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Originally Posted by DMcCunney

My SO suffers from migraines. Hers are due to a list of food allergies as long as your arm. No seafood. No meats preserved with nitrites. No red wine. No chocolate. Don't even look at a fresh pepper (though oddly, dried peppers are not a problem.)

Although not a trigger for me, anything containing capsaicin (chillis, capsicum, etc) can often be a partial or total relief (a good Thai curry works well at this juncture). I've been known to swig a large tablespoon of sweet chilli sauce for relief, after all the usual drugs have failed. I remember reading in the New Scientist article that blood pressure can strongly be associated with migraine, so the effect of capsaicin (positive or negative) doesn't surprise me.

There are people here who will be shocked and distraught by the "chocolate" reference. Oddly, in the last couple of years, chocolate has become a trigger for me where it wasn't before (white chocolate is less so, though too much sugar can also be a trigger).

She grew up on seafood, living in an area near the sea. The migraines didn't come on till she hit puberty. she's been known to grab my arm and whimper when we pass a place serving soft shell crab, because she loves it. Unfortunately, it doesn't love her.

I've never noted any seafood connection, though my awareness of triggers is not thorough. I'll have to start making a migraine diary though, as they've been coming back where they'd previously left me in peace for at least a month at a time.

Tell me something I didn't know.

I once got my head stuck for 15 minutes between the railings of a railway overpass.

Silly birds.

Tee hee. Very good.

Depends on what head you are shoving where, no?

Dennis, meet gutter; gutter, Dennis.

Cheers,
Marc