Thanks everyone,
I have had MAV for exactly 2 years now. I have tried different vitamins and some other natural stuff. I’ve also tried a little bit of chiropractor. I have tried Nortryptaline and periactin earlier into this mess. Nort was a good help, but I wasn’t satisfied. Periactin didn’t seem to do much. My problem is that I don’t want to be on meds. Not that I don’t believe in them cause I really do. Just take a look through the success stories and you’ll see they really work. Here’s what I’ve been doing since late february:
My diet is quacker oats oatmeal with some whey protein and flax seeds in the morning. Brown rice pasta mixed with spagetti sauce and ground chicken (tastes awesome). And whole wheat bread and omega 3 peanut butter throughout the day. Watermellon, apples and cantelope for fruit. Green beans and a whole ton of broccoli for vegi’s. Oh, and nothing but water to drink, period.
I know some of the things I’ve been chowing on have some migraine triggers in it, but my assumption is that they are not triggers for me. The reason I am using them in my diet is cause I love the taste and I didn’t want to deprive myself of everything I loved cause I could get a little depressed which can also be a trigger, so I just picked my poison there. Plus there is no obvious food triggers that I know of for me.
Now here is where I think has made the biggest difference thus far. My work out program. Before when I’d dive into exercise, I was only doing cardio, and it would help, but it did feel as if something was missing and I still had many symptoms. When I got cleared to lift weights again, I set up a new work out plan. One that included weight lifting and cardio. It only takes me about 30-40 minutes in the gym to complete the workout.
It is in no doubt working. The weight lifting is the significant force behind my success this far. Especially when doing my legs. I thought about doing legs more days a week like Kelley suggested, but If I did that, my legs would probably fall off my body. I work them pretty hard to the point where is tough to walk the next 2 days. Plus I’m also doing 20 mins of cardio on the days I don’t work out my legs.
The past few weeks I’ve actually strayed from the diet a bit more than I should have and it doesn’t seem to bother me at all. But the whole month of March, I was very strict with the diet. Except on a few of the saturday nights when I drank some alcohol. I have also been taking the Intramax still. I’ve been out of it for a week now though and I want to see if I can still manage without it. We’ll see.
I’m not completely out of the woods yet. And I’m sure I have to keep up the exercise to maintain, but my setback this past week went a lot differently than they usually have. Usually when I’d have a setback, I’d get hit with a wave of dizzines (not spinning vertigo, just some nasty off balance), and I wouldn’t recover and get back to my baseline until nearly 2 weeks later. But the last setback I had, I got hit with the wave of dizziness, and I recovered within 10 minutes and my baseline has basically been me back to normal the way I used to be. It’s been absolutely amazing the last couple weeks. I just want to be able to sustain.
Greg
