Tuesday, January 03, 2012
Menopause brought on depression, so on the advice of a friend I took DHEA, cheap over the counter, and I had no idea what it was really. It worked, and I never made the connection between taking in and the Ocular Migraines I began to have, nor did I understand what they were until an opthalmologist explained them to me: painless migraines with sever partial blindness. I had them at least bi-monthly, did nothing about them since they lasted only twenty minutes or so and went away. After five years I stopped taking the DHEA and so did I stop having the ocular migraines, almost immediately; and in the last four years have had only two or three minor ones, with spotty blindness, very brief, seemingly connected with hot dogs of all things.
Congratulations on recognizing the link between the DHEA supplement and your migraines! Glad you found the trigger. I hope your depression stayed away once you came off it, too.