I wake up this morning, and my vision looks like a Kaleidoscope.
https://training.unh.edu/sites/default/files/courses/images/kaleidoscope.jpg
Ocular migraine. I rarely get them, but enough to know what it is.
I can barely read, got a shooting pain on my left temple, and can't even walk a straight line.
Dizzy enough to be crying. Hands shaking, barely able to write this out.
My dad went to sleep with a migraine himself sans the funhouse mirror vision, though. He gets them from time to time, and he said it was a doozy last night and he never had one down the back of his neck like that before.
So...
Wtf is going on out there? I something big about to go down? Anyone else having bombs go off in their brain this morning?
I'm not too far from an airport, and we see military choppers from time to time. Any military guys here know what an EMP blast feels like to tell me if I have reason to be paranoid?
I hate to think it's some kind of weird psychic thing. I'm not that special...
tl;dr: Cutting out gluten may get rid of, or at least reduce, the number of migraines you get. Worked for me. If I had to bet, my problem with gluten is all the poisons they spray on the wheat, but cutting it out worked, so whatever.
Longer story...
I had debilitating migraines from the time I was about 8 (as in, I was unable to function, couldn't take any light at all, and was always fighting the urge to vomit until they would pass). For a long time, I thought the problem was MSG allergies, nitrate/nitrite allergies, etc. I also had horrible stomach problems and, by the time I hit 25, was getting to the point where, every few months, I would get to the point where all I could stomach was a milkshake for a few days before going back to eating regularly.
Flash forward many years.... I got so pissed off with the cycle of migraines and milkshakes that I stopped eating for three days. And felt great. My husband had been on a trip and got back on day 3, and was worried about me not eating.
So he made me a steak. Which was fine. He noted that, when we went to "the meat on the sword place" (Brazilian steakhouse), I never got sick and felt good. All I'd eat there was meat, yucca, and some mango (had no interest in anything else). He suggested it was a gluten allergy. I cut all gluten out. No more stomach problems (except for eating twizzlers and getting sick, which made me start checking labels on everything).
More importantly, the migraines went away. I had gotten to the point where I had 2-3 a month. Had to go to a doctor after having one for two weeks and not being able to function at all (they gave me an anti-migraine shot that got rid of the headache but left me feeling my heartbeat in my ears, which I didn't like). But with no gluten, I get no migraines. I still get bad sinus triggered migraines every now and then (mainly from pressure changes) but they aren't the same as the food-triggered migraines, and fade much quicker.
I've read of many folks who have gluten reactions get better by cutting out all wheat, but then go to europe and have bread there, and no reaction. Non-GMO, so no Roundup. If you're feeling brave, perhaps try some organic pasta (or non-GMO pasta, maybe even from Italy) or organic bread (we make at home, usually King Arthur flour). But you do have a great success story, and it underscores how big pharma-controlled 'medicine' consists of doling out meds that 'manage symptoms' and never heal.
I've heard that about flour from Europe, too, and am willing to give it a go. I really do think it's the Roundup (which is why I can eat some oats, while others give me the same reaction as if I ate bread).
I never thought about trying King Arthur flour, or other organic flour. That may be worth a try, too. Thanks for the suggestion!