I'm a long time migraine sufferer in a family of sufferers. All 3 of my children have them along with my husband. In addition, many other family members deal with them.
I also have fibromyalgia, myofascial pain syndrome, autoimmune thyroid disease, endometrosis, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol.
In the last year, I have gone back to walking. I used to walk 45 minutes to an hour every day. One of the reasons I picked up on the fibromyalgia was that I could no longer do that. Last April, I started wearing a pedomenter and trying to do the 10,000 steps per day. I walk aerobically up to 3 times per day but in shorter durations. It's helped the fibro pain a lot. I even find that it helps migraines if they aren't too bad (as long as I wear my sunglasses!) I've lost 38 lbs.
Most of my migraines now are sleep involved as I struggle with sleep. I went off ambien after 4+ years of using that and lunesta. I feel better overall but worse when my sleep interruptions get really bad since that triggers migraines. Now, I'm taking lunesta for 2-3 days when the interruptions trigger more than 1 migraine in a week. It seems to be working.
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