Migraines

@garyggriffin I wish you success. Keeping records over time should be helpful to find the cause(s).

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My bout with headaches kind of got blurred from the rest of my joint and muscle pain but they were real. In trying to lose my joint and muscle pain by diet vs. Rx meds I stopped eating sugar and all forms of grain Oct 2014. That addressed my joint and muscle pain in just 30 days. 1.5 years later my joint and muscle pain is still well managed and I do not remember a headache either. For the last year my 40 years of IBS has been total gone so I know my total body inflammation level must be much lower. My blood pressure, sugar, etc are lower which may have lowered my risk of migraines.

Bottom line many health issues are related to many factors. Best of luck in finding the factors triggering your headache. I know what works in my case but that may not help another person with different trigger factors.

Food diary is always the first thing, but also noticing other things like perfumes, other smells may be triggers. For me most perfumes can trigger a migraine, the smell of hazelnut, cut grass and gasoline. Also bright sunlight or the glare on an overcast day. Change in weather/barometric pressure is also a trigger for me. I tried literally everything from blood pressure meds, acupuncture and even hypnosis. I've been taking topamax as a preventive for about 10 years now and it literally changed my life. I was getting migraines 4x a week at least and now I get them maybe 2x a month around that time. Since you're male, the hormonal thing shouldn't affect you. Botox has now been approved for migraines but I believe you have to have tried 2 other methods first and get 15 migraines a month or more. I take Imitrex when I feel one coming. I don't get the blindness that you describe but I tend to feel the tingling and nausea. Hope this info helps.

I get migraines caused by smells. Anything perfumed sets me off, I have to be so careful what soap I use, washing powder etc. It's hard if I go somewhere and someone is wearing really strong perfume, or worse when they come to my house wearing it and I can't get the smell out for ages. I have been prescribed sumatriptan (imigran) which is the only thing that will work for me to get rid of a migraine once it sets in. If you haven't already, go and see a doctor about it.

I have been getting migraines for years, even tried a year of Botox. This helped for the first 9 months and then nothing but...in November of last year I went on a cleanse with my husband and for 10 days no headaches.
Since then I have totally cleaned up my diet. Very little processed foods, little processed sugar, water only, limited alcohol and no nitrites or sulfites. I also added 800mgs of super magnesium per my nurologiest and have had very few headaches.

My previous doctor called himself a headache expert. He tried all sorts of drugs on me, none of which worked. My new fabulous doctor fixed my migraines by having me eat less than 2300 mg sodium per day. She said some people just have a sodium sensitivity. I was in a migraine state for 1/3 of a month, every month, but now, maybe one every couple months...and I can get rid of it, generally, with regular Excedrin. Staying well hydrated helps, too. I think you just have to find what works for you. Oh...I've been a teetotaler my whole life, so it didn't have anything to do with alcohol for me, as far as I know. Good luck to you!! I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy.