Migraines

The homeopathic from Luyties, #233 works on my migraines every time! There are two things I want you to remember from this blog, and that is one of them. A bottle that will last years only costs me $8.49. But this is treating the symptoms. If you get migraines, consider the cause. It could be underlying food allergens that can be eliminated or managed. That is the second thing I want you to remember. Food, especially your favorite foods, can cause a lot of problems for people if they have a leaky gut. What is leaky gut? Let me explain and these visuals can help.

Cheese, milk, and beef....anything bovine... triggers migraines in me.

I was raised on a dairy, do you have any idea how sad this fact is for me? But there again, that very fact, being raised on a cow dairy, explains how this food allergen got set up in my body. As I began to take those prescribed antibiotics DAILY for YEARS (for recurrent urinary tract problems), microscopic tears occurred in my gut, and as well, eradicated the digestive enzymes necessary to digest the overabundance of milk, beef and cheese, from living on a dairy, I had in my daily diet. All those bovine proteins had to go somewhere, and they did to places like my joints and my brain.

Digestive enzymes, taken when eating the beef products, can actually avoid the migraine completely. It works for me, it works for a lot of people. For example, if I am with friends and we are having burgers, ( I do so love a good greasy burger with friends!) I can chew up a few papaya tablets before or even during or even after eating the burger and the beef will be digested and not go through little microscopic tears and pockets in my gut, to then lodge in various places in my body, including my brain, thereby causing the migraine later.

And even after eating the offending food allergen, any person with food allergies can take digestive enzymes in between meals, for several days or weeks, to remove the offending food allergens lodged in their body. I have done this too. And it works. This is managing symptoms.

But if I don't do any of this, and I still get the migraines, I still have options.

Do you get these kinds of auras? This kind of a picture before the headache strikes?

The moment I get the auras. sort of like this drawing, or my vision gets fractured, and starts to go to black, I grab my homeopathic Luyties #233 and put four under my tongue.

The real trick to homeopathic medicine working, is to not talk or eat or drink anything for at least fifteen minutes. If I follow this, when the auras strike, I will not get the headache. If I do take the homeopathic medicine, when I get the headache, (because I didn't have the medicine handy), the headache will go away within about 20 minutes.


Yes, a variety of things can trigger migraines, but if you routinely get migraines, is it not worth checking out food allergens? Your wholistic health care practitioner undoubtedly practices any nutritional counseling. If so, they know about food allergy tests, from a variety of medical laboratories, to detect the underlying food allergens that could be triggering your migraines. You can order these from them, and although you will have to pay out of pocket for the test, it is well worth it! The actual knowledge and peace of mind to know exactly what is bothering you and how often you can or cannot eat the offending product. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!

An important point to remember, is that your gut can heal to where you can eat the offending food again, without it triggering problems. You may only be able to eat it every 2-3 days, but at least that is a workable plan, and sooo much better than the debilitating symptoms created by food allergens wandering around in your body, looking for a place to call home. These are symptoms that include but are not limited to severe joint pain, ADD, ADHD, and migraines!

Yes, my mother has migraines, and yes, my dear daughter does as well. So, you say, the tendency to get migraines is inherited. OK. I will agree with that. However, tendency or not, I don't get migraines when I leave out all food allergens, in particular anything bovine (beef) from meat to milk, cheese and butter. And I would not have found this out without my food allergy panel from http://www.usbiotek.com/. You can find out more at not only their website, but also http://www.gdx.com/

There were two points I wanted you to remember from this blog. The fact you could have underlying food allergens creating the symptoms was but the second point. The first point was homeopathic migraine medicine works to eliminate the symptoms when they hit. What if you do nothing else after reading this blog but go to your healthfood store and buy it, all for about 9 dollars? Your life will probably be made considerably easier and better. (Remember, Luyties #233 is what I keep with me.) If it works for me, and many others, it might work for you and all you can do is try it.

Important things to know about homeopathics is that they

1. are controlled by the FDA,
2. there is so little of any active substance in them that it can be taken with pharmaceuticals with no fear of cross action, or interference, or side effects, and
3. you can call the wholistic pharmacists at http://www.peoplesrx.com/ to confirm this.

So again, if you get migraines often, what do I want you to consider? Get a food allergy panel ordered by your wholistic health care practitioner. Food can be eliminated and/or managed. That is one. Two is, keep a bottle of homeopathic migraine medicine around always for when the symptoms first strike.

Now, to today's inspiration. It comes from Lisa Nichols, and you probably saw her on The Secret, the movie. Since stress can trigger migraines, consider this thought:

Giving yourself permission to fill your tank is not an indulgence. It's what you need to rejuvenate and recharge. This isn't optional. You need to fill yourself up so you can continue to serve others and stay in action.

(If I am not eating any offending food allergans, stress or not, I don't get migraines. )

"Me Too" Drugs, Heartburn and Papaya

Many people use Papaya for heartburn, including myself. we thereby completely bypass any prescription pharmaceutical, as well as the incurred cost or side effects. Nexium is the 'me-too' heartburn drug of Prilosec. It is essentially Prilosec with the inactive ingredients removed, given a new patent, and marketed as if it were better. Studies were slanted to make it look better by giving patients in the study higher doses of Nexium than that of Prilosec. Let's see, what do you and I call this? We call it lying.

We are covering THE TRUTH ABOUT DRUG COMPANIES, by Marcia Angell, MD., the former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.

What are "me-too" drugs? Chapter five, p 75

..."In the five years 1998 through 2002, 415 new drugs were approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), of which only 14 percent were truly innovative. A further 9 percent were old drugs that had been changed in some way that made them, in the FDA's view, significant improvements. And the remaining 77 percent? Incredibly, they were all me-too drugs--classified by the agency as being no better than drugs already on the market to treat the same condition. some of these had different chemical compositions from the originals; most did not. but none were considered improvements. So there you have it. Seventy-seven percent of the pharmaceutical industry's output consisted of leftovers."

p. 76 third paragraph

"Sometimes it's simply a matter of extending the life of a blockbuster drug that is going off patent by making a virtually identical drug and shifting users to the new one. The drug just has to be different enough to qualify for a new patent."

Dr. Angell goes on to say this is exactly what happened when the patent forPrilosec (heartburn), was about to expire and was replaced with Nexium. P. 77 Paragraph two. The active part of the Prilosec molecule, omeprazole, was taken out, patented, and renamed Nexium. "(it wouldn't have done to call it "Half-o-Prilosec" but that is what it was)" and promote it as an improvement over Prilosec, just in time to switch people over before the Prilosec patent expired."

She adds, p. 78, paragraph 3, that in studies between Nexium and Prilosec, that AstraZeneca used higher doses of Nexium than of Prilosec to achieve results slanted to look like Nexium was better than Prilosec.

Instead of any of these, you could try chewing papaya tablets before dinner, or even once you get heartburn. I have a nurse friend who first told me about this. She has been doing this for years. Now, the head of a nursing home wing, when her employees complain about heartburn (trying to get out of work and be sent home) she tells them to chew up a handful of papaya tablets. She says, next thing you know, they are out buying some papaya tablets as well.

Many people use papaya tablets, or other digestive enzymes, for heartburn. I rarely get heartburn, but on the few occasions I do, I use it as well. You can buy a little roll to keep in your purse or pocket, for around $2, and just give it a try. I bet it works for you too ;-)

Joke of the Day

My husband and I seriously saw this in the want ads, while we were out driving around looking for garage sales today. The ad was for office space, and it listed all the amenities included in the rental price. It started with 'Live Receptionist"....versus what, a dead one?