Can you please help me figure out what caused my migraine?!

Can you please help me figure out what caused my migraine?

I have a history of migraines that have always been very tracable to a severe yeast allergy. I don't eat yeast anymore, and every time I do, I get a migraine. I have the type with an aura, and my symptoms progress reliably through: blind spots and tunnel vision, numbing of the right hand and arm, right lips and cheek and sometimes tongue. The headache itself doesn't usually set in until about 4 hours after the start of all this. I have always taken Imitrex with success before the headache sets in.

Yesterday I had a migraine I cannot explain. I had eaten out for dinner the night before: steak tips and onions, garlic mashed potatos and steamed veggies. I ate the same thing as leftovers for lunch yesterday (no breakfast, just water and one ghirardelli square). About ten or fifteen minutes into eating lunch, the migraine started up with the vision spots.

1 month ago
If it isn't weird enough that there was no yeast, the migraine behaved differently. It progressed through the vision problems WAY faster than usual (with me having about 35 degrees of vision by the time I got to the pharmacy).

Which brings me to another point. My doctor had recently given me a new Rx for Zomig saying that it worked better and had fewer side effects (though I love how Imitrex works, I've never been a fan of the strangulation feeling).

So a coworker took me to the pharmacy to fill the scrip and I took one immediately. Rode with her back to work and closed myself up in a dark office. Then it got really weird.

I couldn't put together sentences. I couldn't think of regular words like blast, bumper, modern, temporary... I said "five" instead of "temporary" and "repaired" instead of "blast" (as in "I'm having a repaired with this").

My boyfriend says I had the weirdest phone conversation he's ever heard anywhere.

I didn't get the numbness, no loss of coordi-

1 month ago
no loss of coordination, just this awful headache which set in within an hour of the aura.

And the meds DID have the SAME or WORSE side effects and very slow to help the migraine. 20 hours later now and I still have the very bad headache.

I believe it had to be something in the leftovers that was the trigger because the migraine started fifteen minutes after I started eating that. I had the one tiny chocolate square at 8am (four hours earlier) and I eat chocolate ALL. THE. TIME. I don't think it's that.

could leftovers grow some bacteria that causes migraines, but NOT nausea? I never felt nauseated at all.

1 month ago
I have been tired and somewhat stressed lately. Could that have combined with something else? And what are your experiences with Zomig or Imitrex? I don't even think the Zomig started working until the second dose two hours later. All the first dose gave me was side effects.

first of all glad you were able to find and identify a direct cause...i was never able to altho as i have gotten older they have diminished on their own(i hope they do for you also).
o.k. in my own experience (I AM NOT A DOCTOR) migraine sufferers should never miss breakfast, it causes all kinds of stresses on your body that you are not aware of...next combine everyone's answers about the chocolate, the potatoes and the lack of sleep and then get yourself BACK to the Doctor and tell him exactly what you told us. Also ask him or the pharmacist what the ingredients are of the new medicine...there may actually be something in there that is affecting you. As a fellow sufferer i do hope you figure this out. I once had a friend who claimed he never had a headache...if we weren't so close i would have punched him out! :)