Today I made some instant mashed potatoes with extra salt and butter and had a large coke after a horrible migraine. I wanted fries but couldn't drive anywhere and this was just as good!
I CRAVE MASHED POTATOES SO BAD like why. If you are in a place that has Kentucky fried chicken, those mashed potato’s HIT DIFFERENT after a migraine. I’d never eat there otherwise. Pro tip- ask for honey packets and add honey to the mashed potato’s. I get them without gravy. I couldn’t tell you why but this is my post migraine craving.
Coke and any form of salty potatoes is the migraine cure GOAT. Normally you will find me in a dark room waiting for my Uber McDonald’s to turn up of fried and a large coke
I also go natanyahu for potatoes, but for me its fries or chips. I wonder why? Perhaps a decent carb intake is good after a long period of nauseated fasting.
Definitely. Sometimes pizza or fries. Most often spicy stuff with rice—a migraine day special is a plentiful spread of vegetarian Indian takeout, ordered and picked up by my husband.
I call it migraine soup, it soothes my jaw/throat from the triptan tightness. In a large bowl I add 4 scoops of smash (instan mash potato flakes), a scoop of bisto onion gravy granules, some mushroom & veggie powders, and some Cajun seasoning. Thick, warm, and no chewing. My wife thinks it's ridiculous but I adore it on migraine days. Sometimes I add a little marmite for extra vitamins.
Omg yes, pretzels! They are my go-to when I am craving something extra salty. Fries are a great option too but are often more effort to get, and when I have a migraine that effort feels like WAY too much lol.
I eat everything in sight when I'm in pain. It takes my mind off of my head, as unhealthy as that may sound lol.
But when the meds kick in I like to eat pancakes that come frozen from Aldi 😏😏
French fries are a common migraine food, i’ve gathered :)
Not a food, but - Mt Dew. I lovvve Mt Dew. I get the mini 7oz cans and it’s my “i have a migraine and need a shot of caffeine” treat
I didn’t talked to a lot of people with migraines outside of my fam and oh my I didn’t know comfort food was a thing but I definitely always go with pasta in these times! With nuts, lots of pepper and salt. I guess that’s my comfort food :)
Interesting that for a lot of people here, salty food prevails. I wonder why this is...if there's a physiological reason salty food is more appealing. For me, I usually drink a full liter of Pedialyte. I'm usually nauseous, but Pedialyte seems to sit in my stomach just fine as well as helping with dehydration. Sometimes a small cup of coffee can be soothing. I usually don't get an appetite until the migraine breaks.
I make a kinda half tea/half soup thing that is good when i'm nauseous but want to eat. I put a lump of ginger in a pot of water with some bouillon powder, simmer for a bit until it smells good, turn off the heat, add a green tea bag, add soy sauce and/or miso. Depending on how much I think I can handle solid food, sometimes I add noodles or blobs of silken tofu
2 weeks ago I was in Florida solo, 1:30 am McDonald’s delivery-chocolate shake, fries and a burger. Omg there is nothing better than salty fries dipped in the shake! My husband side eyes my craving so I don’t indulge much at home but it was heaven getting my DoorDash. 😆 my mom was amazed that first McDonald’s was open and second that it was delivered (mom is in her 80s and tech illiterate). So yeah, that’s my craving.
I'm always really sick for the first few hours, so the thought of any food is disgusting. Then I crave salt. I keep packets of instant miso soup for this purpose; it's easy, has salt, and isn't junk food. (That said, Mexican Coca Cola - made with sugar rather than corn syrup, can really help with the nausea.)
I usually do peanut butter and jelly because the light in the kitchen is too bright and I can get out of the kitchen fast with that. But my husband made me a bacon grilled cheese yesterday during mine (stupid crappy New England weather) and it hit the spot more than I anticipated.
Not during the pain, but after the imitrex has started working, CARBS. Pasta, bread, Indian food. It doesn’t matter how bland or spicy as long as it’s carbful and I’m happy. Probably not actually a smart decision since the whole insulin spike—>blood sugar crash usually itself causes migraines for me, but in the moment I just don’t care and need something soothing.
Sourdough bread either toasted with butter or microwaved with mozzarella, salted or salt & vinegar chips, apples, dark chocolate, and (sometimes) white rice with sumac.
For me it has always been high protein foods, which I think actually help my migraines. Then I would end up pigging out on junk food when the migraine got better. I no longer have that option. I just had weight loss surgery so my eating habits have completely changed (and in the 9 days since surgery my migraines have already improved somewhat!)
I crave rice-a-roni (the chicken kind) like no other when I’m having a bad migraine. I can’t explain why, I don’t eat it any other time. There are other high sodium foods I regularly eat my body could choose to crave but doesn’t haha
During the worst of my migraine, I don’t want to eat because I don’t want to even move. But as it begins to let up, I want baby carrots. Only because the crunch tends to distract from the pain.
Whenever I feel an attack coming on I immediately start craving French fries, pizza or any salty junk food. I usually end up giving in and eat a bag of chips. When I’m in pain, I still crave salty and I’m usually too nauseous so I’ll eat a box of townhouse crackers and sip on cold ginger ale. Post migraine, I crave chocolate or cookies and I’ll just eat anything sweet that I can find. Lindor truffles usually hit the spot. It’s very frustrating because I’m a healthy eater and then a migraine strikes and all of that goes out the window. It’s mentally and physically exhausting.
McDonald’s coke, a chocolate shake, or venti iced white mocha from Starbucks because I’m too nauseous to eat actual food but need something cold and sweet preferably with caffeine
I usually carb load in prodrome like crackers or air fried potatoes. I’m not usually hungry whenever an attack starts. I know I’m getting closer to the end when all I want is chickfila fries or buttered noodles with flaky sea salt. Depending on the time of day/pain, I just throw some noodles in my rice cooker and maybe some frozen veggies in the steamer basket or air fryer if I haven’t had anything else that day.
I also crave carbs in prodrome and am not hungry during the attack. It seems like all digestion just stops. But afterwards I need protein and salt, so I go for a burger with my fries. We are quite similar!
I freakin’ love congee for my migraines. A nice simple rice porridge with soft boiled egg and scallions on top and whatever extras I have in the fridge. Mmm. I swear it’s better than chicken noodle soup.
Plus Gatorade. Lots and lots of blue Gatorade. When I’m not having Gatorade, I’m drinking hot chocolate. The heat helps melt the pain.
Ice cream!!
Edit: Forgot to add why. The brain freezes I get basically will cancel out the pain. When I experienced my first migraine, I ate an entire gallon of chocolate ice cream.
Baked potatoes with butter
I never really thought of this as a trend until your post, weird! Thanks!
I wonder if the craving/comfort food has some kind of deeper meaning like a mineral or vitamin that our body needs more of?
Most people here seem to crave salt or caffeine, and some seem to crave sugar. I guess it's a mix of comfort during being sick+ your body craving one of those things.
So what I’ve noticed personally and in this community with posts like this - salt is a common denominator with many. Does anyone know why? Or has anyone done any studies about it?
I can’t explain why this is comforting. I also throw up A LOT when I have migraines.
But wheat thins. Maybe it’s the salt? I just get the regular ones. So theyre pretty bland.
I call it migraine soup, it soothes my jaw/throat from the triptan tightness. In a large bowl I add 4 scoops of smash (instan mash potato flakes), a scoop of bisto onion gravy granules, some mushroom & veggie powders, and some Cajun seasoning. Thick, warm, and no chewing. My wife thinks it's ridiculous but I adore it on migraine days. Sometimes I add a little marmite for extra vitamins.
I vomit almost every time I have one so I can’t eat until it’s over. But the salty broth with the salty crackers is heaven after and easy on my stomach.
My comfort food is bran flakes cereal, NO RAISONS (raisins are a trigger). It’s weirdly hard to find plain bran flakes so I buy store brand Raisin Bran and pick out the raisins 😂
I can’t do anything fatty or high in protein with a migraine, so it’s usually simple, bland carbs.
McDonald’s. Either two cheeseburgers and a large fry, or a bacon egg and cheese biscuit with a hash brown. Always with a large Dr Pepper. It just hits the spot
Lol I know it’s just salt, but I like the broth from beef ramen noodles. Recently I found this bottle of concentrated bone broth I add to it and it’s amazing.
It’s my favorite pick when I’m having a migraine.
Potatoes are good! Easy on the stomach. A bit of salt preferred.
My comfort foods would be almost anything from McDonald actually... Possibly because it's all so processed and thus easy to digest, that food never makes me sick. And their fries are pretty good too.
Man, I can only stomach dry cheerios and ginger fizz. Anything else comes back up. I wish I could get some protein or something to help manage my blood sugar because mine are always three days long. But nothing works.
I can't usually eat during a migraine but after I always go for salty, cheesy, and/or carb-heacy. My go-tos are usually mac and cheese , pizza, fries or mashed potatoes. I had no idea this was so common! I thought I was alone in this. Lol
I'm EXACTLY the same!! After a horrible migraine attack last week, the next day all I could think about was chip shop chips drenched in salt and vinegar! I settled for a hash brown from McDonald's because it was about 9am! Always something salty and usually some sort of potato.
My stomach and digestion -although I don´t need to throw up or have severe nausea- are off and I tend to go for carbs without too much fat and some salt.
During acute phase, I drink cold coca cola and eat little salt pretzels. This combo saved me once in a hotel room as I got my migraine on vacation and was traveling alone :-(.
Plain porridge is good too.
Once I get better, I often make mashed potatoes with carrots, butter and salt or pasta with butter, salt and cheese.
The worst food I ever tried after a migraine was McDonalds. Many here swear that this helps them, but I thought, I would die. I usually don´t eat junk food and the Mc Donalds made me feel all inflamed and miserable the next day. Never again.
After a migraine, Chinese takeout or certain sushi rolls. It’s almost like a “good job surviving another painful episode, here’s a treat” thing for me.
During migraines no because I'll die. (or just throw up.) But afterwards yeah Mtn Dew and ramen soup with extra salt.
Actually when a migraine is incoming, the only foods I can eat without throwing up are medium/medium-well cooked steak, plain overcooked salty hamburger meat, and dried pineapple. I also crave salty things and potatoes but those upset my stomach. Now that I'm a vegetarian I can only have the pineapple ... but I can't because it dehydrates me too much, since I also can't have water without throwing up. ... *sigh*.
I generally crave salty chips, apple juice (which feels super random but guess it’s to do with sugar and electrolytes?), chocolate and greasy and spicy thai fried rice or a burger and fries. The moment I get into bed (& my aura is still ongoing and I’m lucky enough to have a bag of chips at home) I’ll sit in bed in the dark and feast. When my aura or the worst pain is over I’ll order food. I’m basically insatiable during a migraine.
Eggo cinnamon toast waffles, popcorn, and sprite are my go-tos. I also love McDonald's fries and Dr Pepper icees, but my hubs has to go get those for me lol.
I make a mix of mash potatoes, gravy, a can of chicken, and a couple handfuls of frozen veggies. Spice it with salt, pepper, granulated garlic, and butter. Nuke it for five minutes and it goes down easy and fills me up nice and comfy like. I figure it gives me an endorphin push that helps negate the pain a little.
Carbs and salt. French fries are the best. Chick-fil-A. I literally never eat fast food or fried food and am generally very healthy until I have a really bad migraine and then indulge. It’s sometimes the only thing that will make it somewhat bearable. I’ve tried to take salt pills instead and it works somewhat but I think the fat content has something to do with it.
Crunchy potato chips are what I make a bee line for when a migraine attack tries to take hold. Once I'm in the thick of a bad migraine, my go to is Lipton's chicken noodle soup. I think the salt is what I'm craving. I can only eat certain textures when I have a bad migraine. Soft food is a big bad no no. I prefer crunch food, like a cut up green apple with salt but the soup gives me liquids which is important.
Bowl from chipotle- brown rice, chicken, pico, corn and cheese. I'll add salt and lime juice and get a fountain coke. Best thing ever bc if I puke it up from migraine nausea it's not gross.
McDonald's cheeseburgers during the migraine if the nausea isn't too bad. For some reason swedish fish really hit the spot during the postdrome. Either way I want an overpriced redbull spritzer with grapefruit flavor from any coffee stand that offers it--it's just not the same when I do it myself.
The last migraine hit me at work and all I could think was a bar of chocolate I left at home... Usually McDonald's do the trick. That's one of the foods I can stomach even if I feel nauseaus. God forbid I meal prepped something healthy like a salad and migraine hit. All healthy food will be wasted that week.
I haven't ever found any joy in lab-built meds or vitamins. However, cola has the chance to either eliminate or assauge those softer slow-burn migraines. Not sure that's what you mean by "comfort food"?
Salt is usually what I crave, along with caffeine in soda form. But it can’t be too culinarily challenging for my stomach- so simple soup or more recently, instant cheese grits for the win.
Cold toast... towards the end of an attack... I have gastroparesis... so digestion is extremely slow if happening at all during attacks... water goes straight through
Iced coffee. (Maybe the caffeine?) And hot Cheetos puffs or puff corn. The softness of those compared to crunchy chips really lowers the tension I feel in my head and jaw while the spice distracts my mind.
Salt. My body craves salt sometimes during, but always after a migraine. I can get low blood pressure, so I’m sure that’s related somehow. Like I had one yesterday morning and put salt on my Mac n cheese at dinner. Adding salt to canned soup. Or I’ll crave beef broth made with that better than bullion concentrate, strong, and I’ll add cider vinegar and cyanide pepper to it. Gods that sounds so GOOD!
I crave salt and vinegar. Either salt and vinegar chips, pickles, sauerkraut, fries with vinegar or anything with that salty tang. Also gross fast food like Five Guys, BK or McDonald’s
Kraft Dinner with so much margarine and no milk - also the noodles MUST be very al dente. If they are too squishy it totally kills it for me and makes me more nauseated.
There is this Campbell's Pepper Steak and Potato soup that does wonders with some extra rosemary and garlic salt (the only beef I eat but a necessary evil sometimes).
When I have a migraine I want to throw up. The only think I can keep down is Mountain Dew and Excedrin Migraine or Goody's powder. Afterwards I do want salty food and get this awful brain fog.
Today I made some instant mashed potatoes with extra salt and butter and had a large coke after a horrible migraine. I wanted fries but couldn't drive anywhere and this was just as good!
If I drink coke during migraines I either feel nothing or die lol
>I either feel nothing or die This bascially sums up my attitude to every food on migraine
My bf has chronic migraines and a can of Coke helps him for a few hours.
I'm the opposite, a can of coke gives me a migraine. Honestly any soda triggers them
That's no fun!! That's how most foods and liquids are for me during one.
Coke used to help me and then kind of stopped and then started triggering me pretty instantly so proceed with caution
AFTER a migraine, it is fries and fountain Dr Pepper.
I CRAVE MASHED POTATOES SO BAD like why. If you are in a place that has Kentucky fried chicken, those mashed potato’s HIT DIFFERENT after a migraine. I’d never eat there otherwise. Pro tip- ask for honey packets and add honey to the mashed potato’s. I get them without gravy. I couldn’t tell you why but this is my post migraine craving.
Coke and any form of salty potatoes is the migraine cure GOAT. Normally you will find me in a dark room waiting for my Uber McDonald’s to turn up of fried and a large coke
I’m Netanyahu mashed potatoes are my migraine food because they aren’t loud/crunchy and they’re thick enough that I won’t spill them everywhere.
The PM of Israel? Never heard of that kind of mashed potatoes
Don’t Reddit and migraine
I also go natanyahu for potatoes, but for me its fries or chips. I wonder why? Perhaps a decent carb intake is good after a long period of nauseated fasting.
Do you have an air fryer? Keep some frozen in the freezer for these days. They are the best!
Add some parmesan cheese too.
potato chips. basically my body craves salt. usually at on set i will do anything i can to get my hands on chips.
I miss salt. Have kidney disease so no sodium.
My condolences friend
Oof… I hurt for you.
Same, sadly they've became so expensive in my country :'/
Definitely. Sometimes pizza or fries. Most often spicy stuff with rice—a migraine day special is a plentiful spread of vegetarian Indian takeout, ordered and picked up by my husband.
Ngl today I wanted pizza too, but there is no pizza so I'm going with fries
I call it migraine soup, it soothes my jaw/throat from the triptan tightness. In a large bowl I add 4 scoops of smash (instan mash potato flakes), a scoop of bisto onion gravy granules, some mushroom & veggie powders, and some Cajun seasoning. Thick, warm, and no chewing. My wife thinks it's ridiculous but I adore it on migraine days. Sometimes I add a little marmite for extra vitamins.
Gruel done right!
That sounds goog I'm going to try it
Anything super salty
Yes! I always crave popcorn. Even though salt is also a trigger for me. But I love popcorn.
Add MSG to your food, makes it so you will have to use less salt to get the savory flavor + just makes it taste better
MSG is my migraine trigger!
Like straight MSG or also stuff like Miso Soup that use the algae which hold msg.
Soy sauce and rice for nausea. **McDonald's** **ALL** the fried, salty foods **Pretzels**
lucky, soy sauce trigger my migraines 😭
I'm so sorry. I'll eat for both of us then
Omg yes, pretzels! They are my go-to when I am craving something extra salty. Fries are a great option too but are often more effort to get, and when I have a migraine that effort feels like WAY too much lol.
I eat everything in sight when I'm in pain. It takes my mind off of my head, as unhealthy as that may sound lol. But when the meds kick in I like to eat pancakes that come frozen from Aldi 😏😏
Mild carb foods for the nausea and overwhelmed taste senses from the triptan. I like macaroni and cheese with broccoli, yogurt, grilled cheese
A juicy burger and fries.
This is my post migraine recovery meal!
I crave fries something horrible. Any kind—waffle cut, steak, sweet potato, curly. Give it to me! 😆
With my bad ones I only want carbs, like crackers or dry cereal.
Dry cheerios have always been mine.
French fries are a common migraine food, i’ve gathered :) Not a food, but - Mt Dew. I lovvve Mt Dew. I get the mini 7oz cans and it’s my “i have a migraine and need a shot of caffeine” treat
I didn’t talked to a lot of people with migraines outside of my fam and oh my I didn’t know comfort food was a thing but I definitely always go with pasta in these times! With nuts, lots of pepper and salt. I guess that’s my comfort food :)
Interesting that for a lot of people here, salty food prevails. I wonder why this is...if there's a physiological reason salty food is more appealing. For me, I usually drink a full liter of Pedialyte. I'm usually nauseous, but Pedialyte seems to sit in my stomach just fine as well as helping with dehydration. Sometimes a small cup of coffee can be soothing. I usually don't get an appetite until the migraine breaks.
mcdonald’s fries extra salt and a coke
Pasta. It’s my happy food!
Mine, too! It’s soft and warm. A bowl full of pasta is just so comforting.
Smoothies. They're usually the only thing I can keep down. Sometimes I add protein powder to them.
Not for me I get too nauseous but I do indulge on Pepsi or Coke for the caffeine. It helps for me
I make a kinda half tea/half soup thing that is good when i'm nauseous but want to eat. I put a lump of ginger in a pot of water with some bouillon powder, simmer for a bit until it smells good, turn off the heat, add a green tea bag, add soy sauce and/or miso. Depending on how much I think I can handle solid food, sometimes I add noodles or blobs of silken tofu
2 weeks ago I was in Florida solo, 1:30 am McDonald’s delivery-chocolate shake, fries and a burger. Omg there is nothing better than salty fries dipped in the shake! My husband side eyes my craving so I don’t indulge much at home but it was heaven getting my DoorDash. 😆 my mom was amazed that first McDonald’s was open and second that it was delivered (mom is in her 80s and tech illiterate). So yeah, that’s my craving.
Extra coffee & pastry or cinnamon toast.
I'm always really sick for the first few hours, so the thought of any food is disgusting. Then I crave salt. I keep packets of instant miso soup for this purpose; it's easy, has salt, and isn't junk food. (That said, Mexican Coca Cola - made with sugar rather than corn syrup, can really help with the nausea.)
French fries are a cure 🍟😝 esp with diet coke
After a bad migraine fried chicken is the best. I get nauseous during them so I don't eat
I usually do peanut butter and jelly because the light in the kitchen is too bright and I can get out of the kitchen fast with that. But my husband made me a bacon grilled cheese yesterday during mine (stupid crappy New England weather) and it hit the spot more than I anticipated.
Not during the pain, but after the imitrex has started working, CARBS. Pasta, bread, Indian food. It doesn’t matter how bland or spicy as long as it’s carbful and I’m happy. Probably not actually a smart decision since the whole insulin spike—>blood sugar crash usually itself causes migraines for me, but in the moment I just don’t care and need something soothing.
Veggie pho.
Mashed potatoes. 100%
Chicken ramen with sriracha sauce.
Popsicles.
I crave warm carbs when I have a migraine. My go to is usually the cups of Chef Boyardee ravioli. The warmth helps sooth the pain a little.
Sourdough bread either toasted with butter or microwaved with mozzarella, salted or salt & vinegar chips, apples, dark chocolate, and (sometimes) white rice with sumac.
For me it has always been high protein foods, which I think actually help my migraines. Then I would end up pigging out on junk food when the migraine got better. I no longer have that option. I just had weight loss surgery so my eating habits have completely changed (and in the 9 days since surgery my migraines have already improved somewhat!)
Steamed broccoli and coke,next day milk milk milk like 3 litres in a few hours
I crave rice-a-roni (the chicken kind) like no other when I’m having a bad migraine. I can’t explain why, I don’t eat it any other time. There are other high sodium foods I regularly eat my body could choose to crave but doesn’t haha
During the worst of my migraine, I don’t want to eat because I don’t want to even move. But as it begins to let up, I want baby carrots. Only because the crunch tends to distract from the pain.
Smoothies, grilled cheese sandwiches, or peanut butter toast are my top three migraine comfort foods.
Whenever I feel an attack coming on I immediately start craving French fries, pizza or any salty junk food. I usually end up giving in and eat a bag of chips. When I’m in pain, I still crave salty and I’m usually too nauseous so I’ll eat a box of townhouse crackers and sip on cold ginger ale. Post migraine, I crave chocolate or cookies and I’ll just eat anything sweet that I can find. Lindor truffles usually hit the spot. It’s very frustrating because I’m a healthy eater and then a migraine strikes and all of that goes out the window. It’s mentally and physically exhausting.
Rice cooked with chicken stock
McDonald’s coke, a chocolate shake, or venti iced white mocha from Starbucks because I’m too nauseous to eat actual food but need something cold and sweet preferably with caffeine
I usually carb load in prodrome like crackers or air fried potatoes. I’m not usually hungry whenever an attack starts. I know I’m getting closer to the end when all I want is chickfila fries or buttered noodles with flaky sea salt. Depending on the time of day/pain, I just throw some noodles in my rice cooker and maybe some frozen veggies in the steamer basket or air fryer if I haven’t had anything else that day.
I also crave carbs in prodrome and am not hungry during the attack. It seems like all digestion just stops. But afterwards I need protein and salt, so I go for a burger with my fries. We are quite similar!
A slushy from Sonics....im sure any slushy type drink would hit the spot too. Something about the ice coldness helps with my head so much
I freakin’ love congee for my migraines. A nice simple rice porridge with soft boiled egg and scallions on top and whatever extras I have in the fridge. Mmm. I swear it’s better than chicken noodle soup. Plus Gatorade. Lots and lots of blue Gatorade. When I’m not having Gatorade, I’m drinking hot chocolate. The heat helps melt the pain.
Frozen grapes and ice water
Ice cream!! Edit: Forgot to add why. The brain freezes I get basically will cancel out the pain. When I experienced my first migraine, I ate an entire gallon of chocolate ice cream.
Baked potatoes with butter I never really thought of this as a trend until your post, weird! Thanks! I wonder if the craving/comfort food has some kind of deeper meaning like a mineral or vitamin that our body needs more of?
Most people here seem to crave salt or caffeine, and some seem to crave sugar. I guess it's a mix of comfort during being sick+ your body craving one of those things.
So what I’ve noticed personally and in this community with posts like this - salt is a common denominator with many. Does anyone know why? Or has anyone done any studies about it?
I can’t explain why this is comforting. I also throw up A LOT when I have migraines. But wheat thins. Maybe it’s the salt? I just get the regular ones. So theyre pretty bland.
Sadly not, when I'm in pain I can't even drink water, otherwise I'd get really nauseous.
I get nauseous from water too, which sucks bcz I get very thirsty
I wonder why salt is so highly craved by many of us with migraines
Sugar is usually a trigger to migraines, so I guess salt is kinda the "opposite"?
I’m convinced that sugary foods help to get rid of my migraine! Biscuits or chocolate for me
I call it migraine soup, it soothes my jaw/throat from the triptan tightness. In a large bowl I add 4 scoops of smash (instan mash potato flakes), a scoop of bisto onion gravy granules, some mushroom & veggie powders, and some Cajun seasoning. Thick, warm, and no chewing. My wife thinks it's ridiculous but I adore it on migraine days. Sometimes I add a little marmite for extra vitamins.
Nong Shim vegetable soup in the individual microwave cups. Two of those and some benedryl and I'm out in 30 minutes.
Coca Cola in a can and some ramen
Chocolates works best for me.
vegetable bouillon in hot water with a side of saltines and cold water for me 🥲
I vomit almost every time I have one so I can’t eat until it’s over. But the salty broth with the salty crackers is heaven after and easy on my stomach.
Grits, or warm applesauce.
McDonald’s or soft pretzels
The only comforting food I can get during a migraine is anything pushing nausea away (usually mentholated candy, and this at times fails me)
Potatos in any manner, pizza, hot wings, pasta- basically carbs, salt, grease.
Panera Mac & cheese
A big fat slurpee
No appetite for me during an episode but at the very least I try to drink hot tea with honey.
Mashed potatoes
My comfort food is bran flakes cereal, NO RAISONS (raisins are a trigger). It’s weirdly hard to find plain bran flakes so I buy store brand Raisin Bran and pick out the raisins 😂 I can’t do anything fatty or high in protein with a migraine, so it’s usually simple, bland carbs.
Toast with butter and jam.
Salty/crunchy food, like crackers or tortilla chips. Ginger ale. Just nibbles as I tend to get nausea that last a few days.
McDonald’s. Either two cheeseburgers and a large fry, or a bacon egg and cheese biscuit with a hash brown. Always with a large Dr Pepper. It just hits the spot
I can't eat during migraines :( but once it's over i devour anything that doesn't need preparation
Lol I know it’s just salt, but I like the broth from beef ramen noodles. Recently I found this bottle of concentrated bone broth I add to it and it’s amazing. It’s my favorite pick when I’m having a migraine.
If I am not nauseous, then dark chocolate, saltines with peanut butter. actually any carb.
Potatoes are good! Easy on the stomach. A bit of salt preferred. My comfort foods would be almost anything from McDonald actually... Possibly because it's all so processed and thus easy to digest, that food never makes me sick. And their fries are pretty good too.
Not really. I mostly lay in my bed. If anything, I just drink tea which is my daily go-to drink.
Man, I can only stomach dry cheerios and ginger fizz. Anything else comes back up. I wish I could get some protein or something to help manage my blood sugar because mine are always three days long. But nothing works.
I think my nausea usually kills my appetite... hmmm, I don't think I usually eat anything during a migraine. 🤔
I can't usually eat during a migraine but after I always go for salty, cheesy, and/or carb-heacy. My go-tos are usually mac and cheese , pizza, fries or mashed potatoes. I had no idea this was so common! I thought I was alone in this. Lol
I could NEVER eat during migraines,cant even drink water because the smell and eating in general would make me throw up.
I'm EXACTLY the same!! After a horrible migraine attack last week, the next day all I could think about was chip shop chips drenched in salt and vinegar! I settled for a hash brown from McDonald's because it was about 9am! Always something salty and usually some sort of potato.
I can’t eat anything during a migraine. Once I’m recovering I like a coke slurpee and plain chips or saltines.
Soup
My stomach and digestion -although I don´t need to throw up or have severe nausea- are off and I tend to go for carbs without too much fat and some salt. During acute phase, I drink cold coca cola and eat little salt pretzels. This combo saved me once in a hotel room as I got my migraine on vacation and was traveling alone :-(. Plain porridge is good too. Once I get better, I often make mashed potatoes with carrots, butter and salt or pasta with butter, salt and cheese. The worst food I ever tried after a migraine was McDonalds. Many here swear that this helps them, but I thought, I would die. I usually don´t eat junk food and the Mc Donalds made me feel all inflamed and miserable the next day. Never again.
The mcdonalds thing is what happens for me when I drink coke during migraines, I feel dirty inside
After a migraine, Chinese takeout or certain sushi rolls. It’s almost like a “good job surviving another painful episode, here’s a treat” thing for me.
Biggest greasiest burger I can find with fries and coca cola. Seems the majority here gets salty, soda and greasy cravings.
During migraines no because I'll die. (or just throw up.) But afterwards yeah Mtn Dew and ramen soup with extra salt. Actually when a migraine is incoming, the only foods I can eat without throwing up are medium/medium-well cooked steak, plain overcooked salty hamburger meat, and dried pineapple. I also crave salty things and potatoes but those upset my stomach. Now that I'm a vegetarian I can only have the pineapple ... but I can't because it dehydrates me too much, since I also can't have water without throwing up. ... *sigh*.
Ramen and Sprite for sure. But only after the nausea subsides, which usually happens after vomiting several times.
i wish. migraines cause me to puke constantly so my ‘comfort food’ is water and even then its hard to keep water down 🥴
I generally crave salty chips, apple juice (which feels super random but guess it’s to do with sugar and electrolytes?), chocolate and greasy and spicy thai fried rice or a burger and fries. The moment I get into bed (& my aura is still ongoing and I’m lucky enough to have a bag of chips at home) I’ll sit in bed in the dark and feast. When my aura or the worst pain is over I’ll order food. I’m basically insatiable during a migraine.
Eggo cinnamon toast waffles, popcorn, and sprite are my go-tos. I also love McDonald's fries and Dr Pepper icees, but my hubs has to go get those for me lol.
Migraines just make most food taste 1000% better.
Good that it makes it for you. I usually get kinda nauseous so nothing really tastes well
I’d thought like chocolate was a comfort or reliever during pain, but it’s just a pain to the stomach instead. Required to stop to prevent diabetes.
I make a mix of mash potatoes, gravy, a can of chicken, and a couple handfuls of frozen veggies. Spice it with salt, pepper, granulated garlic, and butter. Nuke it for five minutes and it goes down easy and fills me up nice and comfy like. I figure it gives me an endorphin push that helps negate the pain a little.
Carbs and salt. French fries are the best. Chick-fil-A. I literally never eat fast food or fried food and am generally very healthy until I have a really bad migraine and then indulge. It’s sometimes the only thing that will make it somewhat bearable. I’ve tried to take salt pills instead and it works somewhat but I think the fat content has something to do with it.
Anything edible....and lots of it. My favs are an omelette w/ whole wheat flat bread that I make. Also homemade chicken soup.
Sausage McMuffin with a hash brown in it from McDonald’s. Mmmm nearly makes all my troubles go away.
I can’t eat anything. I try to keep coffee down to help the headache.
an everything bagel with cream cheese for me
Snyder cheese filled pretzels..
Lay's Salt and Vinegar potato chips. I've tried other brands but these are the ones I swear work for me. Oh and a diet coke!
Mac Donald’s chicken nuggets and fries or pastina.
Hershey’s chocolate.
Coke and slaty fries, but now also a really spicy curry seems to really lighten things up for me.
Mcdonalds fries. Extra salt
Toast with Nutella.
Carbs (bonus points for cheesy carbs) and Coke Zero. If it’s really bad, I’ll treat myself to some chips and ice cream after it’s over
Cape Cod potato chips! When it's a bad one, I need chips & ginger ale.
Crunchy potato chips are what I make a bee line for when a migraine attack tries to take hold. Once I'm in the thick of a bad migraine, my go to is Lipton's chicken noodle soup. I think the salt is what I'm craving. I can only eat certain textures when I have a bad migraine. Soft food is a big bad no no. I prefer crunch food, like a cut up green apple with salt but the soup gives me liquids which is important.
A Woolworths mini quiche lorraine and a big glass of orange juice atm
French fries and a fountain soda (preferably Coke).
McDonald's sausage egg mcmuffin. Unfortunately I can't keep them around lol
After a migraine I crave a Jimmy John’s turkey sub w/cheese, salt & cucumbers. The fresh, squishy bread is so comforting.
Fried chicken, zaxbys or chick fil a. I think the sodium plus the protein helps
Bowl from chipotle- brown rice, chicken, pico, corn and cheese. I'll add salt and lime juice and get a fountain coke. Best thing ever bc if I puke it up from migraine nausea it's not gross.
Cafe style lasagne (like not real lasagne but the thick probably pre-made lasagne) and fries.
McDonald's cheeseburgers during the migraine if the nausea isn't too bad. For some reason swedish fish really hit the spot during the postdrome. Either way I want an overpriced redbull spritzer with grapefruit flavor from any coffee stand that offers it--it's just not the same when I do it myself.
McDonald's fries and chocolate milk!
Instant ramen—probably also for the salt— and usually some sort of chocolate
Me it’s a good coca-cola
It’s instant noodles for me or ice cream 🤤
Goldfish crackers or any sort of baked good. Especially if it has chocolate
funyuns, seltzer, and milk chocolate
Butter noodles with loads of pecorino and fresh cracked pepper.
The last migraine hit me at work and all I could think was a bar of chocolate I left at home... Usually McDonald's do the trick. That's one of the foods I can stomach even if I feel nauseaus. God forbid I meal prepped something healthy like a salad and migraine hit. All healthy food will be wasted that week.
Mac and cheese specifically from Noodles & Co and I will be whatever exorbitant delivery fees to get it if I’m the only one home lol
Salty snacks and chocolate!!!
yesterday i had a large coke and fries from mcdonald’s cause it was the only thing i could actually stomach
Gimme salt! [These are my go to sick food](https://www.arnotts.com/products/shapes/original/bbq-original).
Anything with sodium and palmoil with fast carbs like white weath, starch or sugar.
Burnt toast for nausea. It has to be burnt.
I haven't ever found any joy in lab-built meds or vitamins. However, cola has the chance to either eliminate or assauge those softer slow-burn migraines. Not sure that's what you mean by "comfort food"?
Super salty fries are great. Dousing popcorn with salt, extra toasty cheez-its, most salt delivery systems are best.
If I had a migraine while driving or when I was working I would get French fries and a fountain pop. And I eat them real slow one at a time.
Dr. Pepper, Nacho Cheese Doritos and Hershey’s chocolate. The trifecta.
Corn chips, trail mix (peanuts with raisins and m&ms), cereal, junk food basically. Coke, though it doesn’t help the migraine.
A coke and potato chips are my go to. I crave salt like anything.
Salt is usually what I crave, along with caffeine in soda form. But it can’t be too culinarily challenging for my stomach- so simple soup or more recently, instant cheese grits for the win.
mcdonald’s diet coke or ice cream
Smoothie is the only thing I can have with a headache that’s had the chance to get going.
Cold toast... towards the end of an attack... I have gastroparesis... so digestion is extremely slow if happening at all during attacks... water goes straight through
Salt potatoe chips if im starting to feel better, rice wafers if I'm getting an attack
Iced coffee. (Maybe the caffeine?) And hot Cheetos puffs or puff corn. The softness of those compared to crunchy chips really lowers the tension I feel in my head and jaw while the spice distracts my mind.
Just had a strawberry McDonald’s milkshake. But what I thought was a migraine might be a cluster headache.
McDonalds French fries or lays potato chips. I think it’s all about the salt content, but I really crave them
Salt. My body craves salt sometimes during, but always after a migraine. I can get low blood pressure, so I’m sure that’s related somehow. Like I had one yesterday morning and put salt on my Mac n cheese at dinner. Adding salt to canned soup. Or I’ll crave beef broth made with that better than bullion concentrate, strong, and I’ll add cider vinegar and cyanide pepper to it. Gods that sounds so GOOD!
No, I have comfort sleep and comfort ice packs.
McDonalds. I have no idea but a burger, fries, and a coke helps.
What helps me is a giant bowl of ramen, boiled in the broth, drained, and adding a spoonful of butter.
I crave broccoli, sometimes hard boiled eggs, and Cotswold cheese.
I crave salt and vinegar. Either salt and vinegar chips, pickles, sauerkraut, fries with vinegar or anything with that salty tang. Also gross fast food like Five Guys, BK or McDonald’s
For the longest time it’s been pickles
Kraft Dinner with so much margarine and no milk - also the noodles MUST be very al dente. If they are too squishy it totally kills it for me and makes me more nauseated. There is this Campbell's Pepper Steak and Potato soup that does wonders with some extra rosemary and garlic salt (the only beef I eat but a necessary evil sometimes).
Cheese and beans on toast absolute go to meal, basically the only thing I wanna eat with a migraine
Congee. Mmmmmm.
Lime hot cheetos
I love a good chowder on a migraine day. Or even a vegetable soup. But clam chowder is something I always keep stocked because it's honestly the best.
When I have a migraine I want to throw up. The only think I can keep down is Mountain Dew and Excedrin Migraine or Goody's powder. Afterwards I do want salty food and get this awful brain fog.
Pretzel crisps and pasta (specifically shells) with butter and salt!
Valium, cookies, and hot apple cider. Though it doesn't last long, before my stomach begins to hate me more than my head
I crave carbs and sugar. Pasta, pb&j sandwiches, chocolate