Where do I get off calling this blog The Migraineur? I haven’t written about migraine in months! What the heck is this blog about, anyway?
I started it as a form of psychotherapy for my migraines. I haven’t had a migraine since something like, I don’t know, June 3, 2007. It’s not that I’m uninterested in the subject of migraine any more, but my interest is less immediate. Inderal has given me back my life. I wish I weren’t taking it any more. I returned to a low-carb diet a couple of months after starting Inderal, so I can’t say with any certainty whether low-carb is helping or whether it would be enough by itself to control migraine. I’m a little too chicken to try dropping the Inderal to find out. And I’m a little too chicken to go to my doctor and tell her I want to taper a drug that to all appearances is working fabulously in order to try drug-free therapy. She’s an allopath; she’ll think I’m nuts.
I am fairly sure that the drug has something to do with the snail’s pace of my weight loss. I am also not looking forward to summer, when the combination of my natural low blood pressure, the heat, and Inderal is going to make me feel like a dishrag. I moved from one house to another in July, and it was torture. I wonder how I got it done. Then again, I was also fat and addicted to carbs in July. Maybe this summer will be different. Maybe if it isn’t, that’s the impetus to persuade the doctor to get me off Inderal.
But I digress. I will spare you the long discussion of how the blog came to be about low-carb. The short discussion is migraine > menstrual period > reproductive endocrinologist > polycystic ovary syndrome > insulin > OMG-I-gotta-stop-messing-around-and-ditch-the-carbs!
And I won’t say this blog has stopped being about low-carb, but I can feel it evolving into more. A blog about food. About respecting food. About eating well. About not swallowing what you’re told. About thinking for yourself. And yes, a blog about why a low-carb diet isn’t gonna kill ya.
I’m sure I’m not the only person who has ever started a blog with a specific topic in mind and then watched it drift … and drift … and drift. So gee whiz, if I were whisked back in time and could pick a name for my blog, what would I call it that would be sufficiently general? I suppose I could’ve chosen something funky and meaningless, like “bananagoddess” or “tuna_toes.” But I’m thinking that, if I could rename this blog, I’d call it UseYourHead.
Interestingly, though, in spite of my neglect of the topic of migraine, far and away the most viewed post on my blog is Ketogenic Diet for Migraine? And, in fact, if you Google “ketogenic diet migraine,” my blog is the first hit. (I’m famous!) So I know I’m not the only migraineur who wonders whether low-carb is helpful. I’m only sorry that I don’t have a definitive answer to the question.
(In case you’re wondering, the second most viewed entry on this blog is What’s Your Ideal Weight? Why are all my most popular blog entries questions? How Many Teaspoons???? is up there, too, as is Would You Take Diet Advice From This Person?. Anyway, I am sure that most people viewing the ideal weight entry are disappointed, since I do not tell you how to figure out your ideal weight, and in fact I’m throwing the whole concept into question.)
Migraine aura picture from 
