I have been suffereing with migranes since I was a little girl around the year 1987, I have tried everything you can name to prevent my migranes, Diamond headache clinic, neurologists visits, medications, vitamins, cold/hot packs you name it... I am on a journey to find out how to live and eat healthy and I realized the one thing I cut from my diet, HYDROGENATED OILS!!!!!! I have not had a migrane since, I am not sure if there is a link between the two but if you have tried everything stop the medications and cut out everything that has hydrogentaed oil, partially hydrogentaed oil, and shortening, I don't use MSG either!!! Try this for about 4-5 weeks and see if it helps. It certainly helps me. I don't have to take excedrin everyday 3 times a day anymore. After 20 years of suffering, I finally have relief..
Cookies, snickers, mars bars, flour tortillas, imperial marine, bread products, quaker oats fiber bars. I try to eat organic foods only. Organic seasonings, don't get out to ea as much if I do I order a salad. Chinese food, mexican food etc... If it's not natural I try to avoid it. I tried eating natural at first but I was still eating products with hydrogenated oil and still getting migranes. So when I cut the oil I unconsciously noticed my headaches were non existence. I use to get them so much that I expected them to come at a certain time. I have been migrane free since November, It is not a long time but to me it feels great to go even 3 weeks without one!
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Certain foods can be Migraine triggers for many people. Great job finding out what yours are. We do have a Migraine diary that may help make things a bit easier if you are interested. You can download that on this page: Your Migraine and Headache Diary.
People taking any kind of pain medication or Migraine abortive medications like triptans more than two days a week, may be unwittingly creating another problem called medication overuse headache (MOH), aka rebound. See Medication Overuse Headache - When the Remedy Backfires for more information on this. If you're in an MOH situation, nothing you take is going work, neither prescription nor "natural" medications nor over-the-counter. If that's the case, you need to work with your doctor to stop the medications causing the problem.
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