Until today, I hadn't had a migraine in a long time. I can tell you that I wasn't missing them at all. I don't get the really bad kind that debilitate you for days. What happens is that the migraine is triggered by a flash of light, such as sunlight glinting off a car mirror. I have an aura for 30 minutes, and then I get killer head pain. The aura basically makes it seem like I'm tuned to the wrong channel. The pain lasts until I sleep for a couple of hours.
I can't remember the last time I got a migraine. At one point in my life, I got a migraine every other Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. Then I lost a bunch of weight and it seems like that helped reduce the frequency of migraines. (Of course I can't be sure because there aren't two parallel universes, one in which I lost weight and one in which I didn't.)
Today I had a migraine. It was strange because it wasn't triggered by the sunlight; it was dark when I had the migraine. I walked into a store and felt really dizzy, and then I got the aura. Unfortunately, I was all alone, so I had to wait in the store until the aura lifted. Then I got to drive twenty miles home. I made it home without getting into any accidents.
I'm trying to get back to my pre-pregnancy weight, slowly but surely. I've started back at Weight Watchers. Hopefully I'll be able to lose the weight again and get rid of the migraines.
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It may be hormonal. I don't get auras, but I sure as hell get migraines. They were almost daily before I lost the weight, but they vanished during my pregnancy. Fat cells make estrogen, and that could be lowering your trigger threshhold. Good luck with WW.
Carrie
Yikes, migranes, that's awful! I hope they go away soon. :-(
I completely understand the pain and inconvenience that comes with migraines. My mother's side of the family (including myself) all suffer from regular migraines. I have averaged slightly over 1 migraine a month since I was around 10 years old. I have yet to find anything that stops them, but there are medicines that will help to alleviate the symptoms. I wish you the best of luck getting rid of them.
How miserable. I get them too, although mine are always either caused by hormone shifts or sleep depravation. I hope you don't get many more!
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