My migraines started in 2000. At first I thought that it was the stress of my mother's illness and subsequent death. The intermitant eating and lack of sleep played havock on my body. I lost 30 lbs without trying and couldn't afford it really. I went from 5' 8" and 140 to 111 lbs in 2 months.
But after my mother's passing in June my life got back to normal which included my weight. By December I was back to "normal" but I had developed intolerance for alcoholic beverages. Kind of a bummer at times but I'm now the DD when my friends and I go out. That's ok because I keep my friends safe. Since my mother died of lung cancer and I was a smoker at the time I gathered all of my strength and quit smoking after 26 years.
Oddly enough the migraines continued and seemed to get worse as I gave up my vices. I stopped socially drinking and the migraines increased in frequency. I gave up smoking and they increased in frequency again and intensity. As the years have gone by they only get worse. They occur out of nowhere at least three times a month. But on top of that I've found that everytime I am in the heat for any length of time I get a migraine. I'm talking about 15 minutes. I can't even mow my yard anymore because I will end up with a migraine, vomiting my guts out, the rest of the day. And that is with taking a "preventative" and then two Frova. Imitrex does nothing for me. Relpax works but I feel like I have the flu with the muscle and bone aches. The Frova does the same thing but with a little less flu like symptoms. I have to lay down for anything to work though. At work I have a fan at my desk that runs most of the time. Anytime the temperature rises to 74 or higher I have to turn on my fan. My co-workers are cold at anything 74 or below. I've started gaining weight because I'm unable to do work around the yard and I can't work out because I'm getting overheated in a few minutes. Hard to get the "fat burning zone" going or my heart rate up when I can't get hot.
I realize that I live in the wrong state, Texas and the wrong city in Texas, Houston. The humidity is horendous making the heat worse than the actual temperature. My insurance provides 9 pills per month. You've got to be kidding me! I take two pills with each migraine! And if I have to do anything in "the heat" each day...then each day I would run out in 4 1/2 days! What am I to do for the reast of the month?
Does anyone know why there is a limit to the number of pills you can receive per month? Does it jack with your blood pressure or something?
I have to find something else, something better to deal with the nausea, pain...something that allows me to enjoy the outdoors again. I can't even go to my son's baseball games or tennis matches. I don't want to be forced to move to Alaska!
