How to avoid Getting Headaches

sara shh said:

How to keep away from Getting Migraines Headaches

Before I started Atkins I got 3-5 "common migraine" aka
"cluster" headaches per year.

Since I started Atkins in 1999 I have had 1, and that was
during a month I was very far off the wagon. Even very
poor adherence to maintenance has been to keep them
from coming back *at all*.

Going low carb GAVE me headaches until I figured out I was eating too
much protein and not enough fat. Since I adjusted my ration, they went
away.

Quoted post said:

Going low carb GAVE me headaches

Migraines and other types of headaches are not the same and
have different causes. It's quite common for new low carbers
to have headaches in the first 2 weeks but they aren't migraines.
So if this was in the first 2 weeks all anything you did in weeks
3 on didn't actually make the headaches go away - What did it
was being on low carb long enough for the initial transient to
pass.

Quoted message said:

until I figured out I was eating too
much protein and not enough fat. Since I adjusted my ration, they went
away.

Trying to combine low carb with low fat does lead to high protein.
High-protein - low-carb - low-fat diets have caused problems over
the years. Headaches could very well be one such problem.

Doug Freyburger said:

Before I started Atkins I got 3-5 "common migraine" aka
"cluster" headaches per year.

Quoted message said:

Since I started Atkins in 1999 I have had 1, and that was
during a month I was very far off the wagon. Even very
poor adherence to maintenance has been to keep them
from coming back *at all*.

I very rarely get headaches on low-carb, and when I do, I can tell
exactly where the knots are in my back that are causing it. A carb
binge lasting more than a day or so, especially involving a lot of
sugar, used to bring them back with a vengeance, no matter how my back
felt.

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Aaron -- 285/235/200 -- aaron.baugher.biz

Aaron Baugher said:

Doug Freyburger said:

Before I started Atkins I got 3-5 "common migraine" aka
"cluster" headaches per year.
Since I started Atkins in 1999 I have had 1, and that was
during a month I was very far off the wagon. Even very
poor adherence to maintenance has been to keep them
from coming back *at all*.

I very rarely get headaches on low-carb, and when I do, I can tell
exactly where the knots are in my back that are causing it. A carb
binge lasting more than a day or so, especially involving a lot of
sugar, used to bring them back with a vengeance, no matter how my back
felt.

I still get occasional non-migraine headaches. Usually if I
drink a half liter of water it's gone in a few minutes so it was
a sign of dehydration. Sometimes it's from lack of caffeine
which tells me I need to go decafe for a while.