Am I ill?

[CrnknHrctr]

I want to start off by saying this is a completely serious thread... First off... Lately I've been have umm.... For lack of a better term: "unbearably smelly flatulence"... And small amounts of diarrhea. I haven't been eating anything out of the ordinary except for juice... I NEVER drink juice (Ever.) but for the last two weeks (around the time this "issue" started occurring...) I started drinking a lot of juice, mostly cranberry, because I decided to give up soda and I had to replace it with something. My mom suggested that my body was doing a major system clean up. Is that possible? Or do I have some sort of crazy intestinal problem?

 

My second question is: What's the difference between a headache and a migraine? Like, I know the different symptoms and I know when I have a headache and when it's a migraine but what is the exact difference? What has to happen for you to get a migraine instead of a normal headache?

[Bluenoise]

It's probably the cranberry juice. Likely it's altered the balance of various stomac/intestinal bacteria. Actually it's been show to kill H. philori (sp?) so it's probably a good thing.

Eventually your body will adapt and things will get back to normal. Unless you have some sort of pain in your gut associated with it I wouldn't worry. Maybe eating some pro-biotics will help (yogurt).

Time will take care of it. No need to go back to drinking pop.

 

Don't know much about migraines but you could read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migraines

 

"Migraine was once thought to be initiated by problems with blood vessels. This theory is now largely discredited. Current thinking is that a phenomenon known as cortical spreading depression is responsible for the disorder. In cortical spreading depression, neurological activity is depressed over an area of the cortex of the brain. This results in the release of inflammatory mediators leading to irritation of cranial nerve roots, most particularly the trigeminal nerve that conveys the sensory information for the face and much of the head."

 

and a headache? Well it's an aching pain in the head as the name states. Likely many causes there.

 

I never get them, and rarely even a slight headache. Actually I can will head aches away when I feel them coming. I just relax my mind if I feel one coming on and they go away.

[gib65]

I had a similar issue about two months ago when I switched to a high protein diet for my workout. Man, was I letin' out some unholy vapors . It lasted for about two weeks or so and then I went back to normal. So I'd say it's probably just a symptom of your body adjusting to a new diet.