when we lived in an upstairs apartment. Not thinking, Jim ran through the wet carpet to unplug our computers getting shocked, next time I want to think about flipping off breakers instead. Glad the apartment complex got to clean up that mess and was responsible for damage done in the downstairs apartment. Good luck Ramster in getting yours fixed.

[Cleo]

Originally Posted by cd34

If you look at Excederin versus Extra Strength Tylenol, you'll find that the difference is that Excedrin is 250mg aspirin, 250mg acetaminophen and 65mg caffeine and Tylenol is 500mg acetaminophen but no aspirin or caffeine. Caffeine is used to speed digestion, which is why Excedrin appears to help quicker, but, for me, I find the acetaminophen to be the ingredient that helps the most.

Excedrin is the only thing that works for me.

Left untreated my migraines will get so bad that I'll start throwing up and I become real light sensitive.

Also I find that popping two in the morning seems to help in preventing me from getting then in the first place.

Tylenol alone doesn't seem to do anything for me.

[cd34]

Originally Posted by Cleo

Excedrin is the only thing that works for me.

So either it is the aspirin or caffeine that works for you. You might try Bayer Extra Strength, it is 500mg aspirin with no acetaminophen and no caffeine. Then, you'd be getting 2x the dose of what appears to work for you.

For me, acetaminophen is what helps - and I noticed the difference the first time I took Excedrin which made me do the research. Excedrin helped, but, wasn't nearly as good for me and I figured it had to be something in the ingredients.

[The Epic]

Originally Posted by cd34

If you look at Excederin versus Extra Strength Tylenol, you'll find that the difference is that Excedrin is 250mg aspirin, 250mg acetaminophen and 65mg caffeine and Tylenol is 500mg acetaminophen but no aspirin or caffeine.

I never honestly knew that. Although couldn't a combination of the Aspirin and Acetaminophen be what's helping and not just one of them by itself?

I'm certain Caffeine isn't the helper because I get plenty of that on my own. Although I'd certainly be willing to try the Tylenol in the future. When I used to work in a store that had a gas station connected to it they didn't sell Excedrin so I found myself buying Bayer all of the time instead. It did the job also, but for some reason I've always preferred the Excedrin.

Although sometimes I get them so bad that none of these drugs seem to help. When that happens there's nothing to do, but pop a few pills and try to sleep it off.

[cd34]

Originally Posted by Cleo

Actually I think it is the aspirin and caffeine mix.

Lacking Excedrin I've found taking some aspirin while drinking coffee helps.

I think caffeine constricts the blood vessels while the aspirin reduces the pain.

If it is the Aspirin, Bayer has twice as much as Excedrin in the same 'dosage'. The caffeine is supposed to speed up digestion and releases adrenaline which gets Excedrin in the bloodstream quicker. It also does constrict the blood vessels. Most cups of coffee are 80mg+. Two cans of pepsi/coke is about 65mg of caffeine.

Originally Posted by The Epic

I never honestly knew that. Although couldn't a combination of the Aspirin and Acetaminophen be what's helping and not just one of them by itself?

For me, Bayer does absolutely nothing which is 100% aspirin. Excedrin doesn't work as well for me as Tylenol. My conclusion is that aspirin isn't doing anything for me. However, not everyone is the same, so, what works for me, may not work for you.

But, now you know the chemistry behind the three major brands.

[Cleo]

Originally Posted by cd34

If it is the Aspirin, Bayer has twice as much as Excedrin in the same 'dosage'. The caffeine is supposed to speed up digestion and releases adrenaline which gets Excedrin in the bloodstream quicker. It also does constrict the blood vessels. Most cups of coffee are 80mg+. Two cans of pepsi/coke is about 65mg of caffeine.

Between Christy and me we have pretty much at least one over the counter bottle, generic versions, of everything. I even have this prescription of stuff that you blow up your nose and reminds me of doing bad cocaine,

Out of everything generic or name brand Excedrin seems to work the best for me.

Headaches are caused by a variety of things so different things work for different people.