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On Detox, Have Awful Headaches, Flu Like Symptoms, Skin Pain, Dizziness. Cause?
My fiance and I started a detox about a week ago. We both cut out sugar and caffeine for the most part, aside from natural sugars and my fiance is also becoming vegetarian and cut out processed foods as well. He was in good shape before, healthy for the most part aside from the few things we have now cut from our diet. For the last 3 days he has head awful headaches , which he never has, and last night I m sure he had a migraine . There have been flu like symptoms such as, fatigue , skin hurting, and occasional dizzyness. No fever and drinking lots of water. I know that with a detox there are withdrawal symptoms but I find it hard to believe they could be this bad. I am a little worried and obviously a doctors appointment would be best but I also don t want to jump the gun. An opinion would be helpful. Thanks!
Sat, 16 Nov 2013
Hi,
Thank you for posting your query.
I agree with you that the most likely cause of headaches in your fiancee is a migraine attack. This is because he has had migraines in the past, and lack of regular food or delayed food is known to aggravate migraine episodes.
You can keep a watch on his headache frequency. If it is more than two per month, he would require anti-migraine therapy, such as beta blockers, flunarizine, topiramate, etc.
Another point is to consider doing an MRI of the brain, if the headaches persist or keep recurring.
I hope it helps. Please get back if you require any additional information.
Wishing you good health,
Dr Sudhir Kumar MD (Internal Medicine), DM (Neurology)
Senior Consultant Neurologist
Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, India
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Thank you for posting your query.
I agree with you that the most likely cause of headaches in your fiancee is a migraine attack. This is because he has had migraines in the past, and lack of regular food or delayed food is known to aggravate migraine episodes.
You can keep a watch on his headache frequency. If it is more than two per month, he would require anti-migraine therapy, such as beta blockers, flunarizine, topiramate, etc.
Another point is to consider doing an MRI of the brain, if the headaches persist or keep recurring.
I hope it helps. Please get back if you require any additional information.
Wishing you good health,
Dr Sudhir Kumar MD (Internal Medicine), DM (Neurology)
Senior Consultant Neurologist
Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, India
Click on this link to ask me a DIRECT QUERY: http://bit.ly/Dr-Sudhir-kumar
My BLOG: http://bestneurodoctor.blogspot.in
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