Since Puberty Migraine Sufferer Mom - And Teenage Migraine Sufferer Son

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We're glad you've found our website, but sorry you suffer with head pain. Let's see what information we can give you and your family to learn the ins and outs about Migraine disease.

Migraine is a neurologic condition. This link: Migraine - What is it? explains exactly what Migraine is and isn't. For some people may have their Migraine attacks triggered by weather changes, dehydration, certain foods and poor sleeping habits. Other people haven't been able to identify any triggers food or otherwise. We have lots of information on our Migraine Trigger page you can find HERE.

Have you or your son ever kept a Migraine diary? This is a great tool for you and your doctor to see what is and isn't working when it come to treating your Migraines, and what may or may not be triggering them. You can find our free downloadable Migraine diary HERE.  

Medication Overuse Headache, MOH, may occur if we take certain prescription and/or OTC medications more than two to three days a week. If we have MOH, there isn't a Migraine prevention medication on earth that will work to prevent Migraines.  It is important to get rid of MOH so we can find the right treatment plan. For more information on this topic, continue reading Medication Overuse Headache - When the Remedy Backfires.

Thank you for creating a SharePost. SharePosts are a form of blogging, and there are many things you can do with them. You can share an experience, suggest something that's helped you, use SharePosts as a Migraine and headache journal, and many other things.

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Welcome again,

Your posting sounds EXACTLY like me!  You could have literally been describing my migraine history.  When I get the aura, i usually take 2 Excederin & a bottle of diet coke.  This has helped about as much as anything else.  I have tried the imitrex and malts, they don't offer relief for me and make me very spacey.  The house could be burning down & I felt like maybe I would get out, maybe not.  Over the counter migraine medicine initially helped but then it seem to just push it off and then I was in for a double shot.  I didn't start the numbing in by mouth and hands until after I had kids.  Sometimes it feels like I get a double wammy. The aura, tingling, headache & start over with the auro, tingling, ect.  It usually is all within the first hour.  I can not fine a connection with food unless I skip a meal.  If I skip a meal, I get where food doesn't sound good, then I am in trouble.  Sleep patterns and weather seem to do the most.  I have allergies, so on a cloudy rainy day I usually have a headache, but not a migraine.  My migraines usually last 1 day and then the hangover the next day.  Don't expect brain surgury that day, heck don't even ask me to balance a checkbook!  I wish you well & wish you days free of migraines!!

It was very comforting hearing described what I live, too. I am 50 years old and have suffered for 18 years. I am one of those people who had migraine in my teens, minimally, and childbirth triggered a hell I live with every day.

I have tried so many things; 2 different neurologists( at least nine different preventive prescripts), my family dr., vitamin/etc. supplements, exercise, abstaining from alcohol, magnets in my pillow, acupuncture, religion, dental removal of wisdom teeth and orthontic adjustment for TMJ.

Well, some things help for awhile, but nothing has solved my problem. I had a really hard phase when I realized that there wasn't a "fix" out there. I always thought that if I could just find the right answer, or fix, that I could heal myself. Coming to the realization that I had to live with this until it chose to let me go was shattering. I thought about committing suicide. Even while taking antidepressants, I have to be careful that I don't sink into depression hole. Not always that easy.

Love to give you a bunch of suggestions on that, but you know the drill....I, too, am doing my best. I keep getting stronger, and more able to deal with my lot in life. But, always the but....there is always some forward movement, and some backward.

Thanks for listening. Isn't the worst thing the lonliness?

B