Tomorrow, I go back to Dr. Ledtke for a follow up visit. I am eagerly anticipating what he is going to say.
I am also eagerly antcipating the day God's going to heal me of this. This past fall, I have done a Bible study with my mom called "Believing God" by Beth Moore. It was life changing! I would highly recommend it.
It was all about, You say you Believe in God, but do you Believe God? It totally took me back to my core of what I believe to be true of God and myself. He's taken me on quite a journey. At one point, I realized that even if I knew what the cure was, I wasn't sure I was ready to be done being ill. Wild! I've lived with the chronic pain for so long, I was just used to life like that. But praise the Lord, He moved me past that. I'm ready to be healed, and now I know He can do it. I'm believing Him! Bring it Lord! Take these migraines away! We're going to Turkey! I love Him for taking me on this journey. After He heals me of this, I'm excited to see what comes next in my walk with Him. I've learned that this is more about knowing Him through the journey. This is just one level, and next time He'll take me deeper and expose more sin, and heal me, and get more glory! We're in for one big adventure!
I would definitely recommend it. One of the main things is to cut back on all possible dietary triggers so that my overall trigger level is lower. There is a 2 page list of things to cut out! Some of the main ones that I've found to be the hardest are cheese, onions, msg, hydrolyzed soy protein, caffeine, chocolate, nitrates and nitrites, tryramines (which is included in thinks like nuts, yogurt, sour cream, citrus, bananas, avocados raisins, etc.) Basically, I am having to relearn how to shop and cook. This is definitely a learning curve. But we're committed to it, because as it stands now, migraines are crippling our family. Thankfully, God led me to another book, "Migraine-Free Cooking!" by Heidi Gunderson.
This is a book written by another migraine sufferer who also read Dr. Buchholz's book and tried to follow the diet that eliminated all the triggers. She spent 2 years researching nutrition and recipes and then wrote this cookbook. What a blessing! It takes a little bit of the guess work out of cooking. Because I know that I can eat everything in there. The hardest part has been relearning what our new favorite meals are going to be. Mac and cheese is out for a while! BUMMER!!! For a little while, we were having nachos quite frequently. Here is my attempt last night to eat them the new way. The family still had them regular, mine had cream cheese instead of shredded cheddar. It was ok. It was like having the cheese and the sour cream mixed in one bite :) I've also done spaghetti with cottage cheese on the side. This gives me the salty addition that I usually like from the parmesan. We definitely appreciate your prayers. Pray for motivation, creative ideas and stick-to-it-iveness (how do you spell that?!?)
