Extreme headache after eating almost anything from McDonalds menu

[sanioll]

Facts:1. Gave up eating Mcdonalds 8 years ago. 2. Anything I eat gives me a terrible headache that lasts at least a day. The kind of headache you get during hangover; you can feel your heartbeat in your head, because every heartbeat produces terrible pain in your head due to blood pressure variation.

Yesterday I was back from D.C. to Richmond, and took my little brother and two buddies that are still in college to Go Kart racing, afterwards my brother complained of being hungry. Friends advised lets go to Mcdonalds, and i didn't speak up to refuse. I had a salad with no meat, plain salad + soda. Fast forward, next day today and my head is still pounding!!!!!!!!!!!

Why does only Mcdonald does this to me? Does anyone know? Please enlighten me..(any preservatives they use?)

[PantherRacer]

Same thing happens to me. I have no clue why. I stopped eating it AGAIN though.you'd probably have to eat it constantly to get used to all the crap they're trying to filter into your body.stopping and eating it once WILL get you sick. as I found out the hard way.

[Bubba1]

Facts:1. Gave up eating Mcdonalds 8 years ago. 2. Anything I eat gives me a terrible headache that lasts at least a day. The kind of headache you get during hangover; you can feel your heartbeat in your head, because every heartbeat produces terrible pain in your head due to blood pressure variation.

Yesterday I was back from D.C. to Richmond, and took my little brother and two buddies that are still in college to Go Kart racing, afterwards my brother complained of being hungry. Friends advised lets go to Mcdonalds, and i didn't speak up to refuse. I had a salad with no meat, plain salad + soda. Fast forward, next day today and my head is still pounding!!!!!!!!!!!

Why does only Mcdonald does this to me? Does anyone know? Please enlighten me..(any preservatives they use?)

Perhaps you should take the food out of the McDonald wrappers before eating them?

J/k. I'm no nutrition expert, but the only thing I can think of is perhaps the caffeine in their sodas. If you had a supersized coke/diet coke/dr.pepper and are not a regular consumer of caffeinated drinks, then a headache can easily happen when the caffeine wears off.

[sanioll]

No, all I ate there yesterday was ceaser salad, which had cheese on it and a medium Coke Classic. 30 minutes later heavyness in my head started to kick in. That night headache was bad, and this morning it is still there.

As for caffeine, I am a very heavy coffee consumer. Caffeine wearing off is not a problem at all.

[Loki]

Why are you eating there? I'm sure you can find a better meal by the side of the road.

[CodeRed]

Man up and take 3 aspirins.

[sanioll]

it was late, parents calling every minute to bring my brother home. Friends saying lets go to their house and play "portal".

I wanted to go home, but my brother went nuts over Portal. Therefore in order to minimize time wasted I just followed friends truck.

Does anyone know what do they use in their food? Anything that can simulate allergic reaction to the food?

[krazydriver]

msg in Chinese food gives me headaches.

Maybe there's MSG in mcdonald's stuff??

[bobotech]

Facts:1. Gave up eating Mcdonalds 8 years ago. 2. Anything I eat gives me a terrible headache that lasts at least a day. The kind of headache you get during hangover; you can feel your heartbeat in your head, because every heartbeat produces terrible pain in your head due to blood pressure variation.

Yesterday I was back from D.C. to Richmond, and took my little brother and two buddies that are still in college to Go Kart racing, afterwards my brother complained of being hungry. Friends advised lets go to Mcdonalds, and i didn't speak up to refuse. I had a salad with no meat, plain salad + soda. Fast forward, next day today and my head is still pounding!!!!!!!!!!!

Why does only Mcdonald does this to me? Does anyone know? Please enlighten me..(any preservatives they use?)

You are weird and you have to be a communist.

Only communists can't eat McDonald's.

[NSR_s30]

Mcdonalds doesn't affect me...unless it's something really really greasey

[Crunkrich]

'bout to go get me some double cheeseburgers with extra grease and a side of grease drenched fries. oh yeahhhh.

[S13Teddy]

I think I've had McDonalds once in my life, and that was enough to tell me to never go back...

[Red coupe]

Portal is a pretty fun game...

[240sx_Guy]

my sister cant eat anything except home cooked or else she gets sick.... :weird

[jallen]

i doubt anyone is gonna be able to give you any real answers. If anything it's a good thing mcdonalds makes you sick so you won't eat it cause it's worthless.

[Papi Chulo]

I thought the thread title was "Extreme headache after eating almost everything from McDonald's menu"

Complete and total let down.

[frapjap]

You're probably having a problem with the variation of glutamate being used for flavor, but most of any major food product in the US will have it- including the dressing on your salad and trace amounts in your cola.

That being said, if you're not having any problems with things like sugar substitutes, processed foods, snack foods, or eating out in other restaurants its unlikely that the culprit of your headache is McDonald's (given that they do use it).

Since this probably isn't the case, I suggest you turn your attention to something as simple as dehydration- which could have amplified the effects of MSG, OR to having another food allergy. McDonald's uses 7/8 (if not 8/8) of the big food allergies. Start keeping a food record and mark the days that you got symptoms and look for the correlation and commonalities between the items you consumed for 2 weeks. Eat things you would normally eat every week and things you wouldn't and repeat the foods within the period. Log how you physically feel as well. Items that I suggest you eat are tomatoes, sauerkraut, parmesan cheese (not kraft), canned tuna, and mushrooms. Report your findings back to me.

The big 8 (but not necessarily your problem):Milk, Egg, Peanut, Other nuts, Seafood, Shellfish, Soy, Wheat.

If you still think you're allergic/susceptible to MSG and don't want to go through the effort of what I asked of you, you can test your original theory out by consuming a package of Ramen noodles prepared with the seasoning packet. There is more than enough MSG available in that little thing (even diluted in water) than Micky D's could possibly put in their foods. You'll know for sure.


Modified by frapjap at 6:13 PM 10/28/2007

[BOOM_STICK]

its probably just your heart slowing down from eating that crap. no biggie

[One Finger]

ooooooooh did you get any monopoly pieces??? i have tons cuz i eat there alllllll the time. lol

kidding. that's really strange. sucks to be you.

[EpicNightMayor]

Why does only Mcdonald does this to me? Does anyone know? Please enlighten me..(any preservatives they use?)

Deep Fried Lettuce FTW *OFF TOPIC*oh ****. i just saw a pancake with a hamster on it's head.

[skydragoness]

Calling McDonald's food is an overstatement. I would theorize preservatives, first thing comes to mind is MSG. Although that has a stigma as being found in chinese food you'd be surprised how much processed crap has it in it (and it won't say 'MSG' it will say monosodium glutamate in the ingredients or it would be hidden under 'natural flavors'). It's been known to cause headaches.. amongst other worse side-effects.

[KDashy]

You got sick from a meatless mcdonalds salad?

Its all in your head.

[skydragoness]

^Yeah i forgot about the meatless part, um.... maybe it was the salad dressing?

[s13girl]

I did a project in high school about preservatives and actually there are only a very small percentage of people who are MSG sensitive. MSG is in A LOT of snack for example: cheetos, cheese puffs, and pringles.

But with mcdonalds after the first time of getting sick after eating their your brain automatically blames it on what you prior to getting ill... Theres a resturaunt in mi called Andiamos and i got the flu after eating their and now i cant even think about eating canneloni and rissto with cheese with out getting nauseated.

[sanioll]

Frapjap, thank you for typing all that. I'll try the your second advise with noodles.

To everyone else. It is not in my head. Any day if I eat something from Mcdonalds, after 30 minutes, head starts to feel heavy and headache kicks in. It lasts throughout the day, and sometimes onto the next day.

Salad I ate contained lettuces, tomatoes, the regular stuff PLUS cheese, and packaged ranch. Looks like the poison came from the ranch package.

Did I mention that I had throw away half of the salad, it was dirty and crappy.

[KDashy]

To everyone else. It is not in my head. Any day if I eat something from Mcdonalds, after 30 minutes, head starts to feel heavy and headache kicks in. It lasts throughout the day, and sometimes onto the next day.

So because you feel physical discomfort, you think its not in your head?

I fail to see what in a mcdonalds salad is similar to their other menu items, or what makes it "dirty".

[Jesda]

I like to indulge in a McGriddle on occasion.

If all you had was a meatless salad and a soda, the issue is the soda, not the food. Stop drinking soda.

I get headaches from fast food as well, but not from lettuce and packaged dressing that McD's doesn't even make.

[KDashy]

Yup, their ranch is Newmans Own. Which is very good.

[S13FX]

Watch this video and all your questions will be answered.

http://video.google.com/videop...dex=0

It may not all be true but after seeing that a couple years ago, I haven't been to any of those restaurant's since.