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9 Post author: Alicorn 17 September 2011 01:34AM

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Comment author: Tripitaka 17 September 2011 11:58:38PM 0 points [-]

Are your headaches migraine-like, eg. do they get worse with light, loudness, movement, are they stingy and pulsating? Do you get ill (puking one time would have been again the antibiotics?) ? Do you get auras, eg. anything that falls under "weird neurological phenomenons"- lights, not being able to speak, read, geometrical patterns, anything?

Before I looked at your list, I bet at Histamine-intolerance, especially because of the symptoms you mentioned here and the fact that Ibuprufen works. I predicted lots of histamin-rich foods, basically everything conserved and/or fermented. You seem to eat a lot of cheese and fish- is the fish frish or canned?

Comment author: Alicorn 18 September 2011 02:15:26AM 2 points [-]

They get worse if I move my head, especially in a jerky or sudden way. I don't get aura, am extremely rarely light- or sound-sensitive, and don't think my tendencies towards nausea correlate with the headaches (I'm nauseated right now but I just got out of a car). I am always able to speak, read, etc.

Fish is canned if it's tuna, fresh or frozen if it's not.

Comment author: Tripitaka 18 September 2011 11:47:15AM 0 points [-]

So, no migraine, and since you even get headaches when avoiding histaminrich food and should'nt, that gets a low prior. Just for the sake of completeness, illness when moving the head is for me a sure sign that I am severly dehydrated. This seems not to be the case with you.