I think you’re on the right track with diet—headaches on a semiregular daily schedule sounds a lot like consumption of food on a semiregular daily schedule. Nothing in the data set jumped out at me straight away, so I expect it will be a hard-to-find dietary problem. “All your life” suggests a widely available property, such that its presence is invariant over changes in location and diet.
Ctrl-f “no headache” didn’t help much.
Based on this line of reasoning, I suspect a mild gluten intolerance. The only test I’m aware of is rather expensive: buying gluten-free bread, and avoiding cereal and pasta for two-ish weeks.
Searching for what giving up gluten is like regarding headaches: gluten withdrawal is apparently a thing (see the July entry), so if gluten-free makes the headaches worse, it’s one of those arduous treks through low-utility space to get from under a local optimum.
I’d recommend more research on gluten-free to be sure of details.
I don’t think going gluten-free has to be expensive if you don’t go for gluten-free products which resemble foods that would normally have gluten. On the other hand, you do have to take complete control of what you’re eating. For example, most soy sauce has gluten in it.
Alicorn, this is a tentative suggestion, as in it might be worth the aggravation but I’m not sure. Have you posted a detailed description of your headaches?
I think you’re on the right track with diet—headaches on a semiregular daily schedule sounds a lot like consumption of food on a semiregular daily schedule. Nothing in the data set jumped out at me straight away, so I expect it will be a hard-to-find dietary problem. “All your life” suggests a widely available property, such that its presence is invariant over changes in location and diet.
Ctrl-f “no headache” didn’t help much.
Based on this line of reasoning, I suspect a mild gluten intolerance. The only test I’m aware of is rather expensive: buying gluten-free bread, and avoiding cereal and pasta for two-ish weeks.
Searching for what giving up gluten is like regarding headaches: gluten withdrawal is apparently a thing (see the July entry), so if gluten-free makes the headaches worse, it’s one of those arduous treks through low-utility space to get from under a local optimum.
I’d recommend more research on gluten-free to be sure of details.
I don’t think going gluten-free has to be expensive if you don’t go for gluten-free products which resemble foods that would normally have gluten. On the other hand, you do have to take complete control of what you’re eating. For example, most soy sauce has gluten in it.
Alicorn, this is a tentative suggestion, as in it might be worth the aggravation but I’m not sure. Have you posted a detailed description of your headaches?