Migraine Headaches
Prompted by my first migraine in nearly 5 months...
Let me start by saying that migraines are an absolute bitch. Childbirth carried less pain than a migraine is capable of producing. Trust me here, I've given birth twice without drugs, the last child weighing in at 9lbs 5oz. Oy. Even the twenty one hours of labor with my first was a piece of cake compared to the duration that some migraines can assume. My personal worst was 5 days. April 1979. Yeah, you do NOT forget.
I've suffered with migraine headaches since I was about 3 years old. Ever since I was old enough to tell my Mom that my head hurt. I went through all the tests when I was about 5. The diagnosis really was no surprise given that my mother and grandmother are also sufferers. My Grandma Currey had HORRENDOUS migraines that always lasted several days. Fortunately for me, mine tend to be fairly short lived in nature and will abate if I can get the drugs on board soon enough and get to sleep for a while.
Since March, I've been on prophylactic treatments with Topamax. I admit, I've been a bit lax in taking the meds this month and that could have been what allowed this latest attack to sneak through. Fortunately, there is a newer, high dose, rapid release Imitrex that is kick ass when it comes to knocking a migraine. I have taken the inhalant version of Imitrex for several years with wonderful results, but this new oral is great. Now if that would come out in the inhalant, I'd say sufferers such as myself would have the miracle cure. You see, the orals still leave you with the nausea issue and the kickback headaches the next day. Two side affects I could live without, thank you.
But, for all these years with this cross to bear, I've been fortunate. I'm a very functional migraine sufferer by most peoples' standards. Yes, I can often work with one. It isn't pleasant, but I can do it if the pain is below a 6 on the Richter scale. Above that and I'm looking for a brick wall to run my head through.
So, my migraines are better than they've ever been in my life. I'm thankful for small favors.
Drugs are my friend...
Better health through pharmaceuticals...
Dawn
Let me start by saying that migraines are an absolute bitch. Childbirth carried less pain than a migraine is capable of producing. Trust me here, I've given birth twice without drugs, the last child weighing in at 9lbs 5oz. Oy. Even the twenty one hours of labor with my first was a piece of cake compared to the duration that some migraines can assume. My personal worst was 5 days. April 1979. Yeah, you do NOT forget.
I've suffered with migraine headaches since I was about 3 years old. Ever since I was old enough to tell my Mom that my head hurt. I went through all the tests when I was about 5. The diagnosis really was no surprise given that my mother and grandmother are also sufferers. My Grandma Currey had HORRENDOUS migraines that always lasted several days. Fortunately for me, mine tend to be fairly short lived in nature and will abate if I can get the drugs on board soon enough and get to sleep for a while.
Since March, I've been on prophylactic treatments with Topamax. I admit, I've been a bit lax in taking the meds this month and that could have been what allowed this latest attack to sneak through. Fortunately, there is a newer, high dose, rapid release Imitrex that is kick ass when it comes to knocking a migraine. I have taken the inhalant version of Imitrex for several years with wonderful results, but this new oral is great. Now if that would come out in the inhalant, I'd say sufferers such as myself would have the miracle cure. You see, the orals still leave you with the nausea issue and the kickback headaches the next day. Two side affects I could live without, thank you.
But, for all these years with this cross to bear, I've been fortunate. I'm a very functional migraine sufferer by most peoples' standards. Yes, I can often work with one. It isn't pleasant, but I can do it if the pain is below a 6 on the Richter scale. Above that and I'm looking for a brick wall to run my head through.
So, my migraines are better than they've ever been in my life. I'm thankful for small favors.
Drugs are my friend...
Better health through pharmaceuticals...
Dawn
posted by Dawn | 11:21 PM
1 Comments:
migraines, ugh!
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