TeresaTT
Full Member
I am so happy that I've lost 8.5lb in five weeks and I am really enjoying this diet. However, after five weeks of healthy eating and cooking all my meals from scratch, I still get headaches. I have suffered from migraines for several years now and there are many things that trigger them, most of them being certain foods and worst of all - alcohol.
Ready meals on a regular basis triggered a migraine so I thought that with healthy eating home cooked food I'd suffer less. However I've been waking up with headaches every now and then that haven't turned into full migraines but have been with me all day. Normal headache/migraine remedies don't help much and I don't want to waste one of my prescribed migraine tablets as I only get six per prescription and they are probably quite nasty. However they will stop a full migraine dead in its tracks (after an hour and a half).
The common food between my last two headaches is scan bran. I don't see how I could be sensitive to scan bran and I really enjoyed the curly wurly cake and ferrero rocher that I made with it. However, I think that I will have to try scan bran again in a few days and see if I get a headache again, in which case I'll have to avoid it.
Sorry about this long post but I just wanted a moan as normally I've been feeling so good with all this healthy eating, but these headaches really get me down. I don't want anything getting in the way of my focus on succeeding with this diet.
If I keep getting them, I will see my doctor but they normally just want to give me more drugs. I've been on beta blockers which didn't help and then they wanted to give me epileptics medication which I refused. I hate taking drugs as there are always bad side effects. Doctors don't have time to analyse lifestyles and look for causes, they just dish out drugs.
Thanks for listening,
Teresa
Ready meals on a regular basis triggered a migraine so I thought that with healthy eating home cooked food I'd suffer less. However I've been waking up with headaches every now and then that haven't turned into full migraines but have been with me all day. Normal headache/migraine remedies don't help much and I don't want to waste one of my prescribed migraine tablets as I only get six per prescription and they are probably quite nasty. However they will stop a full migraine dead in its tracks (after an hour and a half).
The common food between my last two headaches is scan bran. I don't see how I could be sensitive to scan bran and I really enjoyed the curly wurly cake and ferrero rocher that I made with it. However, I think that I will have to try scan bran again in a few days and see if I get a headache again, in which case I'll have to avoid it.
Sorry about this long post but I just wanted a moan as normally I've been feeling so good with all this healthy eating, but these headaches really get me down. I don't want anything getting in the way of my focus on succeeding with this diet.
If I keep getting them, I will see my doctor but they normally just want to give me more drugs. I've been on beta blockers which didn't help and then they wanted to give me epileptics medication which I refused. I hate taking drugs as there are always bad side effects. Doctors don't have time to analyse lifestyles and look for causes, they just dish out drugs.
Thanks for listening,
Teresa