MSG (which is in everything) and processed meats, e.g., baloney, hot dogs, pastromi, etc. can be triggers. Drinking a lot of soda can be also.
My husband couldn’t eat any of those processed meats, either. For some reason, they don’t bother him right now, but if I use one of those packets of taco, or fajita seasoning mixes, with MSG, he gets a head ache every time.
Diet soda is a killer. Stick to diet rite, no caffeine, no salt and no aspartame.
Before my husband had his surgery, my mother-in-law was trying to talk him into having the out patient surgery that just puts a plug in the hole, but it was still experimental and the insurance wouldn’t have covered it, not to mention that because it was experimental, if the plug went all the way through and they needed to emergency open heart surgery to remove it. It was all on us, the whole cost. So, I said that it just wasn’t worth it.
As it turned out, my husband had not just one hole, but two, one the big enough for a golf ball to pass through. They couldn’t see it because it had a flap that closed over it.