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Chronic severe nocturnal hypnic headaches
Headache & Migraine | Last Active: Apr 30 4:11pm | Replies (295)Comment receiving replies
@taterjoy I wake up during the early morning usually around 3-5am and have issues falling back to sleep but most times I do fall back to sleep. Of course, this happened before I took the caffeine tabs so I don't think it's the caffeine tab that is causing me to awaken at that time.
I found some insightful information regarding why we wake up at 3 a.m., based on research and papers from Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Richard Feynman. It offers an in-depth explanation of how our circadian rhythms affect sleep as we age. I can't place a link here, but search YouTube for this title:
The Feynman Way
"Why You Wake Up at 3AM — What Your Body Is Really Doing"
To answer your question, the doctor said to start with 200mg's. Possibly because most dosage in OTC bottles are 200mg tabs. Thankfully it is still working.
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@vtjoanne that is good to know! I am so glad the caffiene tabs are providing sound sleep and no headaches!
My nocturnal "headaches" before I started Indocin/coffee/melatonin treatment used to wake me from sleep at the same 4 times each night. When I was diagnosed, the last awaking "headache" each night was always about 4:34am.
I can see now (due to apple/watch sleep tracking when I try to discontinue Indocin altogether), that my "headache" induced awaking's occur every time my brain is in REM cycle. Maybe it's linked to circadian rhythms? IDK. I can also now "see" that the intervals between my REM cycles during the night are not the same; the intervals between each REM usually get shorter as the night progresses.