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calorie deficit and migraines

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  • EmpressBarbara
    EmpressBarbara Posts: 18 Member
    Yes, one week isn't a long enough sample. But it's a start. I also lost a pound but I'm not excited about that, it's the same pound I've gained and lost for a year.

    As for electrolytes - I'm not on a keto diet, or high protein diet, so I'm not worried about electrolytes. I just follow a normal healthy diet with 45–65% of daily calories from carbs, 20–35% from fats and 10–35% from protein.
  • Anabirgite
    Anabirgite Posts: 537 Member
    I have a similar problem, if I skipped a meal because I am busy, the same whole 9 yards as you. I have food triggers (any aged cheese, red wine and and any milk product close to its expriration date) which appear just like a skipped meal headache, and hormonal migraines which are finally starting to abate with menopause finally starting for me( fingers crossed) and a new drug my neurologist has started me on Elavil. So I really sympathize with your plight. I do keep ondansetron (an antinausea drug) in my wallet with a maxalt just in case. I did become very disciplined about eating 3 small meals and 2 snacks everyday when I was in my 20's. I ate like a bird - what my family and friends called it- but I did not overeat then, just spread out my eating through out the day. I do make sure I have protein with my meals, I am not sure why but it seems to even me out.

    I hope you are able to resolve this, I truly understand how horrible you feel. I did go to a seminar last year with a renown migraine specialist and he had several over the counter suggestions I have incorporated into my diet I will be happy to elaborate if your are interested.
  • EmpressBarbara
    EmpressBarbara Posts: 18 Member
    Anabirgite - at last, I have found my people!! And they are you! I never had food triggers, but I did have hormonal triggers before menopause. So what are these over the counter suggestions you use?
  • Anabirgite
    Anabirgite Posts: 537 Member
    I mentioned the food triggers because mine are similar to my non eating migraine reactions.

    The doctor recommended:
    B2 riboflavin 400 mg daily
    Magnesium 600 mg daily (but I could not handle that so after discussing with my neurologist I take now 400) It can effect your bowels
    CoQ10 100 mg 3xdaily
    Butterbur Extract 75 mo dally- you can find on amazon

    I hope these help you, the cocktail have lessen the migraines I have helped these last 2 year as I to finale to begin menopause, so still dealing with those but I am now having a few days each month headache free. My mother in law also go my this CBD roll on topical solution, I roll on my neck and into my hair where Feel pain.

    https://cbdliving.com/products/cbd-living-freeze

    Even though you may not have food triggers, Sucrolose ( spleda) gives me a headache also.
    And the magic solution that works for my but I hate as a 45 mutes spring class. If I can sustain my hear rate over 140brats per minute, for 30 minutes I get relief for several hours, sometime all day.


    Good , Luck , relieved that I am mot alone feeling this way, but really do not any other filling like this,
  • Anabirgite
    Anabirgite Posts: 537 Member
    Wow, it was past my bedtime when I wrote that last message- so sorry...The last point was regarding exercise. What works for me does not work for many others but I have found doing cardio and having my heart rate elevated to over 140beats a minute for 30 minutes relieves my daily headaches for several hours.
  • EmpressBarbara
    EmpressBarbara Posts: 18 Member
    Thanks for the recommendations - I will try! Not the CBD, I have tried that with no effect. My hubby works in marijuana research and development, so I was able to try different formulations from pure CBD, to CBD plus THC, to pure THC. Some people get relief from it but THC just makes me sleepy and dizzy, and CBD does nothing at all that I can feel. But I'm intrigued about the other supplements. Those are all easily available.

    I can't say that exercise has any effect on my migraines, but it does have a profound effect on how I feel overall. I absolutely have to work out hard at least every second day to feel my best.

    Good luck in your continued migraine management... now you are heading into menopause you may get even more blessed relief. I know I did, even if I also got fatter. And stiffer! Yoga is another thing I have to do every day.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,053 Member
    EmpressBarbara wrote: »
    I graze like a boss - if that's an expression. I try not to let myself get overly hungry, because of the migraine trigger.

    Yes only fellow migrainers can understand. I used to work in a hospital and sometimes noticed the nurses getting judgmental when people with old head injuries would come in looking for drugs. Sometimes these people were grey with pain. Because of my experience with migraines, I never judged them for their drug seeking/medical help seeking behavior - I could understand what drove them. I sometimes thought that the medical personnel who were dismissive had only experienced, at worst, a bad headache, and were comparing their patient's pain to that. If they experienced a bad migraine, even once, maybe they'd have more empathy.

    Yes, when a friend of mine has a migraine she looks 20 years older and is almost not recognizable as herself.
  • Anabirgite
    Anabirgite Posts: 537 Member
    I use a rollin topical CBD, it is not digested and provides relief only to the spot rolled on. My food migraines come up my back of neck, so I use there and into my hairline. My hormonal migraines start from eyes back and top of head. I have not used the CBD on my face or top of head yet... I also wish you good luck on your path to living migraine free. I like yoga, but lately, a friend introduced me to Essentrics, its a stretching routine that has been helping me:

    https://youtu.be/FbWgGgRLp94
  • EmpressBarbara
    EmpressBarbara Posts: 18 Member
    Wow that's very intriguing! I'm going to do Miranda's workout this very afternoon!
  • AlexandraFindsHerself1971
    AlexandraFindsHerself1971 Posts: 3,106 Member
    My migraines are also connected to food, although differently than yours; I have an intolerance to fructose, and it gives me a headache over upper face and top of head, makes my face sweat, and makes me nauseated and clumsy. Often this will provoke a full on classic migraine. I've discovered that having a sinus infection will also provoke migraines.

    As will missing meals...I eat on. time. always. and quick moving weather fronts, and stress, either coming on or taking off. I knew, for example, I'd have a migraine once the winner of the presidential election was announced, whoever won; it was the stress of not knowing being relieved that would trigger it. I can also trigger one by getting off schedule on sleep, whether that's staying up too late or getting up late or more than an hour earlier than usual.

    I don't take medications for it because I also have a peripheral vascular disorder, so I can't take any of the vasoconstrictors.
  • EmpressBarbara
    EmpressBarbara Posts: 18 Member
    Alexandra, I've never heard of fructose intolerance reactions - wow it sounds like you need to lead a very carefully controlled life! Please take care of yourself, I am so sympathetic. You endure a lot of pain.

    I did do a couple of Miranda workouts, Anabirgite - one for upper body and one for lower body. I went to bed with my joints feeling very lubricated. I also found a short video from Mark Wildman, a 3 minute neck drill that, he promises, will change our lives. I'll do that too. I work at the computer a lot, it's time to take back and neck health and mobility seriously.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4dmZ5_n6uU
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,821 Member
    Gosh, I wish I had this guy's neck mobility to be honest. I can look behind my shoulder, or rest my head on my shoulder (like ear on shoulder) without problems. I might be a bit hypermobile, which isn't a great thing as it comes with lots of less cool things.
  • Anabirgite
    Anabirgite Posts: 537 Member
    I will definitely try this!!!! I was having aura/ migraine headaches this morning while playing pickleball (I know I am crazy- I just pretend I am not having a migraine and am determine to have a normal life) while waiting for medication to work. I should apologize to those I played pre-maxalt.
  • Anabirgite
    Anabirgite Posts: 537 Member
    WOW - just did this video- will include this everyday! Ashamed to say Janet Jackson move eluded me- will need to work on that one. Have a ton of friends who will love this- Thank you!
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,053 Member
    Anabirgite wrote: »
    I use a rollin topical CBD, it is not digested and provides relief only to the spot rolled on. My food migraines come up my back of neck, so I use there and into my hairline. My hormonal migraines start from eyes back and top of head. I have not used the CBD on my face or top of head yet... I also wish you good luck on your path to living migraine free. I like yoga, but lately, a friend introduced me to Essentrics, its a stretching routine that has been helping me:

    https://youtu.be/FbWgGgRLp94

    This was great, thanks for sharing!

    I've been doing a lot of gardening and not much stretching or yoga, and have been very stiff in the AM. Will definitely put this in the rotation.

    Wondering what it reminds me of...not yoga, I don't really think aerobics, maybe ballet? It's been decades, lol.
  • AlexandraFindsHerself1971
    AlexandraFindsHerself1971 Posts: 3,106 Member
    EmpressBarbara wrote: »
    Alexandra, I've never heard of fructose intolerance reactions - wow it sounds like you need to lead a very carefully controlled life! Please take care of yourself, I am so sympathetic. You endure a lot of pain.

    I did do a couple of Miranda workouts, Anabirgite - one for upper body and one for lower body. I went to bed with my joints feeling very lubricated. I also found a short video from Mark Wildman, a 3 minute neck drill that, he promises, will change our lives. I'll do that too. I work at the computer a lot, it's time to take back and neck health and mobility seriously.

    Those exercises look very interesting.

    And yes, I do live a very carefully controlled life. I don't work outside the home and this is partly why; however, I work very hard within the home for my own benefit and that of my partners, who are severely mentally ill and need that type of careful orderly life in order to cope with their illness and live around and in spite of it.

    I know that today since my brain decided I was done sleeping! at four in the morning, I'll have a migraine this afternoon. But knowing that, I can plan things so that it doesn't materially mess up my plans for the day, and that helps with overall stress, and it will be okay.

  • charmmeth
    charmmeth Posts: 936 Member
    EmpressBarbara wrote: »
    I also found a short video from Mark Wildman, a 3 minute neck drill that, he promises, will change our lives. I'll do that too. I work at the computer a lot, it's time to take back and neck health and mobility seriously.

    This is great. When I had a trapped nerve, my physiotherapist had me doing a similar set of exercises, but every hour! It made such a difference, and I try to do it several times a day. This guy has some additional exercises though which I shall add in.

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