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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Migraines, my perspective..........

I'm not a happy camper.......Lately I've been having a ton of headaches and some migraines....Every day for the last 2 weeks I've had one or the other, and it's driving me crazy.....I am on some preventative and I have some meds for onset but neither seem to be doing their job.....I have an appointment for tomorrow to try and come up with a game plan and maybe do a brain scan or something to see what's causing them....Hopefully I don't have a tumor or something crappy like that....I was diagnosed with migraines when I was in kindergarten....You'd think that I'd have grown use to these things by now, but I just haven't.....They are absolutely terrible!! I wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy...I don't know if you've ever had a migraine or not but if you haven't I'll try and give you an idea of what it's like......Now there are different levels of migraines, but I'll give you and example of what I like to call a "full blown" migraine......Usually it starts off as a nagging headache, but most of the time it'll just hit me randomly.....Some things that can give me an INSTANT migraine are: super strong smells (bleach, old lady perfume (or any other over the top perfume), powdery smells, any chemical based cleaner, when the sun is super bright, if I get over heated, bright lights, getting hit in the head with a soft ball (which are totally not soft,  in case you didn't know), and other things of the sort....So once I have a migraine my world becomes a blur, literally....They are ALWAYS in my left eye and go around to the left side of the back of my head.....My eye will literally feel like someone is taking a plastic toy hammer and repeatedly tapping it on it.....I will be nauseaous, sometimes I'll even have to vomit....When I get up I'll get dizzy....Any lights, no matter how dim or bright will make me wanna hurl, literally....Any sound, no matter how quiet or loud will make we wanna cry and hurl.....I get really hot, no matter how cold the surrounding gets....I have to have 2 fans going straight in my face to even feel a little comfortable....Once I have a migraine, no over the counter pills will kick it, NONE....I've  tried everything, trust me....And also some prescription drugs don't even help.....So anyway I will literally feel so helpless....All I wanna do is curl up in a ball in a pitch black, freezing cold room with noone around me at all and just sleep....But see with a baby and a husband, it makes it so hard to do that.....Especially when I'm having these migraines more frequently.....I'm basically non fuctional with a migraine and it's terrible....I want to be able to enjoy EVERY day with my family.....Because of these dumb things, I get depressed and super angry.....I'm upset because I don't feel like myself anymore because I feel like migraines/headaches have literally taken over my life and it's not a good feeling....I want to be deeply happy again, all the time....I want my life back, my personality....If you've never gone through having to deal with migraines, then you won't get it, but it truly is a hard thing to handle.....I'm at a loss...I truly hope that something can be done....I don't wanna "coast" through life anymore....I wanna get excited every day, and not have to worry about whether or not I'm gonna get a headache and whether or not that headache is gonna turn into a migraine........Ugh.