oh heck new phone!

New phone time but at least blogging straight from my phone will make it easier to keep updated. For the record increase in meds seems to be going well so far.

A little more explination.

I feel i need to give a little more detail about my medication change, i was on beta blockers for around two years and they did help for a while but recently they seemed to be not so effective, so i finally decided to go back to the doctors and find out where to go now. I maybe didn't go a soon as i should have, lets be honest i should have gone a while a go!! Being frank i was scared to get back on the medication merry-go-round, its been YEARS since i last was and its not a happy thought that i have to go back there.
Any how i finally got myself sorted and i am now on Pixotifen as a preventative medication, gradually increasing the dose each week from one a night up to my final three a night. The first two days were a nightmare feeling sick waking up with a headache!!!! the one thing i am trying to get rid of, and just generally not myself, the third day got better and the rest of the week i was back to my old self. Yippee!!!!!
Tonight i increase the dose to two a night and am braced to have a couple of days where i am not too good but hopeful that they will work in the end and i don't have to change again, keeping everything crossed.
Here's to a mostly migraine free future!!!!

All change!

After seeing the doctor i am off the beta blockers and on to a new medication, ever hopeful that change will come i think i was on these as a child, but i tried so many then i could say that about any migraine medication!! Back on the merry-go-round of trying different drugs to see what helps.

Another day another headache.....oh well

This could get boring, although the headache that woke me up was somewhat different than the normal ones. It was a cluster headache at the front of my forehead that was so painful it made me feel physically ill, still even though it was a sunday i had to go to work but thats ok it was gone in a couple of hours so at least the day got better.
Oh and i can recomend trying the IMAK eye mask very soothing, i found it very soothing.

Migraines, a blessing and a curse!?!?!

I gusess for some people thats really a hard thing to understand, but when mine seemed to vanish at around 19 for the first time in my life i was able to go out and party with my friends, something that i had never been able to do befor because of not being able to cope with harsh lighting, loud noises and general over excitment, and all of a sudden that changed.
The party lifestyle was something i got good at, i little too good if i'm honest and had it not been for my migraines coming back and the new main trigger for them being beer, and spirits i think i could of ended up in a real mess.
The curse part is so simple i don't think i really need to go into detail anyone who has had migraines or still has them would understand, i word that was used to describe them to me recently was relentless and they really are, each day i wake up and think will i have one today, or if i am really unlucky i wake up with one so that question is redundant for the day.
Today i am glad to say is a good day!!!!! Here's to good days for anyone else who sufferers from them :-))