# i Never Have Headaches. Anybody Else? Anybody Know Why?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-have-headaches-anybody-else-anybody-know-why/436586
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 6, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-have-headaches-anybody-else-anybody-know-why/436586 "2008-02-06T22:01:10Z")
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-have-headaches-anybody-else-anybody-know-why/436586/1 "2008-02-06T22:01:10Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@Hakuna\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hakuna_Matata)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-have-headaches-anybody-else-anybody-know-why/436586/2 "2008-02-06T22:09:17Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2008, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-have-headaches-anybody-else-anybody-know-why/436586/3 "2008-02-06T22:18:08Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-have-headaches-anybody-else-anybody-know-why/436586/4 "2008-02-06T22:25:06Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2008, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-have-headaches-anybody-else-anybody-know-why/436586/5 "2008-02-07T01:07:16Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator]
Anybody else never get headaches?
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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 😉
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2008, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-have-headaches-anybody-else-anybody-know-why/436586/6 "2008-02-07T01:12:17Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2008, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-have-headaches-anybody-else-anybody-know-why/436586/7 "2008-02-07T01:13:58Z")
**interface2x** ,
> [@elucidator](#):
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> Anybody else never get headaches?
Go back and read **elucidator** ’s quote again. . . this time more slowly.
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### Author:  [@Charger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charger)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-have-headaches-anybody-else-anybody-know-why/436586/8 "2008-02-07T01:14:48Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-have-headaches-anybody-else-anybody-know-why/436586/9 "2008-02-07T01:19:39Z")
It’s because you’re a carrier!
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### Author:  [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2008, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-have-headaches-anybody-else-anybody-know-why/436586/10 "2008-02-07T01:20:28Z")
I very rarely get them, and if you don’t count the dehydration ones, almost not at all.
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### Author:  [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Key_Lime_Guy)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2008, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-have-headaches-anybody-else-anybody-know-why/436586/11 "2008-02-07T01:24:19Z")
Almost never.
I have low blood pressure & I’ve always chalked it up to that.
I am also very sensitive to bright sunlight, if that means anything.
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2008, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-have-headaches-anybody-else-anybody-know-why/436586/12 "2008-02-07T01:29:11Z")
Nope not me.
I don’t use caffiene at all; I wonder if caffiene can contribute to the incidence of headaches?
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### Author:  [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2008, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-have-headaches-anybody-else-anybody-know-why/436586/13 "2008-02-07T01:32:27Z")
[QUOTE=John DiFool]
I don’t use caffiene at all; I wonder if caffiene can contribute to the incidence of headaches?
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In some people, not in others. For me, my neurologist recommended using caffeine as one method of trying to stop a migraine, along with medications.
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### Author:  [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2008, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-have-headaches-anybody-else-anybody-know-why/436586/14 "2008-02-07T02:51:24Z")
[QUOTE=John DiFool]
Nope not me.
I don’t use caffiene at all; I wonder if caffiene can contribute to the incidence of headaches?
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For me, it’s not caffeine usage that causes headaches–it’s a lack of caffeine (if I don’t have coffee on a weekend, for example) that can cause them.
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### Author:  [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2008, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-have-headaches-anybody-else-anybody-know-why/436586/15 "2008-02-07T03:09:13Z")
Obviously, I have been getting all of _your_ headaches. Come and pick them up immediately! I have enough of my own.
We call ibuprofen “Vitamin I” in the Typo/Zappa house. ☹
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### Author:  [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2008, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-have-headaches-anybody-else-anybody-know-why/436586/16 "2008-02-07T03:48:50Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2008, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-have-headaches-anybody-else-anybody-know-why/436586/17 "2008-02-07T04:05:48Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2008, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-have-headaches-anybody-else-anybody-know-why/436586/18 "2008-02-07T04:14:09Z")
"I would not be such a nothin’ my head all full of stuffin’ my heart all full of pain…
With the thoughts I’d be thinkin’ I could be another Lincoln if I only had a brain…"
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### Author:  [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2008, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-have-headaches-anybody-else-anybody-know-why/436586/19 "2008-02-07T04:20:03Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2008, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-have-headaches-anybody-else-anybody-know-why/436586/20 "2008-02-07T06:04:27Z")
[QUOTE=samclem]
… Anecdotal 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.
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Ye gods, yes. Me for one. Every now and again I’ll get a migraine too. Tension headaches are rare.
I recall a former work colleague though who never had a headache or heartburn. Sometimes I didn’t like her.
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