Someone recently suggested going with a gluten free diet to see if it helped. Perhaps u were more gluten free than u realized and that was just overload.

I ATTEMPTED a gluten free diet for a year or two a while back. Although I think there were other types of gluten in the foods I was eating other than wheat gluten. The diet I started back in August, I cut out ALL bread, all pasta, and most processed carbs. So maybe I was really gluten free this time and eating the cake just reaffirmed how gluten sensative I am.

There is a really good book called Wheat Belly. A doctor wrote it, I can't remember his name, but he talks about how the wheat we consume today is not the same wheat we consumed back when we were children. He calls it Frankenwheat. It's not hard to think that that could be a trigger of my migraines.

It does sound like your gluten intolerant, at the very least. After over 30 years of headaches I finally found out gluten was my biggest trigger. I was dx with celiac and had to go gluten free. Both my sons inherited the celiac disease and get migraines if they eat too much gluten.

I hope you will be feeling better on a daily basis.

it can be the sugar .....that is one of my triggers ...it could also be the food colouring .....if it was a cholate cake than it could be the cholate .............all these are triggers for me ...the colouring is ...artificially made ...I can't have any thing artificule .......I can't have coffee at all ....but I can have tee ....coffee is a instant migrain ....so you could look at what you were drinking also ..........I hope you find all your triggers ...the wether is one of my triggers .....if it is greay out or raining ..I have a migrain .....and you can't do nothing about the weather ......and I can't take to much sun or I will get one ....have you had allergie tests ....you schould have them done and food allergies ..because allergies can cause you to have migraines ........I got tested ...and I was allergic to some basic foods that I have always eaten ....when I took them out of my diet ...the pain leavel went dowen .......good luck to you ....God bless

Sugar is not a trigger, nor is caffeine. I love my starbucks coffee, and chocolate never bothers me, so it's not the sugar either.

More and more, it seems like it's the gluten. Which actually sucks because I really loved to eat cheerios in the morning. Not so much anymore :( And now I eat my boca burger without the roll.

I have heard that glutin can be a problem for some people ......I am on a diet with no grains ...so no breads cereals ....ect ..just meat and verties ..and fruit .....and I feel much better in my bodie sickness but it dident seam to do anything for the migrains ....but it has been raining so much ...and that is a trigger for me ...so I might just not noticed if it made a diferance with the migrains .....let us know how the glutin free diet goes ...take care God bless

I stay away from Honey Nut Cheerios because of the almond,

one more thing you have to look at ....what ever is causing the problem doesent have to be eaten that day ..it takes time for foods to go through yout system so you can eat somthing and it could take two or three days befor it bothers you ...also ...you can have a small amount of a food but if you have to much of it in a short time that can also cause migrains ........so you can tolerate some foods if you have it once a weak or once a month but if you increase the amount of times you have it ...it will than become a problem and lead to a migrain .....

it never takes 2 to 3 days for a food to affect me. Just like red wine. Within 20 to 30 minutes, red wine will give me a massive migraine without fail. Same thing with certain foods.

Yvette, I'm just like you. Within 20 minutes a food or alcohol will give me a splitting migraine. I've given up everything that can be a trigger. I'm happy to say that I think the Botox is working. I haven't had a prescription pain med in two weeks now after 20 years of daily headaches. I'm still having small headaches each day but it is suppose to get better with each set of shots.

I think sometimes they can come on just because, no particular reason or reasons we don't think of. But if it happened 3 times in a row, then something is definitely there. my primary food triggers are yogurt/cultured milk products and MSG, they ALWAYS cause serious attacks regardless.
Did you make the cake and know what ingredients were used?

@Lynn- I'm so happy the Botox is working for you. It's great that you haven't needed any pain medicine since. My doctors are still upping my amitriptyline levels. I'm at 250 mg at night so far. It's worked better for me than the botox. I definitely take less medicine for my migraines since they have increased my dosage.

@Sooootired- the cake was from a bakery, but obviously has wheat gluten. And I just LOVE vanilla cake from a bakery. But I've been doing well staying away from bread and wheat. I really can tell the difference.