Seraphim Posted October 19, 2011 Author Share Posted October 19, 2011 Oh, I saw that clinical trial in T.O. too Vic! I don't have them that often anymore, but I certainly have the auras that often. I should tell my Dad about that - he is where I got them from!!! I hope you feel better soon. Transitional seasons are bad for me, plus emotional stress, which I am sure isn't helping you. HUGS! Hey Kaytie! Yes, I suffer from auras as well. They sometimes it ends with menopause but it never did for my mom. I am almost exactly like my mom in medical respects. We are like twins almost. I am sorry your dad gets them. It is a little easier when you have a parent who understands. I understand for my son because we both have them too. He does not have them as often as I do which is good. Link to comment
Seraphim Posted November 2, 2011 Author Share Posted November 2, 2011 I can not take these migraines anymore. I just can't. The pain is unbearable and it is ruining my life. Sometimes I think death would be better. Link to comment
Seraphim Posted November 3, 2011 Author Share Posted November 3, 2011 Wow, that latest migraine was the strangest yet. I lost my sense of smell and I felt just so far on another plane of "being really out there" that I did not even feel I was on this planet. Link to comment
Kaytie Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 I came to check if you've been suffering too. The last couple of days have been awful for me with visual auras. I hope you feel better soon! Link to comment
Seraphim Posted November 3, 2011 Author Share Posted November 3, 2011 Awww ,yes Kaytie I have been really badly too. I had one that lasted for 3 solid days. I hate those ones I really do. I am so sorry you are bad too. HUGS. It is the just on the edge today of going or coming back I am sure you know the feeling. Sometimes my auras are visual as in I loose sight in my left eye. However most of mine are more physical. I lose all feeling in the left side of my face and I get very off balance and it almost seems like I have stroke symptoms. I tend to have a lot of accidents, as in accidently hurting myself because I can not control my limbs properly. Usually my hearing ans sense of smell are very over exaggerated but this time I lost my sense of smell altogether. I also have had muscle pain in my neck and shoulder blade on my left side with a migraine. If I can allieviate that sometimes the migraine goes. It is such a horror isn't it?? I am getting to the point I can't stand it. Do migraines change your perspective of the world Kaytie? When I have one the world looks so black to me. It changes my whole personality. It really does. It makes me very negative and angry and the whole world looks black and ugly and everything is negative and you just want to die. Link to comment
Seraphim Posted November 3, 2011 Author Share Posted November 3, 2011 link removed Non-drug Alternatives to Preventative Treatment of Migraines Gut Brain Therapy MAGNUM looks into the exciting work that ForeverWell is doing in Migraine research & the gut brain. An intriguing possibility is beginning to develop. The growing evidence supporting our long term belief that Migraine is a brain disorder coupled with the work showing a second brain in the gut might cause some to look at proper neuropeptide/neurotransmitter production by the digestive system as a root cause of the factors leading to Migraine. One company doing just that has recently published an outcome based study in which they focus primarily on healing and improving digestive dysfunction that they believe on some level is occurring in most Migraine sufferers. Synergistically, they provide nutritional support to the liver and kidney believing that these organs are critical in balancing internal function. This natural Migraine prevention approach has shown very positive results in their initial study. Interestingly, some of the comments from study participants included that while on the nutritional supplements they found that the Migraines they did get were less severe and a lower dose of various pain treatments seemed to be more effective. 80% of the 40 study participants reported good to dramatic benefit from this approach. 20% had no benefit. In 60% of the cases the participants quality of life rating was in the 80 to 100 range indicating a virtually Migraine free condition. To learn more about Gut Brain Therapy and to read the entire study visit, link removed. Michael Gershon, MD of Columbia University is the recognized father of the growing field of neurogastroenterology and author of The Second Brain. His book is fascinating and may explain why ForeverWell is getting great results with Migraine by focusing on the digestive system. For a FREE, chapter by chapter, description of the book you can send an email request to email removed. There is a book called The Second Brain by Michael Gershon, MD. He is at Columbia University in New York and seems to be the leading authority in neurogastroenterology. The book is quite fascinating and perhaps does explain why ForeverWell has been getting great results with Migraine by treating the gut. Link to comment
Seraphim Posted November 3, 2011 Author Share Posted November 3, 2011 I am SO glad this last migraine is gone. Just the residual effects now. It feels like there is a dry ring around my left eye and the left side of my head is so tender and so are the neck and shoulder muscles on that side. Oh God, SO thankful. Link to comment
Kaytie Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 I've also had muscle pain in my neck and left rotator cuff. I definitely think that's contributing to it! Plus the barometric pressure here has been wonky too. It is indeed a horror - I missed a ton of grade 9 when I first started having them and even though they've reduced with age, they are still debilitating. Migraine pain definitely changes my perspective on things - as any chronic, severe pain would I imagine. And yes, when I worked at the migraine foundation hotline we often dealt with people who literally had a gun to their head just wanting the pain to go away. It's real and it's raw - but too many people still think it's 'just a bad headache.' Makes me crazy! Link to comment
Kaytie Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 So glad to hear it! I also have the 'hangover' now - I hate that! All that pain and no party, lol. I am SO glad this last migraine is gone. Just the residual effects now. It feels like there is a dry ring around my left eye and the left side of my head is so tender and so are the neck and shoulder muscles on that side. Oh God, SO thankful. Link to comment
Seraphim Posted November 4, 2011 Author Share Posted November 4, 2011 Yeah, that is exactly how it feels. Like you are hungover but did zero to get that way and then it takes another day after the pain is gone to even feel normal. I swear I sometimes spend half my life in this state. Link to comment
Seraphim Posted November 4, 2011 Author Share Posted November 4, 2011 link removed I am going to try my magnesium more religiously that seems to help a lot and also learn to express more outwardly and not inwardly. Link to comment
Seraphim Posted November 5, 2011 Author Share Posted November 5, 2011 Unless you are a migraine sufferer, it is practically impossible to understand what it really means to endure this type of suffering. Migraines are not merely headaches. While a migraine generates inside the head, that is where the similarities end. Light and noise, even to the smallest degree, can be intolerable. Extreme nausea is common. While the migraine begins in the brain, it sweeps through the body and can thoroughly debilitate its victim. The affects of a migraine are completely consuming, and living with this chronic pain can be torture, both physically and emotionally . While there is a virtual plethora of medications, naturally remedies and pain management techniques available, there is no absolute cure for migraines. Migraines do not always respond to medical treatment. Different treatments can be effective for different people. But for many migraine sufferers, medications bring little in the way of relief. link removed Link to comment
Seraphim Posted November 5, 2011 Author Share Posted November 5, 2011 link removed I believe I touched on the PFO hole in the heart before in chronic migraine sufferers. I guess I could get checked for that. I know my mother said I had a heart murmur as a small child. Link to comment
Seraphim Posted November 14, 2011 Author Share Posted November 14, 2011 I had a migraine before the dentist, now it is just worse after because they worked on my left side. Link to comment
Seraphim Posted November 20, 2011 Author Share Posted November 20, 2011 My son went to bed with a migraine about an hour ago. Poor guy. Link to comment
Seraphim Posted November 22, 2011 Author Share Posted November 22, 2011 Annoying migraine on and off all day. I think I am going to sleep it off. Link to comment
Seraphim Posted November 26, 2011 Author Share Posted November 26, 2011 I had another migraine last night that just zonked me out. It was not so much painful like some, but just made me so tired there was no possible way to stay awake. Sometimes they are so different in symptoms and levels of pain and levels of disability. Link to comment
metrogirl Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 I found this and thought of you. I can so relate to what they are saying. link removed Link to comment
Seraphim Posted December 22, 2011 Author Share Posted December 22, 2011 ^^ Yeah, my personal fav is : " oh it's just a headache, why can't you come to work?" Well, if I could stop vomiting and rolling in severe agony I could maybe try. I had another migraine today. It took up most of the day. From before I woke up to about 10 tonight. They have got much less though since finding out I had chronic mandibular osteomyelitis and now we have removed the cause and it is healing. Link to comment
Seraphim Posted January 6, 2012 Author Share Posted January 6, 2012 I am so so so so grateful for the HUGE reductions is migraines now that bone infection is gone. I can not believe I suffered like that for about 3 odd years. Link to comment
Seraphim Posted January 16, 2012 Author Share Posted January 16, 2012 Migraine today............yucky. Link to comment
Seraphim Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 Migraine has been here about 16 hours now. SO annoying. Link to comment
Seraphim Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 Still have this freaking migraine...........30 hours Link to comment
Seraphim Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 I HATE HATE HATE HATE migraines like this. I really do. I have tried everything in creation I can think of to remedy it and it ain't happening. Can I shoot my own head off? Link to comment
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