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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.
Shirley,
I am so happy to read your update. I know this has been and incredibly difficult struggle for you and your daughter as you've worked so hard to get correct diagnoses and tried so many things that haven't worked. It sounds like you've done some amazing detective work to figure out that both Lyme disease and migraine are involved in your daughter's case.
I have to admit I've been eager to hear how your daughter has been progressing on the regime of magnesium, vitamin D, Omega-3 and natural progesterone for her migraines, and I'm so glad it is bringing about such improvement for her. I, too, have found remarkable improvement in my predominantly hormone triggered migraines on basically the same regime (I also use vitamin B6 and transdermal estradiol - as I am perimenopausal - but not St. John's wort.) I was very skeptical about bio-identical progesterone working as a migraine preventive, and if I hadn't experienced the same direct corrolation you mention, I wouldn't have believed it either. I'm now four months into my treatment with the progesterone and have continued to see improvement every month. I'm also so grateful my migraine specialist was open to my trying this approach after we found I could not tolerate several of the standard preventives.
Good luck to you both as you continue to work on controling the Lyme component of your daughter's condition.