Exploding Brains

Insurance providing, the MRI and MRA will happen sometime next week. The new doc wants to double my dose of topamax, and has given me a sample inhaler to try. He has also given me a list of foods to avoid.

Those are: cheese, chocolate, any aged cured or processed meat, any sausage or bacon, any meat prepared with tenderizer, soy sauce or yeast extracts. No ice cream or milk (which I can't eat anyway). No yeast bread, crackers, coffee cake, doughnuts, or SOURDOUGH bread (I might die). No pole or broad beans, or lima, or snow peas or navy peas or pinto or pea pods. No sauerkraut or onions or olives. No pickles. OMG. NO pickles!!!! Desserts appear to be entirely off the menu. No canned soup - see, mom, I told you this shouldn't be on your menu anyway! No pizza, beef stroganoff, lasagna, peanut butter, peanuts, pumpkin, sesame and sunflower seeds).

I confess to being torn. It seems to me that the migraines I have that aren't inflicted by stupidity (like, not being asleep at eleven, or not eating lunch until two, or otherwise being dumb) are hormonal. I always have them the week before my period. If I stopped eating cheese, or nuts, or sourdough bread, I would starve to death. I don't like meat, really, and could cheerfully not eat it. I could live off pasta, with cheese. I'm a bit heartbroken about pepperoni pizza, but it's worth noting that I've never eaten one and gotten sick. In fact, the only two things I've ever noticed a relationship between...ok...three...are wine, crab, and sometimes a ham and cheese sandwich.

I am also supposed to watch my sleep, and exercise every day. Maddy will be delighted.