Not long after I started getting classical migraines in my teens, I discovered that I could mitigate or at least postpone the worst of the symptoms with caffeine. My doctor at the time told me this was purely placebo effect and that caffeine could not possibly be helpful. Fast forward 20 years, and Johns Hopkins published a massive study that indicated that caffeine was beneficial in over 90 percent of the patients in their double blind study, as opposed to 22 percent of the the patients receiving the placebo. Medical sc ience is not nearly as advanced as many physicians would like you to believe...