Posted by Dinah on August 7, 2004, at 22:44:08
In reply to Migraines in general - a survey, posted by partlycloudy on August 4, 2004, at 15:18:32
I do. They tend to come in groups where I get them for a week or so, then I don't get any for a few weeks. The Frova has helped a lot. I know that you can't take tryptans with some psych drugs, and I've ruled those drugs out forever. That stuff is a lifesaver. And I think they were only recently invented?
Anyway, that usually does the trick for me now. Maybe not immediately, but soon. And I no longer get the migraines that seem to last for days with only brief respite.
I tried biofeedback, but biofeedback guy is the only person offering it, and he caused me too much stress.
If I wait too long to take the Frova, and before I had Frova, I either gutted it out or went and lay down in a darkened room. Gutting it out wasn't easy, especially with the visual disturbances.
I've just recently read something about migraines and memory loss. It's truly amazing the wide spectrum of ails that are really migraine spectrum symptoms. I sometimes manage to find it really really cool. When I get a migraine, sometimes I become really aware that what I'm seeing isn't real, it's only the light bouncing into my eyes as a reflection of what's real. It's just an image. And solid objects look rather insubstantial. Everything vibrates.
Sometimes I get optical migraines with no headache at all, just spots of vision loss.
I used to get really worried about all these things until I read Oliver Sacks book on migraines and realized how common they were. I went to see a headache specialist neurologist, but I'm doing well enough now that I've been formally assessed and put on the proper medication that I've been released to my primary care physician.
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