Feverfew gives me an instant and terrible headache. Did you know Edwarda? She got migraines, and was greatly helped by taking a few feverfew leaves from a real feverfew plant she had in her apartment. She said the dried leaves from the healthfood store did nothing, but the fresh ones, if taken consistently, helped her.
Actually, my headaches aren't senseless. Lots of people have the exact same triggers. Any supplement that has the word "vascular" in the description is risky, and anything that contains the chemical tyramine is risky, and cultures like yeast and acidophilus are risky, and nitrites are risky.
That's about it.
Everyone who gets a lot of vascular headaches should know the list, but some neurologists' lists are oddly incomplete, and at variance with each other's. And they sometimes say, "Food like nuts, aged cheeses and chocolate." Like? How is anyone supposed to know that bananas and plums and grapes and rye bread and pork are "like" those foods? (Tyramine isn't visible.)
Everything delicious is on the tyramine list, it sometimes seems. When I go out, and have a great meal, I just say to hell with it and pop a fiorinal w codeine before dinner. I do fine, because of fiorinal. And I'm pretty careful, usually. Except when I'm weak.
'Night, for real. |
