And so I've missed another day of work with a migraine. Guess I've got to get more serious. Get extremely strict about foods containing preservatives and also start keeping a detailed log. This time I've so far been sick from Saturday night, all through Sunday and it's now 4pm on Monday. Not super painful but I know from past experience that I don't think very well like this and if I try to go to work I start feeling a lot worse. I've barely made it home a few times leaving in the middle of the day. I'm all worried I'll end up losing my job like my sister did. Or endlessly plagued by these headaches like my 65 year old mother still is.

This time I suspect it was a rum cake that I think was loaded with preservatives. Yet, I had eaten some of one a month or so ago and been fine. I again wonder if hard running makes me more susceptible, this last week I did a bunch of running at 8.5 min/miles steady state and really pushed hard, left myself dead tired.

Additionally, again, I know that I can't eat:
peanuts
chocolate
various chips (preservatives) This includes things like doritos, even vegetable flavored pita chips. Basically to be safe I just avoid all chips. Now including bagel crisps.

Alcohol is iffy. But in this occasion I haven't touched any in quite a while.
Cheese if iffy. And really something to avoid anyway. In this case I hadn't had any in a few days. No wait, I had ravioli that had cheese in them. And who knows, maybe it was that as opposed to the rum cake.

I did also have a asparagus salad at the only decent place in town earlier in the day which I've never had before.

I have to just not eat anything new. I can eat tomato soup. Broccoli sandwiches. Bean burritos. Bread. Plain pasta with tomato sauce. Indian food. Larrabars. French fries I guess (not a whole hell of a lot of choices at work.) Lettuce and tomato sandwiches. I should make hummus and broccoli lasagna. Lentil soup. Fruit. I guess cherry pie is fine. And other fruit pies. I avoid other nuts for other reasons but really should get into nut butters. But the stores nearby only have peanut butter and I always forget. I miss split pea soup. Wife recently tried to make some from scratch and it was awful.

Going out to eat is slightly dangerous.

Blah, I don't even feel like thinking about it. It hurts too much to really think or do anything really involved (too hard to watch TV or read or anything where I'm not flat on my back). Yet I want to distract myself from the pain.