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Menstaul migraine and Lyme disease

Shirley
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I'm 46 years old. Married 19 years. Two teenage daughters

I am a wife of 19 years. I am a mother with two teenage daughters. ...

Shirley

Tuesday, October 06, 2009
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I was finally able to find something to help my daughters migraines.  March 1, 2009 I started her on a natural regimen.  It was:  magnesium; vitamin D; Omega III; and a bio-identical progesterone.  I also started her on St Johns Wort.  After 6 weeks it was like the sun coming out.  Those absolutely terrible migraines were just about completely knocked out.

 

She still wasn't completely better and had been though a very bad illness the previous year.  I felt the illness was never properly addressed because the migraines were so bad.  I began my search to find out what else was wrong with my daughter.

 

She was diagnosed in late July 2009 with an active Lyme disease infection.  I don't think that is what triggered the start of her migraines as they preceded the suspected tick bite, but it made everything worse and made both diseases difficult to diagnose.  We had to get the migraines under control in order to see the effects of the Lyme disease and get a diagnosis and treatment started for that.

 

We had to cut back on the bioidentical progesterone recently to make sure there wasn't another tick-borne infection besides the Lyme disease (Ticks often carry more than Lyme disease).  Because of the cut back she got another migraine that lasted three days and kept her out of school.  My proof that the progesterone was doing its job.

 

I don't know if this is the wrong forum for this but I have started my own personal quest to inform people of a possible way to get menstraul migraine under control and also to spread awareness of the possibility of Lyme disease.  It is often misdiagnosed and can have long term neurological consequences if left untreated in its early stages.

 

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