I am going to start with a little bit of history, about me. Because then you will know that I am not talking about bad headaches or the like, or even petending to have migraine. I always think that many people who say they have migraines, don't, but a bad headache can be just as debilitating
Mine started when I was a teenager, just the odd one of two, then gradually over the next 10 years became more frequent and more painful, until I was having 2/3 a month. They started with numbness in one of my hands, then my sight was affected, it was like having tunnel vision, then panic, I knew if I could take some medication at that point I had a chance, a very slim chance of not getting any pain. If not, I knew that when the pain started I would be in bed all day, being physically sick every 20/30 min, and the next day although generally no pain, I would be totally exhausted and unable to bend down, move my head, or even think straight.
Strangely I had some relief when I was pregnant, those 9 months, although I had morning sickness for 7 of them, was heaven, I couldn't remember when I had gone so long without an attack.
As my Mother never had a headache, my attacks scared her, she always thought they couldn't be just a "headache", because I looked so ill. One attack came shortly after my Father died, Mum donated all his War Illustrated books to the British Legion and they asked us to take them to a residential home near Ripon. Before we set off back I felt one coming on, took some medication and got in the car to drive home, within half hour we had to stop, at a smashing restaurant on the A1, we sat on one of the bench seats, and they let me sleep for a couple of hours. When I awoke, although not great, was well enough to complete the drive home. I said to Mum, "They were nice to let us stay when you were only buying an odd cup of coffee." Mum laughed, and said, "They had no choice really, as they didn't want a corpse on their hands!" I said "What do you mean" she replied, " When we went in, you were so white and your eyes sunken with black rings round them, you scared them into letting us stay".
But I have had a couple of great GP's, who came to the house and tried different medications. The last one unfortunately, emigrated and we changed surgeries, My new GP, who is a very nice man, but only prescribed pain killers, and as you know they are usually rubbish.
Anyway, to the point of this blog. I started with an attack, as it happens my last serious attack, about two years ago, at a friends house and managed to get home, because my hand was numb I couldn't get into the house and a neighbour saw I was in distress and came running to help me. When I was back to normal, I was determined to try and find some help, after suffering for 35 years thought, enough was enough! I discussed this with my Yoga teacher, the local libraryand of course the internet.
I found the following site online, and it has given me my life back. I have told everyone I know who has this condition, and now I have learned to Blog I want to tell everyone else!! It is very simple and the first time I used it, I thought "Yeah right". But I used the technique and about a hour later realised the migraine pain hadn't happened, I still felt strange, as you do. Because many of my attacks came on during the night, I follow this system for about 5 min before I go to sleep and then again in the morning, and I haven't had a full on attack for nearly 2 years!!!
http://36023is5pq8qe19ck3elq05l0l.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=ROBAT6
Thursday, 21 January 2010
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