Today is day two of a cluster migraine.
I'm not very happy that I suffer from migraines. I don't suppose anyone actually set out one day and thought to themselves: "self, I think we should start having migraines!". Some days I wonder though, as these migraines have developed, seemingly all by themselves, with absolutely no desire or provocation from me! Lo and behold, one day, I just started having migraines. And then, once they built up a head of steam, they just decided to stay! Yup, in the first year, I went for 7 months with hardly a day without a migraine. I actually had to quit my job. It's not a good thing to make mistakes at work when you work in the legal field!
So, into the world of the migraine meanies I (and my poor aching head) dove one day. Now, five years later, I still suffer. I have been through almost every test known to the medical world for headaches, including a brain scan to make sure I didn't have a tumor (no matter WHAT my kids may have thought!), or some other crazy thing going on in my head. Well, I did have a couple of crazy things going on in there, like a sinus polyp the size of a large cranberry or small clementine, and a few other miscellaneous "thingies". After they carved me like a pumpkin (aka sinus surgery), they decided that I had allergies, and/or extreme sinus sensitivity. Oh boy. Do I get to pick the diagnosis??? You know, like there's a bunch of ideas written on scraps of paper and dropped into a paper bag and I'm supposed to close my eyes and reach in and pick one? Well, I suppose it depends on the day. I DO have allergies and I DO have extreme sinus sensitivity. Oh, and I have stress, and muscle spasms, and spinal injuries, and spinal surgeries, and.... yeah, that's what I thought.
Migraines are still a mystery to most of the medical world. Partly because no two migraine sufferers have the same symptoms, or react to the same drugs and treatments in the same way. Just my luck. Fortunately, I DO now have a terrific migraine specialist who is helping me find some ways to treat these meanies (aka migraines), and one or two of them seem to be helping. I am currently experiencing less migraines in a month - instead of 20 some days of headaches, I am down to about 6 or 7 days. Now, however, they seem to be closer together and of a much stronger caliber. Yeah! And, Bummer! I guess it's progress though, and who knows, I might be lucky and STOP having them when I get done going through menopause. Oh yeah, menopause.....that's the subject for another day's Wannabe!
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