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Jumping Frog wrote:Personally, I believe it is related to eating grains and sugar. There are now thousands of published medical studies relating to the effects of grains and sugar on the metabolism, gut bacteria, and the affect on numerous brain-related disorders including migraines.

It is literally as simple as changing your diet. My wife had between 10-15 migraines per month for decades. She changed how she ate and they all went away.

Three books are of interest and on point (of the dozens I have read on this subject):

Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain–for Life, by David Perlmutter, MD
The Autoimmune Solution: Prevent and Reverse the Full Spectrum of Inflammatory Symptoms and Diseases, by Amy Myers, MD
The Wahls Protocol: How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine, by Terry Wahls, MD.

If someone wants to discuss, send me a PM and we can talk on the phone.

-Bob K

---Bob K - Wow are you ever right!

What I failed to mention is that one of the steps the doc told me to take was to keep a log of when I got the headaches - date, time, what I'd eaten or had to drink, whether it was hot and humid or what - anything to find a pattern or trigger.

For some, coffee or chocolate are triggers. Luckily for me neither of these was a trigger for me, in fact a hot cup of strong black coffee could sometimes help the pain a little.

One of the things that emerged was that for me, alcohol was a trigger. I haven't had a drink - even one beer - since 2006 and have had exactly one round of headaches since 2006. I'd had them, on and off, since 1976. I'd love a cold beer, or a little glass of single-malt scotch, but to be headache-free I'd give up just about anything.

The Wall - you may be right about breathing versus welding oxygen, but I filled my prescription at the welding shop and they told me they filled the little E-size medical oxygen tank from the same bulk tanks as they filled the welding tanks from - both were 99.99-something% (not sure how many nines) pure oxygen. But this is worth checking out, and it would probably not be a good idea to take the welding torch, turn on oxy and not acetylene, and breath it... although that is exactly what I did, many years ago, to try it out.

Charles, this is a long shot but might be worth a try.

I used to have cluster headaches - aka "suicide headaches" - that would wake me at ~3 AM every night for weeks at a time.

Cluster headache is a "derivative" of migraine.

Neurologist prescribed breathing pure oxygen at about 2 liters/minute for 10-15 minutes.

You need a prescription to buy oxygen and a regulator - same exact gas as you get at the welding shop without a prescription, but in a smaller tank.

It worked! After 5-10 min of slow, deep breaths, the wretched guy behind my eyeball with the hot poker just got tired of hurting me and left. Almost every time.

So - if she can get ahold of an oxygen setup, it might be worth a try. If it works she can figure out how to have oxygen available where/when she needs it.