For those with migraines causing problems with fasting...

[timewerx]

For many of those with migraines, one of the most common trigger is hunger or skipping a meal.

So fasting can be a huge struggle for migraine-sufferers like myself from participating.

So I'd like to share a simple solution to solve the problem. Please I'd like hear your advices as well:

1. To start and this is the most important - avoid Ultraviolet and bright lights. Close the curtains, use dim lighting (soft and warm) with shade so you don't see the light directly (better if you turn off all lights - be sure to have a torch with you..). This applies whether it's day or night and avoid going outside (If you really need to go outside, wear sunglasses and dark overalls, if it's hot outside, avoid going out completely). If watching TV or using computer or looking at any display panel, reduce its brightness to minimum if possible.Best day to begin is the start of weekend if you work so you can spend two days in the dark and don't have to go outside.

2. Ease the fasting off - don't stop eating right away, begin with reduced food intake - easing off little by little. Last foods to eat should be fruits.

3. 2nd day, you can turn on the lights indefinitely but make sure to use only soft and warm lighting but still with curtains closed. 3rd day, you can return to normal lighting and safely go outside even without sunglasses.

Hope this helps, your further advise for migraine sufferers participating in fasting is appreciated!

 

[Jesus' Follower]

For many of those with migraines, one of the most common trigger is hunger or skipping a meal.

So fasting can be a huge struggle for migraine-sufferers like myself from participating.

So I'd like to share a simple solution to solve the problem. Please I'd like hear your advices as well:

1. To start and this is the most important - avoid Ultraviolet and bright lights. Close the curtains, use dim lighting (soft and warm) with shade so you don't see the light directly (better if you turn off all lights - be sure to have a torch with you..). This applies whether it's day or night and avoid going outside (If you really need to go outside, wear sunglasses and dark overalls, if it's hot outside, avoid going out completely). If watching TV or using computer or looking at any display panel, reduce its brightness to minimum if possible.Best day to begin is the start of weekend if you work so you can spend two days in the dark and don't have to go outside.

2. Ease the fasting off - don't stop eating right away, begin with reduced food intake - easing off little by little. Last foods to eat should be fruits.

3. 2nd day, you can turn on the lights indefinitely but make sure to use only soft and warm lighting but still with curtains closed. 3rd day, you can return to normal lighting and safely go outside even without sunglasses.

Hope this helps, your further advise for migraine sufferers participating in fasting is appreciated!

Good advice, I'm afraid I love food too much.
Prayers for all who do though.

 

[vespasia]

In honesty; Fasting is never taken up for the sake of gaining health benefits of ‘not eating’ but nor should it be done in order to cause harm to oneself. It is to honour God, not to dishonour our own bodies. Fasting should always be undertaken with care and, if in doubt, with proper medical consultation.
Those who suffer from chronic and severe forms of primary headache diosrders such as migraine, that are aggrivated by fasting, should look to simplfy their diet. Reducing down to just fruit raises blood sugar levels that then crash. This is turn can set off a migraine. Its better to opt for food that provides a slow release of energy over a period of time on the advice of the doctor who oversees your headache disorder.

The aim of fasting is to be able to spend time with God. If fasting from food results in the kind of pain you can only think of pain its the wrong kind of fast for that person. Perhaps look at others things in your life that take up your time and offer to swap those for time with God in their place.

God knows a heartfelt intent to give up a something to spend time with God and will honour it be it a break from using a touch-phone, internet, eating out, giving up a social actvity for a bit and so on.

 

[timewerx]

In honesty; Fasting is never taken up for the sake of gaining health benefits of ‘not eating’ but nor should it be done in order to cause harm to oneself. It is to honour God, not to dishonour our own bodies. Fasting should always be undertaken with care and, if in doubt, with proper medical consultation.
Those who suffer from chronic and severe forms of primary headache diosrders such as migraine, that are aggrivated by fasting, should look to simplfy their diet. Reducing down to just fruit raises blood sugar levels that then crash. This is turn can set off a migraine. Its better to opt for food that provides a slow release of energy over a period of time on the advice of the doctor who oversees your headache disorder.

The aim of fasting is to be able to spend time with God. If fasting from food results in the kind of pain you can only think of pain its the wrong kind of fast for that person. Perhaps look at others things in your life that take up your time and offer to swap those for time with God in their place.

God knows a heartfelt intent to give up a something to spend time with God and will honour it be it a break from using a touch-phone, internet, eating out, giving up a social actvity for a bit and so on.

Thanks for your reply, lots of useful information in it!

But things did work out for me, I don't experience migraines anymore!

I fast for a completely different reason because I already spend a lot of time with God. My social activity is virtually nonexistent and my expatriate work is in a desert climate. It's too dangerous and too hot outside for me to walk a kilometer to the mall or McDonalds or the grocery store and because I don't have a car. I do it but rarely to buy tons of supplies to minimize my going outside to avoid getting harassed in the streets or getting sick from the heat. Even the room that I live had no windows, the food provided by our company is terrible, not just the taste but it's quite unhealthy. I barely touch my tablet nowadays.