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So you've got a headache. Whatever the cause — too much looking at screens, too much whisky, your needy cat spent the night showing how important you are to her by walking across your pillow and purring as hard as she possibly could — the throbbing in your cranium now threatens your ability to be productive for the rest of the day. While you might normally take an ibuprofen and be done with it, what do you do if there's no magical headache pill to be found? How are you going to get out of this mess? There are about as many ways to banish a headache as there are ways to mute Chris Brown videos and play more hilarious songs over the top, so let's start with the simplest and work to the more complex. A headache is basically like that "check engine" light in your car's dashboard. It's an annoyingly unspecific warning, but it can also usually be quelled with a minor adjustment. Or, you know, it could mean that your engine/head might be about to explode....