Never have them, and I mean never as in never ever. First noticed it just before my son was born, twenty five years ago. Thought about it, and wondered on it, and thought to notice it first time I did. But I never did, so thats twenty five years right there.
Reflecting on that, I remember TV ads from my youth were all about headaches, seems like every ten minutes somebody was trying to sell you something to soothe your pounding headache…but now, not so much.
Anybody else never get headaches? Did we, as a nation, used to get a lot more but now don’t so often?
I rarely get them. I doubt I could tell you how many I have even had, they are relatively rare. Most of them had to do with eating something sweet and then going out into the sunlight–not sure of the correlation, but there you go. Other then that I don’t seem to get them, but I also am rarely stressed, which is odd considering what I do for a living.
But I will say that most of the people I know get them quite a bit, I know a couple guys who get huge migraines as well.
I think TV advertising has changed somewhat in the last 10 years or so. I was actually thinking about this a while back when I realized that I didn’t see laundry detergent, toothpaste, or chewing gum advertised at all any more. (Or maybe I’m watching shows now where these things don’t get advertised?)
I think that TV ads are expensive and are used more often for unique, or new products now, like prescription drugs, quick and easy meal solutions, or the latest time saving product for your home.
People know what to use to treat headaches and brand loyalty is usually the determining factor. What they (the pain remedy people) do now is try to differentiate their product by telling you it can alleviate arthritis, back aches, and sore muscles…not JUST headaches.
Oh, and I only get headaches when I’m very, very hungover or have the flu. One happens once every couple of months, the other every couple of years.
My wife gets a bad one every other week or so, but I get them maybe once every 3 or 4 years. Never know why (though a lot of other people I know seem to get them with some regularity). I’m so unused to getting them, that it never occurs to me to take an aspirin or whatever(?) to make me feel better. I just wait it out and it never lasts very long.
I have a bad tendency toward tension headaches. For the longest time, I found that if I just slept for a little while, the tension melted away and I was fine. Now it’s the opposite - I’m more likely to have a headache when I wake up and then it just gets worse.
I would recommend a couple of things - first, try to focus on where the pain is. Is it right in the middle of your forehead? Does it feel like a sledgehammer hit you in the back of the head? Very likely a tension headache. Does it feel like your eyes are being squeezed? That could be the sinuses.
Otherwise … I don’t know. Those are my two problems
I don’t think I’ve had a headache in the last 25 years, and almost never before that. So I’d be interested in how we escape this.
Anechdotal evidence I can supply–women have perhaps a 4-1 higher incidence of headaches in my experience. Many, many, have headaches associated with weather/sinus.
It is extremely rare for me to get them. I recently bought some Excedrin because of a toothache, and that was at the recommendation of someone who gets headaches.
A friend of mine was once offended when he was visiting and asked for a “Tylenol or something.” I told him I had none. His response was, “I can’t believe you don’t have any pain relievers in your home.” Judging by his tone, I seriously think he didn’t believe me, as if I had been witholding medication from him. The problem is that, every time I purchase headache medicine, it expires before I use a second dose.
Male here, I hardly ever get a headache. I do get what are probably migraines once every 6 months or so, laying down and closing my eyes for a while fixes it.
I generally wear sunglasses whenever I’m driving or outside for very long.
I’ve experienced what I guess may be called a faint headache a few times in my life, but averaged over 46 years, then it would be once every 15 years. I guess I can live with that.
I drink lots of coffee, have drank too much in the past and get stress other ways, but rarely headaches.
You probably cooked them right out of your skull with all of your recreational biochemistry a few decades back.
We’d love to know how you did it, but you couldn’t be trusted to keep tabs of what you were taking - slacker. What’s the point of being a human guinea pig when you used the lab notes to roll shit up?
