http://blog.headache-pain-relief.com Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:47:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en migraineA strange thing happened to me.  I had all the signs of a migraine, dizziness and a ringing in my ears. I ran to my purse swallowed down three Aleve and prepared for the pain.  I closed the drapes, got in my jammies and went pee because when I have ... http://blog.headache-pain-relief.com/uncategorized/a-gentle-migraines-wake-of-fear/ Do you ever wish you could wear a sign on your head that reads "No bright lights please"?  I do.  Cameras and flash lights, headlights and fluorescent store signs are a constant pulse of pain for someone with light sensitivity.  For a long time I pretended that camera flashes and ... http://blog.headache-pain-relief.com/migraines/no-flash-photography-please/ Like so much information that is available about migraines news comes in a sort of hazy and hardly lucid format.  Doctors notice some things that in their small world are little more than interesting.  For example they "note" that women suffer with migraines more than men and that women are ... http://blog.headache-pain-relief.com/migraines/fortune-cookie-say/ When faced with chronic pain it is easy to fall prey to depression and a sense of enormous loss.  The feeling of being powerless can be as debilitating as the pain itself.  Migraines are painful no doubt, but it is often this overwhelming feeling of being powerless that hurts worse ... http://blog.headache-pain-relief.com/migraines/the-migraine-that-never-was/ It is a good day to be thirty years old and the mother of two wild things.  I have reached a place in my life where I know who I am, what I am capable of and have gathered just enough wisdom to start making better life choices.  It is ... http://blog.headache-pain-relief.com/migraines/migraine-support-for-moms-you-are-wonderful/ I am waiting.  Any second a migraine could show up.  My eyes are clouded with shadows and little flickers of sparkly lights are firing.  Some days this happens and it goes away.  Not so sure I will pull out of it today.  It is hard to say for sure, I ... http://blog.headache-pain-relief.com/migraines/mirgrainei-live-with-shadows/ I am migraine free.  Well at least for the last three weeks.  My eyes are so much better.  I have gone a whole week with out wearing a hat or being partailly blind.  I wish I knew why they come and go so feverishly.  I am still getting some pretty ... http://blog.headache-pain-relief.com/uncategorized/migraine-help-essential-oils-a-new-best-friend/ I hate the flu.  Like many people I got a flu virus every year for the first twenty years of my life and I suffered the fever, vomiting and respiratory ailments like everyone else.  I refused to take a flu shot because I hate needles.  Later in life I turned to natural ... http://blog.headache-pain-relief.com/uncategorized/swine-flu-pandemic-or-sales-gimmick/ Having children and coping with migraines can be overwhelming and depressing.  My five year old asks me nearly every morning if I think I will have a bad headache today.  His blue eyes look at me with a degree of pity that I hate seeing in someone so young.  He ... http://blog.headache-pain-relief.com/migraines/migraine-support-for-moms-build-empathy-not-bitterness/ 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 ... http://blog.headache-pain-relief.com/migraines/migraine-pain-cycles-the-brakes-didnt-work/