Artificial
I am a sodaholic. Especially caffeinated and sugared sodas. When my weight exceeds my 5 additional pounds limit (I have a limit as to what I will accept so that I don't feel the need to diet continually during holidays and family visits and times of great stress) I break out the diet sodas. (Diet Cherry Coke is acceptable right now, and Diet Dr. Pepper was ok until I ran out of those.) But with all the chatter and "research" on aspartame, et al, I am trying to cut calories in other areas and just drink the regular Dr. Pepper.
I get migraines on a regular basis, and the diet drinks are becoming a trigger for the headaches. Caffeine helps though, so I can't go totally off the sodas. And I don't like 7-up or Sprite unless there is some alcohol mixed in with it!
Breathing unfiltered air when the honeysuckle and crape myrtle are blooming is another trigger. For the last couple of days I have been able to drive back and forth to work in our repaired A/C'd van, allowing me to enjoy the blooms without the pain.
I have long thought that the migraines I get before major rain and thunder storms were related to pressure changes, but tonight I think worrying about all the people in the hurricane path may be more of a trigger than the pressure change. Lack of sleep is a migraine trigger. I like to read to settle my mind to make it easier to fall asleep (Patricia Cornwell is my writer of choice just now) and as I am about ready to drop the book and pull up my quilt, my husband will come in all excited and upset about something financial. Or he will be talking about the possible starters for his favorite college (American) football team, and quoting weights and how often they work out, and I totally tune out except for his voice keeping me awake. He really needs some male friends he can talk and discuss these things with. He needs a "red hat society"-type group designed for aging/graying or balding men. In his case, they can wear bright orange. I "like" football, and I enjoy watching the games on TV with him, but the pre-season stuff, or the politics of conferences and rankings leaves me weary. And migraines are always waiting to pounce! I went 3 days last week without needing a decongestant or my migraine pills or even aspirin, and tonight I feel like they are at my brain's check-in desk and are demanding a room with a view. Maybe even a suite!
I need to try posting more often as I have been forgetting the procedure between times! It might also help if I tried posting earlier in the evening, instead of early in the morning! And I might get to that sooner if I wasn't caught up in surfing through other blogs, and following the links they post (tonight's surfing led me to reading about several post 9-11 groups: The Brudenhof Peace Barn & Peter M. Goodrich Memorial Foundation were 2 I felt very inspired by; and several Philippine bloggers...I read some of those to see if they mentioned places I visited as a military-dependant teenager. Totally different times and locales from when I was there. But interesting just the same.
I get migraines on a regular basis, and the diet drinks are becoming a trigger for the headaches. Caffeine helps though, so I can't go totally off the sodas. And I don't like 7-up or Sprite unless there is some alcohol mixed in with it!
Breathing unfiltered air when the honeysuckle and crape myrtle are blooming is another trigger. For the last couple of days I have been able to drive back and forth to work in our repaired A/C'd van, allowing me to enjoy the blooms without the pain.
I have long thought that the migraines I get before major rain and thunder storms were related to pressure changes, but tonight I think worrying about all the people in the hurricane path may be more of a trigger than the pressure change. Lack of sleep is a migraine trigger. I like to read to settle my mind to make it easier to fall asleep (Patricia Cornwell is my writer of choice just now) and as I am about ready to drop the book and pull up my quilt, my husband will come in all excited and upset about something financial. Or he will be talking about the possible starters for his favorite college (American) football team, and quoting weights and how often they work out, and I totally tune out except for his voice keeping me awake. He really needs some male friends he can talk and discuss these things with. He needs a "red hat society"-type group designed for aging/graying or balding men. In his case, they can wear bright orange. I "like" football, and I enjoy watching the games on TV with him, but the pre-season stuff, or the politics of conferences and rankings leaves me weary. And migraines are always waiting to pounce! I went 3 days last week without needing a decongestant or my migraine pills or even aspirin, and tonight I feel like they are at my brain's check-in desk and are demanding a room with a view. Maybe even a suite!
I need to try posting more often as I have been forgetting the procedure between times! It might also help if I tried posting earlier in the evening, instead of early in the morning! And I might get to that sooner if I wasn't caught up in surfing through other blogs, and following the links they post (tonight's surfing led me to reading about several post 9-11 groups: The Brudenhof Peace Barn & Peter M. Goodrich Memorial Foundation were 2 I felt very inspired by; and several Philippine bloggers...I read some of those to see if they mentioned places I visited as a military-dependant teenager. Totally different times and locales from when I was there. But interesting just the same.
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