40!!!!

Already time just flys by, it seems not 2 mins since i was 20 if fact most of the time i still think i am, and thats all good i recon.
Meanwhile back with the most enduring feature of my life, migraines, still having them in march i think i have had around 4, thats not too bad, better than it has been for a while at one time i was having 3-4 a week, so much improved.
I have to admit i was kind of hoping that the new preventitive medication that i have been put might have got rid of them altogether, very unrealistic i know but there it is. I am always hoping that one day i wake up and never have one again. But it is getting better so thats what i need to focus on!
On the bright side i finally found an excellent hatha yoga class and i am hoping that it may go some way to helping me keep my migraines under control, i dont expect it to stop them, but hopefully the relaxing aspect of it will go some way to lower my stress levels, that can only be a good thing, its been so long since i have done any yoga and i have fallen in love with it all over again, i present to myself for my birthday has been to order a new slightly thicker than normal on i need all the comfort i can get!!

Sitting in the hairdressers waiting for my colour to be washed off with the remains of this mornings migraine fading into the background, it has struck me that in 5 days I will be 40 and that means that I have been living my life around my migrains for some 37 years! One day it would be really nice to know they are gone for good, wishfull thinking I know but we are surley allowed to keep dreaming!

What a day!

Now I know your supposed to maintain low stress levels to avoid migrains, but having a day at work that's as dull as dish water really is taking things to the extream! Oh no I may well have jinxed myself for tomrrow but at least I will have something to do, enough moaning for today I think!

Something different.

I had the idea when i first started this blog that it would only be about my migraines but i feel the need to talk about something else on this occasion, watching the news in England i am dismayed by all the accounts of people attacking, or killing their partners, and even their children. What is going on that is making so many people implode in there personal lives leading them to these horrific and life destroying acts. I can only hope that we will progress enough as a species that we can find a way to end this although i think it will take a long time for us to manage this.
I know this is a huge subject and that people may think i am morbid to be thinking about this, i am an optimistic person by nature and think that if we work together more, hopefully we will learn from whatever mistakes have been made.

Could be a break through!!!

Well now this could well be something to shout about, a new medication Pizotifen its a preventative drug and i have only been on it for around 4 weeks, i am however hopeful, even though the first few days were rough i guess that's to be expected. Its going to be a couple of months of taking it before i know if its working, to see if my migraines start to subside. Cross everything and hold your breath things could be getting better.
I have also started to go to yoga classes, i have only been to one so far, but really enjoyed it as its something that i did years ago with a very good friend ( you know who you are!) and i am hoping that the relaxation and meditation aspects will help me relax, all good stuff!!!!!

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!!!!