I've suffered migraines most of my life. I thought I had them tackled, but recently they are creeping back in regularity and intensity.
Now I do have a stressful job and I'm working on managing my stress levels, however I do know I have food triggers.
I'm thinking of reassessing my food triggers and to do that I need to restrict my diet. I've done it previously as a teen and so I'm not entirely sure how to begin again.
How long should I be really restrictive, I'm thinking eating just plain Rice and boiled vegetables for at least 48 hours, cut out all caffeine etc. I then need to start introducing foods and keeping a diary on the how my headaches/migraines are following each introduction. I know a few food combinations that trigger my migraines, but I'm wondering if there are a few more that are now affecting me that I haven't previously picked up.
If anyone can provide some guidance on whether the above sounds right, or where I need to amend the process, so that I can do this properly. I will be seeing a professional soon, but want to get a head start on planning all this.
Love and Light
Meadowsweet
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A few big triggers for my migraines are sleep deprivation as a biggy, stress and cigarette smoke for some reason.
I find reiki makes them disappear almost instantly though 🙂
One of the biggest causes of migraines are painkillers containing codeine. Therefore, if your migraines are occurring on a 2 to 3 weeks cycle, it's possible they are being caused by your painkillers.
As a massage therapist, I treat many clients with migraines and remedial massage is very effective in reducing the symptom.
HTH,
Myarka
A good book relating to migraines and the food triggers is called "Migrains and Epilepsy" by Jan de Vries...
All Love and Reiki Hugs
Thanks for the responses, will certainly look for that book Energylz.
I'm allergic to codeine so avoid it at all costs. GP's regularly recommend it and get told that its not suitable. I've given up taking my painkillers as they are doing nothing. I've seen the GP today and its a classic cluster migraine that I'm suffering which I can expect to continue to suffer for a while yet. 🙁
I'm meditating each evening and including Reiki but nothing seems to be working atm.
I'm exhausted with this constant headache and then the cluster migraine attacks. I'm getting very fed up.
I will be starting the food intolerance diary after I've prepared a diet sheet and had it checked by a dietician, though not sure if there is any point starting that process until I'm over this set of cluster migraines as they will probably cloud the results. In the meantime I'm setting myself a very basic diet avoiding anything too exciting.
Thank you again.
I watched The Food Hospital on Tuesday evening. A little boy was having migraines every day and by adjusting his diet, they completely cured him. Here is the link to his casefile.
[url]Food Hospital - Casefile: Harvey[/url]
Migraines and stress
Food intolerances do play a role, but for me it was the stress, I was having migraines 10-12 days a month. Medication was getting less effective.
They are under good control now that I control my breathing using Buteyko.
The idea is that stress leads to overbreathing or hyperventilation (flight or fright response). That can become chronic. In this state the blood vessels in the brain lining are more likely to spasm, triggering a migraine.
Get your breathinbg back down to normal and the migraines melt away, and foods play less or a part when you get away from that migraine "threshold".
It all makes sense.:)
Hi Ylangrose,
Thank you for the link, I saw the programme and it was really interesting.
Hi BreathingRemed,
Thank you for the comments, very interesting. I've been meditating each evening which involves an element of deep slow breathing, unfortunately it didn't seem to make a lot of difference, but I will persevere with it. Stress is a trigger of mine and I am very stressed at the moment, so I'm working on managing the stress as well as the food intolerances.
Love & Light