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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I eat something with msg in it, I get a rapid heartbeat, headache and a terrible stomach ache, which leads to diarrhea. [/quote]

So you don’t eat things like Doritos, mushrooms, Parmesan, ketchup, bbq sauce?[/quote]

NP here.  I definitely get heacaches from MSG (and aspartame).  I avoid all MSG foods like Doritos and sauces with it added.  I don't eat many mushrooms, but don't like them much so maybe that is why -- never knew they occurred naturally.

I love all Asian food, and am married to an Asian person, FWIW.[/quote]
NP. Same. Aspartame gives me horrible headaches. I avoid MSG, mostly because it is usually combined with high sodium foods. I am very sensitive to sodium. My dad had a stroke when I was an infant and so I was raised on low/no sodium diet. I think that’s why I am sensitive to high sodium foods. Even low sodium soy sauce causes my fingers to swell.[/quote]
You probably have PFO and have rationalized this as food issues.[/quote]
PFO? As in a small hole in the heart?
I’ve had several EKGs in my life (I’m in my 50s) so I assume it would have been detected? 
BTW, there’s no causation between PFO and migraines. 1 in 4 people have PFO. 
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/patent-foramen-ovale/symptoms-causes/syc-20353487
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Nope, ultrasound will find it. I found I have it just last year, at 50 years old . 
And ha, ha for no connection. There is no 100% connection that is scientific. So there I am at the cardio and they are talking to me about how to manage this PFO and they say no worries many people have it, you are fine. Now if you had migraines we would be worried... And I say I have migraines, and they ask, what kind? I say aura, numbness, lights, and loss of proper speech on occasion! And they say, oops cardiologists, two of them say. You might want to consider getting it closed the hole! They send me to a neurologist. And I tell him the same and he says you suffer from complicated migraines that are found in many people with a PFO. And if it happens again that I have such a severe episode we need to think about closing the hole. So, you read what you like online, but I have it from the horse's mouths. Three horses, in this case.
All these tracks with your dad having a stroke young. Those are the people that are healthy and then boom. And I have issues with circulation too! Constriction, often. Are your feet often cold?[/quote]

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