Migraine overview
A migraine is a headache that can purpose intense throbbing suffering or a pulsing sensation, typically on one facet of the head. It's often accompanied with the aid of nausea, vomiting, and excessive sensitivity to mild and sound. Migraine assaults can closing for hours to days, and the discomfort can be so excessive that it interferes with your each day activities. For some people, a warning symptom viewed as an air of secrecy takes location until now than or with the headache. An air of secrecy can consist of visible disturbances, such as flashes of mild or blind spots, or different disturbances, such as tingling on one thing of the face or in an arm or leg and concern speaking.
My experience-Dealing with medication stigma!
TLDR; feeling pressure to wean off meds due to medication stigma, but it’s made my condition and quality of life worse.
Not looking for medical advice of course, just opinions as I’m feeling really torn.
After living with crippling regular migraines and trying to identify triggers for years, last year I decided to try a gluten free diet and haven’t had a migraine since. Its been a complete miracle. Even my daily chronic headaches disappeared. But, during this time I have continued to take my amitriptyline daily as a preventative, and my family have been putting pressure on me to stop taking it if the gluten free diet keeps me well.
I’ve been scared to rock the boat when the combination of ami plus a GF diet has been keeping me really well, and the healthiest/happiest I’ve felt with my condition in years, but I eventually succumbed to the pressure and agreed a medication plan to wean myself off it with my GP. I am 6 weeks into a 3 month weaning off plan and crippling migraines have returned. I used to feel quite frustrated with the side effects of the ami, but now that the migraines have returned I think I’m far happier to live with the side effects if that’s the price of being well. But my family are again putting pressure on me to stick with it and see if I can come off it altogether, it seems like they are very anti-medication - but if it’s doing it’s job surely that’s an ideal situation?
I’m starting to think I would be far happier to maintain the GF diet/ami combination which I know can keep me in much better health, than effectively reduce my quality of life and live with such a miserable condition purely so I can say I’m not ‘on medication’. Even as I type this I think I know what I need to do, which is to tell my family members my body my choice! But I’ve had a few digs from them that I’m a hypochondriac because I’m taking medication that I don’t need 🙄
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