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Winning the Migraine Battle

December 8th, 2007 by admin

Since the birth of my oldest child, I have been plagued with migraines – and that’s been over 12 years. I’ve been on a variety of medications, and they’ve helped to varying degrees – but I’ve never been totally free of them and sometimes they’ve impinged on my quality of life. I have tried to get control of them, i.e. keep a food diary to see if there were any triggers. Cheese, red wine and chocolate are known triggers for migraines, but for me I could eat cheese and chocolate ’til it came out of my ears and it didn’t seem to make any difference. However wine was a trigger, but as I wasn’t a big wine drinker it wasn’t a hardship to omit wine. There were other factors that caused my migraine such as stress and lack of sleep, and therefore I presumed dietary triggers were not related too me…that was until the other week.

The other week I had bran flakes for breakfast, fresh bread sandwiches for lunch, sometimes pasta for supper nearly every day, and I had a migraine nearly every day. It was a passing comment that a friend made about migraines often being food related, that made me reflect on my dietary intake. I realised I had eaten a lot of wheat during the pass week. I had never heard of migraines being related to wheat, so I looked it up on the net, and came across several articles, including Avoiding Migraines With Wheat-Free Diet. So I thought I would give it try.

I’ve been on a wheat-free diet for the past 2 ½ weeks and I’ve only had one migraine – and for me that is really good. I had a slight mourning period about omitting wheat from my diet ( I love fresh bread) but at the end of day it’s my choice – eat wheat and have migraines, or omit wheat and have significantly fewer migraines – it’s a no brainer!