by Tatterhood » Sun Aug 02, 2015 10:54 am
I don't want to jinx it, but I've been doing McDougalling for seven weeks (lost 12 of 20 pounds) and have had WAY fewer migraines than I normally have. Now, I wasn't paying a lot of attention to the migraine occurrences at first, and I'm pretty sure that in the first few weeks, I was still getting them at the normal rate that I had been getting them. However, in the past several weeks, I know that the number has decreased because I haven't had to use the "breakthrough" pharmaceutical meds that I normally have to use. In fact, when I have gotten that familiar pressure (and I only got that when I changed my daily routine with some travel last week, which is a trigger) all I had to take was some Aleve, which almost never helps, and it went away.
I've been suffering with migraines for 25 years. I've tried everything. Yoga, meditation, massage therapy, acupuncture, homeopathy, elimination diets, going off all of everything...everything except for fats. I became a vegan 3 years ago, but kept consuming coconut oil, and avocados, and nuts in fairly large, daily doses. I tried going off all caffeine for 2 years during that time and it changed nothing.
But suddenly, I'm 12 pounds lighter, off all added oils, exercising every day for at least 45 minutes (also a big change, but one I've also tried before with little success on its own), and I'm not getting my weekly migraines.
I was told, back when I was in my 30's, by a homeopathic doctor, that migraines were connected to digestion, and exacerbated by rich foods. I figured he meant fried foods, and rich desserts, which I always tried not to indulge in. Took me a heck of a long time to make the connection. Hope this is it.
Anyone else here who has found this to be the case?