Since late 2008 I have been following the program suggested by David Buchholz in his somewhat cheezily-named book “Heal Your Headache: The 1-2-3 Program“. Despite my initial scepticism that dietary triggers were the cause of my nearly constant pain, or that the pain I felt was caused by migraine at all, the program has been a fantastic success for me so far.
Instead of pain which is nearly constant and frequently severe, my headache pain now only occurs perhaps a few hours a week and at a mild to moderate level. I can also almost always identify the trigger of any particular “bout” of headache pain, which helps me cope with it and plan to avoid it next time.
When I started the program there was nearly zero information available on the internet about people’s personal experiences, so I started posting relevant articles to my personal blog. Some of these posts have now been moved here to create a better resource for people.
- You can read all my migraine-related blog entries if you’d like my personal story. They’ll pop up in reverse order – most recent first
- The 1-2-3 Program In 13 Steps describes how I implemented the information in the book myself.
- Coping With Medical Diets is about diets in general, how to cope and plan and organise yourself to give yourself the best chance of sticking to the diet.
- Searching For Migraine-Friendly Recipes explains how to use the Meals For You website’s advanced search engine to search for recipes likely to be migraine-friendly, or easily adaptable.
- The Example Meal List contains a huge long list of all the migraine friendly meals I cook here at home. There really are a lot of things when you think about it!
Recipes
These are recipes which I use and have adapted to be migraine-friendly. Usually I cook from scratch rather than using packets which makes things much easier – hidden ingredients such as MSG, onion powder, and preservatives which are triggers generally only occur in packet foods. Starting with whole foods makes it easy to be sure you’re making the right choices.
I plan to post more of these as I get around to it. If there are any you particularly like from the list above just let me know and I’ll add them.
Other Resources
Other great websites I’ve found with resources related to “Heal Your Headache” include:
- Migraine-Free Cooking and the Migraine-Free Cooking Blog by Heidi Gunderson.
- The Headache Trigger Diet Ning, a support and social group on the web started by Diane Goodman.
- Green Alert: Heal Your Magraines is another migraine-friendly recipe blog, although it doesn’t focus specifically on the Bucholtz program.
Know of more resources online? Leave a comment and I’ll add them!
- Ricky
I found your blog through Heidi’s. We have shared some recipes. I’m on a low tyramine diet due to chemotherapy. I left the URL for my blog if you would like to check it out. Feel free to harvest, sdapt, post any recipes or other information you would like. Hope this finds you well.
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