ATTENTION MIGRAINE SUFFERERS: Sorry for sounding like a stupid ad for another ridiculous pain med on TV, but I wanted to get your attention if your life is regularly invaded with migraine pain.
If you regularly have these splitting headaches or other chronic pain from some sort of inflammation, PLEASE consider altering your daily food intake. I hesitate to use the word "diet" because that sounds like you're denying yourself something good. This is not the case. It's simply removing the bad things and substituting that with good things.
Specifically, the things you need to remove: sugar, dairy, and gluten.
Don't freak. This doesn't mean you never eat anything that tastes good again. But you begin to become aware of quantity and replace things that can cause pain with other things.
So what DO you eat? PLENTY!! Like fresh fruit, vegetables, gluten-free bread and cereal, nuts (especially almonds and cashews), poultry and fish, and if you need to sweeten something you can use Stevia, a plant extract that tastes wonderful but won't cause inflammation. And you drink lots and lots of water to keep your system thoroughly flushed of toxins.
I had gotten off of S/D/G and was beginning to get used to not having fibromyalgia pain and headaches...almost taking it for granted. Then three nights ago I had a pasta dish with cheese sauce. The next morning I woke up with a headache. That was Thanksgiving morning so I attributed it to stress. A couple of Tylenol helped back the pain down.
Our Thanksgiving meal was INCREDIBLE (of course!!) but within an hour my head was hurting so bad I couldn't stand it. By that evening, Tylenol wouldn't touch it. And I spent all day yesterday in bed with a migraine. But I ate a very "clean" diet all day...gluten-free cereal, an apple, a healthy salad with chicken, and lots of water. And today, thank goodness, I am headache-free!
After a few more weeks, I will start reintroducing a little bit of sugar, dairy, and gluten one at a time to see if I am having a strong reaction to any one of these. But I will always keep them at a minimum.
To read more about this, I highly recommend a book that I had the privilege of editing:
Make the changes you need to make to reduce the meds that you depend on for your health. It's about extending your life for you, your family, and for the Lord we serve with the lives He has given us.
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