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-Crevicogenic headaches?
I’ve been getting bad migraines since I was in elementary school. However, over the past 2 years they’ve gotten increasingly worse. On average I get a headache per week/ week and a half. Sometimes they go away, sometimes they hang around for 2/3 days. It is nothing less than debilitating and I don’t know what to do. I went to a neuro this past summer (2022). I described that my headache always starts with one side of my neck feeling sore, then it creeps up to the same side of my head, that side of my face also hurts really bad and so will my eye, ear, and cheekbone. My neck feels tight, and the pain is stabbing. It makes me nauseous, my vision gets blurry, I can’t focus, I can’t look at light, it just hurts. 2/10 times it will go away if I drink an energy drink, take Tylenol, and keep an ice pack on my head. Neuro didn’t take any CT’s or MRI’s, he simply listened to my description for 5 minutes then said I have basic migraines and prescribed me Sumatriptan (which I haven’t even dared to try). The reason I haven’t even tried it is because he said that immediately after I take it, I may feel like I’m choking for about 10 minutes, and then the entire rest of the day my body will feel physically immobilized; like I’m carrying a thousand pounds of weight. This neuro app left me very aggravated because I was hoping for a ct or mri since it’s definitely not normal to get headaches every other week for 2 years. I felt like he didn’t really listen to what I was saying and just gave me a random prescription.
I did some research on types of headaches recently and discovered cervicogenic headaches, which seems to align exactly with what I’ve been dealing with. However, recommendations online say to just stay active and stretch. I’ve been a competitive dancer since the age of 3, now I’m a dance teacher as well as an STNA, and I also workout/lift 4-5 days a week (on the days I don’t have headaches lol). I’m very very active and I stretch for at least 30 minutes a day. One of the things I notice that sets off a headache is when someone is sitting directly next to me and I have my head turned towards them in conversation, or I’m sitting slightly off center in my nursing classes and have to turn my head to see the board, etc. Nothing else corresponds with these headaches, I drink A LOT of water, there’s not alignments with my birth control or period, I eat relatively healthy, so I’m really just at a loss. I’d really like to get on a medication for headaches but I DO NOT want side affects that are just as awful as having a headache. I’m thinking of visiting a different neuro but I’m not sure what to do
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