Friday, December 11, 2009
After 12 + years and hundreds of doctor visits and hospital visits ,I wonder if anyone has ever got their headaches under control?
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Is it possible the headaches will just go away someday?
12/12/09 7:51pm
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1/13/10 6:51pm
How about 40 years +? Multiply your number by 4 and you will have my fun. Mine became daily in the last 2 years with so many blockers and pain killers that I just had surgery. I am still recovering, but it has slowed them to 1 every other week. Hopefully when all the swelling is down I can go off all the meds and get my life back. Good luck.
1/14/10 3:09am
Talk about a Dr. that is one of the most non caring, he said that he loses a few of his patients every year to suside because they can't stand the pain .
I can't understand why he wuold tell me that. But I have considered this many times when they get so bad that I can't even get out of bed. These things are putting my family and me thru h**l, lost my job 8 years ago due to too much time missing work, but I keeping going somehow. Who knows?
1/14/10 7:29am
I have had migraines for almost fifteen years now but in the last two they are almost a weekly event if i make it to day 7 or 8 i am so happy. I just lost my job one month ago.(suprised they kept me for the last two years with havin to call in all the time and or having a migraine hang over when i do go back to work. these migraines are runing my life my husband has left a few times and i know that it is hard on my kids when i never feel good. Just keep hoping that something will be effective some day!!!
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Hello 12+,
I certainly understand your frustration after so many years of suffering. I know a lot of migraineurs, but only one whose childhood migraines "just went away on their own" with no medical intervention. However I can attest to having successfully gotten my own migraines under control with the help of daily medications and supplements as well as trigger avoidance. So yes, it is possible.
I have a strong family history of migraine and have suffered with them myself since childhood. The only time I did not experience migraine headaches was one blissful pain free year when I was pregnant and breast feeding. Otherwise, through my adulthood they just gradually got worse and worse until my mid-forties when the episodic attacks became "tranformed migraine" or chronic daily headaches with severe migraine attacks 12-16 days a month.
The road to getting them under control was a long one, but the main turning points for me were deciding to educate myself about this disease as fully as possible, recognizing that I had to take full responsibility for my health and each treatment I tried, listening to my body's responses very carefully, and finding a migraine specialist who was willing to partner with me in my care.
I generally still get three migraines a month, each lasting one or two days, but the chronic daily pain is gone completely, the pain I do get is far less severe and generally I can take a triptan and continue on with my day unimpeded. I believe everyone's migraine disease is unique to them, but in my case the breakthrough was recognizing and correcting a hormone imbalance.
I hope this is helpful. Good luck to you.