Headache Mystery

Hallie from Chandler, AZ, asked:

Hi Julie,

I’ve had headaches off and on throughout my life since the age of 22. I’m now 45.

The headaches seem to line up with my monthly menstrual cycle and I typically get 3-5 per month.

I’m not sure why, but a typical headache started and has been ongoing for almost 10 days now. I often have some relief in the mornings, but it never fully goes away.

Unlike prior headaches, ibuprofen and Tylenol do not seem to help. It is a constant pain in my neck and up into my head. Some days the headaches are migraines.

Would love and appreciate any insight you could offer.

Thank you.

Hallie

Hi Hallie,

Sorry to hear you’ve been suffering so long with headaches. Having experienced migraines for the first 40 years of my life, I can literally feel your pain.

In order to get some information for you, I energetically connected to you and discovered a multitude of potential causes.

It looks like you have an overabundance of Candida yeast in your GI tract, it looks like you’ve been exposed to mold and it looks like your hormones are out of whack. Let’s address each one:

Candida Yeast Overgrowth is a fungal infection whose most common symptoms include digestive issues such as bloating, constipation and diarrhea, skin rashes, chronic fatigue, and migraines among many others. Again, I too suffered with Candida Overgrowth for the first 40 years of my life until a Birmingham doctor Orion Truss, MD helped me get well. (This included eradicating my migraine headaches.) You see, back in the early 1950’s, Dr. Truss, a Cornell-educated physician, discovered Candida was the cause of a variety of seemingly unrelated symptoms. He successfully treated me and patients from all over the world and is known as the “godfather” of Candida Yeast overgrowth. In short, eat whole foods, stay away from sugar and processed foods, consider getting a gut biome test and taking an anti-fungal medicine like Nystatin. In the meantime, I removed the yeast from your GI tract.

Mold Exposure – Whenever someone is exposed to mold, Candida Yeast Overgrowth is always present in their GI tract. I energetically removed the mold from your body and suggest you consider contacting Amen Clinics or the Ultra Wellness Center to help you detox further. They have a whole mold protocol to help people heal and may be able to treat you remotely.

Hormones – The Mayo Clinic says “The hormones estrogen and progesterone play key roles in regulating the menstrual cycle and pregnancy and may also affect headache-related chemicals in the brain. Having steady estrogen levels may improve headaches, while experiencing estrogen levels that dip or change can make headaches worse.” I believe a hormone imbalance is now and has been contributing to your headaches for a long time. To me, you look like you’re in perimenopause. To help you in the short-run, I applied energetic estrogen into your body and it responded nicely.

Regarding hormones, you’re going to want to investigate Bioidentical Hormones because they’re what our bodies make when we’re young and fertile. Synthetic hormones have extra molecules added to their formulas so they can be patented and are not optimal. The best way to educate yourself about all of this is to learn from Christiane Northrup, MD. I refer to her as the “fairy godmother of women’s’ health”. Dr. Northrup has written the definitive book (The Wisdom of Menopause) that educates women about what (as she says) can go right with your body.

I believe the combination of these three issues is the cause of your headaches. You may want to find a functional medicine physician who is trained to look at your body as a whole system. The Institute for Functional Medicine and The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine are good places to start.

Hope all this information helps you get rid of your headaches once and for all.