Finger licking good

I think I'm going to attack diet.

It might seem weird that it's only coming up now, but it's not, really. I've made adjustments to my diet but they weren't arcane in any way, or requiring of any detective work to suss out. I can get a migraine from the Nutrasweet in a stick of gum before it loses its flavour, or be sunk by the nitrites in a sausage before finishing the dog. Nice and simple, easily avoided.

What if there's more? In stuff I mind giving up, or which is kinda hard to ignore?

So I'm going to go terribly LA and do a cleanse, and then embark upon a couple weeks of a restricted diet and see what happens.

Thing is, my last cleanse had me incredibly pissy and migrainey by day 2...I have to make sure I'm not running that risk again. So I'll probably opt for something embarassingly chi-chi and expensive in terms of a cleanse, and then buy out half of Wholefoods for my restricted diet afterwards.

As for restrictions--where to start? Wheat, I think. Let me see if I can do without that a while.

The nose may know, but it sure doesn't remember

Allergic rhinitis is one of the few things I was tested for that came out positive. I'm an eerily healthy woman suffering from "persistent and intractable migraines."

But I am allergic to dust mites, and a little to grass.

The anti-allergy meds are so hard for me to remember. They're not fittable into a nifty pill case and taken with me wherever I go. No, I need to remember, morning and evening, to double-squirt the Nasonex, and one squirt each nostril of the Astelin.

I have no idea if the allergy contributes to the migraines, but I can't argue with less congestion.

I'm half-assedly managing for dust mites at home. I have a Roomba now, because that's the only way the place can get vacuumed more than once a week. Mattress is esconced in a noisy mattress cover, and the stuffed toy is periodically frozen (I'd wash it in hot water, but the poor thing is delicate these days--certainly won't stand up to weekly washes).

We'll see.