I know there have been a lot of threads on migraines lately, so sorry for another one!
I usually only get hormonal migraines that occur right before or in the beginning of menstruation. I have gotten a couple lately, though, that were totally unrelated to my hormones and that baffled me. Well, today I finally figured it out! The past 3 times I have drank this one coffee creamer I have gotten a migraine. The creamer has Carrageenan in it which is another name for MSG (according to my dad who has suffered from migraines for 30+ years!).
What was weird about my migraine (which I did not link the 2 until after the migraine) was that before my head ever started hurting my left arm had a feeling of weakness. It felt like I had just worked out really hard and my arm was fatigued. It was sort of weirding me out that my arm was feeling like that, so I was starting to get worried about a stroke or something (pretty unlikely as I am in my early 20's!!). About 45min to an hour after I felt weakness in my arm I started developing the migraine. That's when I realized the feeling of weakness in my arm was related as well as the cause being the creamer. I just hope now my body does not become sensitive to all sources of MSG...I would hate to have to watch every little thing I put in my body to avoid a migraine (my dad has to do this and it seems like a pain in the butt).
Has anybody else every gotten weakness in a limb before a migraine? I read online that this can be a type of aura, but I don't think it is very common. It definitely kind of freaked me out at first.
GRRR, I hate migraines so much, especially when nobody understands how debilitating they are!!!
(***sorry for the horrible typo of migraine in the title!!***)
I usually only get hormonal migraines that occur right before or in the beginning of menstruation. I have gotten a couple lately, though, that were totally unrelated to my hormones and that baffled me. Well, today I finally figured it out! The past 3 times I have drank this one coffee creamer I have gotten a migraine. The creamer has Carrageenan in it which is another name for MSG (according to my dad who has suffered from migraines for 30+ years!).
What was weird about my migraine (which I did not link the 2 until after the migraine) was that before my head ever started hurting my left arm had a feeling of weakness. It felt like I had just worked out really hard and my arm was fatigued. It was sort of weirding me out that my arm was feeling like that, so I was starting to get worried about a stroke or something (pretty unlikely as I am in my early 20's!!). About 45min to an hour after I felt weakness in my arm I started developing the migraine. That's when I realized the feeling of weakness in my arm was related as well as the cause being the creamer. I just hope now my body does not become sensitive to all sources of MSG...I would hate to have to watch every little thing I put in my body to avoid a migraine (my dad has to do this and it seems like a pain in the butt).
Has anybody else every gotten weakness in a limb before a migraine? I read online that this can be a type of aura, but I don't think it is very common. It definitely kind of freaked me out at first.
GRRR, I hate migraines so much, especially when nobody understands how debilitating they are!!!
(***sorry for the horrible typo of migraine in the title!!***)