Looks like I'm going to have to change my bio

[erastes]

Because Cheese and I have temporarily(?) fallen out.

I mean...Cheese!  It's literally a staple food as far as I am concerned.  I meant to have a baked potato with some double Gloucester in it the other night, and instead I got chatting online, involved in Google Maps and squeeing that I could see tharain's boat, and he could see my house.  So I forgot to cook anything. As the microwave is dead, doing a potato would have taken an age, so instead I just scoffed the cheese (at 10pm) and went to bed.

Big Mistake. Huge. It's probably a sign that I'm getting older that my constitution can't cope with things any more.  I woke up at 3am with a headache like someone was sticking a needle through my eye, and my joints were agony, my knees (even though I'd been lying down) felt like they were both dislocated and I had a temperature which didn't break till about 2pm. Nice.  I can only ASSUME this was a food induced migraine, but whatever it was it pole-axed me all day, I went back to bed after feeding the cats at 8am and slept for 8 hours.

Blerugh. Not nice.  All gone today though so business as usual!  But, I shall miss my cheese, Gromit!!!

Comments

[lilian-cho.livejournal.com]

Ick. Sounds awful.

What about chocolate?

[fiona-glass.livejournal.com]

Oh, bad luck. :(

I've just discovered that my terrible migraine attacks (could be as many as 3 a week) were caused by caffeine, so I'm off coffee. And missing that. Decaf is all very well but I want my coffee, dammit!

[megleigh.livejournal.com]

ow! not good at all.

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

You could try cheese pre 6pm first, just to see if it was the time and the neat dose that did the problem?

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

I miss cheese. =(

[mzcalypso.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine went through a period of being unable to digest anything made with cow's milk - but she was OK with goat & sheep's milk cheese. I can just imagine the sheep-milking jokes, but -- life without cheese would be very sad indeed.

[zamaxfield.livejournal.com]

I've had an awful lot of migraines but never one with a temp. Perhaps it was just viral, and cheese is still your friend. Red wine is what will do it to me, without even a preamble, just ten minutes later, voila, instant agony. No fever, no joints though... I don't drink at all anymore, but I still remember the aftermath of red wine.

It's awful though, the thought of testing that theory out and going through a night like that again.

[zoepaleologa.livejournal.com]

I totally sympathise. I came to the same conclusion about white wine last weekend. Thanks be to all the gods that never were, not red.

*genuflects*

[erastes.livejournal.com]

If it happens to me with wine, I shall.. not care. Migraines are worth it???

*gulp*

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I feel so very very much better today (almost bouncy) - better than I've felt for weeks, I wonder if it was a mixture of migraine and the tail end of the viral infection I thought I was over from a fortnight ago...

[erastes.livejournal.com]

This is the first time I've ever had this kind of reaction, but then I'm not a huge chocolate eater and i've never eaten a pound of it at 10pm!!!

[zamaxfield.livejournal.com]

So glad, bouncy is good!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yuk! That's horrible. I would really hate to give up something i really loved. I'm not going to give up cheese, but maybe not eat a huge hunk at night!!!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Better today though - in fact I'm SO much better (better than I've felt for weeks) I wonder if it was half migraine and half the tail end of the viral infection i had a few weeks back...

[erastes.livejournal.com]

No way! I'm not putting myself through that again. Moderation is for Monks (except for cheese)

Damme!!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

You too eh?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I had a lot of allergies as a child - still do - perhaps its time to go back to an allergy specialist.. blick..

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

Six years ago all the strangeness I had been experiencing up to that moment was diagnosed as bad IBS and I had to quit dairy, alcohol, fatty foods, and cut my caffeine down to a cup or two of tea a day. (And really? That cup or two of tea sometimes doesn't happen because of what it does to me.)

I thought I'd have to toss myself off a building. It took me four years before I became comfortable eating out again and I still get twitchy if we go to a new restaurant and I wasn't able to review their menu online first.

I miss being able to eat a thick slice of buttery Havarti, a bowl of cottage cheese curds, crumbly lovely soft feta... *drowns in drool* And as a big cheese fan I detest soy substitutes so I've just learned to do without. (Unless I've been a very good girl and I haven't had attacks for a while, then I might order a pizza. Pizza cheese cannot be real cheese because it doesn't affect me every time like a wedge of Stilton does.)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Ack - poor you, that must be awful. I'm wondering if I might have a problem, and I'm almost afraid to go and find out!

I think Mozzerella is supposed to pretty good for you (compartively... i know they push it here - buffalo mozzerella particularly

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

MMMmmmmmmmmozza!
I wonder if that is why pizza cheese is a bit more tolerable? Or if it just isn't real cheese?

Ah well, as long as wheat, onions, and garlic are still a go I'll manfully struggle on! =p

I'd go get checked all the same and cross your fingers it isn't a mold allergy! A coworker had such a bad mold/spore allergy he had to avoid cheese and yeasty goods. I think he could still have feta tho? As it isn't aged really.
{edit: Darn spelling errors!}