Migraines

As some of you know I’ve suffered chronic headaches for the last few years. Actually headache. It just never ended. In fact the last time I remember not having a headache was in May/June 2006 when I was in the hospital and forced to fast for a few days for tests.

Since then I’ve dealt with a steady headache that I would rate a 2 or 3 and then occasionally it would spike for a day or more ranging between 7-10. Usually once it gets past 7 everything is unbearable.

I’ve been dizzy, mentally unclear, unable to even form sentences, seen auras and just been made plain sick by these things.

I’ve tried different diets, and lately I’ve even started to try exercising but my biggest challenge has been the last few months. I’ve felt so tired and so drained during the migraines that when I woke up in the mornings my first objective was to see just how much more I could sleep.

Obviously I don’t blog about this a whole lot, because its just bad news with bad news with a side of complaint. But today something clicked. I’ve been praying for God to heal me or if that wasn’t in his will to show me what I could do to stop these things from running away with me.

Thank you for your prayers as well. God has been good today. During my break at work I did some looking up of migraines on the net and I believe God is helping me put the pieces together.

I found that milk can cause migraines. And during any elimination diet, milk, cheese, and ice cream are all something that I’ve never given up. So I did a search on “too much milk” and found that too much can lower your iron count. Well the last few times I’ve given blood they’ve told me my iron count was low. Lack of iron can make you sleepy which I was practically all the time.

And I’m practically a milk-aholic. After all I grew up in the 80s and I listened to Mr. T. Apparently there is such a thing as too much milk.

I’ve taken iron before but they usually make me feel worse not better, so I talked to my chiropractor Dr Wolfswinkel about it and he had a whole food product that increases your iron count. Ferrofood. I took some tonight and I have to say wow what a difference. My headache is down to 2 or 3 from a 5. And I’ve been so awake tonight and full of energy.

I still have to give up dairy for a week or two to fully get it out of my system and then I can try different dairy products but minimally to make sure I don’t cause my headaches again.

I do know a few other things that can swing my headaches one way or the other and I’m hoping that I’ve finally nailed the major culprit. I’ve got to admit, for as much research as I’ve done there is always new stuff to learn.

This will be a bit rough. Like I said, I’m a milk-aholic. Dr. Wolfswinkel said that we usually crave the things that are the worst for us. Like smoking.

As Christian I think of sin like that. It always something we want to do while at same time poison to our soul.

Anyway, I’m just so excited and happy! I’ve actually thought that I may have to just put up with these migraines and headaches and now well if tonight is any indication, now I have a shot at eliminating these things.

God bless,
Daniel

PS. Just in case you’re wondering none of the doctors or nurses said anything about milk possibly being a problem with my iron or my headaches. The pieces just didn’t fit because it is very uncommon for adult males to have these particular problems.

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Legislating Freedom and Money

I came across some of this the other day listening to Deace and some of the others on the net and found it all quite interesting.

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“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”
– the late Dr. Adrian Rogers

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse form the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.- Alexander Tyler – unverified according to http://lorencollins.net/tytler.html

Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage. – Alexander Tyler or Benjamin Disraeli? – Unverified according to http://lorencollins.net/tytler.html

“Treason doth never prosper; what’s the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.” – Sir John Harrington

This July 4th the US will be 233 years old. And we are now very dependent on our Government for Economic Recovery. If only, because they put us into debt to begin with.

We probably only lasted this long because we were a Republic, but more so because of God’s grace.
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Since I went to public school I had to look up largess, so for your convenience here is the definition.
lar⋅gess
/lɑrˈdʒɛs, ˈlɑrdʒɪs/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [lahr-jes, lahr-jis] Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. generous bestowal of gifts.
2. the gift or gifts, as of money, so bestowed.
3. Obsolete. generosity; liberality.

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