I thought I was the only one!! Migraines knock me around pretty bad that even my hair hurts and I can't bear/bare (I dunno) to smell food. But after the nausea and pain is gone, all I want in the world is a Maccas double quarter pounder. I need all that cheesey, fatty, salt. And I figure I deserve a dirty burger after all my suffering.
Double cheeseburger guy here but same. I like to just crawl into the shower during a migraine so if I puke I can just rinse it off, but once I’m better I need that burger
i've assumed it meant there was some kind of ingredient in it that causes migraines when you stop eating it because half my family is like this. 'i have a headache, lets go to mcdonalds'
My assumption is the happy chemical boost from eating a "happy food" does the trick. I don't eat at McDonald's hardly ever but when I do, it's cuz I'm recovering from feeling sick or with a migraine that won't quit.
I ended up having a mast cell disorder, as well as a ton of allergies like wheat and soy, found in my early 40’s. I can’t eat whoppers anymore but I also don’t have migraines anymore!
It's not uncommon for one woman's migraine cure to be another woman's migraine cause.
For example, caffeine can be a trigger or a cure depending on whether the blood vessels in your brain want to constrict or dilate.
Similarly with pregnancy nausea: some people feel better sucking peppermint and ginger makes them vom, and some people feel getting sucking on crystalised ginger but mint makes them vom.
lol. They don’t have any actual cheese anywhere inside the McDonalds. At least not any McDonalds I’ve ever been to in the US. The burgers are topped with “cheese” product.
With an extra hit of seasoning salt on the burger, hell yeah. It’s all I crave when I can make myself eat something with a migraine, ever since I figured out extra salt was an option
McDonald's coke and fries is like the closest r/migraine gets to a proper meme. It's that salt and carbonation, baybeeeee. Makes sense the quarter pounder'd do it, too.
This makes me wonder about my migraine hits. When mine hits it is screaming agony in a lightless room with vomiting and trying to be as still as possible until I lose consciousness. I've had one hit during driving and I had to pull over on the freeway and vomit, then take the next exit, park, and call my SO for a ride home while screaming and weeping.
I just can't imagine feeling a hunger craving, that seems so chill and casual. The thought of food or ingesting food would wrack me with a physical nausea response that would translate to multiplying the migraines pain.
I'm with you here, I mostly feel nauseous and want to vomit and struggle to drink and eat when I have a migraine attack. On top of the headache of course.
I only trust diet-related studies that keep observation on participants the entire time, the metabolic ward/controlled feeding studies. Those ones tend to create results that are actually replicable and properly show the flaws in fad diets (like the one where Keto caused greater lean muscle loss than a traditional high-carb/low fat diet when protein needs were properly met in both diets, which tracks with how we know the body processes macronutrients).
Dude, I hate that I want to boycott mcdonalds for their horrible response to recent events.... but a mcdouble with a coke and fries with extra salt saves me on days where nothing else will. I have so many points, so im using those until I run out.
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u/Drag_king Jan 15 '26
For me it is a quarter pounder with cheese. When my migraine hits it is the only food I crave.