1sweed
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- Joined
- Feb 4, 2013
- Messages
- 1,956
- Reason
- DX FIBRO
- Diagnosis
- 01/1995
- Country
- US
- State
- PA
I think for anyone who has fibro, the severe headaches can be scarier than the muscle pain. Often the medications used for migraine headaches has limited success and are difficult to take when one gets nausea with the headache.
Laying in a dark room with cold compresses sometimes helps to relieve the pain. But this can go on for days.
Some people are sensitive to MSG in the food, a favor enhancer or nitrates found in bacon and hotdogs, and other preserved meats.
Others are sensitive to artifical sweetners like Aspartame.
Many different foods can cause migraines in some people, like avocado and banana, cabbage and eggplant, pineapple and plums, potato and tomato, cheese and canned fish, wine and beer, aged or cured meat and yeast extract.
It is a good idea to keep a migraine diary for a few weeks to keep track of the foods you eat in relationship to the headaches you get, that way you can indentify the food items that cause your headaches.
Some have discovered that diet soda caused their migraines. For others it was alcohol.
Common food allergies can be caused by these foods: apple, beef, caffeine, cane sugar, corn, cow's milk, egg, fish, goat's milk, grapes, oats, onion, orange, peanuts, pork, rice, rye, soy, tea, tomato, walnuts, wheat, yeast, tartrazine, and benzoic acid.
Low-blood suger and fluctuating levels of estogen can cause headaches.
It might be know that some folks have gone for long periods thinking they had a migraine headache only to discover later on it was chronic sinusitis, or a sinus infection.
Final thoughts:
Keep a diary of foods you eat.
Note stress factors like changes in the climate, or in your work hours, or high-pitched sounds, or bright sunlight, or artifical light, staring at the tv to long, or your computer screen.
Put these things in your diary.
Eat regular meals to avoid low blood sugar.
Keep stress under control and exercise daily.
Laying in a dark room with cold compresses sometimes helps to relieve the pain. But this can go on for days.
Some people are sensitive to MSG in the food, a favor enhancer or nitrates found in bacon and hotdogs, and other preserved meats.
Others are sensitive to artifical sweetners like Aspartame.
Many different foods can cause migraines in some people, like avocado and banana, cabbage and eggplant, pineapple and plums, potato and tomato, cheese and canned fish, wine and beer, aged or cured meat and yeast extract.
It is a good idea to keep a migraine diary for a few weeks to keep track of the foods you eat in relationship to the headaches you get, that way you can indentify the food items that cause your headaches.
Some have discovered that diet soda caused their migraines. For others it was alcohol.
Common food allergies can be caused by these foods: apple, beef, caffeine, cane sugar, corn, cow's milk, egg, fish, goat's milk, grapes, oats, onion, orange, peanuts, pork, rice, rye, soy, tea, tomato, walnuts, wheat, yeast, tartrazine, and benzoic acid.
Low-blood suger and fluctuating levels of estogen can cause headaches.
It might be know that some folks have gone for long periods thinking they had a migraine headache only to discover later on it was chronic sinusitis, or a sinus infection.
Final thoughts:
Keep a diary of foods you eat.
Note stress factors like changes in the climate, or in your work hours, or high-pitched sounds, or bright sunlight, or artifical light, staring at the tv to long, or your computer screen.
Put these things in your diary.
Eat regular meals to avoid low blood sugar.
Keep stress under control and exercise daily.
