2 responses to “Migraine Junk Again”

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   Tamara (AK)

   Friday, March 30, 2007

   It was nice to hear a pregnancy update although I’m sorry the migraines are still bothering you. As far as the heartburn, my midwife years ago recommended apple cider vinegar water as a remedy. That or dill pickle juice. Works like a charm for me. 🙂 Although, I’m pretty tired of having that kind of “chaser” after *every* meal and am beyond ready to have “normal” stomach functions back again. 😉 We suspect that that part of my body just “shuts down” and I have very low stomach acids during pregnancy so my body just isn’t digesting and it needs a little help along. (I’ve noticed over the years that I don’t digest meat real well even when non-preg. and NT (Nourishing Traditions) helped confirm that – low stomach acid.)

   Anyhow, that’s what works for me. It seems a little backwards to put vinegar on top of heartburn but when you have heartburn because your food isn’t going anywhere…then it makes perfect sense. 😉

   FWIW.

   Will pray about those migraines…I can imagine the misery…

   (((hug)))

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   Maisy

   Saturday, March 31, 2007

   Thanks for the ideas Tamara. “heartburn heartburn” from pregnancy for me is usually caused by moreso acidic foods, things that often do cause more acid in stomaches. With me being an O Blood type, according to the EatRight4YourType guy, I would have a higher acid stomach/body acidity type body, and I do have such, and need to gentle things down –> and I find his info good, but with an overlying NT approach, of course.

   Now as for my heartburn the day before the migraine it seems to maybe be connected to the event called “migraine” in me, since it was overwhelmingly bad, and very much like what happens in many migraine sufferers … the event starts without pain, and eventually the pain starts and the stomache shuts down.

   For me then, it’s slosh slosh acidic and I do know that due to the few times I have “thrown up” during a migraine, and learned outside of pregnancy that with a migraine an antacid eases much of the suffering and has actually gotten me over the hump to getting my migraine gone … and the time I did chew and swallow a Tums or two and actually still throw up it was a GodSend to have eaten the Tums, it was not an acidic event … 🙂

   During pregnancy the smooshed up stomach makes me more heartburn prone, and the need to eat small meals, more often eat small, does help.

   The other thing is, drinking water causes an acidic stomach to produce more acid, and I cut water out mostly, years ago, and recently started to drink it again, and so … band that together with mid-late pregnancy, voila, acidicness in me.

   I know that the Blood Type guy doesn’t put tomatoes as bad for O’s and one might think they are acidic, but they never have been traditionally so for me, and it seems that “vinegar” is acidic to me, though I love to eat green olives, good crunch pickles, etc. but I suffer when I eat them much.

   So as for “Stomache problems” of “food not going anywhere” for me it’s always been mostly connected to “migraines” or a “virus” of some nature. I have generally digested my food fast. I do know that of course it’s different when I have a certain migraine stage occuring … and what aides me lately is a good cup of coffee, since I quit drinking it regularly it does help to have a strong cup … and I have none in the house, dependant on DH to go get me one. He wasn’t here during my headache, until yesterday afternoon, and when he got home I sent him after a coffee for me and I chugged it down and shortly afterwards the migraine resolved.

   It’s one of the things that does work for some migrainers and they have to be “non regular drinkers” of coffee for it to work like that. I used to drink coffee every day, for years, and haven’t now and find it a joy to have a true usefulness of it, but I must say it doesn’t work so magically every time.

   I was going to respond to this differently and have gone down some rabbit trails. So given that, I’ll close this out and try another comment session later. 🙂

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