Migraine

Prayer please - migraine starting and every sign it will go full blown any minute, which is an ER visit. My usual prevention methods aren't working.

 

Thank you. It is GONE and I definitely am thankful and blessed. :1_grouphug:

 

Bumping it up, fighting a weather-triggered one for the last few days, getting progressively worse today, but I do get lulls and have one now, they last between 1-30 minutes, but sometimes it never comes back which would be nice, but the aura is still there so I doubt this is the end. Got three more days of work and really praying I can go in by morning.

Ann, I took Topamax before in another state. First the neurologist put me on Depakote and that knocked them out, but I developed an allergy and he took me down off that while going onto Topamax, (I also combined the migraine diet as part of it) and didn't have one while on that either, then I moved out of state to an area where migraines just weren't an issue so haven't taken anything since. I had a couple light ones out there, but none that required a doctor.

Then moved here...this is Hades for migraines, but I haven't gone in migraine meds yet. I need to renew a referral to the neurologist, not sure if my doc will do it since he doesn't really "believe" in migraines and laughed and said it was silly when I mentioned that full moons are also a major trigger. Also knocked the migraine diet when I asked for help figuring out proper nutrition while on it. Ugh.

 

Nope, definitely migraines. Went through the process with the neuro...and they almost always start out as almost a severe, tiny area towards the back of the left side of my head. I've had cluster and tension headaches on occasion. They are LOVELY in comparison.

The 1-30 minutes is the BREAK I sometimes get during them. They last hours, days, at at my worst, may not fully go away for an entire month. They had me incapacitated at one point in my life years ago.
They seem to be moving back towards that degree now and it is very scary. I was so out of it at that point that I was suicidal and not because I wanted to be...after so long in that much pain, I was confused and didn't know what I was doing. The one time I put myself in severe danger, I honestly was only trying to stop the migraine and to me, what I did made sense. I wasn't trying for suicide, I was trying for distraction from pain and it seemed as if getting hit by a truck might do that.
The other time they thought it was a suicide attempt was simply not knowing where I was or what I was doing. I was told later and didn't have any recollection of it.

I try not to live in fear, but when I sit here feeling it getting back to how it used to be, it's hard not to. For some reason, Darvocet, if taken the moment I felt one coming, would often prevent it from going full blown and at least keep me out of the ER. Now that they took that off the market, I have found nothing else that will so it's back to the neurologist.

 

Gonna have to give that a try.

Although I feel rather weird, like one day I'm going to be known as one of the grassroots members of the NPC. (neon pee club)