Lifeunwitnessed- Healing Journey

 I'm feeling a little hopeful around my migraines these days. There have been a few shifts which have opened a little room for hope. In February, I had a couple of headaches.  Not migraines, but headaches which is a great improvement for me.  Lately, any headache I've had has progressed into a migraine, so the fact that I was just able to take some Advil and the headache was manageable, is a great improvement. I've also been EFT tapping around my headaches and the pain and discomfort they cause me and it seems to be working.  Tapping reduces cortisol levels and takes you out of your stress response- fight, flight or freeze.  As I've said in a previous post, it feels like I expect to get migraines now, so my body tries to make me correct and I get migraines.  By tapping, I'm turning off that body response and fixing the thought pattern.  I will continue to tap daily. On a smaller scale, I've stopped eating oats and stopped drinking oat milk.  For a...

 I remember my first migraine very clearly.  It was in high school, just before Christmas and I was in the drama room watching a video of that year's musical production.  I was there with my boyfriend, we'd only been dating for about a month, when I got the worst headache I'd ever had.  I was prone to headaches, especially in the summer when I would often get heat exhaustion but I'd never had one like this.  It felt like someone was taking a drill to my left eye and boring into my brain.  I remember running out the back door into the parking lot because I felt nauseous.  My boyfriend followed me, and I promptly vomited on his shoes.  It wasn't the only time I would vomit on him, unfortunately.   For the longest time, my migraines didn't really impact my life all that much.  It was shortly after that first incident that I was introduced to triptans, and Immitrex became my new best friend.  If I was able to take the Immitrex with...

  I've always had an interesting relationship to food. Growing up, I was a competitive dancer who was always on the muscular side, so was constantly being told I had to watch my weight. My mother constantly yo-yo dieted, so that didn't help with the relationship either. I eat my emotions, like me mother did before me. However, that's not really what I want to talk about today. Starting in January, I finally gathered enough resources to go on a very restrictive food plan to see if I could pinpoint what was triggering my migraines. It was a very long list of foods to avoid, and I actually found it pretty easy to do- I guess all this healing is starting to pay off! However, we go to my mother-in-law's house for dinner once a week and the list of things I couldn't eat was way too long for her to manage, so, we agreed that while I was on this food plan, we would order in from restaurants where I knew there was something I could eat. We did this for 8 weeks, but I ...