Paracetamol and caffeine

[Kej13]

Help!

Have had the worst migraine all day yesterday (I am a sufferer anyway but since being pregnant they are a whole new level) and asked DH for some paracetamol. I usually just try and sleep it off but id had it the whole of yesterday and had been sleeping and this was around 9pm and showing no signs of letting up. He brought me some up and I took two, and went back to sleep. Just woken up now and seen the box on the side and they are paracetamol and caffeine! In DHs defence when he bought them up he asked if I could take them and I said yes as could see they were paracetamol, through the migraine I didn't notice the caffeine bit!

I've checked the amount of caffeine per tablet and I had a small glass of coke earlier and should be still just under 200mg of caffeine but I feel terrible!

Has anyone else done this? I feel like such an idiot 😭

Oh, I thought you were going to ask a completely different question OP. Ie whether it's worth combining paracetamol and caffeine when paracetamol alone isn't working when you've got pregnancy headache (answer:yes, but don't get too excited, it didn't help that much).

But, that's totally fine! Omg, I'm sure I drank way more than that everyday and I have a history of recurrent miscarriage...

Thank you @Legofriday, I've only been pregnant one before and it ended in MMC so I am probably the worst pregnant lady in the world right now 😂 that's the worst thing, it's taken the edge off but I still feel like crap. Currently in bed trying to get back to sleep with DH snoring like a train...

I’ve read conflicting advice about how much caffeine is ‘safe’ and generally the guidelines are 200-300mg/day. There are approximately 40mg in a standard can of coke - as a one off I’m sure it will be fine - I had worse headaches when I wasn’t having any caffeine than I am now I’m having ‘some’ again!!

Yeah, that's at least 5 cans of coke which I would never drink in a day anyway, pregnant or not! I don't drink coffee or anything which is higher so I'm hoping it'll be alright. These had 65mg caffeine in each so I think I'm fine - the coke I had earlier was maybe a cans worth?

Because of my mmc I am CONSTANTLY worrying about something 👀

I drink strong black coffee and at least 2 a day. With dc3 I was so tired I just couldn't manage without it. It was completely fine. Although he is now 2 and obsessed with Costa...

Haha oh bless him... I don't even like coffee but the smell of Costa makes me want it anyway 😂 swear they pump smells out of the door