Saturday, October 26, 2013

On a completely non BDSM note...

For a long time now one has suffered endured (insert descriptor of choice here... just make sure it has lots of drama and hand across the brow action) migraines. They started about the same time as the PCOS and seemed to get worse as the weight increased to the 65-75 kg range. As one hit about 80 kg they seemed to level off to only during the time of the fake period. And they were bad... three days worth and often cluster migraines to boot, with only one day in between.

With the advent of modern migraine medication the worst of it was contained, but you can only take so many pills and they were not enough to cover that many days. As a rule one learnt to pick a day or two to not be in horrendous pain and duke it out for the others. The only thing that seemed to alleviate some of the side effects was to bomb the body with a steady supply of carbohydrates, to keep the stomach and the blood supplies distracted with digestion.

As the weight has slowly gone back down the migraines worsened once more. It was sort of a trade off for gaining a smaller waist. The smaller it got, the more frequent the migraines became, however the cost benefits of increased health made it worth it. Now that the weight has stabilised the migraines have lessened in frequency to just that fake period one. It was still a corker though...
Made worse by the fact that the gluten intolerance meant that toast (the nose's preferred food choice) was off the menu.

Now having found a suitable bread its back on and a funny thing has happened. Without the usual supply of wheat based products going into the system darning the migraine, the migraines are nowhere near as bad as they were. In fact they are almost negligible... now bear in mind one's idea of negligible is somewhat different from others... to the point of hardly qualifying as a migraine. Well except for that whole pain and losing vision in one eye thing J

It has however, made one start to wonder if the severity of the migraines was exacerbated by the increased consumption of wheat. Perhaps the body has been gluten intolerant for a very long time and one simply hasn't noticed. Perhaps it hasn't been related to the cholesterol medication after all...
Meh perhaps if one hadn't gone on the cholesterol medication one would have never noticed and carried on having the headaches from hell...
Who knows; silver linings and all that... 

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