Belinda, first off, your post came across to me as very rude, I hope it wasn't intentional. If it was, there was no reason for it.
Notice I said that "Caffeine (in chocolate, sodas, coffee, etc.) IS one of the biggest triggers in a lot of people". I agreed with you. If you'd read other posts, I AM a migraine sufferer and have been since I was a little girl, actually migraine, tension, and cluster headaches. Migraines can be caused from withdrawl of caffeine, which is what is happening with me. Believe me, I know what I'm talking about, and if you wish, I can give you more detail about why I know what I'm talking about.
The whole point of what I was trying to get across is that migraine triggers are different for everyone. What triggers migraines for one person is not necessarily a trigger for another. Read my post about migraine vs. tension headache triggers. I was using myself as an example that with the exception of caffeine, or lack of, food is not a trigger for me. Chocolate has no effect on me. I've had migraines since I was 13 years old and I didn't even eat chocolate back then. Even at the onset of migraines, they are experienced differently for different people. For years my mom disagreed with my neurosurgeon about having migraines b/c I didn't have any auras when in reality only 20% of migraine suffers ever experience auras.
Why am I drinking caffeine with IBS?? Because I had no idea until last week caffeine had anything to do with IBS. No one ever told me that until I found this site.
-------------------- Erin
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IBS-D, GERD...
I got it comin' outta 1 end or the other!