# Ice Cream Headaches **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 29, 1999, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-headaches/8626 "1999-09-29T02:30:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Girl\_Next\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@Girl\_Next\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_Next_Door)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 1999, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-headaches/8626/1 "1999-09-29T02:30:00Z")
You’re eating ice cream, a little too fast, when suddenly you get that sharp pain. I think most people call it “Brain Freeze” but I get the pain in the hollow just behind my right ear! My hubby gets the pain in his shoulder! When you eat ice cream too fast, where do you feel your “brain freeze”? * * * Leslie Irish Evans [http://leslie.scrappy.net](http://leslie.scrappy.net) ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 1999, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-headaches/8626/2 "1999-09-29T02:33:00Z")
I never get an ice cream headache, BUT I get it from a Slurpee(?) [from the 7-11]. And I always get the pain right in the centre of my forehead. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 1999, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-headaches/8626/3 "1999-09-29T02:36:00Z")
Center of the forehead, right between the eyes. Ow. Sooooo worth it, though. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_RogersAWC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Mister\_RogersAWC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_RogersAWC)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 1999, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-headaches/8626/4 "1999-09-29T03:55:00Z")
Temples, Jawbone, Forehead. * * * **"No job’s too small, we bomb them all."** -Ace Wrecking Company ---
**Author:** ![Chief\_Crunch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@Chief\_Crunch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chief_Crunch)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 1999, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-headaches/8626/5 "1999-09-29T04:08:00Z")
What’s odd is that sometimes I can down an entire Slurpee without getting one, yet on other occasions I get struck down with a stabbing pain after each sip. ---
**Author:** ![Mac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Mac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 1999, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-headaches/8626/6 "1999-09-29T05:24:00Z")
Right in the top of my head. Interesting side note to get rid of it quickly. Push on the roof of your mouth with your tongue, right at the soft pallet. * * * Ive always found it easer to get forgiveness rather than permission. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 1999, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-headaches/8626/7 "1999-09-29T05:38:00Z")
I don’t know what sinuses are, but it feels to me that’s where it hits. Behind my eyes. * * * “So what you are telling me, Percy, is that something you have never seen is _slightly less blue_ than something else that you have never seen.” ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 1999, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-headaches/8626/8 "1999-09-29T15:31:00Z")
My entire head explodes… * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![SqrlCub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SqrlCub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SqrlCub)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 1999, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-headaches/8626/9 "1999-09-30T05:34:00Z")
When I get brain freezes it feels as if my head were bifurcated veritcally in the exact middle with continual pressure pushing out. OUCH! SC * * * “People’s Poet don’t die, we’ll kill ourselves if you do, but first we’ll take off all our clothes.” The Young Ones ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 1999, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-headaches/8626/10 "1999-09-29T20:31:00Z")
Right behind the eyes. And the tongue-on-the-roof-of-the-mouth thing doesn’t work for me! Seldom with ice cream – often with icees, a Slurpee-like thing they sell across the street here. But they have the best cherry flavoring – it’s almost worth it. * * * “Finally, consider Kottke’s voice which sounds like geese farts on a muggy day.” Leo Kottke _6- And 12-String Guitar_ ---
**Author:** ![Sycorax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@Sycorax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sycorax)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 1999, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-headaches/8626/11 "1999-09-30T04:18:00Z")
Left back side of my head …and I get 'em from eating ice cream or drinking any frozen drink too fast.