4 responses to “Migraines, ugh”

1. 

   Kelly

   Tuesday, August 22, 2006

   I haven’t had so many migraines since I practically gave up coffee – also I’m using natural progesterone cream, so that might be helping.

   Have you tried soaking a cloth in vinegar and laying down with it across your forehead and eyes? In addition to the medication, I mean. It seemed to help me if I caught it early enough.

   Hope you’re back on your feet again.

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2. 

   Maisy

   Wednesday, August 23, 2006

   Kelly, I have totally given up coffee, and that hasn’t changed headaches for me. I was into coffee at a young age though, and have also “quit” for a few weeks at a time at least thrice in my adult years, but I’m off it for good now.

   I’ve had accummulating things with it in regards to how it makes me be overall, too acidic, as does “water” alone too, btw. I have O+ blood type, and according to “Eat Right 4 Your Blood Type” info that is someone with an acidic tummy in the first place, all natural. Beneficial things for this type of person are things that calm the tummy/body, the author says.

   I have known that without “knowing” it all along. It was great to “read it” and “know that I knew” for sure back a few years ago when I first read about it.

   So recently I took it all to heart and decided to cold turkey quit coffee. I did and suffered nothing from it. 🙂 I’ve had that experience before as well, but also one major “withdrawl” sort of cold turkey session in my 20’s, FWIW.

   The beneficialness for me has been a less overall acidic tummy after awhile, and that translates into whole body feel too.

   I wanted to be drinking green tea for quite some time, but couldn’t kick the “coffee” idea, and only have been truly drinking green and herbal teas regularly now for a week or just a bit more. :veryshocked:

   It’s as if I’ve been a tea drinker all along, now. 🙂

   How that relates to migraines, I think mine are somewhat hormonal cyclicalness related, but not fully so. I would say some are that, but most are attached to a mysterious phenomenon inside me. I’ve wanted to “detox” for a couple of years, but have steered clear of it from the “gross out” factor of actually doing anything de-tox-ish.

   Oh, progesterone cream, I do have an old tube of it, that I use on occassion, when I feel very, very “should sew my mouth shut” … and I don’t use it other than that. I have in the past tried to use it monthly, and find that I’m not too into feeling so very happy too much 😉

   I do truly mean that, but it’s not just that, it’s that if something can really do that, what are the side issues that it could cause? I don’t know, am not asking, just know I’d rather use it as a small tool of aiding me at times of weakness, smooth over my roughest edges in peak irritable times.

   Now, about vinegar on a cloth for my head, I haven’t tried that, and don’t know if I want to, since vinegar is acidic, and so am I. 🙂 I love green olives and pickles, though, they are very acidic, well, they are very much too much for me, but I suffer gladly for them. Maybe I could put a pickle on my forehead and that’d be easier to deal with then. :shocked: 😆

   I have hope for the future, with my LifePak supplements due to arrive any day now, that should get me started on some things that I’ve been missing that might be keys to unlocking the migraine mystery in me, just a few of the doors, not all of them, would be fine. Eventually I’ll detox, and have my mercury junk removed from my teeth and get it out of my system somehow, and then we’ll see what’s what with me.

   Thanks for the tips! Glad to hear you have been doing better with your migraines. It’s a gladdening heart thing to hear of one’s struggles, shared by another, being improved upon in their life. 🙂

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3. 

   Kelly

   Wednesday, August 23, 2006

   I wonder if apple cider vinegar would work – it’s alkalinizing. I’ve only just learned abuot the whole alkalinizing/acidifying thing, but it makes sense – the acidifying things are the things I crave, but when I went a week eating as close to 90% alkalinizing as I could I felt a lot better.

   When you’re doing your detox, are you going to do infrared therapy and warm/cool showers (believe it or not, hot showers – another thing I crave – are acidifying and warm/cool showers are alkalinizing), and skin brushing and the whole shebang, or just herbals? Does your pack have Milk Thistle for the liver? That’s important during detox. Also, drinking water with a sprinkle of cayenne pepper and a squirt of lemon is good for the blood.

   Sorry if this is Too Much Information! I’m going through a lot of this myself right now – for fatigued adrenals, and it’s really making me feel better.

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4. 

   Maisy

   Wednesday, August 23, 2006

   I haven’t given that much thought to it yet, I am gearing up towards it, hoping to do it this year, but not sure when I’ll start. I think I’ll want a pro aiding me, a Naturalist doctor, but I don’t have one as of this time.

   I know I’ll need to do a lot of things when doing it, it’s nothing simple, and so your ideas are not too much, just way early, and thought provoking –so very timely for me. 🙂

   I’ll check into the AppleCiderVinegar and see about it, too.

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