Today was a great migraine day. No migraine this morning, or midmorning, or even late afternoon. When I started to get pretty hungry, I went home so I wouldn't get a hunger-triggered migraine. While thinking about dinner, I grabbed some cut up celery I have in the ridge and a jar of peanut butter. Boom. Migraine.
So maybe its the peanut butter. I have noticed before that I'll get them after eating a PB&J sandwhich. And the cliff bars I stocked up on to avoid low blood sugar in the afternoon have also been followed by migraines. And I pretty much always got a migraine at the law firm after having the Cosi signature salad for lunch, which involved nuts.
So theory 1 is nuts. Which should be easy enough, since so many things are labelled as "this contains nuts" that even the sneaky sources should be easy to avoid.
Theory 2 is tannins. A migraneur on the web thinks most of hers stem from tannins (plus weather, bright lights, chemical smells, and low blood sugar, of course). The bad news is that that exes out tea, which I'm unwilling to give up (yet). But that would also explain the immediate reactions I've had in the past to dairy foods with guar gum, locust bean gum, and other such additives.
Already, watching for sneaky additives in foods (beware the processed foods at Whole Foods--Boca et al are especially chock full of additives and MSG like substances, surprisingly) has been helping clear a certain amount of the fog. So cuting out nuts and tannins should be doable.
If that doesn't work, there's always the old brain transplant idea.
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