diann
Hi Diann~ Hope that you are feeling better. I just read your post. On top of the Migraine you surely don't need your Mother's attitude. Can you print out some info from the Migraine sites & also let her read some of the posts here & on the other Boards so that she can get an understanding that this is a Brain Disorder & not a little headache made up as an excuse to get out of doing things?! Take care, ~Lyn~ The riches that are in the heart cannot be stolen.
, I don't post much to this list because I'm desperately trying to care for my elderly in-laws and keep my self and home together. I just had to reply to your letter though. I have felt the exact same way....too sick to go to the emergency room or doctor's office because you have to sit forever under bright lights with nauseating smells surrounding you. If I were near you I would gladly drive you to the hospital or doctor's office. I suffer daily chronic headaches plus migraines for 20+ years. I'm lucky that I have a husband and two grown children (one of children lives several hours away) to take me when I need to go for help. They aren't always sympathetic to my pain, but they will with a few sighs and or rolling of the eyes take me to the doc or hospital. Please know that I sympathize with you and write me on or off list anytime. I'm praying that you feel better soon! Katrina
, What a horrible experience! I just feel so badly for you. I hope and pray you never have to go through something like that again also. I hope, too, that you are truly on the road to recovery now and can get on with your life. There is nothing worse than going through this stuff and not having someone to support you and believe you. Being so sick is one thing. Having no one close to help is another. Thank God for your friend. Hope you have better days to come! Blessings, Linda
Dear Friends, Have been having health problems for some three months now and am getting more frustrated as time goes by. I am fourty two, female, and very healthy for virtually all my life. I have four healthy children, easy pregnancies and obscenely easy deliveries (two were ten pounders). I ride horses competively and keep myself generally active. September 9 th I walked into my office and proceded to go from a general tension headache to the hypo shakes to the paralyzing ice pick migraine in the right eyebrow. I did the same thing on September 10 and the 12th and some seventeen times since. On more than one occasion I have passed out. On occasions, I have slid down the wall with vertigo. Usually I just end up hiding out in the back seat in my van to sleep it off after hours of true misery. Symptoms include growing anxiety before the migraine occurs, hypo shakes, right hand tremor, severe sensitivity to noise, some nausea with no vomiting. My right ear rings very loudly during this time. I have dropped twenty pounds (only ten of which I really wanted to). My skin is sallow. I am sleeping miserably. Waking several times at night, especially at four am. My focus is miserable. I am having almost daily generalized headaches. My back and neck is totally out of wack. Apparently I do them great injustice during these attacks. I awaken okay in the head department but stove up in the back. I am now suffering from big mood swings as my friends and family can see by the look on my face whether I have the daily headache or am feeling pretty good for now. My sense of humor and zest for life is not at all what it was before September. In the past three months, I have been to the doctors office numerable times. I have had a full blood workup( all okay), blood pressure is low, a cat scan (negative), a three hour glucose test (also negative), and am now headed back for an MRI on Wednesday. I started going to the chiropractors office to help with the back issue. I scared the "bejabors" of the very kind fellow when I proceded to have a full blown migraine in his office. It was not a pretty sight. The neurologist prescribed Prozac...said it helps migraines. I have been on it now for two weeks, against my better judgement. I am concerned with the length of time it takes to be effective, the side effects it may or may not be making at this time (who can say what of my symptoms are side effects at this point), and the length of time it takes to get out of the system. I have been prescribed Midron and Egsic and the last one was for Maxalt at 10 mg. Thursday I took the Maxalt at the beginning of the migraine. Both hands went numb and I experienced great disorientation and dissaccociation with my body for a time. It did not however lesson the migraine. I would rather feel every thing full bore than be so affected. The first thing I did in September was suspect the pancreas as I had had some marginal GTT when pregnant...so I cut out the sugar (I have a sweet tooth), all sodas, coffee, most processed foods etc. I am doing a modified Zone diet, good quality protein, limited carbs of high quality, supplimentation of vitamins and mineral which I continue to add to and refine. The internist is kind but prononced the GTT to be conclusively negative. I know different. Purchased a monitor and am getting more of the picture each day. My normal BS is around sixty to seventy and that seems pretty stable most of the time. The past four headaches I have the testing for. It runs about fifty before the onset and drops to somewhere in the fourties during then goes back up somewhat after eating and sleeping. I tested after Thanksgiving dinner ( reasonable but generous portions of turkey, green beans, asparagus salad, one whole wheat roll, milk, and finally two tiny bites of apple pie ...I know I should not have) The BS was only 92 two hours after that meal. Had a migraine the next day by the way. I have not seen real improvement with the change in diet. In fact my migraines and other symptoms are getting worse. When I called my PCP about the Maxalt and my glucose testing, I was shuttled with messages to the dietician. There is nothing the dietician is likely to say that can improve my diet at this point. I was so angry to have been put off that way. I know that the hypoglycemia is an issue but want to know how it fits into this as it does not seem to be the whole thing. I suspect that my progesterone level may be somewhat deficient and that I may be showing some early signs of menopause. So is the hypo aggravating the adrenals and the ovaries or are the ovaries at general fault and every thing else is a byproduct? Does any one have any insight? Dee
Dear Diann, Thank you so much for the lovely card and wishes. It was so sweet of you. I wish you the same! Happy St. Patrick's Day! Linda G.