Hi again
@lotuslight
Sorry I didn’t get back to this yesterday, was a very long day! I suffered with chronic migraines for most of my adult life but have not had one since July 2017, since adopting the ketogenic diet.
For me it makes a lot of sense - many of the prophylactic drugs used for migraine (I ran through just about all of them in my time) have a primary purpose of treating epilepsy. A ketogenic diet is often used to treat epilepsy in children……
At diagnosis with type 2, I was treating 6-8 a month (and that was an improvement over matters for the previous few years). I never had aura, ‘just’ the headache and vomiting. They did initially get worse when I first started keto, perhaps because of a combination of carb withdrawal, lack of salt and electrolyte depletion so the advice you’ve been given about that above is great.
I have never been able to find a food trigger for migraines. The only sure things I identified prior to them deciding to leave me were lack of sleep and missing a meal. Now neither of these causes them either. In my case it’s clear to me that they were very clearly related to fluctuating blood sugar levels.
There is a lot of interesting information in this thread:
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/for-migraine-sufferers.155890/ and if you run a search on ‘migraine’ you’ll find it crops up fairly often on the forum.
I’d also recommend looking up the work of Dr Angela Stanton who has developed a protocol for treating migraine - she was a sufferer herself. She has a book and also a Facebook group, which is very active and where she takes the time to provide help and support. You can find that here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/MigraineSufferers/?ref=share
I really hope you find a solution, they really are disabling and pernicious things. Getting rid of them has been by far the biggest impact of this way of eating on my quality of life.
, I had one for 8 hours yesterday and my strong pain meds did nothing it was so bad I could hardly speak , calling doctors today .
