Migraines are extremely intense headaches and unless you've ever had one you can't begin to imagine how a 'headache' puts you completely out of action for a day or two.
I've suffered from migraines since i was 3 years old, the same time i was diagnosed with CHD. I have no idea if they are linked or not but its an odd coincidence and something else I've dealt with since being a little girl.
Migraines are extremely intense headaches that are made worse by activity and light. They make me very nauseous and i get sick almost every time.
I've tried almost every medication under the sun and nothing has ever worked. I've had tests, xrays, seen nutritionists and specialist Dr's, as a little girl i was never allowed to eat foods with beef extract ( which sucked as i had a love for marmite and beef hoola hoops) and as a teenager they thought it might be dairy and i cut it out for years but cutting out these 'triggar' foods did nothing. After all this time nothing but a dark room and sleep helps.
I've been lucky and haven't until recently had a migraine for the vast majority of the year. As Ive grown up they have seemed to lessen to one a few months rather than the one a week a got when i was younger.
But, since I've been on verapramil a few months ago my migraines have sky rocketed back to at least one a week if not every few days. Verapramil is used to treat migraines funnily enough but can also intensify them in some patients, and of course me being me I'm the latter.
I'm stuck in two places because the verapramil seems to be working well, my resting heart rate has lowered, its not spiking to the 120"s just getting up and i feel a little less out of breath, which is great but getting migraines as a side effect is shit. A part of me wants to ditch the verapamil because dealing with a migraine 3 times a week is very disruptive. However my cardiologist has changed my dosage to 160mg a day which is double what i was on. Once I've taken all my current meds ill be moved on to the slow release tablet which means 1 tablet once a day rather than the 4 tablets I'm taking at the moment.
So i just have to be patient and hope that my migraines balance out with the medication changes or ill be back to square one.
So here's to lots of chicken soup and digestive biscuits 🤣 the only foods i have ever been able to tolerate when those horrible migraines come along.
I've suffered from migraines since i was 3 years old, the same time i was diagnosed with CHD. I have no idea if they are linked or not but its an odd coincidence and something else I've dealt with since being a little girl.
Migraines are extremely intense headaches that are made worse by activity and light. They make me very nauseous and i get sick almost every time.
I've tried almost every medication under the sun and nothing has ever worked. I've had tests, xrays, seen nutritionists and specialist Dr's, as a little girl i was never allowed to eat foods with beef extract ( which sucked as i had a love for marmite and beef hoola hoops) and as a teenager they thought it might be dairy and i cut it out for years but cutting out these 'triggar' foods did nothing. After all this time nothing but a dark room and sleep helps.
I've been lucky and haven't until recently had a migraine for the vast majority of the year. As Ive grown up they have seemed to lessen to one a few months rather than the one a week a got when i was younger.
But, since I've been on verapramil a few months ago my migraines have sky rocketed back to at least one a week if not every few days. Verapramil is used to treat migraines funnily enough but can also intensify them in some patients, and of course me being me I'm the latter.
I'm stuck in two places because the verapramil seems to be working well, my resting heart rate has lowered, its not spiking to the 120"s just getting up and i feel a little less out of breath, which is great but getting migraines as a side effect is shit. A part of me wants to ditch the verapamil because dealing with a migraine 3 times a week is very disruptive. However my cardiologist has changed my dosage to 160mg a day which is double what i was on. Once I've taken all my current meds ill be moved on to the slow release tablet which means 1 tablet once a day rather than the 4 tablets I'm taking at the moment.
So i just have to be patient and hope that my migraines balance out with the medication changes or ill be back to square one.
So here's to lots of chicken soup and digestive biscuits 🤣 the only foods i have ever been able to tolerate when those horrible migraines come along.
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