Comments on: Migraine Season begins

By: maz

maz — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:51:11 +0000

hiya! iv been haveing migraines for at least 9yrs.

ITS BEEN HELL!!!! at first i started passing out in shops like ASDA. but then its progressed to (dizzyness,vomiting,passing out,cant stand light or sound!,i cant speak cos i go realy brain dead!!,numbness,pins & needleds,YA NO DA HOLE HOG!)

so, your not alone,at first i thought id got epilepsy cos my daughters got it, but then i too thought brain tumor!! but then i thought ,CANT BE COS ID BE DEAD NOW?

so, its gotta be MIGRAINE. we just av to put up n shut up! DONT WE?

by the way, my daughters epilepsy, it turned out to be a benign brain tumor! she had it for 8yrs?!

she had it removed at Oxford & is now fully recovered & is now working!

well, life goes on & so do i.

MAZ

By: Earle

Earle — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:25:05 +0000

Hmmmm i get them too, havent quite worked out what triggers them though, i just get really pissed off becuase they always ruin my day/night as im sure they do many other peoples joy. I was at a birthday party of all places recently and got one…I told people my eyes were hazy, im sure they thought i was pissed or on drugs, because one moment i was laughing and talkitive and then the next i was dazed, quite and clutching my seat! Anyway it passed and witha few more drinks i reduced the after headache to a dull pain. One season i was getting really bad ones 3 times a week, not sure why. Hope that never happens again. biting nails* & Fingers crossed, good luck with ones guys&gals ~XxX~

By: hairdoday

hairdoday — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:07:54 +0000

I too am a hypochondriac, suffer from the same symptoms as you do. I work in a hair salon and if the lights hit just right I get a migraine. Three in the past three weeks so like you, I was at the Dr. knowing I had a brain tumor. I have lost 7 lbs in two weeks and am having total health anxiety!!!

By: Amber

Amber — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:47:08 +0000

Jen – that SO sounds like a migraine. People tend to have this idea that migraine is just a really bad headache, but it isn’t. The headache is actually an after-effect of the migraine: mine aren’t normally any more painful than a “normal” headache (although I’ve had a few bad ones), and some people don’t get the headache at all, just the flashing lights etc. I tend to only get them in the summer, and it’s a combination of the weather and some of the other triggers. You should have a look at the Migraine Association Website (http://www.migraine.org.uk/) – lots of fun bed-time reading there for you

Polly – I hate that whole “competitive illness” thing some people do, where they’re all, “Oh no, I actually die for a few seconds when I get a migraine, so you have no idea what’s it like…” Gah. I have never thrown up because of my migraines – the flashing lights are the worst part for me – but they are most definitely migraines (or maybe brain tumours, in my case), and it sounds like yours are too. Damn Asda.

By: Polly

Polly — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:27:38 +0000

I hear you regarding the ASDA lighting. I just get a really bad pain over my eye sockets and down my nose and then my sight goes all funny and I feel like I want to smash my head really hard against a brick wall to take the attention away from the pain that is going on inside my head so I go and have a lie down. Apparently this is just a normal headache though a a migraine sufferer once informed me. Its not a migraine unless you puke apparently *yawn*

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:22:00 +0000

I’ve come to the realization that I too suffer from migraines, and they also usually strike in the summer.

I did wonder why sometimes I’d be in the bright daylight, and my focus would suddenly go off and bright lights would be flashing in front of my eyes.

This whole distorted vision usually lasted about 45 mins, and there then preceded a really sharp headache-near my temple, behind my eye.

I always thought migraines were totally debilitating, so didn’t attribute the above to a migraine.

I know better now Oh well, just another thing to add to the catalogue of health problems I suffer from

Glad you’re feeling better now sweetie xx

By: Amber

Amber — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:14:10 +0000

Ah, thanks Diane – it’s always reassuring to hear of other sufferers who are not yet dead!

Stephen – much better now, thanks

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:58:07 +0000

Feeling any better?

By: diane

diane — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:40:55 +0000

I’ve been getting migraines for about 11 years, on and off… no brain tumour yet… I have had some DOOZIES though, really unbearable!