Daily Headaches + some other symptoms

Brenda86

Jedi Master
I did some searches and saw a few things that MIGHT fit for what's going on with me, but not quite sure. I am just getting so tired of it, I thought I'd post and see if anyone has any ideas.

I will preface by saying I am acutely aware that my symptoms could very likely be stress related.

I have been having headaches, pretty bad ones, almost every single day. Actually, I can't really remember a day in at least the past month when I have not had a headache. Also, I get extremely dizzy when I stand up at least once a day, especially getting up from a bath, even when my water isn't extremely hot.

I have also been feeling pretty tired. Given the stress I have been under lately, I am pretty sure it's related to that, but I'm not completely sure. It's very taxing. Any advice is welcome.
 
Lise Bourbeau, in her book Your body’s telling you: Love yourself!, gives the following indications about headaches. In light of your current life situation I thought you might find this helpful in addition to all the usual dietary and health recommendations.

Lise Bourbeau said:
Emotional block

The head […] has a direct link with the I AM. If you have a headache (especially on the top of the head), it means that you hit yourself over the head with belittling I Am’s. You accuse yourself of not being this or that and especially of not being intelligent enough: you ask a lot of yourself.

You belittle instead of appreciate yourself. If you feel as though your head is going to burst, the message is to stop accumulating so much within yourself through fear of other peoples’ judgement of what you are or are not.

You may fear being ahead, in other words being in front, being first or leading the way.

Having a headache, especially in the area of the forehead, indicates that you try too hard to understand everything. You should give your intellect time to accumulate enough data in its memory for your intelligence to be able to make a synthesis and better understand[ing].

Mental block

Because the head is the seat of four of the five senses, it is a very important part of the body. When it hurts, you are prevented from seeing, hearing, feeling and saying clearly what meets your needs; this distances you from what you want to be. You’re being sent the message to get in contact with your real I AM, in other words with who you are t them moment. There’s no point in forcing yourself to be what you believe others want you to be. No one in this world can be exactly what all those around them would like.

Your body is showing you that you should let go of your mental activity, stop wanting to understand everything mentally and just be yourself.
 
mada85 said:
Lise Bourbeau, in her book Your body’s telling you: Love yourself!, gives the following indications about headaches. In light of your current life situation I thought you might find this helpful in addition to all the usual dietary and health recommendations.

Lise Bourbeau said:
Emotional block

The head […] has a direct link with the I AM. If you have a headache (especially on the top of the head), it means that you hit yourself over the head with belittling I Am’s. You accuse yourself of not being this or that and especially of not being intelligent enough: you ask a lot of yourself.

You belittle instead of appreciate yourself. If you feel as though your head is going to burst, the message is to stop accumulating so much within yourself through fear of other peoples’ judgement of what you are or are not.

You may fear being ahead, in other words being in front, being first or leading the way.

Having a headache, especially in the area of the forehead, indicates that you try too hard to understand everything. You should give your intellect time to accumulate enough data in its memory for your intelligence to be able to make a synthesis and better understand[ing].

Mental block

Because the head is the seat of four of the five senses, it is a very important part of the body. When it hurts, you are prevented from seeing, hearing, feeling and saying clearly what meets your needs; this distances you from what you want to be. You’re being sent the message to get in contact with your real I AM, in other words with who you are t them moment. There’s no point in forcing yourself to be what you believe others want you to be. No one in this world can be exactly what all those around them would like.

Your body is showing you that you should let go of your mental activity, stop wanting to understand everything mentally and just be yourself.
All of this makes a lot of sense with what's been going on in my life and in my mind recently.
 
Brenda86 said:
I have also been feeling pretty tired. Given the stress I have been under lately, I am pretty sure it's related to that, but I'm not completely sure. It's very taxing. Any advice is welcome.

Indeed. It sounds like your body is sending you a message that it is urgent for you to get real about the situation you described here. Or perhaps the symptoms are signs of severe energy drain.
 
The head […] has a direct link with the I AM. If you have a headache (especially on the top of the head), it means that you hit yourself over the head with belittling I Am’s. You accuse yourself of not being this or that and especially of not being intelligent enough: you ask a lot of yourself.

You belittle instead of appreciate yourself. If you feel as though your head is going to burst, the message is to stop accumulating so much within yourself through fear of other peoples’ judgement of what you are or are not.

You may fear being ahead, in other words being in front, being first or leading the way.

Having a headache, especially in the area of the forehead, indicates that you try too hard to understand everything. You should give your intellect time to accumulate enough data in its memory for your intelligence to be able to make a synthesis and better understand[ing].

For some time I had pressure on top of my head but not the headache, and this post cleared some things to me, that maybe I was forcing things and wanting to control, not being more gentle and caring to myself, accepting myself as i'am, trying to hurry things up and not seeing that it leads to obsession, being artificial, not letting it to go in it's natural way,wanting things to be perfect, thinking i have to do that and that-planing and not acting on the knowledge that it won't work because it almost never work as you planed, and then I felt also an anger on top of my head, some kind of block because of that trap probably I put myself into not seeing or better to say not wanting to see it wasn't right way. This is part of my negative nature, and I see this makes you closed to some things like you're not accepting them. And there is also this feeling I have on the area of my belly, like it is connected to my head, where i feel very sensitively fear and desire, feeling urge to control-to compete, anger,it doesn't control me but I still feel it, lower emotional center maybe. This "need" for perfection was when i see it better installed in me when i was kid in primary school 6-7th grade, when I started learning seriously for good grades because I wanted to escape negative situations from my parents and because I didn't want for them to worry about that. Then I ended up trying to be perfect in school and in sport, in school it was perfect because of grades but in sport it was also almost perfect, it was perfect from beginning when I was still young and in a sense free, more in a touch of myself, but with time, with fear of growing consequences if I fail and feeling that I'am not worth enough if fail, so this was maybe thriving and blocking force, and with it there came anger and narcissism behavior. In sport later I didn't have that one thing that was "needed" to be "perfect" and now when I look that was maybe lack of motivation because it wasn't part of me, didn't had so much desire for it and there was fear of success maybe because that would require more effort from my side, and that all training, forcing and not being able to express my self got me stuck and angry, and damage was done, artificial program was being building for long time.Even now I still train it for myself, i say it is for a health but ask myself is it really and see how I don't know myself and how it is to deep in my blood. Maybe I was thinking of what would other say, I was to much concerned about others and not about me maybe not having courage, better to say not knowing that saying no could be beneficial for me. And when I started reading about different view of the world, that of C's, world started to collapse very quickly but there are some doubts I have if some things I'am still doing is a part of my being or is it only program of fear, or is it maybe trying to run from responsibility (being lazy) being in the middle not knowing if i really like what I'am doing in life and being not sure to continue or to change it, asking would it be a clever choice, like my college. I discovered that I'am not really person who cares about some status in society so I don't have some motivation in that area, never had, only was thinking of it and when I see now how the matrix and surrounding is ruthless when you don't play by the rules and don't fill their expectations and want to change some things, that frankly sometimes makes me real angry, destructive anger it is to change things by my own hands, but i manage to not identify with it, i deal with it in myself. I got much deeper with this post, it was not my intention, but it felt easier to share it and i know I'am not so open guy with sharing things like this but I see it had to be done, just want to thank Endymion for sharing this because it was something I searched for, I knew it was true but wasn't having belief that middle way is like Buddha said the best way.
 
There's also the very simple possibility that it could be a food sensitivity. I've heard a lot of stories where people cut out gluten or dairy or some particular food and their daily headaches leave forever.

It could also be hormonal: excess estrogen or xenoestrogens. You may need to try the revised US diet and if that doesn't clear it up, then test some other ideas.
 
Cervical misalignment could be causing your headaches and stress to your entire system. I never have headaches unless my cervical is out of adjustment. Once corrected, no headaches... and a lot more energy. My daughter suffered for years from migraines so severe that she became completely non-functional during an attack... nearly catatonic. I literally had to drag her in for a correction. She had been programmed to believe that all chiropractic was quackery. She is now wiser and no longer has migraines.

A simple test is to stand up straight, but relaxed, in front of a mirror, head up, feet forward and apart about 18 inches, arms relaxed at your side. If you notice a tilt of the shoulders, one way or the other, and if your head naturally tilts slightly left or right, chances are you need to visit a chiropractor who has received NUCCA training (National Upper Cervical Chiropractic Association). Do not let just anybody work on your upper cervical. Severe injury can result. The cervical correction is done with kinesiology and is very gentle. Warning: many chiropractic doctors are trained in kinesiology who are not trained to do upper cervical work. Stick with NUCCA. They have a practitioner locator at their website for one near you. http://www.nucca.org/find_doctor.php

There are many things that can trigger headaches. This is one of them. Like Laura said, diet is also very important.
 
Brenda86 said:
I have been having headaches, pretty bad ones, almost every single day. Actually, I can't really remember a day in at least the past month when I have not had a headache. Also, I get extremely dizzy when I stand up at least once a day, especially getting up from a bath, even when my water isn't extremely hot.

I have also been feeling pretty tired. Given the stress I have been under lately, I am pretty sure it's related to that, but I'm not completely sure. It's very taxing. Any advice is welcome.

Brenda, are you taking any magnesium supplements?
 
I went through a month long period where I had headaches all the time, if they got too bad I would have to go lay down and when I awoke they were gone...only to start up again in about a half an hour.

Went to the doctor and he diagnosed it as a stress headache. He also noticed that I had high blood pressure...which runs in the family.

What caused these headaches...not really sure, could of been diet, very stressful time period or lack of physical activity.
I sit at a computer all day and if I don't force myself to excercise my body feels it.

In the end I started running...which was a personal favorite excercise of mine and the headaches went away within a couple of weeks. I think headaches are a tough thing to diagnose since everyone's body is different. But running worked for me.

To this day if I start getting headaches or sick...I start running again (cause I don't get sick or headaches when I continually run) and the physical symptoms disappear.
 
Laura said:
There's also the very simple possibility that it could be a food sensitivity. I've heard a lot of stories where people cut out gluten or dairy or some particular food and their daily headaches leave forever.
It could also be hormonal: excess estrogen or xenoestrogens. You may need to try the revised US diet and if that doesn't clear it up, then test some other ideas.

Brenda, this could very well be the case. Since I started changing my diet around, my headaches have all but ceased. And I had horrible ones that would cause blurry vision and would sometimes last close to a week.

Not to say I don't still get headaches sometimes, but some of that has to do with back problems. But definitely the frequency and severity have decreased incredibly since eliminating gluten and especially dairy (milk, ice cream, cheese).

Do you do back exercises as well? I found Pilates and Yoga to be helpful.

EE helps too! Here's my experience with headaches and EE http://eiriu-eolas.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=51
 
Hi Brenda,

I once had a continous headache for about a month that I thought was sinus related. Nowadays, I've only gotten headaches when I've eaten something I'm not supposed to. How's your diet these days? I remember from reading your ealier postings that you had a strong prediliction to diet soda. Have you cut it out completely? Aspertame is a beast and has been implicated in migraines.

How's your pregnancy going? I hope everything is well.
 
DanielS said:
Laura said:
There's also the very simple possibility that it could be a food sensitivity. I've heard a lot of stories where people cut out gluten or dairy or some particular food and their daily headaches leave forever.
It could also be hormonal: excess estrogen or xenoestrogens. You may need to try the revised US diet and if that doesn't clear it up, then test some other ideas.

Brenda, this could very well be the case. Since I started changing my diet around, my headaches have all but ceased. And I had horrible ones that would cause blurry vision and would sometimes last close to a week.

Not to say I don't still get headaches sometimes, but some of that has to do with back problems. But definitely the frequency and severity have decreased incredibly since eliminating gluten and especially dairy (milk, ice cream, cheese).

Do you do back exercises as well? I found Pilates and Yoga to be helpful.

EE helps too! Here's my experience with headaches and EE http://eiriu-eolas.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=51
I had strong headaches last few months, stronger than usual, they were no migraines. By drinking a lot of water in small sips, approx. 5 lit. per day(I was thirsty) and resting, everything went back to normal. Cs transcripts mentioned that we should drink a lot of water. Also I did spinning clockwise, very slowly, as many as I could. Breathing program too. It was a solution for pain relief (in my case). :)
 
I had horrible headaches for years even after taking painkillers. Only recently did I discover that dairy (mainly milk and yogurt) gives me headaches. If you consume milk, yogurt, or any other dairy products for that matter please consider removing them from your diet to see if it is the cause. Also, I noticed the eczema on my hands has gotten so much better since I've excluded dairy and gluten from my diet. :D
 
Odyssey said:
Hi Brenda,

I once had a continous headache for about a month that I thought was sinus related. Nowadays, I've only gotten headaches when I've eaten something I'm not supposed to. How's your diet these days? I remember from reading your ealier postings that you had a strong prediliction to diet soda. Have you cut it out completely? Aspertame is a beast and has been implicated in migraines.

How's your pregnancy going? I hope everything is well.

Actually, I have not had a single diet soda since February! :D And I realized the yogurt I was eating had aspartame, as well, so I also stopped eating that. And I was completely headache free after a few weeks. I did start to have a few headaches again when I became pregnant, but they've gone now too now that my body has adjusted to the hormones.

I have to admit my diet could still be better - I still eat a sandwich here and there. Occasionally I will have some dairy, too, but I've definitely cut back tons over the past several months. I LOVE brown rice, so I know I'm eating at least one thing often that's good for me and the baby.

The pregnancy is going very well so far. I'll be 22 weeks on Sunday. So far no signs of this baby coming early. My stress level also seems to continue to get better and better, as I am able to assert myself much better when it comes to my mom. And my relationship with my boyfriend is like... actually, I'm not sure of the words to use... I'm completely comfortable, secure, calm, etc with him. so there's no stress there, thankfully.

I think my headaches were a painful mix of the high stress I had at the time plus the aspartame.
 
Brenda86 said:
Actually, I have not had a single diet soda since February! :D And I realized the yogurt I was eating had aspartame, as well, so I also stopped eating that. And I was completely headache free after a few weeks. I did start to have a few headaches again when I became pregnant, but they've gone now too now that my body has adjusted to the hormones.

I have to admit my diet could still be better - I still eat a sandwich here and there. Occasionally I will have some dairy, too, but I've definitely cut back tons over the past several months. I LOVE brown rice, so I know I'm eating at least one thing often that's good for me and the baby.

The pregnancy is going very well so far. I'll be 22 weeks on Sunday. So far no signs of this baby coming early. My stress level also seems to continue to get better and better, as I am able to assert myself much better when it comes to my mom. And my relationship with my boyfriend is like... actually, I'm not sure of the words to use... I'm completely comfortable, secure, calm, etc with him. so there's no stress there, thankfully.

I think my headaches were a painful mix of the high stress I had at the time plus the aspartame.

I'm glad about you being able to assert yourself better and that your relationship is going good, and especially that your stress levels are down. I just don't know what to think that much about your diet changes. I don't want to instill guilt feelings in you, it's just that if I were you, if I would have been pregnant I would give my All to my baby. And not have a sandwich here and there, a little bit of dairy, or have ''at least one thing'' that I often eat that's good for me and my baby. But that's me.

I know it's difficult, but not impossible and good food can be delicious too. In the end it's your baby and not mine, I just had to say this. Take care.
 
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