Patterns can be so difficult. It took me about a decade and a half to find my first clearly identified migraine trigger. Part of that was because I ruled out a whole bunch of common triggers that don't seem to be mine, like you do.
Are you keeping track of things beyond food, like how much sleep you got and how much you exerted yourself? I'm not sure what else might have an effect... but basically anything you can think of. You know a whole lot more about what might be medically relevant to your case than I do.
Clearly you don't have any easy pattern to find, or you'd have found it already. But there's always the hope with more data you'll work something out. Hopefully without it taking horribly long amounts of time.
I don't want you stuck with this for a long time, but what I can say is that for the horrible things that I have been stuck with on an ongoing basis, I do tend to learn little things over time about what effects it. I haven't learned enough to fix my problems (although I have greatly reduced my migraine frequency and could reduce it more if I went back on the pill), but I have learned things. And I think you're likely to too. It's hard for some piece of the puzzle to not make itself known if you just keep getting data. Even if it's just something that plays a partial role so you can reduce the frequency of problems while other unknown factors keep confusing you.
When I was in high school, I had a bad migraine about twice a week, and each one lasted a bit over a day. I never went to school for a full five day week. Now I'm down to about one a month. That's the very slow accumulation of data and changes in my lifestyle to avoid my triggers showing itself.
I wouldn't want that path for you, because it was horribly slow. And I certainly spent a while looking in the wrong places for my triggers. But even if this is a hard to solve problem and one you are stuck with for a very long time, enough data will sometimes show you a pattern, sometimes even after you've stopped looking for one. You're also much more medically aware than I was and much more likely to be alert for a pattern, so if it can be found, I think you'll find it a lot faster than I found mine. (Although I did have the disadvantage of being very, very young at first, so I wasn't really expected to be the best problem-solver.)
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Are you keeping track of things beyond food, like how much sleep you got and how much you exerted yourself? I'm not sure what else might have an effect... but basically anything you can think of. You know a whole lot more about what might be medically relevant to your case than I do.
Clearly you don't have any easy pattern to find, or you'd have found it already. But there's always the hope with more data you'll work something out. Hopefully without it taking horribly long amounts of time.
I don't want you stuck with this for a long time, but what I can say is that for the horrible things that I have been stuck with on an ongoing basis, I do tend to learn little things over time about what effects it. I haven't learned enough to fix my problems (although I have greatly reduced my migraine frequency and could reduce it more if I went back on the pill), but I have learned things. And I think you're likely to too. It's hard for some piece of the puzzle to not make itself known if you just keep getting data. Even if it's just something that plays a partial role so you can reduce the frequency of problems while other unknown factors keep confusing you.
When I was in high school, I had a bad migraine about twice a week, and each one lasted a bit over a day. I never went to school for a full five day week. Now I'm down to about one a month. That's the very slow accumulation of data and changes in my lifestyle to avoid my triggers showing itself.
I wouldn't want that path for you, because it was horribly slow. And I certainly spent a while looking in the wrong places for my triggers. But even if this is a hard to solve problem and one you are stuck with for a very long time, enough data will sometimes show you a pattern, sometimes even after you've stopped looking for one. You're also much more medically aware than I was and much more likely to be alert for a pattern, so if it can be found, I think you'll find it a lot faster than I found mine. (Although I did have the disadvantage of being very, very young at first, so I wasn't really expected to be the best problem-solver.)