Keep Hoping

Hi Deb!

Thank you for taking the time to share your story!  I think everyone here needs a reminder that they MUST keep fighting!! 

I'm so happy that you are doing well!  What a difference the right doctor/patient relationship makes!!!

 jenny

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Your SharePost is so inspiring, thank you for sharing it with us. It is wonderful when we finally find the right doctor who is willing to work with us.

Teri introduced me to Dr. Sheftell last June at a headache conference in Chicago. I could see what a caring and compassionate man he was right away. I'm so glad you are his patient. 

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Deb, thank you so, so much for posting your story. I'm going through a difficult time with my migraines (now daily) and it is sometimes all I can do to keep going. It gives me so much hope that if you can do it, I can do it.

All my best to you!

MJ

Hi.

Well, I just saw one of those geniouses today and was feeling really upset but this makes me feel better.

Thanks.

I wrote in hopes of helping someone out who might be down, but it amazes me that somehow I am the one who feels better because of the kind responses. 

MJ - awwww honey, I'm sorry for your hard time.  You have to keep going.  I'm sure you've heard this a million times, but you shouldn't live the way you are, it isn't acceptable.  You cannot accept this.  Keep looking.  Keep trying.  Please.  The loss of control is unbearable sometimes, I know.  There were times I felt so sick that I would wish I was someone who just had a more serious disease so someone would just pay better attention to me and cure it.  Then it would be over.  Sick thinking like that, isn't it?  Sometimes you feel like you are staring into an abyss.  But see the thing is, you start with the fact that the way you're feeling isn't acceptable, you understand that there is always hope and there's help somewhere, and you keep looking until you find it.  NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE SAYS TO YOU.  Because you are worth it!  I wish I could give you a big hug. 

The geniuses are great aren't they?  I swear I get a kick out of so many people.  Some of them are really well-meaning, they are.  I can't imagine too many of them actually wanting us to be sick.  But so many of them assume what works for one, works for everyone.  And if there were ever a group of people to prove that theory wrong, it's migraine sufferers.  Besides the medications, oh boy, I've been down so many roads like so many of you.  There was the ginger.  It cures everyones nausea.  I couldn't figure out then why when I took it, it almost always induced vomiting.  Almost always.  Well, sometime after that "cure" and after I got a lot healthier, I got into sushi.  Along with sushi comes ginger.  I ate a piece.  It was gross.  Really gross.  And guess what?  I got sick.  You know why?  I so detested the taste of it.  It may be a lot of people's cure, it wasn't mine.  Then yoga.  Yoga would cure me completely because the only reason I had migraines was because I was crazy and I needed to relax.  I know that there are plenty of people who can do it.  But seriously the last time I put my leg behind my head was when I was 5.  It did nothing more than frustrate the heck out of me and make me realize that my body was much older than I ever thought.  Next, it was celiac disease.  I was told that apparently a large portion of migraine sufferers have it.  Given that I also had some skin problems (it's just really dry - not really a problem, an annoyance), it was likely I had that.  Seriously, that test was a joy.  Now I know why my cats are so ****** off when the vet pulls a stool sample.  The test was negative.  (Thank goodness!  I'm kind of fond of wheat products and truly the disease does stink!)  My own mother joined in. It was a hole in my heart.  Both me and my sister absolutely had it.  She read a study.  Now I wasn't honestly going to tell a doctor that.  They would have absolutely thought I flipped out.  Plus I've had an EKG before, I think that they would have noticed something was amiss.  Then it was onto accupuncture.  That would absolutely cure me.  I know people who had great success.  I went 3 times a week.  Ok, that lady was just plain crazy.  Now, I know there are people who say that it doesn't hurt and maybe it's not supposed to, but every single time I walked out of there, I was bleeding!  I wasn't cured, I was broke and I was bleeding everywhere.  Now, this is not to say that these things don't work for a lot of people because they do, just not for everyone.  And I have to tell you I laugh at when they don't work, because people are right there telling you you're crazy or not doing it right.  It can't be that the cure is wrong, it's absolutely got to be your fault. 

Hey, at least we try, right?  You have to keep trying because there is still some really great advice with really great results from people who know quite a bit (way more than I!) I finally hit upon my relief.  But sometimes, that road is rough and littered with geniuses.  If something good has come out of all of this, it's that I am a MUCH MORE patient person now than I was 20 years ago.  You guys are great!  Have a fantastic night!  Deb