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June is a national month for migraines and headaches.
As Nicole Audrey Spector said
I was on the college when I had my first migraine attack. It was so difficult that it struck me for three days. On the second day, I closed myself in a dark room, where I was continuously and shortly before that.
Screamed and thought that I had a brain aneurysm and went to the health clinic on the campus as soon as I could run and tolerate to be in the bright nature. I was still very shaken when I described my symptoms to the doctor, but he checked me out, told me that nothing was wrong and sent me home.
I called my mother, who is very close to me, and she insisted that we visit our family doctor. So she took me off and drove me to his office. Fortunately, he was worried and got me for an appointment on the same day with a neurologist for a brain CT scan to exclude tumors, strokes and seizures. It all came back clearly. I also had an EKG because I felt like I was losing awareness. That also came back clearly.
None of the medical specialists I saw had an idea of what was going on with me. I went back to school with over -the -counter pain relievers and hoped that it would not happen again. But it did. Every few weeks, these attacks would come from nothing and put me in a brutal forgetting of pain, weakness, illness and fear.
Jaclyn with her mother and her nephew.
A happy aspect is that at some point it was reached to a point where I could feel when a migraine attack arrived, which made it possible for me to build a schedule around them. After college, I started a long-term career in public education as a substitute teacher. I carved my life for these attacks, and if I started a migraine attack, I would not take a job.
Every time I had a migraine attack, I felt sure that I was dying. They were always so bad. Once I went to the emergency room in the middle of an attack. I was smeared with vomit, bleak eyes and clearly in a very bad form. The doctor on duty accused me of “falsifying” my migraine attack in order to maintain narcotics. After I agreed that I could arrange a trip home, he gave me an injection of painkillers. I am not sure what it was, but it made me sleep for 12 hours. But that was the only time I got real pain relief. All the over -the -counter things I took was useless. I would just raise everything.
This mysterious agony lasted 10 years. Sometimes life with migraine attacks made me depressed and anxious. I often thought I was just going crazy, simple and simple, but I have to say that I managed to live an independent and fulfilling life even with them. It was just very difficult. I was always the woman with a strange illness that spontaneously took over.
When I was 28, I went to my Ob-Gyn for a routine exam and told her about my migraine attacks. She really listened to me and said: “I think you have menstrual migraine.” I didn’t know yet, but these words have changed my life – miraculously.
Jaryn with her sister and niece.
I had never heard of migraine attacks that were tied to their period, but my Ob-Gyn explained that it was common. For some people, when our hormones fluctuate wildly, especially during ovulation and menstruation, migraine attacks can occur. Your migraines may feel like you are not in your period if you are not in your period when you get a migraine attack -but there can actually be a rhythm.
My OB-GYN recommended that my period stopped for three months and would not prevent my hormones from being prevented, which was a trigger for my migraines. I strived for relief and did not hesitate to get started. As soon as I got on into the medication, the migraines took off radically. I experienced her a day a month instead of six. This drug was effective for a while, but it finally stopped working. I switched to a different birth control and that helped a lot.
During this time I saw my family doctor again, shortly before he retired. I told him what was going on. He prescribed a nasal spray to me to treat migraine attacks and the pain and nausea downwards. This also worked for a while (although it had the unpleasant side effect that I felt that I was in slow motion). After a few years, the spray also worked on working in this way so that I switched to another drug. So far, so good. A silver strip when a medication no longer works? I can usually take something, or so I found in my experience. I’m not worried.
I’ve just turned 44 and I’m fine. My migraines are almost completely under control and if they sneak up on me, I have a way to combat them before they become serious. I am really in top form – concentrate on my career, bind me with my family and only do the things I want to do in life.
I want others to know that if they suffer from something that is not or incorrectly diagnosed. Talk on! If a doctor treats you insensitive, switch to the next medical specialist. You will find someone who will take care of it and help you – even if it takes a decade. Although I certainly hope it won’t.
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