Hi there! Thank you for your response.

I have done a lot of research and one thing I no longer do is believe anything on any blog or integrative medicine site. Possibly some are legit but I have found the information to be largely unreliable. I only read papers from medical journals. I've read just about every one published. I also have my own experience to draw from

I would like to clarify that I never went on any kind of "elimination diet" and I don't recommend them. I get a pretty intense reaction within 30 minutes of eating any food with histamine in it, so I do not need any kind of diet recommendation or food list. I am not able to eat chicken or fish (unless I order it frozen fresh from a special vendor) and certainly not avocado. I can't eat anything fermented, hard cheeses, or processed food. One of the more misleading food recommendations on the blogs and sites is olive oil, which is very high in histamine and I react to it very badly. In fact, I measure the level of my histamine intolerance in 1/8 teaspoons of olive oil. That being said, there may be more mild cases and maybe you could see if you get some improvement in your migraines if you just stop eating fermented and processed foods.

Another thing you will see on these sites and food lists are a lot of foods that don't actually have any histamine in them called "histamine liberators", which is a meaningless term. It just means: "anything anyone has reported ever reacting to". I found that I do have kind of pseudo-reactions to these foods if I eat them AFTER I eat something with histamine in it. This may because my symptoms (from the histamine) are from vasodilation and the other foods are simply vasodilators or maybe increase NO.

Also, I ordered some of the DAO tablets from a company in the Netherlands. There is a company in the US that makes them but when I tried the they did not work and after reading about the manufacturer, I did not want to deal with them anyway. The ones from the Netherlands DO work, but only up to a point. They help with the equivalent of about 1/2 teaspoon of my olive oil. It does take the edge off but they don't allow me to eat normally.

Best of luck with your migraines. Just don't get too drawn into the histamine intolerance/elimination diet trap.