Green Tea = Migraine
December 30, 2008
Hello. I thought that since green tea is the miracle to end all miracles, I would drink some and wait to me miraclized. And instead, I have a migraine. So just in case you were curious, green tea is not amazing when it comes to migraines. In fact, not only is it not amazing, it causes migraines* that don’t respond to Excedrin, which means I have had a migraine for the past eight hours. Suck.
*Please note that I have not performed experiments on how green tea affects migraines. I realize that green tea and migraines affect everyone differently, and what doesn’t work for me may work for someone else. Please take this with a grain of salt.
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me again | February 26, 2009 at 3:08 pm
You are the dumbest person in the world!!!
Green tea causes migraine? You are kidding, right?
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SavvyChristine | February 26, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Ah. How nice of you to skip the text in italics at the end of the post. Lovely.
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Kelly | April 15, 2009 at 9:50 am
ALL tea made from the tea plant (as in, not herbal tea) can cause migraines. I spent most of my life not believing it to be a trigger but I drank it every day and had migraines every day. My mother, who also suffers from migraines, told me for years to stop. I didn’t believe her because very few of her other triggers affect me. Yet as soon as I cut all tea out of my diet my migraines decreased. Now if I have just one serving of tea I will get a migraine the next day without fail. This has happened even when I falsely believed I was drinking herbal tea and later found out (after I got the migraine) that I had been drinking regular tea.
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Lee | June 2, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Too often I’ve gotten a terrible migraine after drinking green tea. It is a trigger for me too. Migraines are complex and not everyone has the same triggers. So USE YOUR HEADS and figure out what you are sensitive to, and then avoid it!
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Lee | June 2, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Oh, and by the way, chocolate is not one of my triggers. I’m happy about that. And menopause is the best remedy for those horrid hormonal migraines! Yippee!
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Molly | September 5, 2009 at 1:58 am
Yes, I also get terrible migraines from green tea. Black tea does not seem to have the same effect, but lately I’ve been taking a supplement with a teensy bit of green tea in it, and have been getting migraines. BUT, I’ve also been drinking black tea. I think I’ll have to stop one or the other to see which is the culprit. But a pharmacist told me that green tea might be causing them, and once I stopped, many months ago, my migraines all but disappeared. So, it’s not stupid to say that green tea can cause migraines.
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muiiio | November 5, 2009 at 6:17 am
I never had a migraine in my life. Then one day I decided to give up coffee and substitute it with green tea. I felt happy, fresh, healthy… I drank a couple of cups each day – as per internet medical folklore, so to call it.
Then, one wonderful Saturday, I slept in, woke up, went to take a shower. Suddenly there was a blind spot right in the middle of my field of sight – what the heck?! I freaked out. Then I freaked out more, as that blind spot grew and I was honestly blind – instead of my living room i saw something reminiscent of the “snow” you see on a TV that is not tuned to a channel. It was everywhere, and I was panicking already.
Suddenly – it’s gone. Just like that – within a second I can see again. And then the headache started. 72 hours straight! That had never EVER happened to me – I get moderate headaches sometimes, mostly from staring at a computer monitor all day long (and from annoying people around me).
I took walks, took analgesics and NSAIDs, took hot and cold showers – nothing. 72 hours.
Did some research – turns out that THIS is what a migraine is. Lovely! And when I googled “green tea headache” I found plenty of information regarding green tea and MIGRAINES.
Naturally, I quit teas. A few months later I ordered some mint tea at a restaurant. They brought me black tea with mint, so I decided to give it a try. Nice – same “blindness” aura the next day, then another 2-3 days with a non-stop headache. So yeah, teas CAN cause a migraine.
I am actually drinking green tea right now, it’s been a year – let’s see how it goes!