LINDA---ODOURS/CHEMICALS
LINDA Yes I too have trouble with any chemical, I even use Palmolive dish soap to clean my bathroom as apposed to any cleansers/bleach....I can't use any bleach in laundry so my kids now own grey socks---white is white for 1 day, so they went into garbage and were replaced with all dark coloured or grey socks.....hehehe....I have even walked thru a store by some women that seem to have a plugged up nose, because I can smell their perfume before they arrive in the aisle I am in----I used to love perfumes but can only wear "Patchouli" now which is an aromatherapy fragrance---is suppose to be for depression---hahaha...many stores have strong fragrances so I must avoid those places as well...at times even certain foods cooking can spiral me into migraine in minutes....I was told the occipital nerve in the frontal area of face is very sensitive to migrainers, we tend to "smell" things before others do, I am not sure of the research university that did that study---my doc spoke to me about it over a year ago----but apparently more then 60% of migrainers have this problem, and it is all in part to this occipital nerve----similiar to the findings of migrainers being low in calcium/magnesium on a large scale....just when we think we have "just migraine pain" huh?? all the other factors they throw at us to watch out for......could this just be another excuse for pain docs not to medicate with narcotics???? lol hope your day is fragrance free---which is migraine free.....hahaha roxie
In a message dated 08/12/1999 10:50:46 AM Central Daylight Time, roxie@... writes: I too cannot use any chlorine bleach in my laundry, I could if the washer was in the garage but it's now in the kitchen. Once a month I take all the whites and use Rit color remover..makes em look new again without the migraine. I use Palmolive in the bathrooms too...I have found that I can use Simple Green and Murphy's oil soap on my hardwood floors but that's about it! I read somewhere that the smell of chlorine mimics estrogen in the body and will bring about a hormonal migraine. Hope everyone is pain free today...I am at the moment, I had to give myself a nubaine/phenergan injection earlier but I am doing well at the moment. Hugs to all, Jan :*)