I've had headaches for a couple of years now and I take pregabalin - previously I took gabapentin. I eagerly follow this site for help.
My mum kept on at me to try an old wives remedy of keeping away from cheese. I started that last Thursday and it's been working quite well. However, it's now Tuesday and the headache came back this morning! I don't normally have headaches in the morning.
All I had to eat earlier was a banana in addition to my usual porridge. I figured that the banana had to be problem. So I did an internet search for "foods that give headaches cheese banana". There were many results which pointed to sites detailing something in foods called Tyramine. Now I'm no doctor and I can't fully digest the explanations but if any of you people are able to understand, I'd appreciate the "layman's" explanation.
To my untrained "with a headache" brain, it's telling me that aged foods produce tyramine and that interacts in the brain to give headaches. I have also found a list of foods to avoid.
What I would now like to know is how do I get rid of tyramine (because I now have a headache) when I've just eaten something I didn't realise contained tyramine. Will drinking fluids help....or do I take paracetamol....or do I have to sit it out?