Caffeine, Sleep & Pain
How caffeine can affect alertness, sleep, headache, medicines, and pain without a universal cutoff.
Caffeine can increase alertness and enhance some analgesic medicines. It can also worsen anxiety, tremor, palpitations, reflux, urinary urgency, and sleep. Poor sleep may increase pain sensitivity, so timing can matter more than a simplistic claim that caffeine is inflammatory.
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