Not to be confused with the SNL character. I think I’m funny… clearly.

Everything I’ve shared to date has been mostly related to food – because, to quote Hippocrates again, “everything begins in the gut”

However, as I’ve mentioned, getting to the point where your gut is clean, fixed, and feeling good again can take time – especially if you had a leaky gut.

In the mean time, your headaches will probably get worse before they get better. Why? Because your body is used to ridiculous amounts of processed sugars and foods like soy that mimic hormones. Long story short – your body will be on freak out mode for, I don’t know, a few days or weeks, depending on how big of a hot mess your diet used to be.

So during the freak out mode, you’ll probably want a non NSAID (tylenol, ibuprofen, etc) way to relieve pain.  Probably the only good that came out of the Diamond Headache Clinic for me, was a referral prescription for Cefaly.

I know, I know, I just got done telling you that pharmaceuticals are bad, so why would I be advocating a prescribed drug? 

Because it’s NOT a drug! 🙂

Cefaly is a super cool, Star Trek type medical device that basically provides stimulation through electrodes right to the part of your face that hates you most: your temples.

This device is especially good for people with tension headaches, and it’s similar to the stim you’d get at a chiropractor on your shoulders,neck, or joints. It’s an over the counter device in Canada and I think Europe as well, but of course the US wants a prescription so they can charge absurd amounts and whatever other stupid reasons.

All you need is a prescription from a Dr., scan it to them when you check out on the http://www.cefaly.us website (make sure it’s the US site hyperlinked above) and it will come in the mail a few weeks later!

I was addicted to this thing for a while – to the point where I couldn’t fall asleep until I’d done a quick session and would usually do one right when I woke up (as those are the times I would have the 2 worst headaches). It’s probably not going to prevent headaches as much as fix existing pain, but I did notice frequency going down when I started to use.

I’ve only used in once in the last 2 months because I don’t need it anymore (which I’m not complaining about) but I have to say, IT’S FABULOUS.

Friendly Warning: the first time you do it, you will panic. Hard.

If you are like me, when you go the chiropractor and they say “tell me when” for the electrodes, I let them click like 4-5 times and chicken out.

There is no “tell me when” setting on Cefaly. It’s all or nothing, and it’s STRONG! Don’t worry, though – if it gets to be too much, you can just press the start button and it will stop at that intensity for the remainder of the session. However, I warn you to power through, because once it gets past the ridiculousness, it turns into the weirdest, most awesome head massage you’ve ever gotten. (If you’ve ever used those wire “tinglers” before, it feels like that)

It makes absolutely zero sense to me how it works. Eventually, you feel like someone is rolling massage balls up and down the top of your scalp, into your hair, and behind your ears in a circular motion in combination with your moms super long fingernails scratching your scalp. But then you remember you are just wearing a single electrode in between your eyes, so that’s not possible. And then you freak out that you are starting to hallucinate, because you clearly feel it 5 inches from where the electrode is, so how can that be possible?

Oh, and if you get it, try scratching your nose, or your eyebrow. The smallest touch of your nail to your face will make you feel like there are 100 small porcupines massaging the base of your neck.

Just typing about it makes me want to go use it, even though I don’t have a headache. I would find myself drifting off to sleep from it because of how crazy good it feels.

So, it’s expensive. Yes. Very expensive actually. Just like functional medicine doctors are. Why? Because insurance doesn’t cover things they know can fix you. They want to keep problems the way they are, so you come back. But the way I look at it, I used to go to about 3-4 doctors monthly. a gastroenterologist for my GI stuff, a neurologist for my headaches, a dermatologist for my psoriasis, and an ENT for my allergies. Now I don’t see any of them anymore, and all of those problems are gone or severely diminished. So if you add up all those bills, I say it’s worth the upfront cost.

I mean, look at how happy this chick is. Cefaly even gives you the perfect selfie duck lips.

Are those even her hands? And why is she naked?