Apr

15

Migraine Pain Cycles - The Brakes didn’t Work

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It is a common complaint among women that they tend to get their migraines during or around their periods.  This is true of me as well.  As mentioned before I suffer from hypothyroid and am being treated for it through a medical doctor.  I do not like medical doctors, but am left with little choice when it comes to some problems.  So in a wild attempt to stop the migraines and a few other health problems I cope with around my period I went to my thyroid doctor and suggested that I try going on a birth control pill to stop my periods all together. I wanted to try putting the brakes on the cycles of pain I seemed stuck in. This seemed like a good idea to her, so the next day I started taking the pill.  Six weeks in I had no migraines and my other major health problem (inerstitial cystitis) had not flared up so I was getting hopeful. However like most of my experiences in the medical world I was destined for disappointment and additional bitterness.  On the seventh week of taking the pill I had a migraine and a cystitis flare up which are usually markers that my period will start soon.  Sure enough my period started two days later withanother migraine.  I was frustrated that the pill had not worked but I figured that it was fluke and when it was over I would press on in my theory of stopping the cycles.  Unfortunately my period lasted 4 weeks and three days.  I called my doctor concerned after the first ten days had passed and was shocked that my doctor casually said “I am not surprised, women with thyroid problems react to the pill like that fairly often.”  Wow, I wonder how difficult it would have been to mention that like a couple months ago when I first came in.  Of course she has not had to suffer through five blinding migraines and an array of miserable pains and ailments so it should not be shocking in the end.  Why should I be surprised at all? I blame myself really.  If I would just learn to stop hoping that doctors have cures or any reliable help to offer.  If you think about it when a doctor says with a big grin ‘We have a treatment for that’ they are not saying much.  The medical world is in the profession of treatment not healing, and rarely curing.  If I continue working with doctors on my health, I will die young and probably addicted to a heaping pile of medications, not to mention insane.  Insane may come first, or maybe it came already and I missed it, or worse I have lost it and am mistaking it for being eccentric.  I wonder if their is a pill to help people who are eccentric?  And if so does it work on people who have hypothyroidism?