 Hey weirdos! So, I thought I'd share something that happened to me today. You may have seen me post on Facebook in months and years past, actually, that I deal with migraines. Well, I don't think that actually it is migraines, now that I'm looking at it. I was doing a search on, well, I think I probably just did a Google search, I can't remember exactly what I was doing, but anyway, I did a search on types of headaches. And I found out that migraines tend to be on one side or the other and is more of a throbbing pain. And that's not really what I experience. Mine is sort of like all over, feels like a vice is on my head, squeezing really, really hard, like my head's going to crack or it's going to explode. I mean, it's like one or the other. And it turns out that that is more likely a tension headache, which can be caused by stress and other factors. So, I started looking into that, thinking, all right, fine, tension headache. What should I do about that? I was trying to get like a migraine and some of being of the migraine stuff wasn't working, like turning off the lights and keeping all the sound down because it wasn't a migraine. So, that kind of stuff didn't really help me all that much. But taking the Xedron migraine was pretty close. They have an Xedron tension headache that's out there. By the way, hashtag not sponsored by Xedron. I'm just telling you what I was using. But essentially, acetaminophen and ibuprofen and caffeine were the three things that they recommended for tension headaches. Also, making sure that you get enough sleep, particularly REM sleep, which was kind of interesting that they offered up that advice. Now, the reason that I'm making this video is because I was doing everything wrong. Like I said, I was taking the caffeine and the ibuprofen and the acetaminophen through the Xedron migraine and also the Tylenol severe sinus because I also thought maybe it was a sinus headache because a lot of it was here in the front too. So, I was taking the Tylenol severe, which also has acetaminophen in it. Well, it turns out that if you take too much acetaminophen and caffeine and ibuprofen, you get something called a rebound headache. And essentially, it feels exactly like a tension headache. So, what I was doing is I was getting the headache, I was taking the meds, and I was taking the meds so often they said you're not supposed to take all that stuff for more than like 15 days in a row. And I've been taking it for months, months. So, eventually, that built up as the rebound headache. But I'm here, I'm getting the rebound headache thinking it's the tension headache. So, I'm taking more of the acetaminophen and ibuprofen and caffeine and it's just this endless terrible circle. Well, not only that, but I've been using a new sleeping app on my phone at night and also when I take a nap in the afternoon, it's called Relax Melodies, which I love the app, it's a great app. But it has, well, let me bring it up here just so I'm saying it correctly. It has sounds on it, you know, for like rain and birds. It's like all the white noise stuff. But it also has something called isochronic tones, which depending on what frequency you choose, you could have something for dreamless sleep, pre-sleep, relaxation, improving your focus. So, not even if you're sleeping, you can just have that in the background while you're working. Well, I have that set for, you know, for a lot of the white noise stuff like a stream and some birds in the background, maybe a wind blowing through the leaves. And then the isochronic tone, I thought I had chosen dreams or relaxation. I had accidentally chosen dreamless sleep, meaning that, and this was at night and for my afternoon nap. So, it was actually blocking REM sleep. Now, I still had some dreams, but it wasn't encouraging REM sleep. It was actually hindering it. So, I wasn't getting the REM sleep that I needed either. It's no wonder I was feeling like crap. I can't tell you how many times I had to call my boss at the radio station. I work from home. Okay, so you'd think that I don't have to call in sick all that often, but I can't tell you how many times I had to ask, hey, can you cover things today because I just can't get out of bed or, you know, I can't concentrate at all today. I'll be up for two hours, and then I'll, I'll be so tired that I have to go back and lay down again. Well, this explains it. So, the last three days, after I read about this, the last three days, here's what I've done. I have cut out, aside from a cup of coffee in the morning, I have cut out all caffeine. I have not taken any acetaminophen products at all, so no Tylenol, severe sinus, no etc. migraine, and I switched, oh wait, no five hour energies. I used to, I used to take a five hour energy every single day during the middle of the day. None of those. And I switched my sleeping program so that it would encourage dreams. All of that combined, I'm feeling a whole heck of a lot better now. They said, when I was reading it online about if you do have to back off of this stuff that you might have some side effects, you might actually get headaches because of the withdrawal symptoms, withdrawal symptoms, but I'm not getting that at all. As soon as I stopped, I felt better. And here it is day three, and I feel fine, except that I do have, you know, some, some sinus issues, because I do have a cold at the same time. And what you're hearing now is actually me on nasal spray. So I don't sound near as bad as I did earlier, but the head's still a little bit fuzzy, but that's nothing compared to what I was doing earlier. So all of that to say, when they say that acetaminophen can be dangerous, they are correct. If you just take it as prescribed, but you continue taking it every single day, that's too much as well. Thanks a lot, guys. I really appreciate your support. And feel free to, to share this with others. If you want to share it with others, if you're concerned that maybe they're dealing with some of the same things. So anyway, I really appreciate it. And it's because of you that I continue wanting to create videos and podcasts and everything else. You may get worth getting up in the morning, caffeine or not. Thanks.