Brain freeze!

Owww!

How long do they last for you?

 

Some seconds, sometimes really looonnnnggg seconds hehe

 

Months, and months, and months, and months.

j/k, I haven't had one in a while.

 

I rarely get brain freeze; when I do, it lasts a few seconds.

-Evan

 

I try to avoid them, so I don't experience them often. Though last week or so I stopped at DQ for a Mister Misty and sure enough... got one almost immediately, even though I wasn't drinking quickly or anything.

 

It lasts for about a minute with me.

I've always wondered, why when you eat or drink something cold too fast do you get a brain freeze? What does your head have to do with eating something cold?

 

Courtesy of www.classbrain.com

Brain Freeze
By Melissa Papke
Dec 26, 2002, 10:53am


Brain Freeze - Now you know...


Ever wonder what causes an ice cream headache? You know, that painful feeling you get near your forehead when you drink something ice-cold a little too fast. An ice cream headache is triggered by a sudden change in temperature that occurs in your mouth when you eat something cold.

On a hot day when you eat a snow cone, the cold, crushed ice that touches the top of your mouth initiates a nerve reaction that swells blood vessels in your head. The nerve center on the roof of your mouth overreacts to the cold temperature of the snow cone and tries to heat your brain. This swelling of blood vessels is what causes an ice cream headache, or what is more commonly known as "brain freeze" or "frozen brain syndrome."

Luckily, the stabbing pain in your head usually only lasts for 30 to 60 seconds.

30% of the human population suffers from these excruciating headaches. The best way to avoid getting an ice cream headache is to keep the chilled foods or beverages you eat on the side of your mouth, away from the roof of your mouth.

Just some food for thought.

 

I must be part of the 70% that doesn't experience these.

 

I don't get brain freezes, but I get back freezes and they hurt.

 

Only rarely, though I got them when I was younger... but I was living in palm springs back then, so the heat there might have had something to do with it.

 

Just thought I'd mention that I had a brain freeze about five minutes ago while eating ice cream. Which I rarely eat, so the odds of finging this on such a night is kind of ironic.

 

I've always wondered, why when you eat or drink something cold too fast do you get a brain freeze? What does your head have to do with eating something cold?

At least with me, it's like stabbing pain right at the front of your head, behind your forehead. It's like I can't think or do anything but feel the cold. Since brains are in head's, I would think that's why... but I suppose head freeze might be a more accurate description.

Wow. Thanks for the info, Sar-Tamber-lac.

 

No prob. I've always kinda wondered it myself.

 

It usually doesn't last long for me. Can be annoying though.

 

Depends on how big a bite/sip it was.