Burger Deficiency Disorder (BDD) is a serious challenge for many Americans today and shouldn't be made the subject of fun. Please refrain from using burger-related ableist language on hexbear, thanks.
this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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Like they say: a burger a day keeps the pain away!
The answer is "coke and fries" by the way. Often a migraine is triggered by hunger and your blood glucose dropping. The sugars and carbs in the soda and fries, the caffeine from cola, and the electrolytes in the fry salt all with together to stave off a migraine.
You could also just drink Gatorade and take Excedrin or any other combination of glucose, electrolyte, caffeine, water
Yeah but then you're not the NYP helping out the lying, failing McDonald's with "news" ads.
So you're saying the cure to migraines is drinking a prime and downing a couple feastables bars?
low key, maybe mix some acetaminophen powder in the prime tho
There also seems to be a few migraine-reducing interactions for other ingredients like glutamate and unsaturated fats which are not well understood. Food cravings during the prodrome phase of a migraine may be related to this(!)
Specific ketogenic diets (low carb, high polyunsaturated fat diets) are known to have have a high degree of success in reducing seizures. The same also is true for migraines.
The pathophysiological relationship between migraines and seizures isn't particularly well understood either, so unfortunately I don't have any cool facts to share about how any of this actually works.
For me it's triggered by low salt, I've done extensive testing. Best option is to take a pain pill and chug a sugarless Gatorade. I've read most migraines are caused by similar deficiencies.
The coke is unlikely to help imo it's the fries doing the heavy lifting. In fact sugar or caffeine tends to make mine worse.
Low magnesium for me. The low magnesium is caused by low vitamin D. Vitamin D deficiency interferes with the body's ability to use magnesium.
if you can't go very long without eating before getting a headache you probably have diabetes or are at least pre diabetic
Good tweet, and a good criticism of our current state of affairs with healthcare.
That said, in all fairness and seriousness, chronic migraines can be notoriously difficult to treat, even with strong prescription meds.
The “McDonald’s migraine hack” sometimes actually can “break” a killer multi-day migraine that a cocktail of maxalt, nurtec, ibuprofen, acetaminophen, benadryl, gatorade, and half an oxy (that you had left over from a surgery a couple years back) simply will not touch.
Migraines are mysterious.
Have you tried inhaling 100% oxigen? It's a miracle cure for some people
No but I’m gonna. Thank you!
why is everything a hack. what happened to tips and tricks. what happened to just "advice"
Fries and a coke? Lame bullshit. A proper hangover meal contains near lethal amounts of cheese or grease
no that's a hangover cure, this is a migraine cure, please stop spreading medical misinformation on the internet
"enough hash browns to kill a god"
How to talk to Americans about healthcare....so imagine a Burger
sprite so crispy it cured my migraine 
are my migraines unusually severe or something? i literally cannot sit up, let alone think about eating mcdonalds when im having one.
I think some people are able to know they're going to get a migraine before it happens