Fluids Hypertension Syndromes: Migraines, Headaches, Normal ...

Fluids Hypertension Syndromes – Dr. Leonardo Izecksohn – page 270
XVI - 199) Restless Legs Syndrome and periodic limb movement disorders : One of their predisposing
factors is caffeine. (Sharma S).
“There is an association between Restless Legs Syndrome and migraine and, in addition, a co-association
with depression. Restless Legs Syndrome frequency was significantly higher in migraine patients
17.3% than in control subjects 5.6%.” (Rhode A and others).
We observed that Caffeine causes or worsens all these sicknesses.
XVI - 200) Restlessness: It is caused by the caffeine intoxication, besides other etiologies.
XVI - 201) Retinal ischemic peripheral degeneration? Retinal tear? Retinal detachment? The caffeine
is a vasoconstrictor in the brain and retina. Its daily use for years, by a genetically susceptible patient,
may be the cause of the degenerative lesions in the peripheral retina, with consequent retinal tear
and retinal detachment. Are these lesions caused by chronic vasoconstriction and ischemia?
XVI - 202) Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome: “Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction
syndrome, characterized by severe headaches and reversible constriction of cerebral arteries, may be
associated with ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes... On 89 consecutive patients ... 8 were postpartum
and 46 used vasoactive substances... 2 independent risk factors of hemorrhage in Reversible cerebral
vasoconstriction syndrome: female gender (OR, 4.05) and migraine (OR, 2.34).” (Ducros A, and others).
Caffeine is a vasoconstrictor in the brain and it is the main etiology of migraines.
XVI - 203) Rhabdomyolysis:
“Toxic-mediated rhabdomyolysis may result from prescription and nonprescription medications, including
caffeine.” (Craig, S).
XVI - 204) Rheumatic, Visceral, Muscular, and Orthopedic aches (pain) intensification:
“Caffeine: Cup of Pain, Liquid Stress”
“I have seen a very strong correlation between caffeine use & pain. Caffeine makes every muscle in
your body tighter, including the involuntary muscles in the internal organs. If a massage therapy client
stops or starts using caffeine, I can feel a difference in their body: more muscle tension with caffeine.
Increased muscle tension leads to pain.” (Rothstein J).
We currently observed that any rheumatic and orthopedic ache any our patient presents is stronger
when he is user of caffeine daily. When the patient gets free from caffeine, even those “incurable”
aches lessens or disappears after one week until one month. We have cured many backaches and other
aches in any part of the body from our patients, only stopping their caffeine consumption. Moreover,
we are only ophthalmologic medical doctors. Here is one of these patients:
Big man suffering 10 years with Rhinitis, Backaches and Headaches: We had one almost Black
patient, (dark mulatto), with 23 year-old, 1.78 meters tall (5 feet and 10 inches), weighting 106 kilograms
(234 pounds). He is a male nurse, and was suffering with obstructive rhinitis with coryza, frontal
headaches and backaches, for more than 10 years long. His both eyes were beginning to get chronically
red. Many physicians prescribed him medications, without success. He was drinking daily 3,400
milliliters (nearly 1 gallon) of water, some Maté, caffeinated soft drinks 1,000 milliliters (two pints),
and some beer and wine on weekends. On ophthalmologic examination we found the need of eyeglasses
that he never knew about, and we could not measure his intraocular pressures because of his
photophobia. On direct ophthalmoscopy, he presented Optic Nerve’s disks with 0/0/0/0.5 and
0/0/0/0.75 right and left eyes (cup diameter/ cup depth/ lamina cribosa’s pores visibility/ borders edema),
which is the typical Cerebrospinal Fluid Hypertension. We prescribed him his first eyeglasses, to
reduce the water drank, to stop the beer, wine and all caffeine, as in soft drinks as in Maté.