CGRP: A new era for migraine treatment

But food is the trigger. Regular important quantity of sugar or milk can trigger it. A huge meal as well. Something very hard to digest aw well.

But here is what prevented me make the link between food and my head exploding for all those years: it can takes up to 48h between the trigger consumption and the start lf the pain. Also, the trigger is the straw breaking the camel back, but it can take some time to eat again and again the same thing before reaching the tippung point.

Once I realized that, a diet journal was enough to notice trends and understand what my body reacted to.

I don't think all migraines are food related, but it's worth investigating given the handicap real migraines are in ones life.

I began having migraines in my early thirties. My mother was a long time sufferer. Coincidentally, a few months before I began having them, she told me birth control pills had caused hers. I was having them the three weeks of the month that I took the pill and not having them the week I was off the pill to menstruate.

When I went for a refill, they didn't have my usual brand available. My headaches temporarily went away, but soon came back. With this additional piece of evidence, I concluded the pill was indeed the most likely cause.

I informed my husband that I would complete the pill packets I had on hand, I think three months worth, but I wasn't getting my prescription renewed. So we had three months to come up with some other birth control method.

I went off the pill and the headaches promptly cleared up.

I'm sure there are myriad different things that can cause a combination of headache and nausea. If you can figure out the cause for the person in question and treat that, it's a vastly superior solution to pain management type approaches.

Also, the light and noise sensitivity mentioned in the article is something I successfully treat as a symptom of magnesium deficiency by upping my consumption of magnesium rich foods. I routinely get such symptoms following fever or vomiting and they are readily cleared up by improving my magnesium status.

I didn't invent that solution. I learned it from an internet forum. It has worked consistently for me for years.

I need a vacation!