Migraine - how do other people cope with the endless anticipation of pain? : Women-care

Migraine overview

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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-how do other people cope with the endless anticipation of pain?

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Like I fucking know I'm perpetuating the cycle, I'm either in pain or I'm nervously waiting for the next wave to hit, which probably helps turn it from a splash to a tsunami. I'm so anxious constantly that I'll fall through on a commitment weeks away because my head will fuck it up, and counting my tramadol obsessively to make sure I don't run out early because if I do I'm stranded in headache land, and I just can't stop fixating on the possibility (see, my brain wanted to write probability but I'm trying to fight that pessimism) that a bad one is right around the corner.

I don't know how to stop this cycle. I want to appreciate my good days, and I do, I really try to pause and think, how nice is this, being part of the world and enjoying it, but there's always that whisper of, enjoy it while it lasts. Because it never does. I think the longest I've ever made it at a real functioning level is maybe a week? I spend my days off work sleeping, because being awake when I don't absolutely have to be risks a headache, which risks taking medicine, which risks running out, etc etc etc.

I know my mindset is, if not contributing to the headaches, definitely not helping. But I'm in pain every damn day, it's only a matter of degree. If I wake and it's already starting to thud in my brain I know that by nighttime it will be raging. Every good moment feels so temporary. I'm just rambling now, but if anyone has tips on some kind of cognitive reset, some way to lessen the anxiety that I'm gonna lose another day because of a headache, the essential expectation that the pain is just waiting... Well, advice or coping mechanisms are desperately welcome

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Migraine Symptoms

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Migraines, which have an effect on children and teens as nicely as adults, can development via 4 stages: prodrome, aura, attack and post-drome. Not everyone who has migraines goes through all stages.

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