Migraine Headaches Support Group
Migraine is a neurological disease, of which the most common symptom is an intense and disabling episodic headache. Migraine headaches are usually characterized by severe pain on one or both sides of the head and are often accompanied by photophobia (hypersensitivity to light), phonophobia (hypersensitivity to sound) and nausea.
It appears that I have a choice. The doctor hasn't actually said it to me because I don't think she knows, but I figured it out.
I had migraines almost every day now and they hover at around 6 to 8. Sometimes they last up to 5 days. This last year has been particularily horrible and then I wound up in the hospital with various frightening sypmtoms and I was diagnosed with Graves disease (hyperthyroid). This was causing all the extra migraines and pain as my thyroid was running wild from hyper to hypo. Apparantly when I dip hypo, there are more migraines and more pain. When I am hyper, I have less migraines and less pain.
However, being hyper shortens your lifespan, so the doctors want to kill the thyroid and render you hypo and put you on pills. HELLO! Hypo - more pain.
I was given pills for Hyper for 8 weeks and I had a migraine almost every day. Then the blood tests came back and said that I stabilized so my pills were cut in half and I started to go Hyper again (I can't sit still at all) but my headaches are almost all gone!! WONDREFUL! But I'm hyper so the doc is going to want to bring down the hyper again. HELLO AGAIN. I have no headaches!!!!!!!
My initial thought is to leave me alone then. I have suffered horrible pain my entire life. Can't you just break the rules and let me be a little hyper? I know it is bad for the heart and eyes and I lose weight, but I promise I will eat and excercise. I'm okay with living a shorter life, really I am. My family doesn't have to know. In fact, I'm not going to tell them.
I need some serious discusions with my Endocronologist and my Neurologist.
I had migraines almost every day now and they hover at around 6 to 8. Sometimes they last up to 5 days. This last year has been particularily horrible and then I wound up in the hospital with various frightening sypmtoms and I was diagnosed with Graves disease (hyperthyroid). This was causing all the extra migraines and pain as my thyroid was running wild from hyper to hypo. Apparantly when I dip hypo, there are more migraines and more pain. When I am hyper, I have less migraines and less pain.
However, being hyper shortens your lifespan, so the doctors want to kill the thyroid and render you hypo and put you on pills. HELLO! Hypo - more pain.
I was given pills for Hyper for 8 weeks and I had a migraine almost every day. Then the blood tests came back and said that I stabilized so my pills were cut in half and I started to go Hyper again (I can't sit still at all) but my headaches are almost all gone!! WONDREFUL! But I'm hyper so the doc is going to want to bring down the hyper again. HELLO AGAIN. I have no headaches!!!!!!!
My initial thought is to leave me alone then. I have suffered horrible pain my entire life. Can't you just break the rules and let me be a little hyper? I know it is bad for the heart and eyes and I lose weight, but I promise I will eat and excercise. I'm okay with living a shorter life, really I am. My family doesn't have to know. In fact, I'm not going to tell them.
I need some serious discusions with my Endocronologist and my Neurologist.
It looks promising. We are not selling it on the market so this will come in a normal water bottle. If you will see if it works for you I will send you some.
Please let me know.
I do hope your migraines go away.
Thank you.
All I can say is that I've lived in horrible pain for over a year now (this my second affair with chronic migraine)...and there is no way I would want to live the rest of my life like this. It's affected every facet of my life and I hate it. If I had a choice..pain free with a higher quality of life although shorter life span vs more pain with low quality of life and longer life span. There is no doubt in my mind I would chose less pain. I miss the ole, carefree, happy go lucky me...what I wouldn't give to be like that again.
Everyone is different...and you have to do what you feel is best for you and your situation.
Wishing you the best whichever path you chose. ((hug))