Hi Liz,

Sometimes when I'm craving coffee and know I shouldn't (like at bedtime, I'll drink a substitute, such as dandelion concoction. A dentist friend of mine says that mild 'diuretics' just make you pee what's in there...they just give you the urge. But you are drinking fluids, which are giving you more of the fluids you need, so that's adding to the fluids not actually taking away. She said even coffee is adding fluids not taking away, because what you're peeing out is already ready to come out. Unless maybe you're overdosing on coffee or other diuretics. Does that make sense? It does to me. That's the theory I'm going on at the moment anyway, and I vary my teas...mints and gingers and whatever is something that I feel like drinking. Very little caffeine though.

It seems that exposure to citrus and perfumes trigger my migraines, and coffee at the right time can help them, but quiet dark sleep is the best...but if the P.F.O. thing is the real cause and can be fixed, then I'm all for fixing it. I'd like to do it the Star Trek way, though, without actually invading my body. Dr. McCoy, where are you?

~b.w.