Just a quick message for folks who might be on a Keto or Carnivore diet. Today I woke up with a screaming headache over my left temple and a nauseated stomach. I sat in my easy chair and began to remain calm while watching some sports on television. As the day progressed my symptoms never abated and the nausea remained constant. My wife got onto a Carnivore site and read an article about the Carnivore flu. Come to find out, a lowering of carbs in your diet can lead to headaches and upset stomach. Their solution was to increase carb intake. I said, hmmmm, "honey, can you go and get that Key Lime pie from the freezer and cut me off a slice?" She did and within 15 minutes my headache vanished and the nausea disappeared. About a year ago I was on the Keto diet and while shopping at a local hardware store I began experiencing the Keto flu, a overall crappy feeling that comes over you quickly. We headed to Sonic and I had a hamburger and a coke and the symptoms passed.
So, if your are on a Carivore or Keto diet and begin feeling like the precursor of vomiting is fixing to hit, your headache won't go away, and you cannot control your body temp. (hot-cold-hot-cold). Try adding a bit of sugar to get your body some needed carbs it might be yearning for. All it took for me was one thin slice of Key Lime Pie and it worked quickly. Remember that if your are in Ketosis on a Keto diet this might kick you out of Ketosis, but I say it's better to feel better rather than worrying about staying in Ketosis. Heck, you can always pick up the diet tomorrow and the damage from one slice of pie is not going to hurt your weight loss program.
For me, it was either do this or the possiblity of seeing a neurologist and having him try to fix the problem with medication. I'd rather chug down some sugar and have my symptoms go away than chugging mind altering prescription drugs which has the horrible side effects of suicidal thoughts. (been there, done that and it sucked!)
I'm not a doctor, just a regular Joe who has come across a possible solution and thought it might be helpful. If it does, GREAT, if you think it's way out in left field, no hard feeling on my part. Just trying to help folks who might be in the same boat.
God bless and have a great day!
Sounds like you aren't eating enough electrolytes.the biggest mistake new people make is not eating enough salt. You don't hold water the same as when you ate fiber. You pee a lot more. You need to replace that water and that salt.
Thanks for the advise. I was drinking a couple of bottles of Dr. Berg's drink mix but cut that back to none foe a week. Thought I was getting too much salt and K. So now I'm gonna do one bottle per day and hope all goes well.
Yeah no prob shoot me a message anytime I have been carnivore for over a year now
I'm curious, did you begin carnivore to loose weight or get away from processed food? I want to loose weight and THEN get away from the processed food. Sugar has been a huge bane in my life and I now can see how it hurts ones body....natural inflammatory. Since I've been off sugar my knees no longer hurt which is a blessing. If you are loosing weight, how much has come off? Thanks.
A gained weight and was roughly 222lbs I then experienced highblood pressure, started snoring. When i tried going to bed it felt like i was laying upside down, since the pressure in my head was so great. Went to the doc and they put me on blood pressure meds. They didn't help, so they upped the dose. They were going to add another med but instead I went to a metabolic doctor. He put me on carnivore and we had weekly checkups. After only 2 weeks I lost 15lbs, stopped snoring and my blood pressure returned to normal. 16 weeks later I lost 52lbs and seemed to gain muscle despite never working out. Stayed on it since.
I don't know if it is enough salt or not but when I was doing a low-carb diet I ate a lot of hard-boiled eggs as snacks. I salted them as I ate them. I never had those symptoms and would try for less than 20 carbs per day - ideally lower than 15.