I had a blood test 20 or more years ago that gave me a list of 18 different foods that I am sensitive to. I notice when I eat too much of any of them I end up with a debilitating migraine. I try to stick to a 4-day rotation diet (I can eat 1 of those items along with my other foods any time within 24 hours then don't eat that food again for 3 days). If I stick to that, which is hard to do, I don't seem to have the migraines as bad.

Both my husband and I cook together frequently. We frequently will make jambalaya with different types of vegetables as it has wonderful spices and brown rice including we can add chicken and/or shrimp into it. There has been times when the spice mix can be just right or the spice mix can be like biting into a wasabi pepper - the heat doesn't get to you until after you've taken that first bite. OH MY!

We've been trying to keep things a certain way with the spices as we both love that small amount of heat but doesn't always work out that way. My point on saying the above, there has been experiences when having a particular hot spice mix that can build the migraine but there has also been times when having the same hot spice mix does nothing to me so it's quite interesting how spices give a different response. I've just learned to be easy on the amount of hot spice used for my own good.