*I have a headache... I have a headache...NO! Don't sing!*
RAWR!

I often get a immediate headaches and flushing when drinking wine, prosecco, beer etc etc. For ages I thought it might be asian flush, but now I think it is more likely some sort of reaction to sulfites or histamines, especially since spirits have little or no effect on me (besides, you know, getting drunk...)

I drank it a lot for about a year when I was 16-17 or so (not quite 20 years ago). Then my mom stopped buying it, and I had terrible withdrawal headaches for a couple months. ...That convinced me that maybe I should avoid caffeine, which I continue to do now.

Hard to cut out caffeine entirely, but keeping it as limited as possible (no sodas, no coffee, tea once in a while) has been a good change for me.

To be fair I can't test the hypothesis that contrails are H2O either.

And then for headaches = wifi etc I think some people don't understand why their experience isn't sufficient evidence, or rather what constitutes an experiment.

Fascinating.

Would be interesting to see ALL of the data; I have suspicions that there may be some (small but statistically significant) segment of the population that trust generics MORE than brand-name drugs. Anecdotally, I know I feel a sense of smug superiority every time I buy generic ibuprofen for headaches instead of branded at a small fraction of the price...

I have a headache and it hurts to laugh. This video is killing me.

Your video, Bill Maher: New Rule: Migrant Headache (Sept 11 2015), has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

I could not get past the 1 minute mark. I get a headache when she speaks.

I got migraines fairly regularly in my teens. Down to maybe one every year or two now, but still get frequent irritant-induced (for me mostly perfumes and other scents) less severe headaches.

Definitely going to try this out!

Does anybody else feel the need to take a shower after reading certain posts? Or at least take an extra strength headache remedy?

Very interesting...

I'm one of those people who is highly sensitive to perfumes / scents, which is sometimes called "multiple chemical sensitivity". I know that it isn't technically an "allergy", but other than that I honestly have no idea whether this whole thing is psychosomatic (all in my head), "real" but with a lot of additional input from mental/emotional states, completely real and tied in some way to the smells themselves, or completely real and tied in some way to the actual "chemicals" (in a chemistry sense) in the air. All I know is that there are a LOT of triggers for me where I can get one small whiff of something and know that I'm going to get a pounding headache.

Aggravation with that has often caused me to wonder if it would be possible to surgically or pharmacologically destroy or impair my olfaction senses, like what happened to the woman in the video, and cure the headache triggers. If the smells themselves are the triggers, it seems like that could work. If it is largely or completely psychosomatic, it could still work because I wouldn't know that I was being exposed to the smell triggers; one thing that I've considered is that I also get very angry if I'm in a private place like my home or otherwise trying to avoid triggers and somebody wanders in wearing some nasty shit and compromises the integrity of my safe zone. In public I know that I can't control what other people wear so I just try to get away very quickly from trigger smells, but in my own home I get ultra pissed if somebody comes in and stinks it up. I have wondered if that anger exacerbates or maybe even in some cases is the actual primary source of the headache symptoms. But anyway, even if that was the case, being able to cap or cut off my sense of smell would solve the problem.

The only way that the problem could persist AFTER surgically eliminating my sense of smell would be if the reaction is really to the chemicals themselves in the air. And then, that would be worse because I wouldn't have the warning system of smell telling me to get the hell away from perfume counters, ladies wearing the stuff, dudebros wearing shit like Axe, etc.

All in all, I don't actually think it would be worth the downsides. BUT, I must say I've really wondered about it when I've got a pounding headache after simply walking by somebody wearing perfume in line at a grocery store or whatever...

Seriously, I get a headache listening to his childish, unstructured rants.

Same here I used to get headaches from diet soda as a child. I still refuse to drink anything with aspartame in it. Wish someone would sell pop with less sweeteners. I find them all too sweet to drink.

Sugar is good in small amounts. The amount in pop is very unhealthy. Even drinking too much water can cause seizures.