Migraine as an Invisible Illness

YOU GO GUY!!  I suffer horrible migraines (34+ yrs) and seeing my husband feel absolutely useless is horrible. He wants to help but there is not a lot he can do but love me and be as quiet as he can during an episode. 

Hey Nanna. Man I feel for you. I know from experiance no one can feel you'r pain. I feel for you'r husband. As much as I yap, Yet I can't feel the pain. I don't have migrain's. Just live with some one who doe's. Honestly it break's my heart. I've seen the tear's, Felt the agony. I know it hurt's beyond belief. All I can do is try to help and let those that suffer know that to the best of my ability I try to understand. Just by posting here my wife feel's encouraged enough to try and put her feeling's on paper, Which I will share. Her first thought's were it feel's like A short circuit in her brain. But she's working on her thought's on the subject.

Sorry Tim for being slow on the uptake, but my husband is right there in the trenches with you.  He has taken on nurses, dr.s, nurse practioners and any and all comers for me for 18 years.  I can't even speak at times and like your wife my right side refuses to work at all also.  I finally just found out this is a hemiplegic migraine.  My husband had just hung my morning IV solution when I fell over, couldn't move, or talk and started throwing up, he thought he was killing me!  That was five plus years ago, and I finally was able to tell him from reading this site, this is what it was.  He's had five years of torment over this!  Believe me, your wife and myself consider ourselves lucky, blessed and anything else to have you in our lives.  I know I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my husband.  Take care of yourself and wife and let the others jump off someplace very high.

I too had suffered migrains for many many years ago.still do sometimes,but after my devorced i can enjoy life again,There's nothing more horrible when you're husband leaves you while you're migraine is so painfull and all i can do is pray that God will  take me now as my pain is so unbearable.

 

AS of now i'm managing my migraine well,while my sister is in and out of the ER 3 to 4 times a week.So all i can say thank you to the people out there that sympathize with thier friends and love one who suffers from this unbearable pain.

I have been a migraineur since age 11 (am now 48.) I will never forget that first one, I was sitting in the Living Room with my family and suddenly when I went to speak....it was nonsense. I knew what I was trying to say but couldn't figure out how to form the words. I have been told for years that I will eventually grow out of these. I can't wait for that magical day! They have been so bad that I actually have gone into seizure activity. I can't imaging hiding the symptoms. The migraines had a devastating effect on my marriage; being a single parent has definitely had it's challenges. How nice it would have been to have had an understanding husband. How blessed some of you are. Yet somehow, we persevere in search of the elusive cure or remedy. Never give up the fight.