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Salt and Migraines
by: Peter on Wed, Sep 03 2008

As a young man ( early teens ) I suffered from migraine blurred vision was followed by going numb on one side of my face and sometimes my body. My father took me to the doctors thinking I had a stroke The doctor put or minds at rest by assuring us it was Migraine The doctor also explained it was difficult to find a reason as people who suffered were effected by different things.

So I suffered for many years to come until one time at work whilst having a migraine attack a work mate said it’s all those peanuts you’ve been eating. Having thought about this for a few days, I realised there was two ingredients: the nuts and the salt.

I decided to experiment, I bought a pound in weight of plain peanuts. promptly eat the lot and braced myself two days passed by and nothing happened. I then took a salt tablet WHAM!!!! I was rewarded with one of the worst migraines I’d ever had, combine this with the fact I use to lace my meals with salt. For me I’d found the main cause of the problem. I immediately stop putting salt on my food and now at 53 years of age I have been virtually migraine free for about 25 years.

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Sun, Aug 02 2009
Thank you for your story My son goes through a 30 lb bag of sugar just like it was a five pound bag I have never seen someone use so mu...Read
Thu, Sep 11 2008
Thank you for sharing your experience with salt. It is reassuring to meet another person who has had a similar issue. I have found sodium to be a key ...Read

September 2008

I don’t know what to do …. if I get a pain free day?! - by MR - (Fri, Sep 26 2008)
I started having migraines about eight years ago. I woke from wisdom tooth extractions in excruciating pain on the left side of my head. What we didn’t know was that my TMJs had been damaged and would require reconstructive surgery. [more..]
migrane [migraine] headache - by suketu s. - (Fri, Sep 26 2008)
i am sufffering from migrane headache since 3 years.as,initially my eyes start paining then it catches my skull,as it fills my nerves are stretching out. [more..]
What is it like to be pain free? - by Grace J - (Mon, Sep 22 2008)
For the longest time I’ve suffered with Migraines. Each year they grow stronger in intensity and come more frequently. [more..]
days on end with migraine - by lm - (Thu, Sep 11 2008)
I have suffered with migraines for so long that I don’t know what it felt like to be normal. I can trace it as far back to a rear end car accident that my daughter and I were in around 15 yrs. ago. [more..]
Migraine - by Binu J. - (Wed, Sep 03 2008)
I am suffering from Migraine from the past 10 years. The initial experience began with an aura followed by migraine headache on the left side of the head. Later, it was found as classical migraine. [more..]
Salt and Migraines - by Peter - (Wed, Sep 03 2008)
As a young man ( early teens ) I suffered from migraine blurred vision was followed by going numb on one side of my face and sometimes my body. [more..]

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