i have a question i hope you netters can help answer.
i have been told by my ob/gyn to cut the caffeine out. hmmm, seems a lump
in a breast is the reason.
i drink maybe a couple diet cokes or on a rare day three. i drink no coffee
tea or other caffeine containing beverages, do not eat chocolate, etc.
the only other factor is my migraine medication which has 40 mg caffeine in
each tablet, and i usually take three at a clip, sometimes six to eight a
day on a bad day.
does anyone know what is acceptable in terms of ?fibrocystic breast disease?
and caffeine useage?
i have switched to caffeine free soda.
thanks for all your help.
In article <1991Aug12.204752.618…@locus.com> kris…@locus.com (Krissie Griffiths) writes:
>i have been told by my ob/gyn to cut the caffeine out. hmmm, seems a lump
>in a breast is the reason.
>does anyone know what is acceptable in terms of ?fibrocystic breast disease?
>and caffeine useage?
First, it isn’t a disease. It’s just a description of an often benign
syndrome which many women have, with a severity which ranges from being
unnoticed to being quite painful.
Now, I’m not an expert. I’m not even a doctor. But all the literature
I’ve seen on the association between caffeine and fibrocystic "disease"
indicates to me that first of all it was a hypothesis based on an incorrect
biomedical hunch–that excess cAMP levels might be involved in such
lumps [wrong], and since caffeine and other methylxanthines inhibit
phosphodiesterase [wrong--only at superphysiological levels], this
caffeine-induced rise in cAMP levels [wrong--no rise] would account for
the lumps [wrong].
Women initially told to restrict or eliminate caffeine from their
diet often reported an improvement, and this, together with the initial
unsupported factoid about caffeine’s role in the syndrome somehow made
it "stick". When studies have been tightly controlled and don’t rely
simply on anecdotal reports, it appears that caffeine has not much of
an effect on the syndrome one way or the other. This kind of negative
result rarely gets much media attention.
Since it can’t hurt, and since there really isn’t anything else to do,
a trial of caffeine withdrawal is still recommended. I suppose it beats
rubbing frogs on them (a la warts.)
–
Steve Dyer
d…@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
d…@arktouros.mit.edu
kris…@locus.com (Krissie Griffiths) writes:
> ?fibrocystic breast disease?
Ask your doc about Vitamin E intake; I believe there was an article
a couple of years on vitamin E and fibrocystic breast disease in the
New England Journal of Medicine.
Best Wishes
== Bob Yazz ==
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== Bob Yazz ==
kris…@locus.com (Krissie Griffiths) writes:
> i have been told by my ob/gyn to cut the caffeine out. hmmm, seems a lump
> in a breast is the reason.
> i drink maybe a couple diet cokes or on a rare day three. i drink no coffee
> tea or other caffeine containing beverages, do not eat chocolate, etc.
> the only other factor is my migraine medication which has 40 mg caffeine in
> each tablet, and i usually take three at a clip, sometimes six to eight a
> day on a bad day.
Caffeine does not have any analgesic activity and may itself induce
headache in excessive dosage or on withdrawal. High doses can
produce insomnia, anxiety and gastric ulceration. Furthermore,
polypharmacy (the combination of many different drugs) is something
which is to be avoided, especially with unnecessary ingredients like
caffeine, as it complicates the clinical picture when unwanted signs or
symptoms appear (as in the above case with the lump in the breast).
Does anyone know what the reason is for caffeine being included in
antimigraine preparations?
–
Gerry Macridis, PO Box 3929, Wellington, New Zealand
Phone +64 4 899444 Mail: xa…@tornado.welly.gen.nz