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Ericaneedshelp

Ericaneedshelp

Sunday, January 18, 2009
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In March on 2005 I was at work and got the most horrible headache I had ever had.  Not knowing at the time what was in store for me.  After the headache persisted and the nausea came(which is the only time I've had nausea with my migraine), I went to the E.R.  I never was the headache type, the occasional sinsus or whatever but not like this.  In the ER they did a spinal tap to rule out meningitis, which in turn led me to leak spinal fluid out of my head for 3 days causing the worse head pain in my life. I had to lay flat on my back, or if I did get up I had to walk with my head bent way over. Then they had to do a blood patch to stop the leak, now for those of you who don't no what this is, because I didn't until then pray you never have to get it done. They have to take blood from your arm and inject it into the exact site in your back where the spinal was done, worse pain in my life. Much worse than labor any day. But after all of this is when I was diagnosed with migraines.

  For the past couple of years my migraines have been pretty predictable, almost every 3 months and they last 3-5 days. I don't get an aura, nausea, sound sensitivity and I don't have to be in total darkness. My pain is always in the same place, above my right eye, along my eyebrow per say . It never moves, travels to other spots in my head. I know when it's coming most times and I do have to be very careful around people with strong perfumes or cologne, which I found are triggers. I have had MRI, CTscans,had my eyes checked, I have been hospitalized last February and given DHE (which seemed to work at the time), I have seen chiropractors and massage therapists. My neurologist has tried me on Immitrex, both pills and shots, axert, maxalt, mignal, topomax which I still take 100mg daily and nothing seems to work.

  In November of 2008 my migraines started getting closer together, once a month , then once every 2 weeks and lasting longer. I am on day 20 of this migraine and was just taken off Homecare IVtreatment of DHE after 3 doses for chest pains, not sure why it affected me different this time but it scared me, to think that I am 34 tears old and I could have been having a heart attack trying to get rid of my migraine.

 I'm at my wits end, I'm tried of missing work. My family I'm sure is sick of me laying around on the couch doing nothing. If anyone can offer any kind of insite or help I would truly appreciate it.

Thanks Erica

 

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