I can track migraines back many generations in my family. Recently, I've discovered that I passed them on to my daughter. Thanks to this site, I now know migraine is a disease and have learned a lot. Thank you for that!
We all want better lives for our children of course. So do you think there will ever be a cure for this disease?
Thank you,
Ariana
no, b/c it is also a pain syndrome with different factors (aura, no aura, nausea, vomiting, none, HA - mild, moderate, severe, etc) I hate to be so pessimistic but I think that something so complicated can only be "treated" or "controlled", not cured. Just my thoughts. Certainly, if someone said to me, we have a magic pill to make all your HA types and pains go away, I'd consider it and probably swallow it.
Diane, who was suffering yesterday from a migraine
No I don't, because they are too varied in causes. I do think there will be better treatments that offer more proactive control.
My migraines started after spinal anesthesia, but I was always prone to sinus/pressure change style headaches. They often start as a sinus headache, if I don't "catch it" early, it will explode into a migraine. This usually happens over night, and I wake up in misery. Sometimes I'm lucky, and they are in the early stages, then I can treat it with caffeine and pain meds and that eases them considerably. mine normally last one or two days. On a scale of 1-10, mine average 5-7.
My daughters were triggered by cranial surgery. While most of her triggers are also weather/pressure related, they are very different in style and scope from mine. Caffeine makes hers worse, and the pain meds that work for me are the opposite of the ones she needs. Hers tend to last 4-6 days. On that same scale of 1-10, hers average 7-10.5. She is under the care of a top Neurologist at Johns Hopkins. And they are working on very progressive therapies.
These are only two examples of the different styles and causes of Migraines. There is a very real chance they will find better treatments...but I don't think they will ever be able to Cure all migraines.
No, I"ve lived with them for 28 years and I don't see any hope at this point.
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Dear Ariana,
I am in the same boat, having passed on the condition to my 9 year-old daughter as well. I quickly got over the guilt and read Teri's marvelous book, and with the support of people who DO UNDERSTAND I will thankfully live the rest of my life trying to manage it all, including helping others manage, instead of feeling like a victim. I recently had to explain to my mother-in-law, after she asked me if my treatment was going to "cure" my "headaches", that migraine is a disease, not a headache you can treat with medicine only, then you are done. This prevailing myth still "hurts" us all and I hope everyone reading this will help spread the truth about what we now know about migraine disease. How can we expect people who never have experienced this to understand otherwise? Hang in there and stay strong knowing we share a great deal! Kdnewton, Austin, Tx
I hope with all my heart that there will be!
My migraines were caused from brain surgery, not by a genetic issue.
Long and the short of it, I had a temporal lobe removed and ever since then I have had migraines.
I have read where some have grown out of them and others have not. In my case, I was told there can be flare ups which is what I have been experiencing. At this time, I am going through more than just flare ups, the migraines are lasting for days and these migraines are very debilitating.
I have already made one visit to my neurologist on it last week and I go back to see him again on the 30th to discuss options on how we will manage this issue so I can function. Currently, I am taking a narcotic every eight hours to releive the edge but there has to be something else which can be done so we are looking into other options.
So to answer the question for a cure, I really don't know because there are so many different levels of a migraine.
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