I frequent a few migraine communities on Livejournal and Mothering.com, and one question comes up over and over. How do I find a doctor that will listen to me? It can take many forms, but the bare bones of it is that many people want to know how to find a doctor that will not only listen, but treat them as if they have a problem every bit as... Read more
I hate getting sick. It's not just that i get a cold at the drop of a hat, but that when i get sick, it is hard to manage my headaches as well as cold or flu symptoms. My son is now in kindergarten, and brought home a particularly nasty bug last week. This week I am flat on my back sick with a wonderful cold/fever/cough thing that we have... Read more
The past few weeks have been a whirlwind at our house. Parent-teacher conferences, the gas went out, unseasonable warmth followed by bitter cold, and my husband got laid off. All of which are a recipe for disaster for my head. And for some odd reason, I have been remarkably pain-free.
Sure, my head hurts, but for some reason I am not having... Read more
Today, the unthinkable happened. Well, not unthinkable, but the one thing that my husband and I had hoped would never happen. My daughter, R, got her first bad migraine. She is four, and a sweet kid, but today was awful for her.It started with her waking me up around 8, saying that she was seeing Christmas lights. Being groggy, tired, and... Read more
One of the things that you get told when you have migraines is to cut sources of stress. It's hard to do, cut stress. Sometimes nearly impossible. The past few weeks have been stressful at our house. My husband's grandmother died. We scrambled to see if we could get passports for those of us who needed them, find plane tickets to England that... Read more
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