Posted by IsoM on October 16, 2002, at 16:17:10
In reply to Re: Feverfew leaves?? » IsoM, posted by BeardedLady on October 16, 2002, at 14:53:10
I understand now. Yes, the fresh leaves can cause a bit of stinging on the tongue for some. It was recommended that a person just slip a bit of the leaf between the rest of a sandwich - kind of like English mustard in a sandwich as opposed to trying it alone - yow! It's only temporary, disappears in less than a day.
Yep, tried feverfew for about 4-5 months. Wanted to give it a good trial but it just didn't work for me. I felt nothing, good or bad. The dose was enough too. It's just me.
I do dislike the auras as they leave my head feeling cottony & it's very hard to do much when the pattern fills your vision. But I do my best to ignore them. I'm very good at talking myself out of reacting to things much. Doesn't mean I don't react at all - my body generally will continue to react but I can keep my mind from getting upset much. It's what I've done when I've had panic attacks. Talk myself out of it so it won't last too long.
That's the weird thing about migraines for me. I did see a neurologist who tested me & said they certainly seem like migraines, but there's no pattern to them. Never have been - keeping headache diaries never revealed anything. Weather, stress, cycles, food, even lack of sleep never seemed to trigger them. It may be a rather complex mixture of things that cause mine but I've yet to discover a cause & effect for them. Sometimes, I think my mind & body occupy spearate dimensions of time - they don't seem to correlate to each other much.
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