Diet Mistakes and Medication Decreases

It was one of those weekends. You know the kind. The kind that go by so fast because you spent most of it in bed in pain with a headache or waiting for time to pass so your headache would too. It was beautiful spring weather here too, which is a double edged sword. The sunny spring weather is a killer trigger for me. It does not take long out in that strong unfiltered sun- even in the car to make my head pound!

To make matters worse, I started ever so slightly decreasing my Zonogram preventative. Only by 25 mg but boy oh boy did I feel the difference! I would like to get off most of my medications eventually, but am not feeling very positive after the very negative reaction to such a small decrease.

Then I was eating these cookies I got at our local Mennonite bulk foods store. Delicious blueberry whole wheat bars. I read the ingredients 3 times! I was excited that I could eat them. They do not even have corn syrup! Then I thought about it and remembered DUH, the fruit in the cookies was DRIED- banned on the elimination diet and it had dried figs! Why didn't I realize this when reading the ingredients? I was desperate and it only said blueberries and figs without the dried part which would have triggered the WAIT! YOU CAN'T HAVE THAT! voice in my head! ugh! By that time I had already eaten at least five over three days!

Last one!