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-I just need to vent.
I got a banger of a migraine yesterday. 1000mg ibuprofen, 500mg naproxen, 4mg tizanidine, half a sleeve of saltines, miso soup, an ice cream sandwich (thank you fo my partner), 1000mg acetaminophen, 50mg Benadryl, a nap, a sleep, toast, coffee, dristan nasal spray, massage, stretching, a dark room, my glasses, my contact lenses, and still.
I woke up with it still here.
My shoulder and neck muscles are in spasm. My trap is so tight and I can’t stretch it out.
My neck is full and tight on the right side and I don’t know which muscle it is but of course it’s not my SCM, which would be easily accessible.
My voice keeps getting neurologically hoarse.
My pupils are different sizes (rAPD) but they didn’t find anything on my MRI, MRA, MRA TWIST, or CT. So it’s not a dissection and not an aneurysm, but it’s not something that shows up only when I have a migraine. It’s permanent, like I had optic neuritis. My affected eye is also blurry, like a thumbprint smudge. Yet the structure of my eye is totally fine.
I can hear myself breathe in my ear when my shoulder spasms. It pops and clicks in my ear and in my throat. Sometimes my whole arm and calf tingle. Often it feels like I have a nerve trapped under my shoulder blade, leaving me in excruciating pain.
By desperately stretching it out, am I GIVING myself a dissection? Am I HURTING myself more, contorting my body in a desperate attempt at getting relief?
ER visits ruled out stroke. Neurovascular surgeon ruled out aneurysm. First neuro didn’t help. Second neuro ordered the same tests as the hospital and found, once again, nothing.
Every day, I wake up wondering where the pain will be. What my neuro symptoms will be. Will I be dizzy? Will I be hoarse? Will my voice or vision be gone entirely? What about my hearing? What will I lose? Will it be permanent? Will I be able to work? Will I be able to go grocery shopping?
All the while, things pile up. I need a job. I need to move. I need to answer my mom, my friends, my emails, and everybody thinks I’m a flake. And I am. I’m unreliable. My body is unreliable.
I have to keep doing the dishes. The laundry. Feeding the cats, because they’ll only eat if I sit by them. Getting dressed. Cleaning up. Making dinner.
If the other people in my life felt the way I feel every day, they’d be in bed. But I have to keep going. It’s been almost a year. When will I feel better? Do I ever get to feel better?
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