I’m used to the pain I have from Fibromyalgia, it’s not bad most days, no pain killers needed. Sure, there are a few days, mostly weather-related, that it gets worse but I can stand that too, most of the time. It was under control until one day when I started having a headache that would not go away.
I’ve had plenty of headaches before mostly in the middle of my head and that’s how this one started so I thought nothing of it. I took Tylenol, the only medicine I am allowed (Chronic Kidney Disease) to take, but it did not help. It was a mild headache for two days, I thought nothing of it.
Suddenly, the pain started crawling up on the left side of my face. It settled there like a jumbo jet that had just landed at the airport and was pulling straight into the proper gate. Passengers came off the plane then airline crew, the plane was cleaned and this baby was not going anywhere tonight. The headache had landed.
It’s hard to imagine I have another pain symptom but I accept it as my curse, this ugly life of mine. At almost 58 years old I now get migraines. “Welcome to the club” I mutter angrily under my breath, asking: “Why me?”
The first migraine, which ended me in the Emergency Room of the hospital moaning in pain and begging for a shot of something, anything, to relieve the intense, hammering pain happened a couple of months ago. “Nice to meet you, meet your new doctor, your Nurologist”.
I thought it was a one time thing, A visit to the Emergency Room, a shot and hydration and two days later I was fine. I went home where the lights were dim, I was safe in bed and all I wanted was darkness and no company, no radio, no television, just black solitude. I laid on my back and pulled the covers over my forehead, yes, this was my safe place, I promised myself the pain was over, gone for good.
Unfortunately, it came back with a vengeance twice more. Once a month ago and one two weeks ago. I tried all the tricks, the medicine to supposedly make it go away before it really hits, a dark room, breathing slowly, ice, pressure points, Reiki, meditation….you name it, I tried it but it is clinging on to my head with traction and beating harder and harder.
It is now moving to the center of my forehead and the hammer is following after the movement, banging away, beat after beat rhythmically while all I can do is shut down and shudder.
Deutsch: “Kopfschmerzen”. Die wohl berühmteste – stark von James Gillray beeinflußte – Arbeit in einer Reihe von sechs Blättern “medizinischer” Karikaturen, in denen Cruikshank Krankheiten als Teufelswerk brandmarkt. Erstmalig publiziert: 12. Februar 1819. Originalgröße: 210 x 255 mm (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I know this isn’t fair, I know that life isn’t fair. I have accepted this new symptom because i don’t have a choice. It has joined the family of maladies that already exist, trapped in every limb of my body, from head to toe.
Since I was five I’ve always had a very low tolerance for pain, my parents used to tell me that. If one orange baby aspirin worked on other children to get their temperatures down, I needed two. I am still that way, believe me, it isn’t fun.
Recently, a friend told me to push my Internist to check more complicated Lyme Disease tests and I will do that. What are the chances? I don’t know but I will try. I don’t want to get even remotely excited.
Been there, done that, way too many times. I have no hope. I feel battered.
Enough already. This is getting old. Fast.
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Oh my dear. As you know I am a chronic migraineur. I can relate. They can debilitate, fast.
There are a lot of treatments. Look for a neurologist that actually specializes in headache pain, there aren’t that many. I hope you have one in your area. I had a good doctor, but until I found my neurologist who specializes in headaches and facial pain, I never had the kind of relief she gave me. I went through a lot of treatments that worked for a while and then they stopped, so don’t give up. There is hope. I still have migraines, but they are much more managed now. This link might help you find a headache specialist http://www.headaches.org/physicians Good luck my dear.
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😀 I am having the worst migraine right now! (Since last night!) Thanks for blogging this. 🙂
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oh dear, mine is on its way out. why do I feel responsible for yours? Feel better very soon!!!!
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not happy about this
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same
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#Chronic Kidney Disease,stage 3 #what the heck? # trying not to be mad
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Get the book The Mindbody Prescription by John Sarno, M.D. He wrote it before much of the brain research on neurobiology and thus he attributes “pain” to unconscious anger from a psychological perspective.
Science now knows that the “psychology” (what we once termed psychological) is actually neurochemical. However, what he has to explain – if you think neurochemical, instead of psychological, while reading it can really help modify pain – including migraine – to some degree.
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