Clarifying: Solving Headaches with your Fork; Your Toolkit...
Misnomer on my part...Hello back to ALL...I should have Titled this "Solving Headaches with your Fork; Your Toolkit"
To answer a MAJOR questions:
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- I received the 12 pg diet from Houston.
I have a 2 pg diet from a local provider.
I was at the Indiana Pain Clinic because I was a mechanic and smashed my right hand in a machine. After several surgeries, the surgeons could not solve the pain that was left, so they sent me there. 
When I went to Mayo Clinic(s)...both of them... for my migraines, they told me my meds were fine. I needed to go to a pain clinic. I said I had already done that. So, if you're thinking of going THERE, if you have a good neurologist, he/she is probably giving you good meds. Check out a pain clinic and modify your food intake and you will Probably see Massive Changes! YES, they ARE good; I will not put them down. But, if you are under good care; use them! IMO
INSTEAD of saying "this blog", I should have used the phrase "this discussion group". I had not seen, in the hourS of reading (not posting) any mention of dietary adjustments...which lead to my post. I am NOT trying to step on ANY toes...just trying to offer OTHER info. If that isn't okay, I'll be gone like the wind that we have a LOT of here in ID!
SOMEONE asked 'what CAN you eat..'; and similar comments...so... tho I listed some...here is more info...
- I can eat MOST Vegetables....including Potato's, but no bacon bits on them.
I can eat MOST FRUITS.
I can eat Fish, Chicken, Hamburger, Pork; occasionally seafood...ALL as long as they have NOT been processed. So, if out doing errands, I'll grab a taco and potato tots; or a chicken wrap...it's easy!
I can eat some cheeses.
I can have Berry ice creams; there is a wide selection of those now. Most others have nuts or chocolate in them. I have to LIMIT my personal dairy intake.
I can have Berry pies and carrot, as well as white and yellow cakes with pudding filling. (I am able to tolerate the small nuts in the carrot cake if I only have 1 piece about once a month.)
I can drink sprite, 7-up and such ... just not the caffeine drinks. 
I can drink Herbal teas and there are MANY-MANY more of them now than there WERE.
Candy poses a problem...but I do liquorish, tho it has too much sugar; one has to have 'something', and my weight and BP are LOW! 
HINT: READ LABELS.
I choose to WATCH the foods I eat because I DO NOT LIKE PAIN. If you like the food better than the absence of pain, that is YOUR choice and you are the best one to make that choice for YOU. I offered these diets to someone that was going to a local doctor for migraines. The local dr told him to drink large amounts of caffeine when he got a migraine; the opposite of what Houston said...Houston said it solves 'this' migraine and makes the NEXT one worse. So...do what YOU want to! I mentioned the pepperoni, and they said they were not willing to give up the pizza; everyone's choice is their own. I know a young girl who cries because of her pain, and refuses to quit drinking her cokes. She says her doctor says her migraines are not like mine; they are not related to her diet. I did not write the diet. It does not have my name on it. I bought it...I offer the information, you can contact Houston if you want to. Everyone has to make the decision that fits them.
I can not even have chocolate swirled on the plate under a lemon pie, and give the restaurant heck when they do it 'for presentation'.
You will find you have different abilities. or sensitivities...whatever you want to call it. Since I have had migraines for over 50 years, they are at an extreme level. I was referred, recently to the local pain dr; she said she could not help me as she did not work with patients with pain at my level. I felt like a balloon whose air had been let out and I slid under the closed door! She thought ...by my expression...that I was thinking she was young and did not know what she was doing. I quickly explained that was NOT the case.
I can eat about 4 to 6 cashews once a month. If there are olive in a dishes, I pick them out unless they are REALLY chopped up. If there are peanuts, I avoid it, unless they are few or I can pick them out. I have told people who plan meetings to have cookies labeled as too many people are allergic to peanuts, etc now, and one can not tell if it is a peanut-butter cookie by LOOKING at it. (I live where they do "lessons learned" after meetings.) But, I can not sit down and munch on nuts like I used to do. I can have ABSOLUTELY NO Chocolate. I ate 3 green beans in a cup of soup, the next day, I walked into a glass wall at a store. I have found soy hot dogs for roasting at the campsite, I heard they are making lunch meats without additives (I live in a REMOTE area) but vegi-burgers are even better for my brother and me than even hamburgers. We are all different. Or we would all look like "Marilyn M" ha-ha!! I know I don't; she was a size 12, I'm a 4, trying to be a 10~!
I'm sure you're bored by now...
take this, if you need it...and TRY IT. If it works, GOOD! IT HELPED. It was a tool in your tool belt.
You've heard for years: you are what you eat. Now, here is someone else saying it again. Don't bother asking your doctor. Until you go to the place in Houston...The Houston Headache Clinic...they won't know what you are talking about. Of course, you can spend the
thousands that I spent! Most doctors do not understand this. This ....according to my local neurologist... is NOT allergies. So, do not waste your $$ like I did...on an allergy test. This is called TRIGGERS, and functions differently. Evidently the only test is what YOU do....eliminate all, then add one back...and check. If anyone is a scientist, you know about controlled studies. You are doing your own study on yourself, and it is the only one that counts for you!
Have a FABULOUS Rest of the Month....with LESS headaches....I pray....for YOU-ALL!
May I ask, if You are NOT looking for a Possible Additional solution for your headaches... If that is your choice for you.....why are you on this discussion? You CAN make that choice....I just wonder why....I'm a why-kyd; the engineer-type... not a nurse type... that's all.
good day...ID
