Migraine - Yay for medication normalcy! : 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-Yay for medication normalcy!

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My migraines happen about every 2-3 days now, but on my current medication cocktail they're just...negligent. Pretty cool stuff! Except I weigh 275 pounds now; I weighed 170 when the migraines started.

The last time I saw my neurologist to get botox, I talked about experimenting with reducing propranolol or stopping emgality, because I don't actually know how much either one is helping my migraines and they may be contributing to the 60 pounds I gained last year. She let me know neither one of those medications can possibly contribute to weight gain, and I should instead reduce the nortriptyline my PCP gave me because if anything made me gain weight, it's that. I KNOW the nortriptyline is pretty good for my migraines, but I decided to try it. I went from two pills to one, from 100 mg to 50 mg.

Welp...that lasted a whole five days. The last two or three days have been just increasing misery and recurring migraines, more and more constantly. Even the smallest movement was getting harder as it contributed to the sick feeling in the back of my head. I added my second pill back last night, and by 9 pm I felt great. This morning I was grinning heading out of the house, popped down to the river to take pictures, and put on music when I got home. Looks like I'll be turning into a whale; that is one pill I am not decreasing!

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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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😄 " I hope each new day brings you closer to a full and speedy recovery! "