What to do about headaches?

[marnie]

Hi Shelley,

Is there anything I can take for detox/cleansing headaches? I have been eating cleaner with no sugar (aside from the molasses in the cleansing drink) whereas before I would eat things with sugar in them eg: ketchup, mayo, Sprite, etc) and the last few days I have been getting killer headaches - almost like migraines in the way that they have at times impaired my peripheral vision and caused nausea. I am not prone to migraines (as far as I know, I've never had a true one).

Another thing, in a previous post to you I told you about a very severe panic attack that I had a few days back. Now I seem to be on the edge of one all the time. Trying to think what could be triggering these, but haven't found it yet. Is there anything I can do to help those also? I have to go back to work tomorrow and since that's where it happened, I'm afraid it's going to be a trigger point and I'll have another one tomorrow. (Which is not helping my overall anxiety...lol). A lot of times I feel like my muscles are light, almost floating. Would you take this as a sign I need to eat more/drink more, or of my anxiety/emerging panic attack? Because that's kind of how it starts out. Sometimes it develops, sometimes not. I know you're not a doctor, but you have helped so many people on this forum and I'm really needing some help about now.

Marnie

[shelley]

Please describe the headaches to me very particularly. For instanc,e where exactly is the pain? Is it at the base of the neck, or the entire head? Temples? Do you feel it in one eye, both eyes, not at all in the eyes? Is it accompanied by nausea? Is there pulsing/throbbing? Heat/hot forehead?

There are a lot of different kinds of headaches. Based on your other symptoms it sounds like lack of magnesium. It might be a good idea to drink one flat teaspoon of Epsom salts, or a combo of Emergen-C and CalMagFizz.

[marnie]

The headaches are not localized in one area but are different each time. The one I have right now starts in my neck on the right side and goes up to the top of my head. Hurts more when I turn my head, so it almost feels like this one is muscle related. I don't think I've ever felt them in my eyes. Except the peripheral vision thing, and that is only momentary and it goes away. Sometimes it is throbbing, although not tonight. Head does not feel warm, but sometimes feel pressure in my ears and head. Ears sometimes feel plugged and on the verge of pain, but not yet. Yesterday's headache caused some nausea for a few minutes but not sure if that was headache related or lack of food (I have been fasting for all meals except dinner, and dinner was cooked veggies). During the day I am drinking water, ginger tea, detox tea and french onion soup). I am taking EmergenC daily for the past week. As per another post last week, I am trying to get the mucous in my body to clear up and that is why the almost fasting and teas.

Thanks for your help,
Marnie

PS Should I put the epsom salt in hot or warm water? How much water?

[shelley]

room temp or warm water, a very large glass.

Whenever you have a headache, first thing you want to do is to drink a couple glasses of water, or a large cleansing drink, or large rehydrating drink. Water is always the easiest, safest form of intervention - and often the most powerful.

If it's mostly just one side of the head, it's definitely mineral-related. See, every mineral deficiency or toxicity has either a right-side or left-side dominance in its symptoms due to how the receptor sites of cells work.

If muscles are involved it's magnesium.

Since the eyes are not involved, and no heat, it's not due to food additives like nitrates.

French onion soup is excellent for vein health, but it can be problematical during cleansing/detoxing if you're not also getting good amounts of calcium and magnesium, because it's high in sulphur which is the polar opposite of these two.

[marnie]

Thanks Shelley for your great information - as always!! I think I've noticed the headaches since I started taking MagO7 - don't get the headaches every day, but don't take the MagO7 every day either. Could this product be taking more Mag out of me than before I was taking this? It does say on the bottle that it's not to be used as a Mag supplement. Just thinking that the headaches have been happening since starting this, so maybe it's taking out a lot of the nutrients that I need with everything else? That also makes sense about being Mag deficient, as I've heard that Mag deficiency causes panic attacks also, and have not had any in a long time until this last one, and I had been taking the MagO7 off and on for a few weeks. Would it do any harm to take the epsom salt teaspoon as a preventative measure? To try to ward off the headaches and panic attack before they start? I'm very nervous about going to work tomorrow since last time I was there I had the panic attack. Also, it's not pleasant to have to work when I have one of those headaches.

Thanks so much for all you do!!
Marnie

[chickpea]

Shelley that's really interesting about the different types of headaches you can have.
I've been getting headaches much more recently and always on my forehead or just above. Is that a detox headache?
Thanks again
Anne

[Invincible]

Sounds like it Anne. The only time I get headaches is if I've had more than half a tsp of Chinese Bitters.

[shelley]

Hmm... they say you dno't absorb much of the magnesium with these types of products, but I've always wondered how that could be so! You certainly end up with more free radicals with all the oxygen being released. So messed up magnesium plus free radicals having to be scavenged out robbing you of other nutrients PLUS the cleansing effect in the bowels could all serve up a pretty hefy headache cocktail, yeppers.

It would be quite safe to take a flat teaspoon of Epsom salts as a preventive measure for 3 days, after that you'd want to take some calcium with the mag. A lack of calcium can bring on a kind of panic attack too.

Forehead headaches, if there's heat, are toxic headaches yep, but can also be sinus headaches. You have to feel your eyebrows when you're having one. If there are sore spots along the brow, that's irritated sinuses. If it's a toxic headache, one thing you can do is make a paste out of ground ginger and apply to the forehead, then drink peppermint tea and take a teaspoon of oil as a mini-liver flush.

[Shawnamarie]

Most of my headaches are muscle related, especially if I spend too much time with my head flexed forward. Or dehydration.

Just thought I would throw that in!