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I love you, too, Dr Banik! Thank you for blessing us with your podcasts! My dad, brother, and both sisters got horrible migraines. When I was young I got very bad migraines 3 days before and 3 days after my period. I used to take an OTC pain reliever very sparingly, maybe 3 pills a month. I saw a full page ad 25 years ago by excellus explaining rebound headaches and how drugs both rx and OTC can cause the rebound headaces. This is ironic, sadley because now when I speak w/insurance companies during my work day for a very large 400 doctor practice they are advising the providers to prescribe certain drugs (smh, my times have changed : ( I decided to test this and stop taking the 3 OTC pain relievers I was taking a month. I was shocked to find that I went from having 4 headaches a month to having 2. There was a time when I saw a neurologist and everything that he gave me caused rebound headaches. I tried feverfew, which gave me nightmares. Back then I learned by experience that not keeping a good sleep schedule would bring on a migraine attack, becoming dehyrated would give me headaches, too. These days at 64 years old I rarely get migraines, I average 5 hours of sleep a day during the work week, many days just 3 hours - I know my body needs sleep and I"m working on becoming more organized so that I can finish doing what I have to do and get to bed early - but the lack of sleep does not give me a headache these days; I think because I am sitting in the seat of consciousness. MSG will bring on a migraine so I stay away from it. I only eat whole plant based non processed foods. I do not eat the SAD diet. Chemicals, perfumes give me a migraine as I am very sensitive. The only migraines I get these days (knock on wood. ) Can occur while I am working. It starts w/my vision breaking up and the moment this happens I tell my supervisor that I'm having an occular migraine and need to drink magnesium powder and will be right back. I log off my PC put a teaspoon of magnesium power in warm water (from the tepot) drink it and in a few minutes I am fine and can see but then have a horrible migraine headach and by drinking enough water and eating fresh fruit, nuts, seeds carbs throughout the day the migraine goes away. I maybe only get this type of migraine once every 3 months and it completely goes away provided I do the before mentioned steps. I am having eye issues which is why God lead me to Dr Banik. Because of the eye issues that I am having now (not migraine related) the very last occular migraine that I had I thought oh no how can I manage this on top of the current eye issue. I do have Pharma GABA at home in my apothecary that I use very sparingly, which I decided to take along with the magnesium powder and by God's good grace, it stopped the occular migrance. I used to be affected by weather changes and it would always bring on a migraine. These days not eating the SAD diet weather changes no longer bring on a migraine. Even, scentless, color free laundry detergent will bring on a migraine so I decided to use 1/3 cup bronson unscented castle soap as a laundry detergent instead, 1/2 cup baking powder and rinse w/ 1 cup white vinegar when doing my clothes and I never get sick now from the laundry detergent. Also, these days on the weekend I can get up and miss a meal for as long as I can go and do not get a migraine headache I attribute this to a good whole food plant based diet. I do not eat processed food.
Please keep doing what you are doing Dr Banik. We need you! I hope to see you in the not so distant future and lo ok forward to it. You are an absolute Godsend. I have taken your podcast to heart. I do not eat the S.A.D diet and no processed foods. I have a vegan whole food diet and after watching your video am seriously thinking of eating eggs from a regenative farmer. I'm looking forward to getting even more colorful whole foods into my diet for my eyes.
I eat with oatmeal to lower my blood pressure. Even more health benefits are confired by eating walnuts and almonds pomegranate apricots peaches cherries, I no longer follow the Keto diet I switched to the Hunza people diet
Pls help my husband is having glaucoma and the two eyes has been operated some years back. But now you are only seen faintly what can we do for him to see
Hard to hear people bring called non compliant when that is very judgmental. Need to use different terms and think about the issue differently not them and you. They are not non compliant. They may have other reasons why. Thank you
My CDR is 0:6:1. And I got to know this when I went to the doc for allergic conjunctivitis. My doc made me do a perimeter test which I passed. So she said that I don’t have glaucoma and it could be that I just have larger optic nerve which is normal. Is this true? I’m only 32
My mother is diagnosed with IIH and peppilodema and has csf pressure 37 . She is taking diamox for 10 months now but no improvements yet and has worsened even more than it was before . Please tell me what should be done now ?
what are your thoughts on seeing the sunrise and sunset with the naked eye, without glasses or contacs and not through a window? there is a lot of info out there that that is very beneficial. it can't be true that we should never not wear sunglasses.
I’ve had IIH (PTC) since 2002. My first opening pressure from my first spinal tap was 89 (890, depending on how you say it) and 2 weeks later it was 64. I have had 13 brain surgeries and 200+ spinal taps since. I’m on full disability. I have a VP Shunt and 2 stents. My neurosurgeon saved my life on multiple occasions and saved my vision. IIH isn’t a death sentence.
Changes in blood sugar levels as you mentioned may be a critical factor in the onset of headaches. What about blood pressure is there any link there? Also is there a link to blood pressure and the pressure in one's eyes?
Dear doctor, I have been suffering from migraine ever since I was born.now I am 34 years old.i could not study properly.i couldn't go to any job..I can't go outside in day time...even smells, food, weather etc.,how I live in this world..I am in stress..I don't like to live..
Ahh!! GREEN SMOOTHIE EVERY DAY SO going to pass on this podcast to new to this concept family members 💕🙌🙌🙌Hear what this Doc has to say . I still like to still have mire vegs as a portion of my dinner time plate
