Open letters do have their uses

[mousme]

Dear Migraine Fairy,

I understand that you like repeat customers. They mean good business. I understand that I'm one of your best clients, too. However, three migraines in ten days is a little much. Especially since you left me alone for so long. I can only conclude that you're making up for lost time. So, with all due respect, could you spread the lovin' out a little? Seriously, I don't mind the migraines (much), so long as they don't come every three days and last two days each.

No love,

Me

Comments

[dizietsma.livejournal.com]

I was talking with a colleague the other day about diet, because we were sitting down to eat and he said something about the way he was eating that made me curious enough to ask (he was eating the meat first before the pasta). His story goes that one year ago he was having terrible migraines all the time when he started to get interested in metabolic typing and the books from Joseph Mercola. So my colleague, through some questionnaires and experimentation, worked out what his metabolic typing was and started adjusting his diet to match. The biggest thing he did was to eliminate a lot of sugar from his diet because it was causing him to go hypoglycemic an hour after a can of soda or a chocolate bar, because his body was triggering an insulin rush that would gobble-up all available sugar. This was a main factor in his migraines, but also was causing the "food coma" feelings at 11am and after lunch. After adjusting his diet the first thing he noticed was that his skin problems vanished in a matter of weeks. After that his migraines started getting less and less intense and eventually disappeared altogether, and he has lost 30 pounds in the last year even though he was already exercising regularly before.

Anyway, all that to say that you maybe want to look for dietary triggers for the migraines.

[rosy1.livejournal.com]

Wow that is fascinating. I am definitely going to read up on Joseph Merola and metabolic typing. I think my migraines are often triggered by sugar...