I live up here in the arctic north lol its been below 0 for several days cant get warm!! Reminds me of when I was a child and wanted a grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup for dinner. I just bought a cuisinart panini maker so i thought with this chill I would make cookies to warm up my kitchen and try my hand at a nice pannini. I went to the natural food store because as we have established I can not have any of the deli meat at our store since it has the seasonings that contain MSG. They dont have fresh sliced deli meat but have packaged meat so I looked at all the ingredients and boy am I confused! I chose a ham that has no nitrates made me happy they also have a salami!!!! :)!! So I looked at the chicken and Turkey thought I could mix it up like a turkey and ham and cheese or something since I can't have bacon. Sigh they both said carageenan however it did say made with seaweed. hmmmm this is new to me. Afraid very afraid of a reaction I did not buy this choose to look it up. the store owner was not around so I didn't have any one to ask. I googled carageenen made by seaweed the results that I got was a site that said that carageenen is made by seaweed its a thickening agent. sigh I have been avoiding everything with that ingredient. One list that I found about the possible sources of MSG says carageenan is a POSSIBLE source not always ok so how do you know? I guess if it says made from sea weed you know I suppose. This is sooo frustrating!! i will do more research!! I also bought some soy sauce that is MSG free my son wants to make us beef and broccoli and I was afraid because I read that all soy sauce had MSG. This was a good find. I dont have to worry about hurting his feelings now
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I have had some very odd memory issues lately. It is scary I have gotten lost in my own city trying to find the dmv coming from a different direction like i really could not find it for awhile there. I think its the topamax. I take 250 mg. I had another super super scary incident this weekend that put me over the edge that i wont get into on here. I am lowering the topamax to 200 mg ultimate goal is 150 maybe even 100 mg.. This is my rant these drs. They dont even look for reasons for your migraines they just want to pump you full of medications and this is part of the reason why insurance costs are so high!!!! Before topamax was generic it cost the ins over $200 a month. Now its like $40 for a 3 month supply since I get in in the mail. Maxalt is soooooo expensive it costs $900 for a 3 month supply and this is amazing for me I have for the first time in forever I have made a 3 month supply last more than 3 months I am on my 4th month and I think I have 15 pills left. So I may get another month. So my eating and botox is working. But mostly my eating. Not one dr. EVER has suggested it could be ANYTHING other than DRUGS just throw more and more medication at me so that I am a walking zombie. So right now my life is a mess and it may or may not be related to the fact that I have had my brain messed up with all these drugs so that I can not think clearly and do things because am in a fog and have no memory. Now having migraines does this to me when they pound my head all the time the more they happen the more that I get brain fog BUT eating this way has eliminated that ALLOT! I was really getting my life together and now its all messed up. frustrating as all hell.
I Don't know if this will be of any interest to anyone but I thought I would share what has worked for me and what has not. I take for prescriptions the max dose of topamax (250 mg) and 240 mg of verapamil do they work? I don't know I have 1-4 headaches a week BUT here is the thing with out them I could have them for 3 weeks at a time and with out them they are far worse so yes they help. Now for the other stuff i take yikes!!! I started about 6 months ago taking Migrarelief now for me I do not think this has had any impact. It has helped friends and my sister very much so for those of you out there its for sure worth a try its high dose of magnesium and Bvitamins I get it from www.vitacost.com i really like this website. It saves me allot of money. I also take Coq10 has this helped again I don't know sometimes I think it does. I have huge issues with hormones and it got much much worse last year when I had an abalsion because i had a never ending cycle and was so anemic it was terrible. My hormones because of my age are on a roller coaster and that is making the headaches so much worse. Because of this I take an herb called chase berry extract this i find has been helping I have been finding that I suddenly have more energy it took about 4 months to kick in NOW it says on the bottle to take 2 a day for 3 months and then 1 a day after that. Well here is the thing I was feeling really good and that is so unusual for me and I decided to follow the instructions to go to one a day BIG mistake I got sooo tired and felt terrible again. So back to 2 a day. Now it does not seem to take away the headaches but it does take away the fatigue that I live with on a daily basis and the brain fog that I get with migraine so any relief I will take!!! i also use progesterone creme 2x a day i currently use 1/2 tsp 2x a day for about 3 weeks a month this has helped me very much again it has not helped me with the headaches as much as the fatigue and I was having SUCH a problem with insomnia and I even went to the dr for a prescription and have barely had to use it. The creme had helped me so much with the sleep. Again I get this and the chase berry from Vita cost i tried getting them from our local store and they were double and triple the cost. I hoped this had helped.
I had such a nice weekend. I went to dinner Friday with my husband, son and Mother in law and we went to this little Greek place I had a Gyro now I had the cucumber sauce I am fairly sure it is homemade therefore it should not have MSG. But you never know. We went to the movies and saw the hobbit it was really good!
Then Saturday Morning I went to my friends house for coffee I did bring my own creamer in a small cup. She made a run to duncan doughnuts for muffins very sweet of her of course I had to eat it it would be rude did it have MSG? Maybe. That afternoon my husband treated me to a new frozen yogurt place where you add your own toppings I added lots of fun stuff including chocolate and peanut butter stuff. Then we went out for appetizers I asked about the salad dressing (we had a anti-pasta) and it was home made so I could eat it. I avoided the salami but ate the salad he ordered bacon wrapped escallops they were so good! I should have taken off the bacon yet I did not I loved the bacon it was crisp the way I like it. We also had shrimp cocktail and that is not an issue. And this brings me to today.. yup bad migraine!! Well not as bad as a couple of weeks ago i will be taking a maxalt before bed took a long nap this afternoon and I get the feeling it was the darn BACON! Damn its so frustrating!! I made sauce this weekend no onions just made chili with it did not add onions trying to be good and stay away from the tannins i am beginning to feel as good as I did when I eliminated it all before so its what I have to do now :(. Live in a darn bubble. Botox will kick all the way in maybe in a week. The muscles are paralized now just waiting for the darn nerves. So we will see if it helps if I mess up and every once in awhile slip up and have something like bacon it wont kill me!! So jacuzzi bath tonight with a maxalt and brain wave therapy and tomorrow I will be trying yoga again I am preparing to go away this weekend. I scrapbook and this is our annual girls scrap weekend. Very much looking forward to this. This only issue that I have with this is the food of course. We learned from last year that we have to bring snacks I am making a chex mix I got a recipe from a lady that I work with with it is a big recipe makes allot however the nice thing is I can have extra here so if I am watching TV or whatever I have something that I can eat that is not high in calories. The recipe is you take 2 boxes of 2 flavors of chex mix a big can of potato sticks and I used a half a bag of pretzels I am not a huge salty fan so I didnt want too many you can add a whole bag if you want. then you melt 2 sticks of butter and add spices I added garlic and pepper also a can of peanuts. So the only so so thing that can be a trigger is the peanuts so if you want eliminate them, I like them in there but its such a huge mix that there are not a ton so I think its ok. bake at about 200 lowest your oven will go for about 2 hours. keep stiring.
I am also roasting a chicken one reason I can use the stock I can freeze it another is that I am going to make chicken salad to bring. They don't provide lunch Sunday and since I cannot have deli meat...... I have hogged out a bit too much on oreos this week I still am unsure if chocolate is a trigger. I had that migraine Tuesday that I blame on the eating this weekend had a touch of one yesterday and almost sort of started to get one today but it went away. I hope it was not the chocolate!! I did buy ginger cookies from newmans own again I really do like them and I found in the organic section like cheddar crackers that i can eat and the brand is Annies. I got more of my soups I can eat and some sunbutter breakfast bars. I had a sunbutter sandwich the other day I did like it. trying to aviod every single trigger is so hard!!! I read on a blog the other day about flouressent light being a possible trigger. makes allot of sense to me I have always wondered when I feel good then i go to work under those lights i sometimes get a headache. I know that if you are on the verge of a headache one more trigger will set you over the edge and those lights may be it. Also may explain why when I Yesterday i ranted about how those closest to me have not been very supportive in all this. I posted a fb status about my botox and weight loss not a comment from those closest to me. Just another observation. I did get a text from one long time friend and that was a surprise yet only after I asked her a question first. Just an observation not the end of the world but I do feel all alone lately. Unsupported. I am on a struggle to find foods I can eat yet I feel like I can not discuss it with any one close to me anyone that SHOULD care. I feel abandoned. Mainly because they have offered me options in the past for things to try and when I find one on my own its like yea good for you whatever. When I go away for the weekend I will not talk about ANY of this I swear! I am not going to let this bother me and I will keep this as an observation about life. I felt good yesterday took my Grandpa out to lunch for his birthday he wanted to go to Panera I had the soup and chicken salad was this a good choice? I really have no idea I am pretty sure Panera has more natural ingredients I chose tomato soup in the thought that there is not likely to be chicken or beef broth in it and I know from the store that sometimes broccoli and cheese has MSG in it so Tomato seemed like the best choice chicken salad did too they say their chicken is all natural so I hope it doesn't have broth or anything added. I did end up with a headache that kept coming back and had to take a maxalt before bed and I can feel it poking me above the left eye. I want to go to Zumba today no I AM going to Zumba today and another damn headache is not going to stop it every time I have tried to go a headache has stopped me. I exercised yesterday and need to again today I want to get back into the routine. I just want to go a week with out a headache is this to much to ask?
Yesterday I had my 3rd botox injection because it was the beginning of the new year they did my height and weight. I was happy to see that my weight is about the same there as it was here you never know sometimes if home scales are quite accurate. So it was nice to see that the Dr. came in and he goes 'congratulations' and I was like 'what' he said 'you lost some weight 13 lbs! that is great hard to do!" when I started there i was about half way through my weight loss I have lost around 30 pounds. If i follow the whole migraine preventative plan its very hard to keep up with it in some ways but not eating MSG makes it easy in others. I am finding very little support from friends for some reason on all this. Don't get me wrong some are incredible but the ones that are the closest to me the ones that have seen me suffer for years seem to go cloudy and shut down when I talk about this seem to look the other way if someone compliments me on my weight loss 30 lbs is huge! And considering I am 5foot tall very huge! My youngest son is 16 and for the first time I am pre pregnancy weight pretty sad really. I feel better physically than ever and yet more alone. I just don't understand it. Are they threatened? I don't know. I am not bringing it up again I don't really say much as far as food if I am out I just don't eat things I try not to make a big issue about things. Now if I am with someone that doesn't know and asks me I tell them and maybe they are sick of hearing about this but holy crap its freaking huge to me its life changing and it may just may help other people. As a matter of fact I have one friend that is trying this to see if she will feel better. And one friend that shuts me down about this I have a feeling would very much benefit from not eating MSG has major intestinal issues and is very tired all the time but as far as any thing i say blows me off. What ever its fine. This is why I blog.
So back to the botox I had 2 extra injections in my eyebrows so I hope this is all that I need I am very hopeful on this. And as far as the diet things with tannins Onions, aged dairy, yogurt (that I have yet to try) banana's , nuts this is my take on this I think I can have them in moderation. I bought sunbutter so I can have a like a pb and j sandwich will report if the sunbutter is good. I bought some organic soups lunch is hard for me since I cant have deli meats, i found some ginger cream filled sandwich cookies they are newmans own one of my favorite brands! I got some vanilla chia tea hot cocoa is not a good thing to have too often the chocolate is a trigger maybe not for me but can be and high in calories and I want to keep this weight where it is. I am trying my best to eat healthy and organic keep this weight off my goal for 2013 is to have Ugh my neck has been very sore since that last bad headache also my shoulder sometimes when I have a series of headaches they seem to go down and fall into my neck and shoulder and leave them very achy sometimes unbearably so. This is one of those times. Yesderday i just stopped what I was doing every few hours and put heat on those areas and stayed on advil all day in the morning I also needed to add tylenol to it as well. Last night I added a pain patch and that helped my shoulder is still achy but I can deal. I get Botox on Monday this will help however it takes 2 weeks or more to kick in. I have been doing better with the foods but not eating onions is very difficult as not eating nuts. I was very excited to see that yesterday I was in target and they had Kashi cereal bars on sale I read the ingredients and I have learned that if things say beet juice most likely they are good no msg and I was right they had beet juice no bad stuff!! Every flavor!! For now I stayed away from the chocolate and nuts :( so i got a cherry cereal bar.. So they are on my good list with Newmans own, and Starbucks. So this is a
I had a lady come into the store today I know she had issues with MSG yet I didn't know why. She asked one time about a soup and we talked a little about it. So after yesterday and my discovery of looking at all the labels of the deli meats and my dismay that I can not have any of them. I also read more labels today (my husband says I have a problem LOL) So I did notice that we switched brands of tartar sauce and yup the Kens brand has MSG the old brand was Cysco it did not, Damn! I did have a good discovery however that the taco mix we use does NOT have MSG this was enlightening because I have never ever seen one with out it even organic I had planned on making my own (I did pin the recipe on pintrest ) . So any ways in speaking with this lady she said she had terrible digestive issues when she ingests MSG I know that when I stopped eating it my heart burn virtually went away and to think about it other digestive issues got better. She said that her doctors think as a result of MSG she has developed parkinsons disease!!!!!!!!! I have read other studies that have linked these brain disorders to MSG but wow to hear this happened to someone for real is shocking! So I will always eat this way! I emptied an entire cupboard yesterday filled a full garbage bag full of that crap that I cannot eat just sickening how much food this stuff is in!
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