hanging my tomorrows on the bones of yesterday

I haven't been having migraines since I went gluten-free, and I check things. I check like crazy. But not crazy enough, because I just had a migraine after having eaten only "safe" things the last several days. I just got done re-checking my vitamins, and there were a few that I had missed before I found out about cellulose/cellulose gum. The roomie now has them.

I started having visual distortions at work, so I thought I should do everything I could to keep visual distortions from becoming a migraine, because I had one more client and I do need monies. It sort of backfired when a co-worker decided to help in a way that in her defense probably would have worked on a regular headache, but does not work so well on a migraine. In hindsight I don't think that she gets migraines, so she probably didn't know that; I don't make the best-thought-out decisions when I'm getting one, either. Either way, I had to get numb3r_5ev3n to come get me, because the light-and-dark visual distortions were pretty bad. I went from normal to prodrome to weird body disconnection in what may have been only 15 minutes. None of that is normal, but last week I may have been doing stupid things with my brain chemistry to make sure I would be ready to see people for the party, since I spent half of Clover's Halloween party upstairs hiding out on her computer.

I've felt better since I increased the 5-HTP to everyday and added St. John's Wort on the off-days since I only take the SAM-e every other day (if I take it every day my sleep schedule gets messed up and I get restless and nervous). But you're really not supposed to mix antidepressants, and the St. John's Wort I'd been taking listed cellulose gum in the ingredients. No more of that for me. :(

While I was at Tuesday Movie Night I ate some corn tortilla chips. I've been consuming tortilla chips pretty regularly on the gluten-free diet, having always checked ingredients on the back of the bag to make sure they weren't wheat-containing. I'd gotten pretty comfortable with corn chips. These were from a restaurant, and post-really-bad-Wednesday I'm pretty sure they weren't just corn. I was planning to do an intentional gluten challenge after my birthday, and I still might if I can't track down an answer on those chips. I mean, maybe it was a bad ... M&M? Contaminated piece of bell pepper? The hummus? Everything else I ate that night was pretty low-risk for intestinal weirdness.

ETA: Confirmed. On The Border tortilla chips contain gluten.

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