Migraine Again

Well I woke up on Sunday with a Migraine, it is the first one that I have had in three months.

I should be used to them by now, I've had them since I was 10. The first one I ever had was horrid it felt like I was being hit by a sledgehammer every second or so and all I wanted to do was curl up in a ball or hit my head against a brick wall to try and stop the pain. I am very lucky as my mother also has migraines she knew what was going on, with out her I don't think I would have coped.

I have Migraine with Aura, please click the link to find out more, I get to see many patterns of light flicker across my vision. For this condition I was put under the care of a neurologist at The Royal Free Hospital in London.
In my time, I have been on many medications including anti convulsants and anti depressant  medication, here is a list of  medications, I have been on most of them. With some of the medications I got fat, it was a side effect. I also had to inject myself with one of the triptan medications I had. My boyfriend (now hubby) came home one day after I had taken it and he said I looked like a deranged rabbit cought in head lights. It did make me quite hyper, well more hyper than normal. I was bouncing off the walls and even had a chat to the cat we were looking after about the rain and he was talking back to me! (I am not mad)

I am currently on Maxalt which has helped a bit, you put it on your tonuge and it melts which helps if you get sickness as there are not pills in your stomach for you to vomit up. I think that I am going to have to change medication again soon, nothing seems to work for very long on me.

I also have the problem of having Salicylate Sensitivity and an allergic reaction to NSAIDs and I can't take these sets of drugs as they trigger migraines and I come up in a rash that looks like a burn!

Today I have had to take Tramadol and this seems to have cleared it up no end, as you can tell by me writing this blog. I am hoping that I will only get these a couple of times a year at most now. In the past I could have a migraine for 5 out of the 7 days in a week! When I was pregnant with my daughter I stopped getting them. Then when I got Vasovagal Syncope I didn't really get the migraines at all just very bad headaches and only then once in a blue moon.

One thing I have found is that my pacemaker seems to work overtime while I have a migraine and I wonder why? I think I shall do more research into the matter and I will get back to you with what I find.