The migraine cure?

AFTER 13 YEARS OF CRIPPLING MIGRAINE ATTACKS AND SEVERAL ATTEMPTS AT TREATMENT, LILY EARLE WAS DESPERATE FOR SOLUTIONS. COULD A COURSE OF FASTING AT A GERMAN CLINIC HOLD THE KEY TO GETTING HER SYMPTOMS UNDER CONTROL?

Sitting in the departure lounge, I was a bag of nerves. I’d shared on my Instagram stories that I was going to do a 10-day fasting programme and lots of other migraine sufferers had messaged saying that going without food brought on their migraine attacks. The same was true for me, so I felt slightly bewildered as to why I had agreed to go at all. My migraine attacks started at 19 but ramped up in my mid-20s. Aged 27, I had an attack so bad that I collapsed and was rushed to A&E. For the next five years, I was mainly bed- or sofa-bound, living in the dark because I was so sensitive to light. I couldn’t work, and I’d often be in the last stage of a migraine attack…

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Red UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2023

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