Category: migraines
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How to Feel Better When You’re Diagnosed with a Chronic Illness
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In looking back over the interview with Emily Levy this week, something profound and beautiful stood out for me. As a healthcare advocate, the CEO of Mighty Well, and someone who has Neurological Lyme Disease, she intimately understands chronic illness. Emily’s vision is to spread awareness, and and create a…
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Gluten Intolerance Discussed in the Wall Street Journal
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Some of of you who have been reading for awhile may recall that I am gluten free. I cut all wheat out of my diet about two years ago after having an myriad of strange health issues which included migraines, severe bloating, intestinal distress (along with very loud stomach noises,…
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Botox for Migraines? Fascinating…
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Some of you who stop by regularly (I love you guys!) know that I get migraines. They popped up probably in my early 20s, but I wasn’t officially diagnosed with them until a couple of years ago. Though some of you guys have recommended that I buy cannabis products from…
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Filling in the FOS Blanks
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From my earlier musings around why probiotics made me all migrainey and sick feeling? um, a moment’s worth of research on the ingredient FOS reveals: FOS = Fructooligosaccharide In other words, “The term oligosaccharide refers to a short chain of sugar molecules (in the case of FOS, fructose molecules).” So,…
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OK, Why Didn’t I Know This: Migraines and Complex Sugars
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Friends. First, Blessed Good Friday! I hope everyone is having a lovely day, and that if you are having to work (like me) that it’s going smoothly and you have time to reflect on the day at hand. I’d like to give a nod to Adam over at Where the…
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Migraines: Drugs and Triggers and How I Figured What Works
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We had a nice talk about migraines and my journey with them a couple of weeks ago. I must say that it was a topic I was hesitant to talk about, for lots of reasons. I want to thank those who commented here; your words and stories were all so…
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Let’s Talk About Migraines
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Or, let’s not. But I feel like I’ve been avoiding this post for oh so long, so OK. Here we go. In June of 2007, I was diagnosed as having migraines. I went to urgent care because I’d had a cold that seemed to find its way to my sinuses…