My raging headache cured by...a Banana?

I've had a raging headache for the last week or so. So bad it's made me incredibly nauseous. It's even there in my sleep waking me up at night. Pain meds can't touch it. In the morning it's gone and creeps back after about an hour of being awake. It throbs harder and harder until I take a nap mid-day. Then I feel groggy and sick all afternoon, the feeling I always get when I sleep too long. And the headache creeps back after the nap...absolute misery.

It's gone away a couple of times in the last week--only temporarily when I took a couple of walks or tiny-mini-jogs on the beach or for a brief 2 hours when I took an Aleve. Then it came raging back even worse. Today it got so bad I thought my head or front of my face would actually explode and I wanted to vomit. I took a long nap in the car. Then I took a long walk on the beach, then a slow mini-jog that felt amazing. I didn't think I could do it but I did a third-mile in the sand. My head was not throbbing.

After the jog I had only a tiny headache and a HUGE craving for a banana. I HATE hate HATE bananas because when we were kids our parents would say, "Oh, you're hungry? Go outside and pick a banana!" I ate so many as a kid they make me ill now--the smell, taste, texture, everything! Eeeeeeewww! Well, today I craved it. I bought & ate a banana right away and the headache was gone completely within minutes. It's been 6 hours and it hasn't returned.

I take daily vitamins that have potassium. Is the food-based kind that much more potent? Anyone else have this headache-cure with bananas?

Never had a headache cured by a banana, but with lyme, I guess crazier things have happened!

I am a believer in cravings either being a vital nutrient the body needs or the parasites and fungals trying to survive!

Maybe it wasn't the potassium you were needing but something else?
"Bananas are a very good source of vitamin B6 and a good source of manganese, vitamin C, potassium, dietary fiber, biotin, and copper."

http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=7

We know lyme likes manganese. But it may not have been the lyme driving the symptoms. Your body could be low due to lyme consuming it all. Also, B6 can help with the neurological manifestations of lyme, you might be low it that as well.

I saw this article the other day. Something to think about if your headaches or migraines are EMF (or thunderstorm) related.

http://www.elizabethmaxim.com/holistic-living/2015/2/8/potassium-the-emf-sensitivity-mineral

Bananas are actually not that high in potassium. My doc pointed that out to me and gave me a list of foods that have more. I think avocados are high on the list. I can post the list if anyone's interested...if I can find it!

I forgot to mention that my daughter listens to her cravings and will more often than not improve when she has what she's craving.

Or perhaps it was the dopamine content that helped. Either way, your body got something it needed and your headache subsided. Always buy organic bananas, they have more nutrient content than non-organic ones.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf9909860